Following a sneak peek at the New York Comic Con yesterday, Gazillion announced today that the Marvel Heroes 2016 title update will be coming in December. The 2016 update is intended to be a followup to the turnaround brought on by Marvel Heroes 2015—an update that you may remember for bringing their Metacritic score from 58 to 81. The team [...]
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A new announcement posted on the Guild Wars 2 blog today details a new set of legendary weapons that the game will be receiving. This second set of legendary weapons is being dubbed a "new legendary paradigm." The manner in which precursor weapons are acquired and legendary weapons are crafted have been changed to "take full advantage of the new [...]
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Nexon Korea announced today that the English localization of their mobile rendition of MapleStory has soft-launched in five countries. Those interested can now play Pocket MapleStory from Australia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, with a worldwide launch planned in the near future. The soft-launch is currently a Google Play exclusive. Pocket MapleStory is "heralded as the definitive version of the [...]
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The creators of the hyper-realistic airline simulation MMO, AirlineSim, announced today that the sim's 6.3 update would be launching on October 15th. It has been six months since the team initially started posting about the content of this update, but it is almost here. The core addition in this update is "Dynamic Turnaround Times and Delays." Previously, turnaround times had [...]
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I recently had the chance to sit down with Scott Shicoff, Lead Designer of Neverwinter at Cryptic Studios to talk about the latest Neverwinter expansion, Underdark. We talked about Dungeons and Dragons tie-ins, R.A. Salvatore's involvement, and the difference between "repeatable" and "replayable." What made you choose to make Underdark the eighth expansion? Shicoff: Wizards has a really cool story [...]
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Juvty Worlds announced today that Wild Terra has added two new languages, French and Vietnamese. This brings Wild Terra to a full eight localizations, supporting English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. At this point, it is unknown if they plan to continue with more localization efforts. With this patch, all of the previously announced free tests have [...]
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Fairytale Distillery announced today that Das Tal's first 24/7 test will be opening in time for Halloween this year. On October 31st at 9 AM UTC, the servers will go live with the intention to stay accessible by founders for more than a few hours for the first time. This test is scheduled to run for eight days or, more [...]
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Wurm Unlimited has been made available for pre-order ahead of its October 21st release date. These pre-orders will be available exclusively through DLGamer, but will be Steam activated. As would be expected, the price has been revealed with the opening of pre-orders. Wurm Unlimited will cost $29.99 at launch—about three months of play time in the online game. A 10% [...]
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The Xbox versions of World of Tanks—which are, incidentally, the only cross-platform versions—have both just received an exclusive tank, the M41B Pracinha, also known as the "Brazilian Bulldog." The name "Pracinha" is a reference to the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, also known as FEB, who took part in several major battles during World War II. One of the battles they are [...]
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Roberts Space Industries are currently holding their annual convention, CitizenCon. As part of this year's festivities, part of Squadron 42's all-star cast has been revealed. Gary Oldman is headlining the current lineup as the only cast member to have their in-game character revealed as of yet. Gary Oldman will be playing Admiral Ernest Bishop, pictured above. Other familiar faces include [...]
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