Psychonauts 2 raised more than $3 million in crowd funding using a new platform called Fig, one which Double Fine President Tim Schafer serves on the advisory board. More than twenty thousand people pooled their money together to make the sequel to 2005’s Psychonauts a reality, but did the success of a widely anticipated game … Continue reading “[Not Massive] Fig’s Crowd Funding Platform Is Fading”
Trion Worlds has announced a major info dump at Gamescom, with details regarding all of their first party titles. More information on individual updates will be coming in the next few weeks, but for today the company has pushed a small blurb on each title: Rift: Patch 3.4 introduces a new calling, the Primalist, along … Continue reading “Trion Worlds At Gamescom: Infodump”
Trion Worlds has announced that they will be bringing the MMOARPG Devilian to North America and Europe. The Diablo-esque title will join their increasingly diverse portfolio of games including MMO Rift, online shooter Defiance, and world builder Trove. Devilian is advertised as: Join the fray as a Berserker, Evoker, Cannoneer, or Shadowhunter. Each Class possesses … Continue reading “Trion Worlds Unveils Diablo-esque Devilian”
If you’ve had a hard time dealing with a lack of bank space, your prayers have been answered. As part of today’s update, Jagex has placed two bank boosters on the RuneScape cash shop for free to active subscribers. Members can currently get their hands on three bank boosters for free, a total of 150 … Continue reading “RuneScape Members Can Pick Up Free Bank Boosters”
Originally I intended this week’s Community column to be speculation about how Trion Worlds would handle ArcheAge’s upcoming server merge, given that the plans are still in the conceptual stage and any real action that will be taken is still months down the line. To fuel speculation, I looked at how server mergers were handled … Continue reading “[Community] Let’s Call A Merger A Merger”
We need to have another one of those serious chats, for which I apologize and promise we’ll be getting back to the gaming talk ASAP. As I type this, at 7:40pm on February 25th, the hashtag #letmarkspeak is number two trending on Twitter. If you haven’t been paying attention to the going-ons in the gaming … Continue reading “MMO Fallout On Ethical Gaming Press”
Star Vault has released their fourth quarter finances for the 2014 year and the results are not all bad. While net sales fell for the second quarter in a row, down to $57 thousand, net profit dipped slightly more out of the red at $109 thousand below. This year Star Vault made advances toward release … Continue reading “Star Vault 2014 Finance: Sales Down, Profit Up”
Star Vault has released their Q3 2014 finances, and the results are slightly positive. The first quarter brought a dramatic shift in both sales and profit, and while operations have returned to normal the current quarter showed a small increase in profits over the previous. Net sales for the third quarter amounted to $72 thousand over … Continue reading “Star Vault Q3 Report Shows Revenue Growth”
Today’s MMOrning Shot comes to us from Line of Defense, where there appears to be a war going on in the stars. A star war, if you catch my drift. What I’m saying is that those clouds look like a Star Destroyer in battle with a rebel ship, which is either unintentional, a well placed … Continue reading “MMOrning Shots: Signs From Above”
I feel like I’ve gotten a lot done since ArcheAge launched just a few days ago. Don’t believe me? I got my homework done in a timely fashion for my journalism class, and I even managed to level in Destiny to 23 with rank 1 in the Vanguard faction. At the rate things are going, … Continue reading “Diaries From ArcheAge: Endless Review Queue”
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