Yearly Archives: 2015

New Total War Humble Bundle Offering Massive Exclusives and Huge Savings

New Total War Humble Bundle Offering Massive Exclusives and Huge Savings news header

Humble Bundle welcomes SEGA and Creative Assembly this week for a new Humble Total War Bundle loaded with thousands of hours of content. This bundle features a huge selection of Total War games from Shogun: Total War, all the way to Total War: ROME II – Emperor Edition.

 

Gamers can name their price for the core collection where they will receive Medieval II: Total War Collection and Shogun: Total War Collection. Additionally, customers will receive Viking: Battle for Asgard and extra loot such as an Exclusive Total War: WARHAMMER Illustrated Campaign Map, Total War: ROME Original Soundtrack, Sword of Attila – A Total War Novel, and Two Osprey history books on the Roman Period. Also included are some great goodies for Total War: ARENA including instant Beta Access, an Exclusive Humble Warrior Greek Shield and Commander Leonidas Bust 3D Printer File and for Total War Battles: KINGDOM, an Exclusive Humble Banner Heraldry and $10 of Gold for your Kingdom’s coffers.

 

Pay what you want, for all that.

 

Gamers who pay more than the average will receive all of the above plus Empire: Total War Collection, MEDIEVAL: Total War Collection, $10 of Gold for Total War: ARENA and a Total War: ATTILA 66% off coupon for the Humble Store.

 

Customers who pay $15.00 or more will get all of that plus Total War: ROME II – Emperor Edition, also included is an array of Total War: ROME II DLC – Wrath of Sparta Campaign Pack, Caesar in Gaul Campaign Pack, Nomadic Tribes Culture Pack and Pirates and Raiders Culture Pack.

 

Customers who pay $30.00 or more will receive all those items as well as a limited edition Total War T-Shirt.

 

Check out the full promotion at https://www.humblebundle.com/.

 

As with all Humble Bundles, customers can choose how their purchase dollars are allocated, between the developers, Humble Bundle and charity. This Bundle supports Willow Foundation, SpecialEffect, Royal Surrey Hospital, Walking with the Wounded (UK) and Boon Lotts Elephant Sanctuary (BLES).

 

Humble Total War Bundle runs now, for two weeks, and ends Tuesday 29th September at 11am PDT/6pm BST.

Massive Guild Battles Now Available with Neverwinter: Stronghold Siege

Massive Guild Battles Now Available with Neverwinter: Stronghold Siege news header

Neverwinter players can now take part in massive 20-versus-20 PvP battles with Stronghold Siege, the newest update for the game’s seventh full-fledged expansion, Neverwinter: Strongholds. This brand-new update introduces mass-scale PvP battles for the first time in the free-to-play MMORPG, as guilds look to ransack opposing strongholds in MOBA-like battles.

Stronghold Siege is fought on a battleground created by combining two strongholds maps, doubling the scale and making it the largest map ever built. This creates a three-lane battlefield to support large-scale 20-vs-20 combat. The objective of this mode is to siege and destroy the enemy’s guild hall.

Neverwinter is a free-to-play action MMORPG that features fast-paced combat and epic dungeons. Players explore the vast city of Neverwinter and its surrounding countryside, learning the vivid history of the iconic city in the Forgotten Realms and battling its many enemies. Neverwinter is currently available on Windows PC and digitally for Xbox One, available free-to-play with Gold* from the Xbox Games Store.

*On Xbox, Xbox Live Gold membership (sold separately) required.

Additional details about Neverwinter: Stronghold Siege are available here.

Xyrality publishes a new MMO: World Clash

Xyrality publishes a new MMO: World Clash news header

Xyrality publishes World Clash, a brand new title for both iOS and Android. The fast paced Viking strategy game with a dynamic fantasy setting is now available in selected countries and will become available worldwide following a successful test.

In World Clash, the players start with a small Viking village that they will expand into a powerful fortress step by step. The players will collect and develop unique heroes thanks to the RPG elements. These heroes will support the player’s troops on their numerous raids.

