Yearly Archives: 2012

Blacklight Retribution Begins 30 Days of Fight Event

Blacklight Retribution Begins 30 Days of Fight Event

 

 

Perfect World Entertainment Inc. today announced the start of the $30,000 cash prize sweepstakes event 30 Days of Fight for the hit first-person shooter Blacklight: Retribution.

 

 

The 30 Days of Fight promotion awards $1,000 each day for 30 days to lucky Blacklight: Retribution players. Shooter enthusiasts can enter the sweepstakes by signing up on the official Blacklight: Retribution site and completing in-game matches. Completing a match awards a player one Fight Ticket, and winning matches grants an additional Fight Ticket. Eligible $1,000 winners are chosen from the pool of players who have earned at least one Fight Ticket or whom have mailed in an entry form. Earning more Fight Tickets increases a player’s odds of winning. There is no limit to the amount of tickets players can earn per day, and a player can win multiple days. Entry and play is completely free.

 

 

“Following Blacklight: Retribution’s successful Steam launch, we are excited to offer a new level of reward for our players,” said Clifton Chu, Product Manager, Perfect World Entertainment. “With the rise of eSports and professional gamers, we hope to give our players a taste of what it’s like to earn real money just by playing a game they already enjoy.”

 

 

Unfamiliar with Blacklight? Check out our recent full review by Afromania to learn all about this SciFi FPS title!

DK Online Warrior Spotlight

DK Online Warrior Spotlight

By PM Anex, Aeria Representative

 

 

Hey prospective knights,

 

We thought we’d take a break from hacking and slamming monsters in DK Online to give you a taste of what it’s like! Just as with our recent spotlight of the Sorceress, we’re giving the Warrior some love to get you melee lovers a sneak peak of what you can expect from these walking whirlwinds of weaponry.

 

 

While Warriors can equip two-handed weapons, they’re most at home with the iconic sword and shield combo. Now, we know you may see the old “sword-and-board” and automatically think “tank,” but this is a good time for a short detour to talk a little bit about class roles in general (don’t worry, we’ll get back to the Warrior soon enough). DK Online takes the age-old “tank, healer, dps” trinity and turns it on its head. The classes in this game are built with a measure of versatility in mind, so that they aren’t pigeon-holed into specific roles and groups don’t need to have a designated tank and healer to be successful.

 

 

So with that being said, the Warrior can definitely take a good beating—a bit more than some of the other classes, which of course makes sense—but they aren’t just meat shields for “glass cannons” to hide behind. A well-geared Warrior is more than capable of dealing vicious amounts of damage to enemies foolish enough to stand in their way.

 

 

Our Favorite: We all know that a Warrior naturally has an arsenal of devastating physical attacks, so rather than highlight one of those we’d like instead to call out a very helpful ability called Purge, which removes all negative status effects on those around you and grants temporary immunity to debuffs. This isn’t the type of ability you might expect to come with a rampaging melee fighter, but it serves to highlight the key aspect of all classes in DK Online that we mentioned earlier: versatility. Instead of feeling shoe-horned into a particular role, you have several tools at your disposal for a good degree of utility.

 

 

We hope we’ve shed a bit of light on what you can expect from the Warrior, as well from the philosophy toward classes in general. Check back with us in the future for more details!

Red 5 Studios Supports eSports with $1 Million in Cash Prizes

Red 5 Studios Supports eSports With $1 Million In Cash Prizes

 

Firefall

 

Red 5 Studios announced today that $1 million in prize money is up for grabs throughout 2013 in Firefall eSports tournaments. Red 5 has already taken competitive gaming a step further with the recent launch of the eSports Toolkit, combat refinements to create higher skill ceilings for all battleframes and the Firefall Mobile Gaming Unit tour rolling out in the United States this fall.

 

 

“Red 5 is dedicated to supporting the future of eSports and we believe that creating a more compelling experience for participants and spectators will further the cause of competitive gaming”, said Morgan Romine, eSports Maven of Red 5 Studios. “The newly launched eSports Toolkit is just the tip of the iceburg. We will be supporting this initiative with our Mobile Gaming Unit this fall and providing a huge payout for elite competitive gamers in 2013”.

 

 

The eSports Toolkit from Red 5 Studios offers spectators the ability to customize their experience with two feature-packed modes, Observer and Broadcast. Observer Mode allows the choice of watching gameplay action through an assortment of action cameras, including the Action Cam, a dynamic top-down camera that calculates where the action is and auto-zooms accordingly; static cameras that can be switched to on-the-fly for a number of easily accessible viewpoints; and player cams that mimic the normal cameras that players have access to during gameplay. Broadcast mode presents a number of additional features specifically added for shoutcasters, including replay controls – which allow users to rewind, pause, slow motion and fast forward – a Multiple Camera Preview for linecutting into a broadcast, and built in player stat tracking.

GamesCom 2012 Day One Roundup!

GamesCom Day One Roundup!

By Jonathan (Ardua) Doyle & Shannon (Leliah) Doyle

 

 

It’s hot in Cologne. Hot, packed and all about the games. Thursday is the official opening day of GamesCom Cologne and we have been here in the middle of the crush just for you.

 

 

Wednesday was a dedicated press and trade day, allowing us to get in and around the entertainment halls easily. We’ve seen the e-sports setups for the League of Legends, Starcraft II and new this year the €10,000 grand prize ESL FireFall tournament. More on those and Webzens Continent of the Ninth Seal (C9) tournaments this weekend when they get into full swing.

 

 

Today though, the masses. Today, we have the queues and the cosplayers en masse. Today Cologne really gets into the swing of gaming.

 

 

Away from the Business halls, each teeming with companies you know and love and companies you will hear more about from us soon, thousands of gamers are lining up to sample the latest and greatest of games.

 

 

EA has a meaty 40 minute wait time at its Star Wars The Old Republic booth. Medal of Honour Warfighter is a considerably longer wait.

 

 

GameForge and Aion have teamed up not just to bring you the free to play Aion, but to bring you a well behaved riot in front of their booth.

 

 

Not to forget the panda in the room, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria also had a sea of loyal fans surrounding it. We shall wade through them to bring you all that we can soon.

 

 

If you happen to be around, a little tip. There’s a particular trio wandering around the floor. Can you guess what they’re up to?