WG Labs and NGD Studios have announced that Master of Orion, the remastered version of the original, will be released at 10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern today. Players can get hold of a Standard Edition ($29.99) or a Collector’s Edition ($49.99) either on Steam or GoG. Players who link Master of Orion to a Wargaming account will also receive a free copy of Total Annihilation.
Funcom to Players – All Forum Data Compromised
Funcom has posted a warning to players of all of it’s games (The Secret World, Anarchy Online, Age of Conan, Longest Journey) that forum account data has been accessed by a third party. This includes email addresses, user names, encrypted passwords and came at the hands of a security flaw in the company’s vBulletin forums.
Sacred Legends Co-Op RPG Released for Mobile Devices
Love the Sacred series? If so, you may want to check out today’s release of Sacred Legends, a new mobile co-op RPG for both iOS and Android devices. Sacred Legends was developed cooperatively by Deep Silver Fishlabs and Chimera Entertainment.
PlayStation 3 Games Headed to PC with PS Now Service
Sony has unveiled that its PlayStation Now streaming service will soon bring PlayStation 3 games to PC. PS Now allows subscribers to play PlayStation 3 games over the internet, similar, according to VentureBeat.com, to the way Netflix streams movies and television programs. The subscription will cost $20 per month or three months for $45 and includes some of PlayStation 3’s most popular games.
Outward – Blending Fantasy & Survival to Rethink the Genre
Nine Dot Studios is ready to show off Outward, its current RPG in development. Outward isn’t, however, a run-of-the-mill RPG as it combines survival with fantasy alongside features like constant auto-saving to ensure that actions have repercussions, no level-scaling and how the environment impacts, for instance, armor use.
Is the Burning Legion DDoSing Blizzard Servers? Maybe!
It appears that Blizzard servers are once again suffering from a DDoS attack that began at approximately 5:00 am Pacific / 8:00 am Eastern. It is unclear how many of the company’s titles are affected, though Blizzard acknowledged “multiple titles”.
Oceanhorn 2 – An Upcoming ARPG with Badass Bosses & More
Cronfox & Bros. is bringing back the best elements of Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas and pushing things forward into an upcoming ARPG called Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm. According to the team, it’s bringing back “classic ARPG gameplay with items, puzzles, battles, and badass bosses and is considered the “fulfillment of a JRPG dream”.
Oculus Hierarchy Named Directly in Amended Lawsuit
Zenimax has taken the gloves off in its ongoing lawsuit against Oculus. The suit, first filed in 2014, alleges that technology used to create the VR device was stolen from the Zenimax. The amended lawsuit now names CEO Brendan Iribe and id Software’s John Carmack directly. The suit alleges that Carmack “copied thousands of documents from a computer at ZeniMax to a USB storage device. He never returned those files or all copies of them after his employment was terminated”.
UPDATE: Oculus Hierarchy Named Directly in Amended Lawsuit
Zenimax has taken the gloves off in its ongoing lawsuit against Oculus. The suit, first filed in 2014, alleges that technology used to create the VR device was stolen from the Zenimax. The amended lawsuit now names CEO Brendan Iribe and id Software’s John Carmack directly. The suit alleges that Carmack “copied thousands of documents from a computer at ZeniMax to a USB storage device. He never returned those files or all copies of them after his employment was terminated”.
TheHiveLeader – My Dream MMO – Events
TheHiveLeader continues his series of videos about what he believes are the key elements to make his “dream MMO”. In this installment, Hive takes a look at Events. See what you think and leave your thoughts in the comments.