Black Eye Games announced today via press release that Gloria Victis has just received a "massive gameplay update." This update introduces the building and upgrading of fortifications. Walls, towers, gates, and even entire castles can be built from scratch. They can later be upgraded to be double-reinforced or to have added pots of boiling oil, for example. In the future, [...]
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Neople and Nexon's free-to-play online Ghost In the Shell FPS, First Assault, will begin its first beta test tomorrow and will run until October 4th. Those who reach level two during the test will get an "exclusive weapon skin" for use later. Those who play on Friday and Saturday between 1 and 3 PM PDT will be entered to win [...]
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Wakfu may be newer but Ankama Games' flagship product is undoubtedly Dofus. It is unsurprising, then, that it would be the one to receive a mobile edition, as was announced today on the official Dofus website. The team has been working for months to adapt "nearly 10 years of content to tablets" and they are almost ready to show off [...]
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Crytek announced today via press release that their inaugural free-to-play game Warface has received a new 16-player free-for-all mode called "Bag and Tag." In this mode, players must "take out every enemy in sight" and collect their dog tags. Players that successfully collect dog tags will be awarded with bonus points. Warface - Trailer - Bag and Tag Game ModeWatch [...]
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If you've ever wondered what it might be like to work at a company that develops free-to-play MMORPGs, look no further. A Reddit post showed up today linking to the Glassdoor page for Cryptic Studios with some choice quotes included. The Glassdoor page has supposedly been making rounds on the internet recently. The quotes supplied aren't exactly inspiring. The major [...]
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Wargaming have been up to some really cool things recently. Some of the major additions being made to the BigWorld engine in order to keep World of Tanks looking the best it can have been nothing short of incredible. There's a lot of detail in there and it's with good reason. They have a "passion for history" and today, they [...]
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Perfect World announced the eighth expansion to Neverwinter today via press release. The new expansion, Neverwinter: Underdark, will take players into the "Rage of Demons" storyline. This new storyline will be written by R.A. Salvatore. Along the way, they will encounter familiar faces, such as Drizzt Do'Urden. A new 10-player battle against the Prince of Demons, Demogorgon, will challenge players [...]
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Dungeon Defenders II has officially hit PS4. Trendy Entertainment's free-to-play follow-up to Dungeon Defenders went into pre-alpha—despite the PC version being in alpha now—on Sony's current gen console today when the Playstation Store updated. With the release comes clarity about how the PS4 version is priced until the official free-to-play launch. Dungeon Defenders II - PlayStation 4 Pre-Alpha Launch TrailerWatch [...]
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Yesterday, I sat down with Rogue Rocket Games founders Nick Bruty and Richard Sun to talk about their Kickstarter game, First Wonder, hailed as a successor to Giants: Citizen Kabuto. We talked Giants, how First Wonder is an evolution of it, and more. We also talked a bit about their engine choice, how the Kickstarter is going, and why they [...]
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Yesterday, we reported that Onigiri would be launching today on PS4 after spotting it in this week's edition of The Drop on the Playstation Blog. After posting that article, a PR representative from CyberStep followed up with me to let me know that it would not be launching today after all. You may have noticed this if you attempted to [...]
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