Today ArenaNet revealed the tempest, the elite specialization for the elementalist profession debuting in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. The tempest enables players to harness the elements with a myriad of new skills and a new weapon to utilize – the warhorn.

ArenaNet Game Designer Karl McLain examines the strength and versatility of this new elite specialization, including how it came into being during the development of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, in a new blog on the official Guild Wars 2 website. Tempest is a close-range specialization capable of blasting out damage, healing and support abilities, including “Eye of the Storm” which allows players to call down a storm on their characters and allies. Eye of the Storm breaks stun on anyone affected in a short radius and grants them super speed for a short time; there’s also “Aftershock”, an ability which cripples nearby enemies with earthen force.

The tempest also possesses the Overload ability which allows players to call in the forces of either fire, water, air and earth to benefit the player and their allies, depending on their attunement. More details about these skills and how players can use the warhorn weapon can be found in the official developer blog.

ArenaNet will reveal the first in-game look at the tempest’s abilities when McLain joins host Rubi Bayer on Points of Interest airing this Friday, July 24 at 12 p.m. PDT on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel.

Guild Wars 2 HoT: Tempest

Guild Wars 2 HoT: Tempest

Guild Wars 2 HoT: Tempest

Guild Wars 2 HoT: Tempest

Guild Wars 2 HoT: Tempest

Guild Wars 2 HoT: Tempest

Guild Wars 2 HoT: Tempest

Guild Wars 2 HoT: Tempest

Guild Wars 2 HoT: Tempest

Eyedentity Mobile announces that its new mobile action RPG “Grand Chase M”, developed by DaVinci Games and published by Eyedentity, engaged more than 200,000 users during the pre-registration event.

Prior to the game launch, hyped players can pre-register for “Grand Chase M” via the following links and unlock unique rewards.

Facebook
Official Pre-registration Website
Pre-registration via mobile application

While the previous reward used to be the unique hero character “Holy Knight Lime”, Eyedentity Mobile vastly increased the pre-registration package’s value to celebrate the huge amount of interested players.
The new package consists of various useful game items, such as “Battle Orders” (enabling players to rush through cleared dungeons in an instant), “AP Potions”, “SP Potions”, Gold and many more.

Andreas Günter, COO of Eyedentity Mobile’s Western division, says: “For us this is a major move. We have seen solid success with our previous games and are now ready to take the next step and continue the expand into mobile. We have a great understanding of strategy games, we have a great understanding of mobile, and we have an extensive F2P understanding. Grand Chase M’s soft launch showed us how much the players like the game and I am sure the pre-registration package is a great reward for them.

“Grand Chase M” is a quick paced mobile action RPG taking up where the internationally beloved MMO “Grand Chase” left off.  With a fan base of 20 million former players worldwide, a lot is to be expected from “Grand Chase M”’s release later this summer.

Critically-acclaimed French indie developer Amplitude Studios announced today the next expansion  for its award winning 4X strategy game Endless Legend. Named Endless Legend: Shadows, the expansion will see a new major faction, the Forgotten, infiltrate into the game as well as the inclusion of the totally new espionage system. This major gameplay addition, includes a host of new mechanics such spying, invisible units, pillaging to the assassination of rival governors.

A new intro video for the Forgotten faction can be viewed here.

The Forgotten are the latest major faction to be introduced in Endless Legend. Masters of deception and subterfuge, the Forgotten were thought lost by all. A violent and distrustful society, who after many years is emerging from the shadows once more in the hopes that the other factions will accept them – or kneel before them.

Key features introduced in Endless Legend Shadows:

• A new major faction, the Forgotten, experts in the new espionage skills.
• New invisible units, with the new “camouflage” and “stealth” capabilities
• Infiltrate rival empires to steal, capture, sabotage and assassinate.
• Pillage villages, extractors and watchtowers to slow your enemy’s progression.
• Heroes can be equipped with “Insignia” accessories to give them espionage abilities.
• Players can defend themselves with new counter espionage and detection skills.