Yearly Archives: 2013

Asphalt 8: Airborne

Asphalt 8: Airborne is an Android-based arcade racing game with a brand new physics engine that lets you pull off the crazy car stunts you’ve dreamed of. Free to play and difficult to master, Asphalt 8: Airborne promises extreme arcade racing.

Features:

Luxury Dream Cars: 47 high-performance cars from top-licensed manufacturers are waiting for you to hop behind the wheel.

Crazy Stunts: Take the race “above the track” with 360 degree jumps, barrel rolls, and other insane airborne stunts.

Exotic Locations: Nine different settings including Iceland and Venice await your wheels, and each track features hidden shortcuts to up the ante.

Tons of Features: Career mode features eight seasons and 180 events, or hop into 8-player races for simultaneous action. Other game modes include Infected, Drift, and even asynchronous friend challenges.

Camelot Unchained Reveals TDD Leprechaun Race

City-State Entertainments upcoming Faction Sandbox MMORPG, Camelot Unchained, just introduced a new set of lucky charms that are sure to be a pain in your behind for any players facing the nature focused faction of the TDD.

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What these diminutive sprites lack in physical might, they make up for with sneaky skills that allow them to be both the ideal scout on the front lines as well as a superior crafter when safe at home. Just don’t count them out as their combination of shrinking to fit into holes in your fortification combined with sudden teleportation might lead to you having a dagger in your spine before you even know there is a Leprechaun in your house!

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Possible Examples of Racial Boons/Abilities

Time for a change – Time-limited ability to change size of your character (along with anything worn/held). Size differential increases with practice and age.
Pop goes the Luchorpán – Ability to teleport to a nearby location. Distance increases with practice and age.
Home, home, home – Ability to teleport back to the Luchorpán’s true home.
I smell  <silver, gold, etc.> – Luchorpán selects one mineral that he can detect by smell within range of this ability. Range increases with practice and age.
Cobbler supreme – Luchorpán get an automatic %+ when working with footwear.
Look over there! – Ability to temporarily distract an enemy during combat.

Possible Examples of Racial Banes

I’ve got little legs – Reduce top running speed by %.
Sometimes, I need a box to stand on – Reduce attack chance against very tall foes by % and critical hits to shoulders, based on current standing location.
That’s an awfully big weapon – Additional restrictions on weapon use based on size of player and weapon.
I can’t see nuthin’ mate – Additional line of sight restrictions based on player’s height.
The Veil hates me! – Additional penalties are applied if the player enters the Veil.
She reminds me of someone I once loved – If an enemy fits a certain profile, the player will receive a temporary debuff.

Check out the full backstory on the official CU site.

Gloria Victis Development Update: Motion Capture and More

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A new piece of news from the Gloria Victis development team has been released in regards to a few new development team members. Here’s what the update had to say:

 

The first piece of news is that we welcome three new members to our development team: two of which are Jacek Komuda and Maciej Jurewicz. Jacek is a famous Polish author who has had dozens of his works published, both Jacek and Maciej have written for projects such as The Witcher and Bulletstorm. Together, they will be responsible for writing captivating lore for Gloria Victis. We hope to show a few lines of the lore without spoiling it in the near future, for now we have their word that the lore will be gritty, bloody, dark and styled like classic RPGs.

The second piece of news pertains to animations with regards to comments made by comments from sites like OnRPG and MMOHuts. We welcome our third new member Jarosaw Zieliski to the team, Jaroslaw is an experience animator that has worked on many games such as Two Worlds II, Deadfall Adventures, Painkiller: Hell & Damnation or NecroVision. In addition to recruiting a talented and experienced animator we have also made the first installment towards the usage of motion capture technology, something we could not have done without all of those that donated towards Gloria Victis, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you all once again and to remind you that there will be special thank you gifts other than simply Pre-Alpha access to our large donors.

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All animations will now be reworked with our new equipment to give a more fluid and realistic animations! We would like to thank once again those that gave positive comments for your support and those that gave critical ones, even the most vitriol of comments have a grain of truth behind and we take all feedback seriously.

In other news, we have completely reworked our database for the implementation of our complex sandbox crafting system, the ability to create Warbands as well as the addition of a second nation. Players in this upcoming update will be able to fight for the glory of their standard as well as for the honour of their nation, all of which will be available on even lower computer requirements due to the many optimizations in our coding we have made in the past month. We expect this update to take us over a month but we will keep you all constantly updated with the progress of this monumental update.

Shotgun News 11/11: Trion Worlds, Fields of War, Maplestory 2, and More!

Trion Worlds Registers Trove Domains

Might we be seeing the beginnings of a new Trion MMO? Or maybe just an expansion? Either way there is no doubt that Trion Worlds has been snagging various domains with “Trove” in them. What this may be for is anyone’s guess. And as of now the sites are empty.

 

Fields of War Announced by Thermal Erosion

Thermal Erosion has announced their first title, Fields of War for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is an action oriented Mech MMO featuring massive 100 vs 100 combat in a large persistent world. It is available now via Steam Greenlight or their website for $14.99.


League of Angels Closed Beta Announced

GTArcade has announced their turn based browser MMORPG League of Angels will be in closed beta sometime in late 2013. League of Angels is boasting PVE and PVP modes allowing for both single player and multiplayer action.

 

Maplestory 2 Announced

It has been a while but Nexon has announced a sequel to their hit Maplestory. Maplestory 2 currently has a Korean teaser site and several other websites are reporting that it is intended to be a prequel. As more information becomes available we will be sure to announce it.

EverQuest Next Landmark Now Offering Founder’s Packs

EQNext Founders Pack

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it is now opening up (from Alpha on) the ability to join the development team in building EverQuest Next through Founder’s Packs. Starting from $19.99, interested players can get access to closed beta or alpha, plus extra bonuses for their gameplay in the future. More details about the Founder’s Packs can be found here.