Yearly Archives: 2014

SNOW gets CRYENGINE 3.6 Update, New Animations & More

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Poppermost has launched its M3 update for its open-mountain skiing/snowboarding game, SNOW, available on Steam’s Early Access.

M3 offers a CRYENGINE 3.6 update, a 64-bit build, tweaks to the graphics, introduces the game store, and more. You can read the full update notes here.

The team has also released a new video showcasing new animations, the update to the engine, and more.

Ragnarok: Ash Vacuum

Ragnarok: Ash Vacuum is an mobile online strategy game created by Gravity Interactive. While taking the charming setting and visuals of Ragnarok Online, the gameplay is focused on empire building and conquering territories around the nations of Midgard.

Features:

Distinct visuals: Exceptional quality graphics for buildings and maps! Distinguished and individual attributes for each character of the three kingdoms transporting you to another world of adventure!

Unique story set in the RO universe: Strong story line based on the original Ragnarok: Guild Masters

Tons of customization: Over 300 kinds of items and various cards for upgrading that allow up to six attributes to match with varied job categories

Unique gameplay: With Community & Strategic Battle gameplay, players can form alliances or enemies within the 3 kingdoms to take on the challenges of the world

Swordsman Online Class Reveal Round 2

Today Perfect World Entertainment introduces three more of the ten primary classes for upcoming wuxia warriors to master in Swordsman Online. Here’s the rundown of the 3.

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Shaolin:  It’s said that all Kung Fu originates from the Shaolin Temple. Shaolin strive to acquire incredible force and strength during their training at the Temple. Through great discipline they develop the physique to be durable where others would get exhausted.  Naturally then the Shaolin are able to specialize in both defensive and offensive skills.

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Five Venoms: Five Venom disciples were once all part of the Sun and Moon School, but a small band of female members developed into a cult, which worshipped the snake, centipede, scorpion, spider, and the toad. They valued these creatures for their poisonous nature and started applying these poisons in combat. Soon after they started recruiting their own female-only disciples and became known as the Five Venoms School.

SwordsmanZephyr

Zephyr School: The Zephyr School originates from Taoism, founded by an extraordinarily gifted genius in Kung Fu. A disciple from the Zephyr School is a special one, as they have very strong icy control abilities. They are masters at evasion, being able to turn themselves as elusive as air to prevent enemies from taking advantage of their natural low defensive capabilities.

Learn more about these new Swordsman Online classes on the official post.

Heroes & Generals Launches Patton, Largest Content-update to Date

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Reto-Moto has just released the largest content-update to date, for their persistent WWII MMO-shooter Heroes & Generals.

The new update, codenamed ‘Patton’, doubles the amount of tanks by adding 9 new tanks, expanding the arsenal of war-machines to a total of 15 tanks, 3 tank-destroyers, plus 12 other vehicles ranging from fighter planes, reconnaissance vehicles, off-road cars and half-tracks to motorcycles and even bikes!

“This is the largest and most ambitious update we have made for Heroes & Generals since we went into open beta last year.” said Jacob Andersen, Game Director at Reto-Moto. “The community has been screaming out for more tanks, so it feels fantastic to double the amount with the Patton update.”

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The new personal vehicle loadouts enables all characters to have their own set of upgradeable vehicles. For infantry the vehicles are off-road cars, motorcycles and half-tracks, for recon soldiers the vehicles are motorcycles and armored reconnaissance vehicles, for fighter pilots it’s fighter planes and for tank crews naturally tanks and tank destroyers.

“By introducing personal vehicle loadouts, where characters can own and upgrade the vehicles of their choice, and at the same time offer players to play as infantry, tanker, pilot and even as a General commanding the troops, I believe that we have something very unique compared to other online wargames.” added Andersen.

The currently available upgrades for the vehicles are anti-tank- and supply crates for supporting infantry and coming updates will provide more kinds of upgrades such as camouflage, engine upgrades, different types of tank tracks, and special ammunition.

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The Patton update also adds 2 new weapons: the US M3 ‘Grease Gun’ and the German MP-34 as entry level submachine guns.

Access to vehicles and weapons is unlocked when characters rise in rank or earn ribbons based on their actions in the game, but if you wish to speed up the process, you may now purchase Ribbon Boosters to progress and unlock equipment and vehicles faster.

A new mechanism for spotting enemies has also seen the light of day in this update and a new introductory flow has been added for new players to ease their way into the game.

WildStar’s Open Beta Now Live: 24/7 Access for 10 Days

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NCSOFT® and Carbine Studios™ today announced that their upcoming action-adventure sci-fi MMO, WildStar® has entered Open Beta and will be available to fans 24/7 for the next 10 days, from Tuesday, May 8 at 7 a.m. PDT to Sunday, May 18 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. NCSOFT and Carbine Studios welcome all players to explore WildStar, whether they are already familiar with the legendary planet Nexus or not, prior to the worldwide launch on Tuesday, June 3.

 

Celebrating the announcement of Open Beta, Carbine Studios has released a new trailer highlighting the background story of the game -s omething you will not want to miss. In addition to the video and 10 days of access, Carbine lifted the level cap to 30, allowing players to dig even deeper into the world of WildStar.

 

To access a WildStar Open Beta, visit www.wildstar-online.com/en/openbeta for instructions and access. Players that have already participated in previous WildStar beta event can log on with their current accounts.

To kick off the Open Beta, Carbine Studios is hosting a 30 minute Livestream on its Twitch Channel today at 11:00 a.m. PDT (www.twitch.tv/wildstar) where the developers will give a state of the game update and share their thoughts on exactly why WildStar is going to kick ass and disrupt the MMO category. The team will be back on Friday, May 9 with a six-hour developer Livestream featuring a slew of content starting at 11:00 a.m. PDT, including play-by-play of some exciting raids and Warplots activity, Open Beta content and a sneak peek into the first post launch content drop. As part of the stream, Carbine is turning it into a massive social ‘Ask Me Anything’, opening up every social platform to take questions – Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, Forums, Twitch and Vine to name a few.

 

Schedule of events:

 

  • Open Beta: Thursday, May 8 at 7 a.m. PDT to Sunday, May 18 at 11:59 p.m. PDT (24/7)
  • Developer Livestream #1: Thursday, May 8 at 11:00 a.m. PDT
  • Developer Livestream #2: Friday, May 9 at 11 11:00 a.m. PDT

 

WildStar officially launches worldwide on Tuesday, June 3, 2014 and will be available in two versions. The Standard Edition includes the game, 30 days of play time and an Eldan-themed Housing Décor item. For an additional $15, the Digital Deluxe version of WildStar includes all elements of the Standard Edition as well as an even larger package of exclusive content: an Eldan Hoverboard, a unique costume, a unique Eldan player title and a limited-edition Eldan dye set. Preorder information can be found at: www.wildstar-online.com/en/preorder.