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- The Godlike
- Juggernaut Wars
- Blood Raid
- Spellweaver
- Dragon Front: World’s First Virtual Reality Collectible Card Game Revealed
- 505 Games Press Preview: Portal Knights, Adr1ft, The Guest
- Heroes of the Storm Xul Spotlight
- Smite Leap Year Sale
- Power Rangers Online Teaser Trailer
- InnoGames TV March Episode
| Posted: 26 Feb 2016 02:48 PM PST The Godlike is a free to play 3D fantasy MOBA being developed by Black Beacon for PC. In The Godlike players will enter the post-apocalyptic, dark land of Aerd, becoming one of the vain gods and controlling different champions of their choosing. Only the strongest will prevail, and the weak won’t be spared even the shortest memory. In this MOBA your hero won’t be the only unit fighting on the battlefield for you as you will even have your own army of 3 squads at your beck and call. Managing your squads will be key to your victory as they can support your hero in a variety of ways while you battle your way through the Aerd. Although The Godlike is free to play and almost everything can be acquired with currency earned in-game, it will also feature an in-game resource that can only be acquired by purchasing it with real money. This resource can be used to permanently unlock playable characters so that they can be trained and gain new skills, along with some other exciting features. The Godlike’s vast combinations of squads and champions combined with an enthralling atmosphere will appeal to cybersports fans who are looking for a hardcore gaming experience where they can climb through the ranks and prove their worth.
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| Posted: 26 Feb 2016 02:29 PM PST Juggernaut Wars is a free to play 3D mobile MOBA developed by MY COM for iOS and Android where players can assemble their own party of unique heroes and leap right into the fray with them! Every one of the 30 different heroes you come across in your battles has their own story, but they all have converged into this single moment of action combat. Each of these heroes has their own unique set of abilities for you to learn and master so you know not only how to use your heroes, but what to expect from your opponents. In campaign mode you can experience an exciting story where hordes of monsters will need to be slain. PvP fights are also hosted in Arena battles where you can take on other players by yourself, or fight side-by-side with your friends and fellow clan members. With so many activities, exciting battles, and beautiful locations for you to have your battles in Juggernaut Wars will keep you entertained and coming back for more.
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| Posted: 26 Feb 2016 02:29 PM PST Blood Raid is a free to play 3D mobile MOBA developed by Netmarble for iOS and Android. Blood Raid does feature singleplayer game modes where players can blast through grunts, vile bosses, towering trees, ancient stone pillars, but Blood Raid’s real draw is it’s intense, real-time PvP matches. In either 1v1, 3v3, or 10-player matches players can test their strength against each other, all vying to become the highest ranked warrior. From one of three different classes, each with their own unique playstyle, players can create their character and jump right into PvP mayhem. You can chain your skills with your teammates to unleash some truly devastating damage on any foes standing in your way of greatness, as well as forge some legendary weapons with impressive effects that will push your damage output to new heights. If you’re a fan of PvP games, then Blood Raid’s fast-paced combat and electrifying combos will have your fingers flying across your mobile device! Character classes: Fighter – A warrior with superior swordsmanship skills, having high HP and defense, as well as good damage output. Assassin – Close-range combatant with devastating attacks, using daggers and dual-pistols. Mage – Range combatant that can use magic spells and wields a staff as her primary weapon.
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| Posted: 26 Feb 2016 02:25 PM PST Spellweaver is a free-to-play online digital trading card game (TCG). Players may build a deck of heroes, creatures, and skills across six different realms of magic. Two unique mechanics in deck building and combat involve a hero skill mechanic, allowing players to enhance their hero by the use of skill cards, and a creature speed mechanic, making some units strong but slow while others hit fast but light. Players can also counterattack to defend or protect units. Spellweaver features multiplayer matches including regular tournaments and custom matches with alternate win conditions. In addition to multiplayer matches, Spellweaver offers two single-player campaigns. The developers promise regular free updates to keep the game fresh.  Spellweaver, the free to play collectible card game, is proud to announce their official worldwide launch onto Steam.