“Internally, we liked World Clash right away. The innovative hero system is the extra gameplay element that convinced us of the potential of the title.” — Sven Ossenbrüggen, CEO at Xyrality.

The game is developed by the Polish studio Action Games Lab – a part of Action S.A. Capital Group – which was founded in Warsaw in 2014. World Clash is the second game made by the team of thirty experienced gaming and IT specialists.

Wakfu Raiders Mobile Review: Another Ankama Fanboi Dream

By: Ojogo

 

Wakfu Raiders Review

I’ve always been a big fan of Ankama Games. I grew up playing the French game developers’ alternative RPG titles Wakfu and Dofus. They were different as they weren’t like most mainstream tactical games wherein numbers run the results and battles are all about knowing what element an enemy is weak to.

Wakfu and Dofus were straight out of pen and paper strategy games. They were Dungeons and Dragons meets Final Fantasy Tactics, streamlined for the MMORPG scene. The art was iconic and fresh, the system was fun and fair, and the gameplay was simple but deep enough to be enjoyed at all levels of complexity. And good as they are, it’s still a wonder why Ankama games are still just underground cult hits. I guess that’s why they’re making waves again by crossing over their well-known titles into different ports. They did it first for Krosmaster Arena with both live and online map-based collectible miniatures game, and now they’re testing the waters in mobile gaming with Wakfu Raiders.

 

Wakfu Raiders Review

Overview

Wakfu Raiders is a free-to-play hero collection social action-RPG for the mobile. If you’re familiar with game like Dot Arena, then you pretty much already have a good idea how the game is played. The game is based on all the familiar lores of the Wakfu and Dofus universe so fans can easily get into it. All the familiar clans, job classes, monsters, and locations are there ready to rustle up some fandom jimmies to anyone who revisits. If you’re new to the whole thing, don’t worry – it’s not jam-packed with references that will be lost on you if you’re not enough of an Ankama nerd.

Raiders actually eases newbies into the story better than most Ankama games. Unfortunately as a standalone story, it is a bit lacking. I often found myself realizing often that the story was just a diversion to keep me from realizing I was playing another unit-gathering dungeon crawler. Given the rich material the developers have to work with, there’s still so much they can do to enrich the Wakfu Raiders experience story-wise.

 

Wakfu Raiders Review

Gamplay

Gameplay-wise, it’s not that hard to understand as there have been a lot of similar games that were popular in the mobile market that also uses the same engine. But just in case, the game starts out with a non-skippable comprehensive tutorial intro just to make sure players won’t be flailing about helplessly later in the game.

Not that it’s really that needed in my opinion, but hey, these things got protocol. The game has you build a party lineup to throw into automated battle sort of deal. You have your job classes and your battle positions and even some elemental advantage system. Your units and the enemy enter the map and attack each other simultaneously in one royal rumble. They have cooldowns depending on their attack speed. Each attack nets them some meter, which allows you to unleash their unique skills – even out of turn.

Wakfu Raiders Review

Outside of the battle, you just travel from map to map, gathering either units to increase your collection of materials to upgrade, strengthen, and consequentially, evolve your heroes. This part feels sort of linear as you only follow one path, and it seems that all you’ve been doing is just single-mindedly one-tracked preparing yourself solely for PVP. Don’t worry. It’s not your imagination. So far, the game lacks several modes and additional features to actually set it iconically apart from other games, but you have to understand that it is also early in its development. And you can’t really blame me for defending it because I’m a fan. It’s precisely because I’m a fan that I know than Ankama will not shortlist creative content for a game just because it’s a small part somewhat designed for easy cash.

Wakfu Raiders Review

Wakfu has a really colorful history filled with substantial material and the source games as well as existing ports and spin-offs have always been satisfying in terms of content and gameplay, so I actually don’t mind that much that all we have now is a bare-bones, mildly repetitive dungeon crawling RPG that focuses mainly on gearing up for arena battles. You can actually see its dedication at least in making unit roles more significant than in a typical tactical brawler, and how it puts more emphasis in resource management and patience.

