General: Grimoire Preview: Flinging Fireballs is Fun

Grimoire Preview: Flinging Fireballs is Fun

Complex game mechanics certainly have their appeal, but there’s just no substitute for the simple pleasure afforded by flinging fireballs from your fingertips. OmniConnection’s new wizard-based, MOBA-inspired multiplayer FPS, Grimoire, will allow you to do that and more. Currently in Kickstarter and submitted to Steam Greenlight, the game is in a pre-Alpha-single-player-sort-of-Alpha-multiplayer state, and is already remarkably fun to play.

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: A Ranger’s Creed

A Ranger

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is the latest offering from Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive and developer Monolith Studios. Clearly aimed at capitalizing on the popularity of open world action games such as Assassin’s Creed, Shadow of Mordor is a compelling action RPG that oozes style and production value. But is it any good? In a word: yes. In many words, read on for our full review.

Destiny: Team Reveals Priority List for Fixes

Team Reveals Priority List for Fixes

The Destiny team has written a new blog post on the official site that lays out some of the main issues gleaned from slightly over two weeks of gameplay. The priority list of items is a long one that includes decreasing cave farming, voice communication, strikes and weapons balancing.

WildStar: New State of the Game Addresses Player Concerns

New State of the Game Addresses Player Concerns

The latest WildStar State of the Game letter has been published on the official site. In it, the team acknowledges that there are issues of grave concern to the playerbase, reassures the community that the development team is listening, and outlines several key areas that will be improved going forward.

Blade & Soul: No North American or European Release This Year

No North American or European Release This Year

German site Mein-MMO.de has stated that indicates NCSoft will be releasing Blade & Soul in either North America or Europe in 2014.

While we’d all love this to be true, we reached out to Lincoln Davis, NCSoft Director, Corporate Communications who confirmed that this simply NOT the case. Blade & Soul is now anticipated to be released in North America and the EU sometime in 2015.

Trove: Closed Beta Kicks Off

Closed Beta Kicks Off

Trion Worlds has announced that the closed beta for its voxel-based game, Trove, has officially kicked off. The successful alpha closed on Tuesday and servers were wiped. To celebrate, the team has released a brand new trailer.