Wildstar Online, a popular massively multiplayer online game (MMO), launched July 2014 to great reviews. The MMO incorporated a wonderful combat system, with unique graphics, and supportive community. The game has also released several expansion packs, which increased playable content in the game.
However, like most online games, the game producers Carbine Studios found the market a hard place to make money. So, to no one’s surprise, the developers have announced that they are going to go Free-to-Play this Fall, which eliminates the currently required monthly subscription.
"The only real way to grow the game and get more people into the game is by getting rid of the box cost and the monthly subscription," product director Mike Donatelli told Polygon.
To make up for the loss of monthly income, via the subscription model, Carbine studios will introduce two new types of currency to the game. First, there will be Carbine Coins, a real money transaction currency that can be used to purchase "convenience and cosmetic items." The other currency will be called Omni-Bits that players earn alongside gold. Most of the items on sale for Carbine Coins will also be purchasable with omni-bits, if players are willing to put in the time to earn them.
At least Carbine studios is giving players options. If you want to spend real world money for in game items you’ll buy Carbine Coins. If you don’t want to spend real money, but still want those optional items you can grind for those special Omni-Bits in game.
This week, equity crowdfunding site Fig opened up its campaign for a Jay and Silent Bob-themed video to the masses.
Blizzard announced this week on their blog that their massively profitable mobile card game, Hearthstone, will be undergoing some changes soon. Hearthstone will increase custom deck slots form 9 to 18. Older single player adventures will leave but all the cards they unlocked will be available to craft. Additionally, two new game modes will be incorporated into the play options: Standard and Wild.
So far Microsoft has been sparse on the story details of Halo 5: Guardians. However, from the their recent E3 conference and subsequent trailers we know that Master Chief has been missing for a while and an elite group of Spartans has been sent in to locate him or figure out what happened.
The first half of the trailer is a collage of footage from the other games in the series. It seems like Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is trying to tie up the loose story threads form the series. The game looks great and the story seems very interesting.
Cliff Bleszinski, one of the original creators of Gears of War, launched his own game studio a few years ago after a falling out with Epic Games named Boss Key Productions. He’s been very hush hush about what type of game his new studio was making until now. This week they announced details about their new game Law Breakers.
While you wait for the Nov. 10th release of Fallout 4 you can now play the massively popular mobile game Fallout Shelter on both your iPhone and Android device.
Magic, Blades, and Guns. What more do you need? Shadow Warrior is coming to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 in 2016.
http://www.shadowwarrior.com
Batman: Arkham Knight was released today on PC, Xbox One and the PS4. Unfortunately, there are already a flood of complaints from users who downloaded the PC version.
Rod Fergusson, studio head at The Coalition, revealed at the PC Gaming Show that Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is coming to PC.
Final Fantasy fans have been begging Sony to remake Final Fantasy VII for decades. Looks like the video game gods are listening. Sony announced that they’re giving the fans what they want. Watch the video in case you still don’t believe.
Horizon: Zero Dawn is a post-apocalyptic open world survival game. Giant techno beasts roam a world were humans are thrown back to Stone Age tech mostly. Watch this cave woman hunt what looks like Beast War Transformers.
The Last Guardian premiered at the Sony Press Conference at E3 2015. The crowd went wild when they saw this game play footage.
Call of Duty Black Ops 3-Set in the year 2065 players can work together to complete story missions in 5 player Co-op. Configure your load out before you start the mission. Multiplayer was also shown off. Available Nov. 6, 2015.
Bethesda announced a number of things at their E3 press conference. Besides getting more game footage they also introduced a real life PiP Boy you can plug your phone into for a 2nd screen experience while you play the game. Also a mobile tie in game available now on ios called Fallout Shelter.
Bethesda was the first game company to begin their E3 announcements. Above is the whole show. Note it was hosted by X-Play alumni Morgan Webb and Adam Sessler. Below are just the trailers and game announcements.
The Nintendo World Championships 2015 occurred today. The great Kevin Pereira, formally of Attack of the Show, hosted the contest. ING and Nintendo both live streamed everything. Watch the video above for everything that happened. Read below for the summary.
Remember when all the Star Wars movies came out and Lego made a game that let you play through all six episodes? Well they’re doing it again, only this time for Jurassic Park. Play through all the movies, including the new Jurassic World one, and relive all your favorite scenes.
It’s great to see the reactions of people playing a game they love. This however isn’t that. It feels like the celebrities are ‘acting’ excited. However it is nice to see a bit of new game footage. Enjoy. The game comes out this month June 23, 2015.
Valve launched this year's Steam Summer Sale today, the "Monster Summer Sale," offering a wide variety of deals from today through June 21.
Blizzard has announced a new mode for their popular online card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. The new mode, tavern brawl, will mix up the regular gameplay and decks currently available in the game.
Microsoft announced that they will be releasing an Xbox One with a 1 TB hard drive, their newly designed Xbox One Wireless Controller that now comes with a 3.5mm stereo headset jack, and in select regions for a limited time, Halo: The Master Chief Collection. All for the low low price of $399. Their 500 GB Xbox One will be lowered to $349 permanently.