BLIZZCON SPECIAL REPORT: Opening ceremonies recap.

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Fionna Schweit

The stage is set, the lights are up, and its time for Blizzcon, blizzards nexus for news and e-sports tournaments. It all starts with the opening ceremonies. We open this year with a video about Starcraft, lots of talk from developers about how much they love the series, and how it spawned a e-sport around it. This is really a love story to Legacy of the Void, showing us that the community and the devs made the game it is today. The video wraps up in a neat presentation all about how much everyone loves the Blizzcon and how it

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5 Vs 5 Arena Mode Coming To Heroes Of The Storm

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard’s popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, will be receiving a 5 Vs 5 arena mode where the devs say anything can happen. This mode does not allow players to chose their heroes – instead your entire team is selected at random. Also there seems to be no real focus on objectives, instead this will be about player skill and pure combat. Check out the new trailer for Arena Mode below – we will bring you more as it becomes available.  

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Starcraft II: Nova Ops Expansion Drops Next Year

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Starcraft II’s popular blonde ghost Nova will be the focus of the next story set in the Starcraft II universe Blizzard announced this morning at Blizzcon. Originally scooped by IGN before the official reveal – Starcraft II: Nova expansion will be the first in a series of mission packs for the long running Starcraft 2 platform. The first 3 missions of Nova Ops will be released before June 19th of this year Blizzard has announced. Blizzards Chris Sigalty had this to say about the game: “focusing on a story that’s a little more intimate, a little darker in tone. We’ve

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Blizzcon info on Legion leaks

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Fionna Schweit

Article By: Tamsin Skye Heineman Some juicy information has been leaked today ahead of Blizzcon detailing the pre-order bonuses for Legion, the next expansion for World of Warcraft along with its release date. It was leaked through Blizzard’s own website. The expansion will raise the level cap to 110, introduce a new class called the Demon Hunter and add a new continent to Azeroth named The Broken Isles. The image reads “Expected game release on or before September 21st, 2016.” That gives us just under a year until Legion is released. Pricing seems to go from $49.99 for the standard

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OverWatch for Consoles Confirmed By Blizzard Ahead of BlizzCon 2015

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Blizzard’s surprise reveal from BlizzCon 2014 turned recent internet sensation, OverWatch, will be heading to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One alongside the Windows PC version Blizzard announced today. It seems that several retailers – namely GameStop USA – put out store displays for OverWatch: Origin Edition ahead of tomorrow’s BlizzCon 2015 opening ceremonies.  The Origin Edition of the still in closed beta First Person Shooter will include a number of goodies and will be priced at $60 USD – although reports of at least one redditor scoring the Origin Edition for $40 USD have surfaced. Here’s what is included in

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LoL Preseason Breakdown, Everything you need to know

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Broken Joysticks

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League of Legends preseason is coming up, and that means everything is about to change. We have a lot of official information from their site and unofficial information from the PBE. Most champions with Mana as a resource are getting new mana pool sizes and scaling to adjust for mana pots being removed, and several less viable champions are getting reworks. This article will be focusing on the item changes. The first thing to note is an item overhaul for what they’ve dubbed “marksman items.” This is a misleading name as these same items are also used for many auto-attacking/AD

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We Know The Devil

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Broken Joysticks

We Know the Devil? Well, let’s start off with some warnings. This game hurts. It might not for you, but it hurt for me. You’ll probably look at one of the characters and before they even talk about themselves, think something about them. It’s very short, and plays in your browser. It’s a VN, more than anything else. I finished all three endings in a day, and it tore me apart. This game is gonna make you feel things, if you let any of those characters be something you look at, and think “that’s me.” There are three “main characters”

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Recognizing Trouble in VR

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Renee Gittins

I recently wrote an article on my favorite virtual reality games. I think that ensuring people experience the best virtual reality games is extremely important to the health of the medium– a bad VR game is all it takes to make someone lose interest in VR and maybe lose their lunch, too. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to identify the component of a VR experience that sends you in a rush to the nearest trash bin. I wanted to share my knowledge of core issues for both gamers and developers to keep an eye out for when playing and working in

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Free Music Hits Guitar Hero Live’s GHTV Today

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Acitivision will be bringing brand new content to the GHTV service today including new tracks from the likes of Black Veil Brides, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Blink 182 and many more. If that sounds like a lot of playable content – well it is, with the addition of three different categories to chose from. Here’s how Activision described the new Guitar Hero Live content in their press release:  Black Veil Brides Premium Show, which includes playable footage from the band’s live concert DVD “Alive and Burning,” will be live on Friday. The DVD chronicles the band’s first ever recorded live performance during

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Atlus-O-Ween 2015 Cosplay Contest Voting Now Open

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Atlus USA has opened up the voting period for their Atlus-o-Ween 2015 cosplay contest on their official Facebook page.  Now that they’ve finished collecting all of the entries it is time for the fans to cast their votes by liking their favorite pictures in the Atlus-oWeen 2015 Facebook Album.  Voting ends on 11/11/2015 at 9 AM PT with winners being announced the following Friday, November 13th. So what’s up for grabs? Here’s a quick look at some of the prizes: Best Overall Costume: A copy of Persona 4: Dancing All Night Premium Crazy Box, A Japane Exclusive PS Vita with

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Final Fantasy XIV Devs Preview Thordin Upcoming Extreme Encounter

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Final Fantasy XIV patch 3.1 – the first major content drop since this past June’s release of Heavensward  – arrives in just a week’s time and the devs have given us a small glimpse at the brand new extreme version of Thordan’s Reign. Spoiler warning for the end of FFXIV: Heavensward follow As players who have finished the main story question know the game ends with a pretty epic encounter between the Warrior of Light, King Thordin – now in his primal form – and the Knights of the Round.  Based upon this epic final encounter Eorzya’s Minstrel Bard has

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Is Square Enix’s Marketing Department Just Trolling Us With Kingdom Hearts III At This Point?

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

This afternoon as I sat down at my desk to write up some news I was elated to find that one of the gaming PR wires that aggregates new press releases and media featured brand new media for Kingdom Hearts III. Considering the anemic level of marketing the game has received surely Square Enix knew that releasing event a single screenshot would create immense amounts of coverage except a single Kingdom Hearts III screenshot wasn’t what I found when I loaded their press site.

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