Allods Team, Obsidian Entertainment and My.com are excited to announce the Skyforge “Crucible of the Gods”, the first major game update, will arrive to Aelion on August 11th. This massive update includes bug fixes, new content and feature enhancements as well as the ability to unlock the divine form granting players access to high-end activities including Invasions, Raids, and much more.

Following Skyforge’s launch into Open Beta last month, the development team has been working hard to deliver this major update intended to bring players new high level challenges to undertake with like-minded allies and Pantheon members. These additions offer a variety of content to complete, ensuring there’s always a different activity available.

The Skyforge “Crucible of the Gods” update will include:

Divine Form:
Certain heroic deeds are beyond the abilities of both mortals and immortals alike. For these activities, you will need to ascend to your rightful place as a God and progress through the newly unlocked Divine Atlas. Players will need to complete the “New God” Storyline quest which becomes available at ~30,500 Prestige to unlock access to the Divine Form. More about divine form: http://sf.my.com/us/news/announcements/unlocking-power-your-divine-form

Distortions:
Using their special dedicated analyzer, Pantheons can mark spatial distortions on the tactical globe of the divine observatory, allowing a group of ten players from their Pantheon to instantly teleport to the enemy’s lair. They will be faced with four powerful opponents, one after another, in an ancient arena. As a reward for their triumphant victory, these groups receive unique Epic weapons, other valuable trophies, and also advance towards the next stages of their character’s divine form. More about distortions: http://sf.my.com/us/news/announcements/assaulting-distortions-pantheons

Invasions:
While Pantheons seek out hidden hostiles in Distortions, the enemies of Aelion prepare their own invasions! Every able-bodied defender will now be involved in keeping the ruthless Invaders at bay as invasions are large scale events that affect all players. Successfully battling through each stage of the invasions will allow significant progress to be made through the Divine Atlas due to rewards and bonuses which are not counted towards the weekly limits. More about Invasions: http://sf.my.com/us/news/announcements/skyforge-developer-diary-iv-invasions

Anomalies:
Anomalies are activities for five players and take place in a large open area that can be accessed by several groups at the same time. Tessa’s Sanctuary acts as a rallying point near the Anomalies as well as a place where gods wishing to join in on these adventures congregate. Anomalies can gain players Ether Resonators which in turn are converted into Sparks for the Ascension Atlas or a number of other Epic rewards. With this new challenge, an essential stat comes into play – Tactical Sense. This statistic is used to triumph over the enemies powerful defenses. More about Anomalies: http://sf.my.com/us/news/announcements/anomalies-divine-challenge

Raids:
Ten valiant gods will explore two unique and incredible Adventures designed to test them against the strongest creatures on Aelion: The Mechanoid Ship and Operation Isabella. Raids are serious challenges for players seeking high-end PvE content, epic rewards, and act as a source for increasing the Tactical Sense statistic. More about Raids: http://sf.my.com/us/news/announcements/skyforge-developer-diary-iii-raidsIn addition to the high-end content the “Crucible of the Gods” update brings multiple bug fixes and improvements to the game. The full list of bug fixes will be posted on Skyforge.com ahead of the update.

The “Crucible of the Gods” update is just the first step towards Allods Team, Obsidian and My.com’s future plans for Skyforge continued content expansions and improvement across all aspects of the game thanks to the ongoing feedback from the community and efforts from the development team.

Players can dive into Open Beta right now on the Skyforge official web-site at http://sf.my.com and choose one of the Collector’s Packs to get a more exciting start at http://sf.my.com/us/collectors-edition

Following the recently released ‘Walker’ update, Heroes & Generals celebrates its 1 year anniversary on Steam. Since the Early Access release in July 2014, the playerbase has grown to more than 5.5 million players and Reto-Moto has added a lot of new content to the game, expanded the featureset, fixed lots of bugs and tweaked gameplay and balancing using performance stats and community feedback.