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| Dragon Front: World’s First Virtual Reality Collectible Card Game Revealed Posted: 26 Feb 2016 12:50 PM PST Today High Voltage Software revealed Dragon Front, a turn-based collectible card game (CCG) made specifically for virtual reality (VR) and Oculus Rift. Dragon Front offers incredible variety in gameplay, with 280 characters, 80 different encampments, and more than 100 spells. It also leverages the inherent social strengths of VR, allowing live online multiplayer competition while your opponent sits across from you and trades commentary. The game's style is a blend of fantasy and dieselpunk aesthetic with a wide variety of looks and different skills and power combinations. "We're all super avid CCG fans so developing the game has been an amazing experience. In fact, we built the game after prototyping a physical game board and cards so we could get it exactly right," explains Eric Nofsinger, Chief Creative Officer at High Voltage Software. "It's a true card game come-to-life all around the player, and with features both surprising and familiar, Dragon Front is a highly engaging nail-biter till the end." "Dragon Front represents an important milestone for our studio," says Kerry Ganofsky, CEO and founder of High Voltage Software. “Not only have we created a fantastic VR card game that's easy to pick up and play, but we’ve also demonstrated the incredible versatility of the Oculus platform for endless replay value. They've also been so supportive and collaborative with us developing in this new terrain.” While appealing to the established CCG and boardgame audiences, Dragon Front will also appeal to VR and gaming fans with its ease of entry and repeat play appeal. There are hundreds of variables to keep players engaged. In Dragon Front, war has destroyed the world of Terrene Gall. To prevent the world's destruction and win the war for their faction, players must travel back in time and use all available resources to gather new soldiers, discover powerful spells, construct a mighty fortress, and call in legendary champions. Look for Dragon Front later this year, only on Oculus. The post Dragon Front: World's First Virtual Reality Collectible Card Game Revealed appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| 505 Games Press Preview: Portal Knights, Adr1ft, The Guest Posted: 26 Feb 2016 12:49 PM PST Co-authored by Corey Vixie Earlier this week we were invited to the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco by 505 Games to check out a few of their upcoming titles – here's what we got to see and play. Portal Knights First up is Portal Knights – a sandbox adventure-RPG that straddles the lines between The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Minecraft, and Terraria (another 505 Games title). Those aren't just our words – Creative Director David Welch (pictured above) embraced the comparisons of Portal Knights to other adventuring and sandbox games, which is notably unusual for developers and publishing houses. The development team, Keen, has been working on Portal Knights for a few years now and it really shows. The graphics and interface are a polished layer atop of a rather robust combat, crafting, and camera system. Just like other games in the genre, Portal Knights has all the usual features like mining, crafting, exotic biomes, bosses, procedurally generated worlds, single player and co-op, weapons, armor, light story elements, and a modest level of character customization. However, this features list doesn't explain the whole game – Portal Knights stands out from the Minecraft clones in far more striking ways.  Gather your party – you're about to have an adventure. The main differentiator between Portal Knights and other games in the genre is the emphasis on combat and the character classes. This game has combat pretty much nailed down – lock-on targeting, enemy switching, health bars, enemy variety, weapon handling, armor stats… nearly all aspects of the combat follow tried and true methodologies. Anyone familiar with the 3D Zelda games will understand how the lock-on system and camera operates, and those experienced with Terraria will jive with the multi-tiered crafting system that focuses on the archetypical Melee, Range, and Mage classes. Unlike most sandbox-y games, Portal Knights has actual classes and character slots allowing for specialization and easy character switching.  Whack it until it dies. Or until you do. Traversing the world is also unique, which involves rebuilding teleporters between fragmented landmasses in order to reach new areas, bosses, and dungeons. Players can teleport to their home easily if they get stuck or need to return from a resource collection run, and they can teleport back to any previously visited location from the map screen. Other differentiators include a gentler learning curve with a combination of tutorials quests, easily accessible crafting recipes, and reasonable ingredient collection requirements; you probably won't be needing a wiki with this one. The graphical style and animations also set the game apart – you really don't get games looking this polished and ready-to-go in Early Access very often. Finally, the way the world is generated and updated: David Welch explained to us that the way the world is generated is both procedural and modular so the game can receive updates and new content extremely easily without breaking every player's uniquely generated worlds.  Mining! All is not perfect from what we've seen though. The interface, while polished, feels too mobile-centric with oversized UI elements, animations involving movement can get stuck, and, like Terraria, only one player can access a chest at any one time. These issues are really minor, and will surely be ironed out before the game's full release. So far, everything about Portal Knights has us excited about it, and we're really looking forward to seeing how it takes on the incumbents. Reiterating, this one is different because of the level of polish it's starting out with and all of the unique spins on the genre.  