But other than that, it has nothing groundbreaking as of now, and having the option of auto-battle for background grinding makes battle gameplay actually a whole lot less significant to the experience.

 

Wakfu Raiders Review

Asthetics

But if we’re going to talk about graphics, let me tell you that it is absolutely breathtaking. Of course, you have to expect that the character designs are expertly done and beautifully rendered, but this will be one of the few times you get to actually see Wakfu and Dofus characters in almost full-scale upclose and personal. The animations are also really smooth and well-rendered that the sprites almost look like cel-shaded 3D animation.

And they enjoy a stark but beautiful contrast from the equally detailed 3D environment. Though the overtness in aesthetics might cause some lag in some devices, it’s actually quite a feat to see in its full glory, so viewing it through a high spec console makes Wakfu Raiders notable eye candy.

 

Wakfu Raiders Review

Conclusion: Good

All in all, the game isn’t that bad. It isn’t as awesome as one would expect it to be, but it doesn’t suck. The game is still rather young, having only about a month of live feedback to its name. So I guess waiting for it to grow and develop might be what some skeptics would do.

Wakfu Raiders Review

But, again, this is Ankama after all. And the mobile port is being developed by Gumi, which is another well-known company – having produced massive mobile gaming hits such as Brave Frontier and Chain Chronicle – so I can only expect Wakfu Raiders’ future to be equally as bright. It’s a shame that it’s not as impressive on its release, and that looking really pretty is its best trait. But we can wait, watch, and see what becomes of it.

Combat Arms introduces WAR

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Nexon Europe introduces WAR, the largest update so far for the successful online first-person shooter Combat Arms, providing more action and new exciting gameplay.

Combat Arms users can already obtain two new updates from WAR in the form of Master Gunner and Treasure Ship. Master Gunner introduces two new weapon modification categories and a plethora of new modifications – allowing players to take their weapons and refine them to deliver more killer blows in combat.

Treasure Ship is a new battleground for players to test their new and improved weaponry from the Master Gunner update. Treasure Ship will require players to storm the ship and use the containers in order to gain a strategic advantage.

Tiny Mighty Launches Open Beta Today

Tiny Mighty Launches Open Beta Today news header

AMZGame invites players to join the open beta phase for the new Strategy RPG Tiny Mighty. The Open Beta phase begins today September 15, 2015 at 10:00 UTC-5. The Open Beta will introduce many changes from the Alpha Beta, hope you will have a good time in hero’s world! Players looking to find out more information about this captivating superhero game can visit the official website at http://tm.amzgame.com/?pr.

Tiny Mighty is a captivating game centralized around super heroes; players can enjoy the fun to unlock different features by leveling-up. In the Tiny Mighty world, teams will include different heroes that will have different powers, players can upgrade heroes and level up stars to make their team stronger! There is not only the PvP duel, but also the league fight. Collect heroes, upgrade skills, synth various items and exclusive gears, all features players can find within Tiny Mighty. Tiny Mighty is the Brand-New RPG game that lets you play as a commander like never before. To protect the peace of the world, players must lead, summon and even hire other players’ heroes to create an unstoppable team and fight with the enemies. Meanwhile in this world, it has Mysterious Fairyland, Energy Treasure, Endless Trial and deadly World Boss, which wait for players to explore and challenge.

Webzen to Bring ELOA to North America and Europe

Webzen to Bring ELOA to North America and Europe news header

Webzen, a global developer and publisher of free-to-play games, announced today that the Triple-A Fantasy MMORPG ELOA will come to North America and Europe through Webzen.com.

Today, Webzen signed a publishing agreement for ELOA (Elite Lord of Alliance) with the developer NPICSOFT, to bring the game to Western players through the global gaming portal Webzen.com.

