Monthly Archives: March 2014

League of Legends Team Builder in Testing for North America

LOL Team Builder

League of Legends is busy testing its new Team Builder through a staggered two-day beta, that has finally reached North American servers.

The Team Builder is a new queue where you select a specific role, champion, and position before you join a team. The idea behind it is to lay “the foundation for great teamwork” as each player knows what they’re playing and where they want to go during the match. It will go alongside other queues, rather than replace them. More information about the queue is available here, and Riot Games is busy responding to feedback in the game forums.

RuneScape Introduces One of a Kind Update

Runescape One of a Kind

Jagex has released a new update for RuneScape titled, quite literally, “One of a Kind.” This is the first in a series of lore-focused updates for March, intending to introduce new epic quests that take the game back to its roots.

The highlight of the update is a Grandmaster/Members Only quest with intense requirements and plenty of story. Help Mr. Mordaut find Hannibus, last of the fabled Dragon Riders, and follow the clues to uncover the secret history of RuneScape.

You can read the full update notes here.

Year of EverQuest Continues To Look Ahead

EQN Creations

Sony Online Entertainment is continuing on with its “Year of EverQuest” theme this month as it celebrates the 15th Anniversary of EverQuest on March 16 and reveals new content across the EQ franchise.

A newly released video today highlights the upcoming content for all three EverQuest games, including EverQuest, with anniversary events, the introduction of Heroic Characters on March 12, and two new race/class combinations; EverQuest II, with Prestige Homes, the new Heroic Character “channeler class,” new Heritage quests, and a new mount; and EverQuest Next Landmark, which will add cooperative building, two new biomes, and add-on claims in Alpha.

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Elder Scrolls Online Sends Out Last Scale Test Invites

ESO Last Call Beta

ZeniMax has announced that it is now sending out its last round of invites for Elder Scrolls Online, for the game’s final scale test coming this weekend.

This beta will not enforce an NDA, so players are invited to post screens, videos, impressions, and livestreams for all to check out. All participants will also earn an exclusive monkey vanity pet for PC/Mac versions, available at launch.

AAA Online Game Veterans Form New Indie Studio For Online Games

Citadel Studios

A veteran team of online gaming experts today announced the formation of Citadel Studios, a new independent video game development company focusing on multiplayer role-playing games for PC. For the past six months, Citadel has been heads down working on their first project, codenamed “Shards,” and is ready to give the world a sneak peek. With Shards, Citadel is taking inspiration from their previous work on the grandaddy of RPGs, Ultima Online – they’re creating a truly next-generation online game that will enable players to customize their experience, and change the face of player collaboration forever.

Citadel was founded by game industry veterans Derek Brinkmann, Chris Ondrus and Tim Cotten, whose collective credits range from RPG classics like the Elder Scrolls series, Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online, to AAA titles in the NASCAR and Madden franchises. Derek, Chris and Tim have seen online games evolve from their earliest days through the introduction of free-to-play, mobile, MOBAs and other modern multiplayer genres. With a full understanding of the genre’s history and modern development, Citadel’s goal is to create something like nothing else on the market.Shards Art

“We left our soul-crushing, corporate jobs to make the games we’d actually play,” said Derek Brinkmann, founder and CEO of Citadel Studios. “As we started our first project and experimented with concepts, we discovered ways we could share our passion for creating living worlds with gamers themselves. Ultimately the community will dictate what Shards becomes, because we’re not just providing a game but also a platform for players to express their creativity.”
Based on their own personal passion for the genre, Citadel is ignoring the modern online gaming imperative to squeeze every last cent from every player. Set in a richly-imagined universe with deep lore and environments ranging from the familiar to the surprising, Shardswill give players more power than ever before, without constantly asking them to take out their wallets.

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Citadel believes in fostering rich, passionate communities that can make meaningful contributions to worlds that live and breathe. Get in on that on Facebook and Twitter.

 

Duty of Sentinel Exclusive Starter Pack Giveaway

OnRPG has partnered with the team behind Duty of Sentinel to share exclusive starter packs for this turn-based strategy MMO.

Duty of Sentinel is a role-playing game merged with turn-based strategy, wrapped into an adventure mini-series about the Epic War between Sentinel and Scourge. Follow the call of fate and defend the honor of Sentinel now!

The Starter Pack (valued at $30) Includes:
1. Recruit Manual*3
2. Rum*1
3. Chronicle of Heroes*1
4. Luminous Physical Attack Gem*3
5. Luminous Magic Attack Gem*3

 

Duty of Sentinel Pack Guide

 

To Redeem your Key:

  • Sign up and create a character in Duty of Sentinel.
  • Click the giftpack icon in the lower left corner of the screen besides the Chat.
  • Select “MMOhuts Exclusive Giftpack”, paste your key and click Redeem.
  • The gift will be delivered to your inventory right away. Only one code per account.

Tribal Wars 2 To Debut at GDC

Tribal Wars 2 WP

InnoGames announced today that it will exclusively debut Tribal Wars 2, the sequel to the highly popular Tribal Wars, at GDC 2014 in San Francisco next week. Exclusive demos of browser, tablet and smartphone versions will be given to media and industry personnel attending the show.  In the new game, players find themselves as leader of a small village in the midst of a medieval world. Tasked with growing and expanding their empire within a war-torn landscape, they have to fight in order to survive. The MMO’s focus is real-time strategic battles with and against other players.

The Tribal Wars 2 Project Manager Nino Protic  will be on hand for interviews and to guide players through their first moments of the game.  Media who attend a GDC demo will be the first to have access to the exclusive upcoming closed beta and be the first to secure beta keys. Members of InnoGames management will also be on hand for interviews and to discuss the company’s cross-platform strategy.

Tribal Wars 2 will be released as cross-platform game for Browsers, Android and iOS. Other key InnoGames titles such as Forge of Empires on mobile devices, including the NEW iPad build, will also be playable at GDC.