Category: News

[Video] Does the World Need Another Shooter? Raiders of the Broken Planet Says Yes


Raiders of the Broken Planet is an upcoming 4v1 shooter that may bring to mind Evolve due to its premise of four heroes taking on one big baddie. Looking over the developer diary from Mercury Steam, the game seems to be doing what Left 4 Dead did with the genre, introduce more of an ongoing story element to the mindless shooting. A third person shooter with cover mechanics, Raiders will have you dodging, ducking, dipping, shooting, and punching your way through waves of enemies.

An incredible discovery on one of Saturn’s moons leads a force of humans to a broken planet on the far reaches of the universe. A source of energy called Aleph exists there that grants ultimate power to who ever controls it…

You can watch 22 minutes of Raiders of the Broken Planet from Eurogamer below. The closed beta can be signed up for here, with the game set to launch on PC and consoles. MercurySteam is best known for their work on Castlevania: Lord of Shadow and their upcoming Metroid: Samus Returns.

Perfect World Entertainment: Zen Charge Bonus


Perfect World Entertainment has announced that beginning today and running through next Wednesday, players will be able to reload their Zen wallets and receive bonus coins. The bonus starts at 10% and goes up to 25% for the more expensive tiers. Unfortunately for console players, the sale only extends to those on PC. For more information on the sale, head on over to the link below.

From Friday, June 30th at 9AM PST to Wednesday, July 5th at 9AM PST, Captains will earn an extra bonus on purchased ZEN when you charge through Direct Credit Card, PayPal, Skrill, BoaCompra, Xsolla, Paysafecard, or Steam.

(Source: Perfect World Entertainment)

Marvel Heroes Officially Launches on Console Today


Marvel Heroes is officially here! Of course I’m speaking about the official launch on Playstation and Xbox. While Playstation gamers have been taking part in the head start for a little while now, Xbox users will finally get a chance to take part in the Diablo-esque Marvel brawler.

Marvel Heroes can be downloaded for free on PC, Playstation, and Xbox.

(Source: Marvel Heroes)

Mabinogi Duel Crosses With Guilty Gear


Nexon today announced that it is collaborating with Arc System Works to incorporate its popular Guilty Gear franchise into the trading card game, Mabinogi Duel. Based on the MMO, Mabinogi Duel is available on both iOS and Android devices, with players battling each other from all over the world using decks of cards inspired by Mabinogi.

The collaboration also marks a wave of events, listed below for your convenience.

(Source: Nexon Press Release)

Guilty Gear Hero Launch – Beginning June 29, players can complete in-game objectives to acquire and use powerful Guilty Gear heroes;

  • Epic Arena Event – Improve your rank at the PvE Arena to earn Gems, Special Tickets and Boosters from July 2 through July 26;
  • Intense Battle Missions – Take on dueling missions with formidable opponents to earn valuable rewards;
  • New Special Edition Boosters Availability – Special Edition Boosters go on sale each week from June 29 through July 27. The new boosters include:
    • June 29 – Fairy: Yorma
    • July 6 – Tiny Hippo
    • July 13 – Angel: Mika
    • July 20 – Mage: 39-years-old;
    • Weekly Log-in Incentives – Log-in every Thursday and Sunday to receive 15 Gems and 2 Special Tickets weekly.

Marvel Heroes Omega: Better Loot, More Costumes, Less Choice


Big changes are coming to Marvel Heroes Omega with how the game treats drops. According to an announcement revealed this week, Gazillion plans on taking the loot box and making it more substantive. For starters, while previously the boxes could only be obtained via the cash shop, they will now be granted at specific character levels (5, 12, 15, 30, and 60). In addition, loot boxes will drop costumes at a higher rate.

Now for the bad news: As part of this update, Gazillion will also be removing all costumes from the cash shop, meaning that the only way to acquire them will be through the loot boxes.

We plan to rotate the costumes available in the loot boxes out every few months, but players looking for particular costumes after this update can use their Marvelous Essence (given in each loot box) to acquire them directly from the Marvelous Essence vendor Moondragon, located in all Hubs. She will carry all costumes in the loot boxes available at that time.

The community isn’t taking the news well. Gazillion has since come out and tried to explain that the model was “unsustainable” on PC.

Exploit Knocks Secret World Legends Into Extended Downtime


What originally began as a simple maintenance downtime has resulted in the Secret World Legends servers being offline for much of the day, with services now expected to resume at 5pm eastern. The downtime originates from an exploit discovered in the game that allowed players to generate mass quantities of currency. As a result, Funcom has taken the servers down for an extended period of time to figure out what to do about the exploit and to deal with the spread of bad currency being injected into the economy.

We’re terribly sorry for any inconvenience caused by today’s extended maintenance. As some of you may know by now, there was an issue discovered with the Exchange and it’ll take time to come up with a proper solution to both the underlying issue and the effects it may have caused. Today’s maintenance period has been extended until at least 17:00 EDT / 21:00 UTC (please correct me if the conversion is wrong somehow) and we’ll try to keep you in the loop on any other developments. Patch notes will be posted on the official website at www.secretworldlegends.com once the servers are back up.

