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Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online launched with a simple premise: allow players to create their own superheroes, with unique power sets, and romp around in iconic locations and alongside beloved characters from the DC universe. Four years later, it’s still building on its solid launch, having already released twelve official updates and with much more on the way.
My name is Chris, and I have a problem. In 2009, I realized that I don’t like Fallout. I have tried, over and over, to connect with what gamers love in these titles and just can’t. Games have been bought and rebought chasing the elusive dragon that is the post-apocalypse. I’ve made excuses, rolled multiple characters, and forced myself to play. I like Elder Scrolls, so why not this? This is my story.
If all goes according to plan, Trion’s Trove will be launching sometime in 2015. Trove Game Director Andrew "Avarem" Krausnick has written a brand new letter that also lets players know that the team has every intention of releasing wind (flying!), water (swimming!) and ‘earthy’ effect alongside more building materials to expand the ones already in the game.
Obsidian Entertainment & the Allods team have released a brand new developer diary that gives Skyforge fans some background information about the combat system. Developers give visual examples of what they are talking about with the video packed with gameplay footage. Check it out!
The Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone has been updated with a sneak peek preview at some of the upcoming content coming with patch v2.5. This time, the team provides a small look ahead at the new story arc and a side mission as well as information about Gilgamesh and the horrors to be found in Twelveswood.
The Elder Scrolls Online team has published a handy guide that takes some of the mystery out the Champion System, the overhauled progression system that comes along with Update 6. There is a section for each of the major parts of the Champion System: Points, Constellations, Passives and Enlightenment that will hopefully clear up some of the mystery surrounding the new system.
The Crowfall site has been updated with a bit of information about a pair of the game’s player character classes: The Templar and the Champion. In addition to those two, a third character class is revealed by showing its skill tree…and nothing else.
Earlier this week, it was revealed through datamining the latest PTR version of World of Warcraft that something called a Veteran Account would perhaps be introduced at a later time. Speculation ran rampant that this might mean that lapsed subscribers would be able to play their characters but with heavy restrictions, perhaps also leading to a F2P model of WoW. However, Community Manager Bashiok has explained its true meaning.
After nearly one hundred twenty hours, I finished my completionist run through Dragon Age: Inquisition today. As I sat staring at the credits and waiting for the short epilogue cinematic that would come after them, I was left with a curious sense of emptiness with a mental image of an empty calendar filled with endless days stretching out in front of me.
This week, Star Wars: the Old Republic put in a patch that had a fairly large number of tweaks to the game, mostly a lot of bugfixes and updates to various group activities such as changing which comms drop and rebalancing certain encounters. Sadly, however, much of these things were not the topic of many conversations about the game the past few weeks.