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See League of Legends’ Ziggs in action — he’ll blow you away
Feb 2nd
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It’s Ziggs week at League of Legends as Riot Games pours out the love for this hexplosives-flinging gremlin. A new Champion Spotlight video gives a good overview of this character, highlighting Ziggs’ bomb-happy skills and key strategies for success. If being a Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight appeals to your playstyle, check out the video to see if Ziggs is your soulmate.
As part of the Ziggs celebration, there are two new skins for him in the store — Major Ziggs and Mad Scientist Ziggs — as well as a special skin for Poppy (Scarlet Hammer Poppy).
Check out the Champion Spotlight video after the cut and make sure to read up on Ziggs in our previous coverage of this new character!
TERA pre-orders available, closed beta access included
Feb 1st
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TERA news is coming fast and furious lately, and luckily for En Masse, today’s blurb is a good one. The game is officially available for pre-order, and as you would expect, there are all kinds of options relating to various gifts and gadgets depending on where (and what version) you purchase. There’s also a bit of beta bribery in the form of automatic access to all five of the closed testing phases that begin this month and continue through April.
What about the editions?
Well, you can choose between standard, digital collector’s, and physical collector’s version, and the latter two come with an in-game mount and a couple of unique necklace items. The physical collector’s edition justifies its $79.99 price point with a cloth map, a soundtrack CD, a handbook, a compass, and a letter of marque. En Masse is also offering a couple of exclusives for purchasing directly through its online store.
THQ CEO Farrell takes 50% pay cut, board of directors also takes cuts
Feb 1st
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THQ is definitely experiencing some troubles related to its uDraw flop and subsequent layoffs, as evidenced by a new document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. President and CEO Brian Farrell will take a pay cut for the year starting February 15, which reduces his salary from $718,500 to $359,250. His salary will go back up the next year.
His golden parachute has also been tailored a bit more closely, as the payment he’d receive upon departure from the company (either termination “without cause” or resignation with “good reason”) has been cut from three times his highest-ever bonus to just his highest-ever bonus. This is, of course, a small sacrifice compared to the THQ employees whose salaries went from “some” to “none.”
The board of directors is also seeing some cuts: all the other directors have “elected” to receive 50% less cash compensation for a year effective today.
Activists target SWTOR’s future same-gender romances
Feb 1st
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It looks like the notorious Family Research Council has decided that it’s again time to dust off its pitchforks and light some torches, and this time the organization has Star Wars: The Old Republic in its sights. In a post on the Family Research Council’s website, president Tony Perkins announced that “in a galaxy not so far far away, Star Wars gamers have already gone to the dark side.”
Why are SWTOR players seeing a sudden influx of dark side points? Because, as the group states, “the new video game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, has added a special feature: gay relationships.” Well, not quite — fans of the game know that same-gender romance arcs have been slated to be a post-launch feature since last fall but are still not part of the live game. The FRC is calling on players to think of the children and claims that parents and forum-goers alike are bothered by this “Star Warped way of thinking,” asking them to “show companies who the Force is really with!”
Massively addressed the topic in a 2010 opinion column. You can read the More >
Warhammer Online: City Siege Hot Fix – 02/01
Feb 1st
As part of the introduction of Fortresses, we introduced a mechanic to allow City Queuing via the scenario UI element. Unfortunately, this has led to some issues with the City invasion instances within the Live environment that were not discovered previously. Because of this, we need to remove this functionality, at least for the moment to ensure that players can queue and enjoy the City Instances properly.
This will mean players will need to enter the city via the doors to the city as they did previously.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: EA Investors’ Conference Call Reveals Data
Feb 1st
Several key facts about Star Wars: The Old Republic have emerged according to the latest information released to investors and stockholders by Electronic Arts in preparation for the Q3 2012 investor's conference call.
- Over 2 million SWTOR units were sold in just over a month
- SWTOR has 1.7 million active subscribers. "The majority of these subscribers are paying customers already." Eric Brown
- Metrics on engagement: 1 million users log in per day staying in game for 4 hours per day
- Server performance and stability exceeded expectation with 99.5% up time outside schedule maintenance.
- Grow subscribers with frequent content updates
- Another major update larger than the first coming in March
- Q3 2012 fiscal revenues are higher than Q3 2011 driven by the successful launch of SWTOR
- Net revenue for PC titles, including SWTOR, is up significantly over Q3 2011
- "Fastest growing subscription MMO in history," John Riccitiello
- EA shipped SWTOR units in December that were slated to ship in January, well ahead of schedule, and led to an increase in revenue in Q3 2012
- SWTOR drove most of the digital increase by Origin
- 40% of the sales of SWTOR came through Origin, numbers that were not shown in overall numbers of sales until now
- Increased marketing funds will be spent on SWTOR to take advantage of the More >
Rift Lite Goes Live, First 20 Levels Free
Feb 1st
Rift patch 1.7, also known as Carnival of the Ascended, has officially gone live. And in addition to the numerous game improvements and new features awaiting current Rift players, Trion Worlds has bundled an all-new way for new players to experience the game.
Called Rift Lite, this new mode allows anyone with a Trion account to play Rift until their character reaches level 20. There are no restrictions on play, no fees for registration, and no time limits for enjoying the trial. This means that new players could potentially get a few dozen hours of play completely free, which will help them decide whether Rift is a game they enjoy.
Rift isn’t the only game offering its early levels up for free – World of Warcraft recently adopted a similar scheme. It’s a smart bet when you look at it; most players are going to be more likely to pay for a game once they’ve invested some time in a character.
Scott Hartsman, executive producer for Rift, commented that the free version of the game was the best way for new players to get a quick taste of the Rift experience.
If you haven’t checked out Rift, now seems like a good time.
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Warhammer Online: Server Maintenance – 02/02
Feb 1st
Update – 10:40am EST: All servers are back online.
Greetings!
We will be bringing all North American and European servers offline tomorrow, Thursday, 02/02 at 8:00 am EST/14:00 CET for maintenance. At this time we anticipate that all servers will be back online no later than 12:30 PM EST/18:30 CET.
As always, please be sure to check the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.
Thank you for your continued support.
Wizard101: Friendship Festival Begins
Feb 1st
The latest Ravenwood Bulletin for Wizard101 has been posted with the news that the annual Friendship Festival has kicked off. The in-game event will run from today through February 15th and will feature special items and pets and will give players the opportunity to invite their friends to check out the game.
Read all of the details and the rest of the monthly letter on the Wizard101 site.
EverQuest II: Critical Mitigation to Be Removed
Feb 1st
EverQuest II executive producer Dave "SmokeJumper" Georgeson has posted on the official forums some big news for players: Critical mitigation will be removed entirely from the game. The upcoming changes will first head to the test server and then to all EQ2 servers afterward.
Here are the details:
- Critical Mitigation (the stat) has been removed from the game.
- Critical Mitigation no longer displays on the Character pane (for obvious reasons, since it’s no longer in the game).
- NPCs no longer use Critical Bonus to add to critical damage.
- Buffs and debuffs that have Critical Mitigation elements to them will have those elements replaced with other elements instead, so that those buffs/debuffs do not lose effectiveness.
- Critical Mitigation values on adornments will be replaced with hit point values instead.
Read the full post and participate in the ongoing discussion on the EverQuest II forum.