According to a series of Twitter posts by hacking group, Lizard Squad, Battle.Net and all of Blizzard’s games were brought down overnight. The group also claims that it has gained access to company employee emails. The attacks took place in the early evening of April 13th Pacific time with games down for several hours. As of this writing, however, servers appear to be functional again.
General: Chronos – A VR Game Anchored in the Real World
Chronos is one of the earliest games out and ready for the Oculus Rift. We had the opportunity to chat with Gunfire Games President and Game Director David Adams about Chronos to learn more about the game and much more.
General: Overfall – Early Access Sneak Peek
Overfall is a turn based RPG from Turkish indie studio Pera Games. Read on for Rob’s initial impressions of this innovative early access title.
General: Two of Three Troika Founders Land at Obsidian
Diablo 3 World Designer Leonard Boyarsky has left Blizzard and joined Obsidian Entertainment. Prior to his tenure with Blizzard, Boyarsky worked on the Fallout series at Interplay, then moved on to co-found Troika where he was the game director on Vampire: The Masquerade.
General: Consortium: The Tower Reaches Funding Goal
Consortium: The Tower has reached its $300,000 initial funding goal with another twenty-eight days to go. The team has now moved on from the base goal to stretch goals, the first of which is Equipment Engineering. Consortium: The Tower is being created by the original Consortium team and is backed by one of Bioware’s founders, Dr. Greg Zeschuk.
General: Like Edge of Tomorrow ? Fantasy Fox Edition
Stories: The Path of Destinies is a new ARPG built on Unreal that’ll have you slaying hundreds of enemies, leveling up the heroic fox known as Reynardo, and crafting new swords with which to fight against the forces of evil. That’s where the ordinary of Stories ends, because to truly beat Stories you’ll need to make decisions… and when those turn out to be wrong, you’ll try again. Like one of Tom Cruise’s best movies, it’s Live – Die – Repeat
General: Robocraft Interview: Steaming through Change
How did a small independent studio build one of Steam’s most popular free-to-play games? And just how important is launching on Valve’s platform? We caught up with Robocraft Game Director Mark Simmons to find out more.
General: Valkyrie Anatomia: The Origin Readied for Japan Release
Square Enix has announced a new RPG called Valkyrie Anatomia: The Origin that is presumably a mobile title that is set to be release in Japan later this spring. A new teaser site has been enabled for the game being produced by Yoshinori Yamagishi.
General: Revelation – Two Years Spent Building a Dungeon (Raid)
2p.com has some interesting information about the recent press event held to announced that Revelation would be coming west via an as-yet unannounced Russian publisher. During the event, the team previewed a dungeon that took over two years to make and will take two to three months to complete. Devs call it a dungeon, but the preview video clearly shows that it is a raid-sized space.
General: Side-Scrolling MMO StarBreak Headed to Steam
Crunchy Games has announced that its side-scrolling action MMO called StarBreak will be heading to Steam and will be available beginning May 10th. StarBreak is considered a skill-based action platformer based in an alien-infested world. You can check out the trailer below that also sports a fair bit of gameplay as well. Leave us your thoughts in the comments.