This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Chronicles of Elyria dropped its latest community journal, which highlighted new armor sculpts and concept art and promises inventory stacking, surname tokens, title transfers, package merging, new rewards, a 0.5.0 production blog, and domain and settlement selection coming in the future. “For our Alpha 1 backers, Caspian provided some updates via the Early Access forum,” the newsletter says, but that’s behind closed doors. Stay tuned for that prodo blog! Meanwhile, Shroud of the Avatar pushed out R62, Legends of Aria weathered a pay-to-win controversy, Camelot Unchained ran a battle test with nearly 3000 players and bots, City of Titans finished the rebuild of its alpha test server, Albion Online kicked off the Carnival Challenge, Path of Exile prepped a new patch for the Betrayal League, Dual Universe rearranged its alpha testing schedule to run three 96-hour tests per month over weekends, and we compared Star … [Read more...] about Make My MMO: Chronicles of Elyria’s armor, Shroud of the Avatar’s R62
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2018 Gaming Goals
I know it seems a little late in the month to talk about goals. Due to my vacation cruise and a pretty heavy load at work IRL, I’ve not had a lot of time to really sit down and write out what I want to get done this year… even though I’ve been thinking about it! These are going to be overarching goals, which I will probably break down into smaller monthly chunks as the year rolls on. FFXIV – All Battle Jobs to 50 on My Main still have a number of jobs under level 50 on my main. This is for various reasons: I have a bunch of alts, many with time spent leveling their jobs. I have two level 50 Ninjas on other characters, for example, but haven’t finished leveling that on my main. Disinterest in some jobs led me to not pick them up. Astro and Dark Knight just sounded more complex, and Samurai was over-shadowed by Red Mage… Group-centric nature of leveling. I still get nervous about running even leveling roulette on my tanks or healers. So that made me … [Read more...] about 2018 Gaming Goals
Descend Into The Abyss in Darkness Rises, Out On Mobile Today
Darkness Rises is the latest third-person action RPG from Nexon to come to both iOS and Google Play-compatible devices. The high-definition visuals of Darkness Rises is thanks to proprietary graphics technology that tries to push the limits of modern mobile devices to their full potential. In Darkness Rises players will descend into the abyss following a linear storyline, pitting them against mighty, deadly enemy bosses that must be conquered. Several powerful characters will be available at launch, from assassins, berserkers, warriors, and wizards and can also be customized and personalized how they see fit. Their voices are also from prominent industry names, from Jo Wyatt (The Witcher 3), Alec Newman (Divinity: Original Sin 2), Carina Reeves (Xenoblade Chronicles) and many more. “Darkness Rises combines tight and responsive action-RPG combat and best-in-class graphics for a truly console-quality experience on mobile devices,” said Lawrence Koh, General Manager at … [Read more...] about Descend Into The Abyss in Darkness Rises, Out On Mobile Today
Battle Bards Episode 130: Oddballs 2
While every Battle Bards episode is a cavalcade of strangeness, this week the team is ratcheting it up with the return of “Oddball” MMORPG music tracks. If there’s a piece of music that made one of the hosts tilt their heads to the side and go “whaaat the what is this?” then rest assured, it’s on this show! Episode 130 show notes (show page, direct download) Intro (feat. “Robo Factory” from The Sims Online, “Little Kitty’s Adventure” from Ragnarok Online, and “The Rube Song” from Glitch) “Chompy Hunt” from RuneScape “Flow Control” from Entropia Universe “Welcome to Doram Town” from Ragnarok Online “Valentine’s Theme” from FFXIV “Venetian Eclipse” from NeoSteam “Papaya” from FFXIV “BEER!” from WildStar Which one did we like best? Jukebox Picks: “Alleycat Blues” from TMNT IV: Turtles in Time, … [Read more...] about Battle Bards Episode 130: Oddballs 2
Nintendo Switch Games
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