E3 2015: Blizzard on Heroes of the Storm’s Eternal Conflict
While Heroes of the Storm just released, Blizzard is not resting on its laurels. The Eternal Conflict is coming, first on the public test realm June 23rd, then in a hoped-for release on June 30th, but the overall push will last a few months.
This expansion has had a quick cadence, especially after Technical Director Alan Dabiri and Senior Artist Phill Gonzales admit that...
Punching dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Evolved
Five minutes after I logged into ARK: Survival Evolved, I punched a fish. A few moments later, I punched a tree. Shortly thereafter, I mustered the courage to punch a dinosaur, and while that didn't go as well as I would have liked, I did in fact survive.
ARK is one of the ubiquitous early access survival sandboxes littering Steam...
The Division walks players through the Dark Zone in a new video
What's it like exploring the Dark Zone in The Division? It's a question asked by many people who know there is a zone which is dark in the game, which is probably a small subset of people. But now you know it exists, and you'd like to know what it's like to fight through it, and guess what? You...
An exclusive Tokyo post-mortem with The Secret World’s Romain Amiel
Massively: We're on the horn with The Secret World Lead Designer Romain Amiel, who's taking time out of his schedule to answer some questions about the game's recent storytelling milestones -- and perhaps hint about where it's going next. So Romain, now that Tokyo's wrapped up and you're able to look back on it, what would you say was...
Star Citizen is handing backers the keys to all of its spaceships next week
If you're on a tight budget, Star Citizen's ships aren't always the most affordable pieces of virtual hardware in the gaming world. However, if you're on board as a backer in any capacity, then the game wants to reward you by giving you the ability to fly the entire roster of Arena Commander spaceships next week. This would be...
E3 2015: Torchlight Mobile is a new Torchlight, not Torch-lite
When Perfect World and Runic Games announced last week that Torchlight was stretching out into the mobile market, it caught many folks quite unawares. (It's not often a studio can keep something under wraps so well in this industry!) So of course I was looking forward to meeting with these studios at E3 2015 to learn more about this little...
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward starts early access, welcomes back players
Just a heads-up: If you have friends who play Final Fantasy XIV, you may not be seeing them at all today. That's because early access has begun for the Heavensward expansion, which will go on to officially launch June 23rd.
The patch notes for the expansion are up and cover the incredibly long list of additions, changes, and features. Heavensward...
The Daily Grind: What was the MMO highlight of E3?
The last few years around convention time, I took a moment in The Daily Grind to ponder whether E3 had become irrelevant for MMO gamers in particular. This year, I can't even ask that question with a straight face. While the con wasn't swarming with true MMOs, the MMO announcements circling the expo were huge. Star Wars: The Old...
Massively Overthinking: The value of MMO voice chat
This week's Massively Overthinking question was shot over to us from Kickstarter donor Celestial, and it's all about voice chat in MMOs.
Do you use a voice chat program while gaming, and if so, which one do you primarily use? Mumble, TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, RaidCall, Razer Comms, Skype, or some game-integrated solution (WoW, DCUO, LotRO, etc.)?"
And furthermore, do you actually like voice...
Take a walk to the past with World of Warcraft’s Mana-Tombs
Set your alarm for June 23rd and remember to charge up your flux capacitor, because World of Warcraft is about to take you back to the past with timewalking dungeons.
As Blizzard's discussed already, Patch 6.2's timewalking feature will open up a new difficulty level for older dungeons that will scale down players' power and gear to meet the instance....
