Everyone has a fighting chance
This week on Game On, Chris and Ryan are joined by Steve (aka Slurms Mckensie) of The MMO Show, the newest podcast on The Gaming and Entertainment Network. The crew breaks down all the news from E3 and talks a little bit about their hopes for Trion’s new project.
At June’s E3 event in Los Angeles we got to speak with some of the good folk over at Stoic, and also some hands-on time with Banner Saga 2, and let me tell you, as a huge fan of Banner Sage, this game looks to be an amazing extension of its well-received progenitor.
This week we take a look at Hearthstone’s new Tavern Brawl mode and speculate about what’s next for Blizzard’s card game.
It’s easy to get carried away with cynicism. The MMO market is lacking in both quality and quantity for new releases, as well as overall diversity. We’ve reached a point where the games available cater to a wide range of different audiences and anything new is seen as little more than a hybrid of concepts or unappealing to the mass market. Innovation isn’t dead; it’s just harder to come by these days.
VaragtP Studios has announced the release of its retro-inspired RPG, Loot Hero DX, on Steam. This is the second game in a series that began in 2014 with the original Loot Hero. Developers call it an RPG grind-fest with progressively harder enemies standing in the way but with great reward for the risk.
A pair of Origin laptops have been revealed that feature Nvidia’s cutting edge G-Sync technology. Both the EON17-X and the EON15-X laptops will come bundled with G-Sync that minimizes display stutter and screen tearing.
Bandai-Namco has announced that a new playable character has been added to Supernova, its sci-fi MOBA. Supernova is currently in alpha testing and Aelius can be accessed by players immediately.
Piranha Bytes, creators of the Gothic & Risen series, has announced a brand new project in conjunction with Nordic Games to bring ELEX to gamers everywhere. The teams are promising that ELEX will be "edgy, dark, uncompromising, complex" and will have a portion of the game to show off at this summer’s Gamescom.
This week, Chris shares his experience with the Bloody Baron quest line in The Witcher 3. The quest is disturbing in more ways than one and shows how far the video game medium has come. Plus, Diablo 3 update news, Star Citizen spending big on performance capture and its FPS module, plus news on Shroud of the Avatar and Darksiders II!
Victor muses about the Echo, a story element in Final Fantasy XIV that allows Heavensward gating to seem less annoying from a lore standpoint.