Polygon is reporting that “System Shock Remastered” is going to be renamed simply “System Shock” when its KickStarter campaign begins on Tuesday, June 28th. According to Night Dive Studios CEO Stephen Kick, the “passion and resources” the development team is putting into the project raises it above a reboot or remaster and into something more.
General: Tracking the Road to Release with New Visual Calendar
Open Critic has debuted the first iteration of a visual calendar that tracks the most major game releases across various platforms throughout the balance of 2016. Each game’s release date shows on the day it arrives along with its box art. In addition, major games conventions are marked to give easy reference for fans looking for announcements about their favorite titles.
General: School of Dragons Expands with Return to Dragon Island
Kid-centric MMO School of Dragons has a new expansion for players to explore. Called “Return to Dragon Island”, new content includes new dragons and content based on the Netflix original series Dreamworks Dragons: Race to the Edge.
General: Game On #85 – E3 2016 in RPGs and MMOs
Welcome back to Game On! This week, Chris, Ryan, and Braxwolf break down all the biggest news of video games’ biggest week: E3! Over the hour, they go over all of the conferences, talk about their favorite games and reveals, and decide who the big winners of the show actually were. You won’t want to miss it!
General: Dragon’s Dogma Online – Massive Update Coming to JP Version
Capcom has released a new trailer showing the content that is coming in the next major update to the Japanese version of Dragon’s Dogma Online. Players will find three new classes, a housing system, the town level cap increased from 100 to 1,000, a new main storyline, new regions, dungeons, monsters, equipment and more.
General: Shakes & Fidget Celebrates Seven Big Years This Weekend
Shakes & Fidget, the multiplatform MMO, has reached the impressive achievement of seven years. With tons of improvements since release in 2009, the game now resides on PC, iOS, Android, and on Steam and keeps its quirky sense of humor by taking an ironic look at fantasy settings and RPG cliches.
General: Baldur’s Gate 2 EE Soundtrack Released on Steam
Fans of the original Baldur’s Gate II and of Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition will be happy to hear that the iconic music from both, also including Throne of Bhaal, has been released on Steam. Some of the best known game composers created the soundtrack for the game including Jeremy Soule, Inon Zur, Howard Drossin and Sam Hulick.
General: Taichi Panda Updated – New Pet, Battle Mode & More
Snail Games has sent word that Taichi Panda, the company’s mobile dungeon crawler ARPG, has been updated with a large new content expansion. Among other things, players can look forward to a new pet called the Earth Guardian, two new pet enhancements, the new cross server PvP battlefield and much more.
General: Steam Summer Sale Kicks Off
Crack out the wallet and dump out the penny jar because the Steam Summer Sale has officially kicked off. The sale will be ongoing through July 4th with some of the best gaming deals found all year long. Just about any genre you can think of is represented: Shooters, MMOs, RPGs, platformers…everything.
General: Out of Reach – Robust Development & a Vibrant Community
Space Boat Studios has released a new trailer for its indie-developed open world survival MMO called Out of Reach. The game has been in early access on Steam for the past year and has undergone a whopping thirty updates, scored “mostly positive” ratings in over a thousand reviews and developers have worked to make the community part of the process by listening to and implementing feeedback.