Posts tagged MMO Games

Red 5 has announced that the writer of Spec Ops: The Line has joined the Firefall team and will be heading up the development of the story line. 

Yet in spite of this wealth of resources, the task he is faced with is not a small one. His job: take the hundreds of pages of backstory and history that have been created for this game over the span of several years, by a variety of developers, and weave those details into a narrative that can support hundreds of hours of play and survive being cut into dozens of shreds compatible with being digested in short, MMO-style missions, playable in any order, at any time.

Source: Polygon

Aeria Games has announced that the latest update to Shaiya has been deployed. Called the "Iron Invasion", the new content will pit players against mechanized enemies of all sizes. Other features include new Quest Scrolls and an 'instant PvP action' button.

Dangerous mechanical monsters have appeared in the battlegrounds and begun to ravage the land. Their motives are unclear and their origins are a mystery, but they present a deadly threat to all the native inhabitants of Shaiya. Caring little for the conflict between the Alliance of Light and the Union of Fury, the iron invaders must be stopped by members of both factions.

Find out more on the Shaiya site.

Elder Scrolls Online is poised as one of the next "big games" to hit live service as 2013 rolls along. During last week's E3 convention, we check out the latest ESO demo build for our exclusive preview. See what we discovered before heading to the comments to chat.

Elder Scrolls Online’s E3 was a mixed bag of sorts: on one hand, they announced their plans to bring the game to the Xbox One and Playstation 4 (great news for their parent company’s earnings no doubt).  But they also announced plans to delay the launch of all three platforms (including PC) into Spring of 2014. The reason cited by everyone at Zenimax Online is fervently that the decision is not tied to the console development and rather than beta feedback has proven to the team that they need to spend time honing everything up to make sure ESO is the best possible Elder Scrolls game it can be.  Our interviews with Paul Sage and Brian Wheeler echo this sentiment, as it seems the game is still focusing on nailing down some of its core systems, and that a fall/winter release for this year simply was off the table. Some folks might balk at More >

The Wind of Luck team has posted a short update about the game's progress towards release. The plan is to release WoL in two parts, first the WoL Arena followed by the rest of the project pending funding sources.

As for WoL:Arena – Ships will be partially upgradeable, with equipment and crew, and there will be some progression from smallest boats to 1-rate ships. players will earn fame and money in each battle and spend it to research and buy new ships, cannons and equipment. I.e. in "Asian" tree there will be like 9 tiers of ships starting from Hokulea and finishing in some really huge vessels like legendary Treasure Ship of Zheng He fleet. Yes, it means that we will need to completely rebalance ships for WoL: Arena but it seems like the only way to make the game finally live.

Read the full post on the Wind of Luck site.

The Repopulation's site has been updated with a trio of articles to shine the spotlight on what the team has been working on through the month of May, resource extraction and general harvesting.

A lot of effort went into improving the Rogue features of the game this month. Thievery saw a number of improvements, and we introduced several new mission templates that center around Pick Pocketing NPCs or stealing from shops. We also introduced a new locked container system. These containers or inventory items require Hacking skill to unlock. The mission system also received a significant number of improvements. This includes improved mission chaining, generated mission selection, mail event notifications and prop interaction features. It also includes several new types of generated mission templates. We also made headway on the Work Order system which we expect to go live next month.

Read more on The Repopulation's site.