Webzen is planning to start the first beta test this autumn, with the official launch slated for the end of this year (2015).

ELOA is an anime-inspired fantasy action MMORPG, with both point-and-click and keyboard controls. Players will start by choosing one of 5 playable classes among 4 races. Each class has access to 3 stances and skills that players can easily switch between during combat.

Based on the agreement, Webzen has the full copyright to ELOA as a publisher, and will therefore team up with NPICSOFT for a successful game release in the North American and European territories.

Dennis Choi, CEO of NPICSOFT states: “We are excited to announce the new partnership with Webzen, bringing ELOA to the West through the Webzen.com portal with 60 million players from all over the world.” He also mentions: “ELOA is a game that we feel deeply passionate about, and will reflect our approach and commitment to the Western gaming community.”

Richard Sunmyoung Moon, Head of Global Business at Webzen also comments: “Along with this latest partnership, we look forward to delivering an enhanced gaming experience to our MMO fans in the West.”

Destiny: The Taken King Available Today

Destiny: The Taken King Available Today news header

Bungie and Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) have joined forces to bring the world Destiny: The Taken King, the epic follow-up to the blockbuster Destiny saga. Building upon Destiny, the biggest new video game franchise launch in history, Destiny: The Taken King expands the universe with a rich and diverse offering, including new adventures, challenges, enemies, and weapons that make for the most ambitious addition to the Destiny universe yet. The Taken King can be purchased now, worldwide, in each territory where available at global retailers, and through console digital stores. Additionally, the ‘King’s Fall’ Raid will go live at 10 o’clock a.m. PDT on Friday, Sept. 18, giving millions of players in the Destiny community the biggest new challenge and commensurate rewards to date.

With a new storyline introducing Oryx, Crota’s vengeful father, an all-new destination, three new Guardian subclasses, a massive arsenal of new armor, weapons and exotics, new Strikes and Crucible maps, and the new ‘King’s Fall’ Raid that will put players to the ultimate test, there has never been a better time to jump in to “Become Legend,” particularly for new players beginning their journey as a Guardian.The Taken King major expansion takes players deep into the chambers of a new destination, the ‘Dreadnaught’ ship, to defeat Oryx, and his Taken Army.

“The biggest new video game franchise launch in history is back!” said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing. “For the millions who have been playing Destiny already, The Taken King offers epic new adventures across all modes of play, with all-new adventures, enemies, destinations, weapons and challenges. And if you’re new to Destiny, this is the perfect time to jump in, by getting all of the incredible adventures of Destiny to date in one epic Legendary Edition for a value that won’t be seen anywhere in gaming this year.”

“Destiny has the best and most passionate community we’ve ever seen at Bungie. As we started planning for year two, we wanted to surprise, engage and challenge those that have put in hundreds, if not thousands of hours of their personal time in to the universe,” said Luke Smith, creative director for The Taken King at Bungie. “We hope The Taken King will exceed the high bar of expectations from our voracious audience, and welcome new Guardians into this next great chapter.”

For players who are new to Destiny, everything needed to jump in is available in the Legendary Edition which includes content for: Destiny, Expansion I: The Dark Below, Expansion II: House of Wolves, and features The Taken King offered at a suggested retail price of $59.99. Those who have already purchased Destiny and both expansions can purchase a digital copy of The Taken King by itself for a suggested retail price of $39.99. At launch, PlayStation® gamers will also receive access to a host of additional content for The Taken King, including a Strike, a Crucible map, three sets of armor and an exotic weapon, timed exclusive until at least Fall 2016. Both The Taken King and the Legendary Edition will also include a character boost, called “Spark of Light,” a one-time increase to level 25 which is the minimum level required to play The Taken King content.

The Taken King is ESRB rated ‘T’ for Teen, and will be available for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system (PlayStation® Plus required for some features), PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system and Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft (Xbox Live Gold required for some features) on Sept. 15, 2015.