Beards can be donned by both males and females – awesome. Portal Knights just released on Steam Early Access, so if you like crafting adventure games then you really ought to take a look. Disclaimer: Our team received Early Access keys for Portal Knights free of charge from 505 Games. Expect further coverage soon from our junior video editor, Bakerman Brad! ADR1FT ADR1FT is Three One Zero's first game, which sounds scary, but the members of the team are veterans of the industry. Loosely falling into the horror-survival genre, this first-person adventure game follows a lone, amnesiac survivor of a derelict space station orbiting the Earth. What happened? Well, that's the game.  That's the Earth… contrary to popular belief, it's round. We played this on on the consumer version of the Oculus Rift, and wow, it sells the Rift as a must-see-to-believe device. On both a normal monitor and the Rift ADR1FT is drop dead gorgeous. Playing the game itself feels like a cross between Mirror's Edge and Shattered Horizon with a little bit of Amnesia sprinkled in. The main mechanic of the game is oxygen – go figure, because oxygen in space is rare. Your oxygen supply is shared with your health, your movement, and your ability to traverse obstacles all while your damaged EVA suit puts you under a deadly time pressure.  Your life depends on collecting these oxygen canisters. In our time with ADR1FT we bounced around a capsule to learn the controls and orient ourselves with how VR handles, and then spent a good 15 minutes exploring the damaged space station while collecting oxygen bottles to survive. The sights and sounds of ADR1FT are very assertive – vistas are expansive, the sound is very bass heavy, and the muffled creaks emanating from the wrecked station are eerie. Sort of a side note: Much to our surprise, the built-in headphones of the Oculus Rift are actually good; they're not studio grade, but they'll give your $75 Sennheisers a run for their money. ADR1FT is one of the few games out there that offers full freedom of movement: strafing, pitch, yaw, and roll. Controls are bound, in our opinion, very sensibly to the Xbox controller layout, and they're pretty easy to get the hang of if you're familiar with aircraft in first person shooters or games like Elite: Dangerous. The level designs are reminiscent of games like Outlast and Amnesia, so fans of those games should give it a look.  Some parts of the station hold organic materials – with VR, the leaves floating by very nearly feel real. Again, ADR1FT is a fantastic looking game and we think it'll do well among the other narratively driven first person games that have come out these last few years. We're overall very impressed with Three One Zero's first title and look forward to its release. ADR1FT will be releasing for PC on March 28th, with Xbox and PS4 versions sometime later this year. The Guest Our time with The Guest was very short and it's not something usually up our alley, but we'll try to provide our initial impressions on it anyway without spoiling anything.  Not what I want to see when I walk into the Men's Room. Hailing from Spain, Team Gotham has created an atmospheric story driven first-person puzzler that seems to take a lot of inspiration from games like The Room and suspenseful horror films. The game takes place in a hotel and starts off in a bedroom where the main character wakes up and finds himself locked in and locked out of everything. With the drive of figuring out who locked you up and why they did it, you immediately find yourself solving puzzles to open doors, finding lightbulbs, using tools, and doing many other things to make your way through the darkened hotel. The puzzles we solved were more modern in their solutions rather than retro and try-everything-with-everything else; the solutions made sense, and we're thankful for that. Notably, a surprising number of objects in any location can be picked up, inspected, rotated, and pocketed for further use. It's sort of kleptomaniacal, but that's what a lot of games have taught us to do over the years anyway.  Lots of things – even the incidental – can be examined closely. Stylistically the game looks realistic, but also a little too dark, and the movement speed feels slower than it should. Also, oddly, the character felt shorter than he should have in relation to objects like dressers and closets; perhaps it was the lighting, but something felt off. The controls were very simplified: typical WASD movement and mouse aiming, but all interactions with objects and using them involved Q and E instead of clicking and dragging them. Perhaps this is for accessibility, but it didn't feel quite conventional. None the less, The Guest was entertaining and interesting. We may take another look at it in the future when it releases. The Guest will be releasing on PC on March 10th. Image GalleryThe post 505 Games Press Preview: Portal Knights, Adr1ft, The Guest appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Heroes of the Storm Xul Spotlight Posted: 26 Feb 2016 12:32 PM PST Heroes of the Storm introduces the specialist hero, Xul, a necromancer from the Diablo universe. The post Heroes of the Storm Xul Spotlight appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2016 12:12 PM PST It’s a leap year, and Smite‘s holding a sale. Why? Because Chronos is drunk. Don’t ask so many questions. The post Smite Leap Year Sale appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Power Rangers Online Teaser Trailer Posted: 26 Feb 2016 11:57 AM PST A teaser trailer for the game you’ve been waiting over a decade for: Power Rangers Online. The post Power Rangers Online Teaser Trailer appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2016 11:34 AM PST InnoGames’s March episode introduces Elvenar’s Fairies, a new Easter Event in Forge of Empires, Noble’s Fair in Tribal Wars, and additional content in The West and Grepolis. The post InnoGames TV March Episode appeared first on MMOHuts. |
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