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Nexon has announced its “next generation of MMORPGs for mobile” with today’s reveal of AxE: Alliance vs Empire. According to press information, the game will deliver “PC & console quality MMO experiences” via the convenience of mobile devices. Players will find 75 vs 75 competitive battles, co-op raids, a “massive open world” and a campaign to keep players engaged in the experience.
On January 31st, Ubisoft’s For Honor will be updated to bring a new “Dark Hero” into the game named Vortiger, the Black Prior. In addition, players will find a new Dominion Map, hero improvements and a number of gameplay updates.
Three sources have reached out to Kotaku and are reporting that development on an open world Star Wars game has stopped. The unnamed game was announced at the same time as the now-cancelled Star Wars game at Visceral Studios. EA Vancouver was working on the game and had been since October 2017. After Visceral’s Star Wars game was cancelled, it was thought that its assets transferred to Vancouver, though it is unclear if the two projects were merged.
Amidst troubling times at Activision-Blizzard, the company’s new Chief Financial Officer Dennis Durkin has scored $15,000,000 in “awards” for taking on the position full time. Durkin took over the CFO job after Spencer Neumann was fired prior to taking the CFO position at Netflix.
Elder Scrolls: Legends, the CCG based on the Elder Scrolls series, is getting ready to expand on January 24th. “Isle of Madness” follows the adventures of a desperate father willing to undergo anything, “including a trip into madness”, to save his child. The backstory for Isle of Madness is revealed in a new trailer.
Epic has announced that its Games Store will now match Steam’s refund policy. This means that players have two weeks to request a refund and must have not played more than two hours from date of purchase. Epic’s Director of Publishing Strategy Sergey Galyonkin made the announcement earlier today via Twitter.
After yesterday’s back-and-forth between Unity and Improbable regarding the future development of SpatialOS games, Epic has stepped into the fray to announce a partnership with Improbable to “help developers transition to more open engines, services and ecosystems”. The announcement was made via a joint letter from Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and Improbable CEO Herman Narula.
After yesterday’s huge news that Bungie was splitting with Activision for publication of the Destiny series, a trio of big things happened: 1) ATVI stock prices tanked and lost over 7% of their value in “after hours trading”; 2) Industry research firm, Cowen & Company believes that Destiny 3 will be coming in 2020; and 3) Blizzard Customer Service tweeted that Destiny 2 will remain on BattleNet and “will receive full support (without) any disruption to our services or your gameplay”.
The talks between Unity and Improbable, creators of SpatialOS, have broken down. Unity has pulled Improbable’s license and blocked them from using the engine as a breach of the new terms of service. “This will affect our ability to support games”. The issue at hand is that developers currently developing games of with games in production using Unity will no longer be able to use SpatialOS. This includes companies such as Bossa and NetEase.
The talks between Unity and Improbable, creators of SpatialOS, have broken down. Unity has pulled Improbable’s license and blocked them from using the engine as a breach of the new terms of service. “This will affect our ability to support games”. The issue at hand is that developers currently developing games of with games in production using Unity will no longer be able to use SpatialOS. This includes companies such as Bossa and NetEase.