Trove players have a winter wonderland to play in with the arrival of Snowfest. Players will find mystery boxes filled with seasonal loot and be able to complete high-level Shadow Arenas. The special event has started and will end on January 5th.
The Secret World: 30-Days Free Game Time &…..Killer Clowns
Funcom is ready to hand out a free month of game time for The Secret World. The codes are, as they say, in the mail and should be used by January 15th to take advantage of the full thirty days. All that is terrific until learning about….killer clowns.
SMITE: Awilix, Goddess of the Moon Revealed
Hi-Rez Studios is ready to reveal the first information about the newest god to join SMITE. Awilix, Goddess of the Moon is a first-class assassin who travels with her jaguar, Suku. In addition to revealing Awilix, Hi-Rez announced that the first-ever XBox One game play action will be showin in January during the SMITE World Championships.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: Lord of the Hunt DLC Review
It’s been a few months since Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor launched and shocked everyone with how good its action-RPG open world gameplay could be. In the space since, Warner Brothers and Monolith have put out a slew of minor DLC runes, free upgrades, and other doodads. But this week marked the launch of the first $10 story-driven DLC campaign: Lord of the Hunt. We’ve had a chance to play with Torvin’s new beasties, and this is what we think.
Landmark: Monsters and Linking and Caves, Oh My!
While the folks at Sony Online Entertainment had to delay the launch of their biggest update to Landmark since they released Alpha until later this week, they still went ahead and invited press to a private livestream to give a preview of all the new goodies coming in the update, which was originally slated to either take only four hours to load and get the servers open again, or it could take up to 48 hours.
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft: The Troubling State of Rogue
Just about anything you could do with Rogue since Naxxramas, you’d be better served doing with the game’s other classes. And now with Goblins vs. Gnomes, things appear to have gotten worse.
Moonrise: Quest Pacing – The Long & Short of Quest Design
In our recent article on building our Quest system, we intentionally left out a big, complicated chunk: pacing. We did this for two reasons. First, it’s really big, messy subject, and second, because we wanted to save it for the folks over here on MMORPG.com, so that you know you are forever precious in our hearts.
Elder Scrolls Online: Should the Faction Restriction in LFG Be Lifted?
The Elder Scrolls Online has had one major problem that has been a major focus ever since Patch 5.0, unimaginable Looking for Group (LFG) queue times. When update 5 was released, with it came scaling dungeons and daily dungeon pledges. These two new features had players wanting to do dungeons more often and of course that meant more players putting themselves into the LFG queue, only to be faced with endless queue times.
Camelot Unchained: All About the Viking Drengr Class & Path System
In anticipation for Camelot Unchained’s new class announcement we chatted with City State’s Mark Jacobs to get all the insight on the Drengr, a Viking Warrior with brutal attacks and defenses alike. Read on to find out all about the new class and what it brings to the table.
Transformers Universe: Jagex & Hasbro Agree to Close the Doors
Jagex and Hasbro have agreed to shut down Transformers Universe on January 31, 2015. The closure comes about a month after Jagex announced downsizing of the development team, a fairly normal occurrence after a game is released. Jagex will focus on its existing IPs while Hasbro will pursue other game options for the Transformers IP.