While the exploit itself wasn’t dealt with until this downtime, Funcom reacted quickly after learning of its existence and was able to disable to auction house to avoid further complications. For now, the servers aren’t expected to come back up until 5pm at the earliest.

(Source: Reddit)

PSA: Don’t Update Your The Secret World Launcher, It’s Broken


If you were thinking of checking out The Secret World in defiance of the head start launch of Secret World Legends, you might want to tread lightly in allowing your patcher to update itself. Why? Well players are finding that the The Secret World client is automatically updating itself to the Secret World Legends client, a similar but wholly different game in terms of servers and support from Funcom.

Luckily, there is a solution:

You have to download the new patcher from http://register.thesecretworld.com and install it to a DIFFERENT folder. Then copy the files from that folder into your old TSW folder and run the patcher as usual.

BACKUP your settings from %localappdata%\Funcom\TSW FIRST. The installer overwrites some of them.

This just locked some of us out of our final raids. Thank you, Funcom!

(Source: Funcom Forums)

Funcom Unveils Information Regarding The Secret World Transfers


Funcom is finally ready to hand over the details on Secret World Legends, namely the process by which you will transfer your character over. Starting Friday, June 23, you’ll be able to log into your account on the Secret World Legends website and transfer your account over. The transfer will only be available until an undetermined time in August and can only be performed once, so make it count!

For a limited time (until some time in August 2017), you can initiate a ONE-TIME copy of your current TSW clothing items and membership over to your Secret World Legends account.  Activating this also unlocks all of your weapon pages in Secret World Legends! Once you log into your Secret World Legends account page, click the TSW Legacy Transfer button to begin the process. That’s it! You get to choose exactly when your items and membership gets copied, but again, this is only available until some time in August.

Most clothing items barring faction rank gear will transfer over, as will pets. Achievement rewards will cross over but the achievements will not.

(Source: Secret World Legends)

Villagers & Heroes Launches New Starfall Expansion


Villagers & Heroes has announced the launch of its next expansion for this fall. Dubbed Starfall, the new expansion is set to bring a ton of new content from an increased level cap, new loot system, talent trees, and more. You’ll be able to level up to 90 thanks to seven new content zones, as well as a fifth rebirth option. Starfall promises more powerful loot with more stat boost and weapon masteries specific to each class.

“We’re very excited to announce the expansion to our game”, Said Mad Otter Games C.E.O Damon Slye. “Starfall is our most ambitious expansion to date that not only adds plenty of new content such as new locations, but also reworks a large portion of the game such as crafting, loot, and the progression system. Oh, and did I mention we are removing repair costs for weapons and armor?”

The list of updates is gigantic, and you can read them all here. In the move up to launch, Mad Otter Games is also offering a challenge for players with rewards for the whole community. For more information, check out the official website.

Zenimax Permanently Bans Hundreds of ESO Accounts Over Morrowind Codes


A bunch of players logged into their emails to find some bizarre notifications this week. For some, they were learning that not only had their subscription been cancelled but their accounts were permanently disabled. While MMO Fallout is not a stranger to reports of mass bans over cheating or bug abuse, this one is a bit peculiar. As it turns out, Zenimax Online permanently banned players over their Morrowind game codes.

The issue, at least for many, appears to stem from the player having entered an early access code for Morrowind without later entering in the full product code (which would indicate that they pre-ordered for early access and simply cancelled). Others noted that they had cancelled their pre-orders due to issues with Amazon not shipping/delaying physical copies of the collector’s edition. Others went further, stating that they had not only received their copies but had entered the codes only to find their accounts banned due to not owning the content anyway.

The thread discussing the incident can be found here, with players complaining of being locked out despite customer service claiming to reactivate their accounts for 24 hours to resubmit their product key. Codes which, for users who already redeemed the keys on their accounts, will be useless.

“Thank you for reaching out to us about your account. Our records show that this account has been deactivated as a result of not applying a valid Morrowind game code. This account has been notified on multiple occasions that we required a Morrowind Collector’s Edition code to be redeemed on the account, and as a result of this code not being redeemed, the account has been turned off.

However, we are willing to make a one-time exception and have reactivated this account for 24 hours. During this time, we ask that you please redeem a valid Morrowind game code to your account. Should your account not have a Morrowind game code redeemed on it within 24 hours, the account will be permanently deactivated. If you have any questions or issues redeeming a code, please respond to this message, and we’d be happy to provide assistance.”

The accounts have since been reactivated. Zenimax’s official statement:

Yesterday, we deactivated a few hundred game accounts due to not applying a valid ESO: Morrowind game code. However, we found that some game accounts were wrongfully suspended and we are in the process of fixing those accounts now. This should only take a couple hours to complete today; we appreciate your patience while we correct this issue. If you are still not able to access your account by this afternoon, please contact our Support Team and they will follow up with you. Thanks in advance, and we apologize for the confusion this has caused.