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Paradox Interactive has announced that pre-orders of Pillars of Eternity have opened up worldwide. Players can grab a copy of the game from various digital retailers that will include in-game items and much more. In addition, Josh Sawyer will be on hand on November 13th for a special live stream event that will showcase never before seen locations and game play.
The twenty-first EverQuest expansion has been released and will give players lots of time at the beach in pursuit of new quests, new gear and much more. Called "The Darkened Sea", the expansion gives players an opportunity to revisit characters and locations from the past that have been reimagined in new ways. Of note is the new "mount keyring" that places all mounts in a single location in order to free up inventory space.
I feel this doubling of efforts towards World of Warcraft is all you’re going to see on the MMO front for the foreseeable future. So, what now? What does it all mean for Blizzard? Well, it seems to me that the studio is looking to move on to smaller and better things.
Earlier this week, WildStar’s Drop 3 finally hit live servers. It’s been three long months, but the Mysteries of the Genesis Prime are now open for us to explore. For many of us, the release marks the start of Carbine’s road to recovery. But does this latest update really tick all the boxes?
Blizzard has posted a fun new image on its Twitter and Facebook pages. If pictures are worth a thousand words, then this one speaks for itself. Enjoy!
Red 5 has put up a teaser page for the forthcoming Firefall update scheduled to hit live service next week. Called "Together Toward Victory", the update will deliver new open world events and instanced adventures outside the normal campaign missions. Together Toward Victory is expected to go live on November 18th.
ArenaNet is paving the way for players on their journey through Guild Wars 2. The next episode in Season 2 is called "Tangled Path" and is teased in the latest video released by the GW2 team.
Carbine Studios and NCSoft have announced that the latest WildStar update, Mystery of the Genesis Prime, will be released later today. The update is focused primarily on lore but also introduces high level players to a new zone, quests and adventures.
Timing is everything. The last time in this space, I wrote about The Elder Scrolls Online rebounding from mistakes and negative first impressions moving forward. Since that was published, a major error happened with the latest round of patching, causing discrepancies between what was supposed to be included and what actually made it to the live server, as well as additional bugs, and, for a time, major login errors.
Today we’re discussing the tone of our game’s story. Tone is one of the hardest things to define for a game, especially before you start writing. Everyone can sit down, talk about touchstones, and agree on a target, but at the end of the day, tone is something that develops during the creation process, not something you just decide to do in advance.