Black Desert Online is previewing its July 20th update, introducing the ninja and kunoichi classes as announced by Kakao Games (Formerly Daum). The update also introduces a skill addon system, allowing attacks to be customized with up to two effects. Prior to this update on the 20th, Black Desert Online players will see the launch … Continue reading “Black Desert Online Previews Ninja/Kunoichi Classes”
Neverwinter’s latest Reddit AMA was last night, and for the sake of brevity we have compiled a list of the more important/informational answers. For those of you willing to dive deep and read the full answers, you can check out the complete Reddit thread here. The overall AMA is pretty short and easily finished in … Continue reading “Neverwinter AMA Answers”
CCP’s latest dev blog talks about coming improvements to the character bazaar, where players can buy and sell fully formed avatars in order to discourage less safe sales that would happen anyway on websites like Ebay. A majority of the updates concern the fact that the bazaar, while handy, is still too complicated for many … Continue reading “CCP Proposes Tradeable Skills, Community Not Enthused”
If you hadn’t noticed, DDOS attacks have become common enough that nowadays they’re just a regular thing that happens every so often. Pick any major game service, be it Xbox Live, PSN, RuneScape, World of Warcraft, etc, and odds are it has experienced service disruption in recent months due to these attacks. In the case … Continue reading “APB Reloaded Compensating For Downtime”
Daybreak Game Company has confirmed that John Smedley will be stepping down as president and chief executive officer, following a lengthy period of harassment from the cyber group Lizard Squad. A spokesperson from Daybreak confirmed to Venturebeat that Smedley will be relinquishing his role, although he will not be leaving the company entirely. “I can … Continue reading “John Smedley Steps Down As CEO”
It’s Sunday, and you know what that means: You’re playing Triad Wars, thanks to the giveaway here at MMO Fallout. Well you should be, anyhow. As we descend into the barren wasteland that is the summer of gaming, I see the Weekend Wrapup getting smaller and smaller. Anyway, get a Triad Wars beta key. If … Continue reading “Weekend Wrapper: We Aren’t Merging Articles”
Dungeons & Dragons Online Update 25 drops today, bringing with it the Temple of Elemental Evil. The update features voice acting by actor/writer Wil Wheaton, best known for his portrayal of Wesley Crusher in the 1987 television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Among his more recent work, Wheaton voiced the dialogue for Abraham Lincoln in the … Continue reading “Wil Wheaton Guest-DMs Reign of Elemental Evil”
With the year coming to an end, it’s time to start taking stories and sticking them into categories. Since I’m a well known optimist, I decided to start this month’s lists off with a look at the year’s greatest disappointments. Since a lot of what constitutes a “disappointment” is subjective, I ignored specific news pieces … Continue reading “Top 5: Most Disappointing Moments of the Year”
Wildstar staff Cougar took to the forums to publicly respond to a player asking why his account ban hadn’t been dealt with ten days later. I’m assuming that with your posting here that you don’t mind us talking about your account status in public. I have a spare moment before my next meeting and am doing … Continue reading “Carbine Staff Knocks Down Cheater On Forums”
Distributed Denial of Service Attacks are an ever-increasing problem over all sectors of the internet. What was once a rare occurrence has become nearly commonplace with many medium to large services. Most recently, the Extra Life charity event was brought down temporarily due to a denial of service attack. Google has launched Project Shield, … Continue reading “RuneScape's Services Disrupted By Denial of Service Attacks”
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