Everyone has a fighting chance
Once upon a 2002, there was a little single-player RPG called The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, which sucked up so much of my gaming time you’d think it could have moonlighted as an MMO. Fast forward to 2006 and then 2011, and you’ve got the fourth and fifth installments of The Elder Scrolls series in Oblivion and Skyrim, both vying for my attention almost as strongly as their predecessor.
Blizzard has partnered with Dark Horse Comics to bring a series of World of Warcraft books that will help fill in lore gaps and reveal new information about the foundations of Azeroth and much more. Called "Chronicles", the first volume is due out in November 2015 with subsequent titles to follow at a later time.
The Gloria Victis team has posted the changelog for the latest update to the game that will pave the way for the lifting of the NDA of the much-anticipated title. The update features an overhaul to the crafting system, optimization changes, the addition of a weather system, a redesign of the day/night cycle, and other visual effects.
TheHiveLeader will be on hand in San Diego tomorrow to bring our readers a first-ever live stream event featuring H1Z1. The show will be hosted here in our own MMORPG.com Live Stream room from 3:00 pm PST / 6:00 pm EST tomorrow, Friday, February 9th. Be sure to be here for all three hours to get a first hand look at Sony’s new zombie-themed MMO.
In last week’s column I discussed the games that I look forward to the most in 2015. I caught some heat from readers over the lack of MMORPGs on the list. At the beginning of 2014 if I had to project what I would look forward to the most in 2015 Shroud of the Avatar and Pathfinder Online would have both been on that list. So what changed? This week I’m checking in on the development of Pathfinder Online and I’ll talk about why it missed my list of most anticipated for 2015.
Fans of Xsyon can now access the game via the Steam games portal. Currently in early access, Xsyon developers are looking for player feedback and bug reporting to help get the client up to par for a final release later in 2015.
Age of Wushu will be growing on January 14th with the arrival of the Transcendence expansion. Along with a new location, quests, gear and more, players will have access to a wide variety of new skills. Snail Games has revealed the first comprehensive list of the new skills in a new blog post on the Age of Wushu site.
Beamdog, the studio behind Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, has announced on its blog that a new game, "Project Y", is currently in development that will bridge the gap between Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition and Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition. In addition, the team will be revealing "Project: Beartrap" this summer, a completely new game from the ground up.
After twenty years in gaming, Zombie Studios is closing. Zombie is responsible for the creation of over thirty games, most notably for our audience, Blacklight Retribution. BR will continue thanks to Zombie’s retiring leaders handing the reins to former employees that have formed a new studios called Builder Box. Builder Box will be working cooperatively with Perfect World Entertainment to keep Blacklight Retribution up and running.
Warhammer Quest is the perfect example of what’s wrong with the gaming industry in 2015. Rather than creating new experiences that people want to play, developers and publishers are shoving these types of quick, cash-grab games out by the truckload. Let me give you a bit of a history lesson on Warhammer Quest and why you should stay far away.