“This first year on Steam Early Access has been an incredible roller-coaster ride for us and the engagement and feedback from our community has been priceless.” says Jacob Andersen, Game Director at Reto-Moto. “We will continue to improve the game, bring more content to our players and we have many exciting new features in the pipeline, so Heroes & Generals will continue to grow in the years to come.”

As one of the first 10 games to be greenlit by the community on Steam, Heroes & Generals showed the potential to become huge and it was the third most popular game of all 2014 releases on Steam (Ars Technica, May 2015). Heroes & Generals continues this path by currently being one of the most popular free-to-play games on Steam.

To celebrate the 1 year Steam anniversary, Reto-Moto will give away free Gold voucher codes this weekend. Find more details about the voucher codes here.

More details on what the first year on Steam has brought for Heroes & Generals can be found in this infographic.

Dungeons & Dragons Online has forged ahead this week with another update: Trials of the Archon.

Trials of the Archon is a new adventure pack, free to VIPs, featuring new quests and a raid in the plane of eternal battle, Shavarath. The update also features many other tweaks, changes, and new items.

You can read the full patch notes here.

Hammerfall Publishing is pleased to announce the official full release date of their upcoming “Warhammer 40,000” strategy game, Warhammer 40,000: Regicide.

On August 26, 2015, tactical combat and classical strategy will meet on the blood-soaked and war-ravaged battlefields, as Warhammer 40,000: Regicide leaves Early Access to achieve a full release on Steam for PC. As part of this upcoming release, Regicide will feature all three-acts of their 50 mission story-driven campaign, many new tactical abilities, a full tier upgrade system for units, and a barrage of additional fan-requested features, refinements and, improvements!

The Regicide release-day update will include the highly-anticipated Armoury where players can unlock new abilities to take into battle, an XP & levelling system, and a new unit upgrade system that allows players to Tier up their units.

Hammerfall has also added extensive, canonically authentic Russian, German and French localizations (with a few more languages for good measure still to be announced!)

Warhammer 40,000: Regicide’s campaign consists of three acts. In act 1, fight your way through the first 10 missions of our epic 50-mission single-player Campaign alongside Captain Dracomedes and his loyal Blood Angels.
All of the above features will be available when Warhammer 40,000: Regicide releases on August 26, 2015!

Warhammer 40,000: Regicide has been embraced by strategy fans worldwide, with a Steam approval rating of 88%, and has amassed tens of thousands of players during Early Access. And those bloodthirsty players have already logged well over 100,000 total hours of play to-date!
Fans are invited to join the team at Hammerfall Publishing as we accept challenges from members of the community, give away Steam Keys, answer questions about the game, and talk about the Warhammer 40,000 universe during our fortnightly Friday Face-Off Event, with the next being July 31, 2015 on Twitch at http://www.twitch.tv/wh40kregicide

Indie developer Freejam are delighted to announce “Robocraft: Unleashed!” a new, game-changing expansion to their robot-crafting shooter MMO Robocraft. With new and enhanced gameplay, Robocraft: Unleashed empowers players to have maximum freedom to push the boundaries of style and substance in the battle for robotic supremacy!

Robocraft: Unleashed’s gameplay offers limitless robot building and battling through an enhanced technology tree, flexible “cube” crafting and a battle system based around robot power and player level.

“We’ve taken a long look at our player feedback and in-game data, ramped up our developer team and scheduled a series of updates  to realise the potential of Roborcraft based on our players’ aspirations”, Mark Simmons, Game Director at Freejam commented. “Robocraft: Unleashed is the first in a series of major updates. We really appreciate our player’s passion to help shape our vision for the game; initial feedback on our plan is really positive, and we can’t wait to unleash the new developments for the community!”

In addition to the core gameplay enhancements, Roborcraft: Unleashed will feature new content and additional improvements including:

• “Boss Fights” – elite squad versus horde of contenders in the ultimate PVP mode!
• New player level based progression system
• New map – Spitzer Dam
• Enhanced battle and platoon match-making based on *Robot Ranking*
• Additional improvements and enhancements to game-balance and UI patch notes