Monthly Archives: October 2014

Albion Online: New Plans for Future Content Revealed

Albion

Sandbox MMO players had a whole month to dive in and explore the world of Albion Online in a recent closed alpha test. Based on extensive feedback from testers, developer Sandbox Interactive has released a Development Roadmap detailing new key features and content. Over the next six months, Albion Online fans can look forward to over 170 additions and improvements.

Farming

The world of Albion Online will soon be lush and alive with all sorts of plants and wildlife, which players can use to cultivate crops. The yield from these crops won’t only help players by providing buffs to their characters. It will also be required for crafting equipment: each building has its own dedicated NPC who can only put their best into their craft when they’ve had a good meal, provided by players! Another crucial component of agriculture in the game will be the rearing of livestock, including player mounts      

Neutral Siege Camps

During this recent alpha test, guilds who have no claimed territories for themselves could launch their assault on a rival from one of Albion Online’s castles. In order to make the progression into territory-based warfare even more dynamic, new neutral war camps will replace the castles. A guild must first fight their way to one of these war camps, located in dangerous PvP regions. Once the war camp is theirs, they can attack any neighboring territory at will.

Factions and Mobs

In the deep dark caverns beneath the world of Albion, dangerous monsters lurk, watching over the unimaginable treasures they have stockpiled over the years. Depending on their allegiance with several factions, players will be presented with special items and other rewards for defeating mobs. Additionally, player-mob interactions will be made more difficult, with more mobs in the world and diversified combat mechanics and mob variety. So that tactical combat and quick thinking are given precedence, mobs will now scale based on the number of players attacking them, making PvE combat a challenge, no matter how large the group of players.

For more info, visit https://forum.albiononline.com/index.php/Thread/5785-New-6-Months-Roadmap/?pageNo=1

Dicetiny

Dicetiny is a humorous hybrid of RPG and CCG in a PC digital board game. Experience random events as you make loops around the board, quickly leveling your hero before the boss arrives!

Features:

1-to-4 Player Mayhem: Play co-op with up to four players per match, or even play solo with the AI as your allies.

Random Adventures: Events and quests are randomly generated, making each play through distinctly different.

Collect & Customize: Gain cards after each game and use them to customize your own adventuring deck.

Funcom Brings LEGO® Minifigures Online to Fire TV and Fire Tablets

LEGO Minfigures Adventures

Funcom, a world-leading independent developer and publisher of online games is working with Amazon to provide  LEGO Minifigures Online on Amazon Fire TV as well as their Fire HDX line of tablets.

LEGO® Minifigures Online, an online game based on the hugely successful brand of collectible toys, is available in English, German, French and Spanish on the Windows PC, and versions for the Mac as well as iOS and Android tablets are currently in development. LEGO Minifigures Online is also fully integrated with the latest Minifigures Series 12 release, with codes in millions of bags released across the world which unlocks unique in-game Minifigures.

Amazon Fire TV is a tiny box that connects to your television and let you enjoy a wide range of entertainment, from streaming movies to playing games. Working with Amazon on this project includes support for the Fire TV game controller as well as Amazon’s store and payment systems. Fire TV is currently widely available in North America and Germany, and is launching in the United Kingdom in November 2014. LEGO Minifigures Online is scheduled to go live on Fire TV at the end of 2014.

Funcom will also be bringing LEGO Minifigures Online to the HDX line of Fire tablets. The game will be optimized for these devices and will fully support Amazon’s store and payment systems for these devices. This version of LEGO Minifigures Online is set to go live at the end of Q1 2015.

LEGO Minifigures Online will feature full cross-play across the Windows PC, Mac, iOS tablets, Android tablets, Fire TV and Fire tablets, making it possible for kids everywhere to share their adventures together regardless of which platform they play on.

“We are very excited to be working closely with the Amazon engineers to bring LEGO Minifigures Online to their platforms,” says Funcom CTO Rui Casais. “Working closely with Amazon will provide an experience that is highly optimized for each device. The game will feature full cross-play, so even if your friends are playing on a PC or any other device, you can still play with them in the same world even if they are on the Fire TV system or on a Fire tablet.”

SOE Offers Halloween Make-Up Tutorial Videos

SOE Halloween

In celebration of Halloween this week, SOE has released makeup tutorial videos to teach players how to transform into their favorite characters from titles such as EverQuest Next and the upcoming H1Z1.

In the videos, makeup artists from KBZ FX special effects show the step-by-step process to become an H1Z1 zombie, Firiona Vie from EverQuest, a dark elf from EverQuest Next, a DC Universe Online inspired leopard, or a member of one of PlanetSide 2‘s Empires.
H1Z1 Zombie:

DC Universe Online Leopard Inspired Character:

EverQuest Firiona Vie:

EverQuest Next Dark Elf:

PlanetSide 2 Empires: