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- Metal Assault – Refresher: It’s back, better than ever???
- Pox Nora Spirits Beyond Expansion now live
- Taichi Panda: Heroes Closed Beta Trailer
- Paladins CB20 Preview Teases Ying
- The Skies Early Access Announcement Trailer
- Webzen Soft Launches MU Origin
- Paladins Closed Beta Key Giveaway
- The Kindred Alpha Impressions
- Elsword Elysion Update Announced
- Luna Online Reborn Begins Closed Beta
| Metal Assault – Refresher: It’s back, better than ever??? Posted: 30 Mar 2016 04:43 PM PDT Metal Assault – Refresher: It’s back, but is it better than ever??? BakermanBrad takes a crack at the recently resurrected 2D side-scroller shoot’em up known as Metal Assault! Shutdown by Aeria Games in 2012, Warpportal is thrilled to bring back GNISoft’s fantastically fun game Metal Assault! Reviving this 2D side-scroller brings back Carl, Ai, Marie and Burton! Fan Favorites like Co-Op vs. Zombies, Zombie Infection and Death Match return along with Player vs. Player, Mission Mode, and Cooperative challenges! Players can create companies and work together to complete objectives, or go solo for the glory! Metal Assault arrives back in North American and English speaking territories! It will be available on the Steam platform and through Warpportal download. Warpportal is really excited to get involved with the Metal Assault community that has been hungering for the resurgence of this title for years! The only thing is, for now the game is infested with bugs… hopefully Warpportal can turn the relaunch into something more like what Neople did with DFO! The post Metal Assault – Refresher: It’s back, better than ever??? appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Pox Nora Spirits Beyond Expansion now live Posted: 30 Mar 2016 03:28 PM PDT Grand story plots and new tactical play are awaiting people in Pox Nora, the online tactical turn-based strategy game with elements of collectible card games and fantasy RPGs, from Desert Owl Games (DOG). DOG is excited to announce the release of the 28th expansion for Pox Nora, "Spirits Beyond".
With the release of Expansion 28 for a limited time, there will be a Spirits Beyond Megabox available on the Pox Nora Marketplace. This box contains 300 Spirits Beyond runes, 1500 Shards, 35 Platinum tokens, and a special bonus Limited Edition (Valdaci Emerald or Valdaci Shield) rune. Spirits Beyond will be available at 1PM PDT (4PM EDT, 8PM UTC) on March 30th. The post Pox Nora Spirits Beyond Expansion now live appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Taichi Panda: Heroes Closed Beta Trailer Posted: 30 Mar 2016 02:45 PM PDT Snail Games announces Taichi Panda: Heroes, a follow up to the mobile RPG Taichi Panda. The post Taichi Panda: Heroes Closed Beta Trailer appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Paladins CB20 Preview Teases Ying Posted: 30 Mar 2016 02:06 PM PDT Paladins offered a glimpse at the work in progress upcoming illusion focused hero, Ying. Building off of trashed concepts from previous hero Evie, Ying offers a kit ideal for a tactical mastermind to straight out mind**** their foes by always staying one step ahead. Let’s look at what we know on her kit.  Her Q is the basis for the rest of the kit. She summons illusions of herself that are seemingly indistinguishable from herself outside of leaving a tombstone upon being destroyed. Ying can spawn 2 illusions, and they can’t move, though they will attack akin to turrets. Her F, Dimensional Link, allows Ying to teleport to her illusions, or their persistent graves. She can teleport around for a 4 second duration after activating.  Dimensional Link ties in well with her alternative attack, Shatter, which turns her illusions into suicide bombers that will rush at the nearest enemy for 2.5 seconds before exploding. By throwing yourself in harm’s way, you can activate shatter and then swap places with a clone just before it explodes, leaving your foe caught entirely off guard. Her standard attack is a channeled beam with 6 clips, 5 shots per clip. Pretty standard stuff compared to the rest of the kit. A solid facepalm was had by all when Drybear revealed the ultimate, Illusionary Rift, wasn’t finished for preview yet. It seems related to illusions, maybe multiple, and likely is some super version of Shatter. But for now that’s all speculation and could even change as testing and balancing continues. Closed Beta update 20 is expected to be massive, including a huge Horde Mode, though nothing was shown in this week’s Livestream related to this. But with April expected to be the biggest month of updates in Paladin’s testing so far, there’s never been a more exciting time to jump into closed beta and try it for yourself. Grab a beta key from our giveaway page while supplies last! Credit for Ying screenshots to schadstoff of the Paladins Subreddit community. The post Paladins CB20 Preview Teases Ying appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| The Skies Early Access Announcement Trailer Posted: 30 Mar 2016 02:01 PM PDT The Skies announces it will be available via Steam Early Access on April 16, 2016. The post The Skies Early Access Announcement Trailer appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Webzen Soft Launches MU Origin Posted: 30 Mar 2016 01:41 PM PDT WEBZEN, a global developer and publisher of free-to-play games, soft-launched one of its upcoming mobile games called MU Origin on iOS and Android in Canada and Ireland today, getting the game ready for its western release soon. MU Origin is a stunning real-time MMORPG that lets players embark on an epic fantasy journey, successfully transferred full 3D PC MMORPG MU ONLINE’s enormous amount of contents and applied the latest mobile game trends: the game system and user interface which are optimized to mobile devices, and the splendid graphics. MU Origin offers the full 3D epic MMORPG experience, featuring fast paced easy levelling, endless levels and contents. Players can meet friends, create parties, and gear up to fight against the evil on a vast open world to bring back tranquillity. Starting from today, players will be able to download MU Origin from the Google Play and App Store in select regions. Player across iOS and Android can join forces with powerful players and conquer enemies in the immersive world of MU Origin, while supporting cross-platform multiplayer. MU Origin is only available in English, but players can enjoy many dungeon raids, in-game events according to their time zones, including PST, EST, and UTC. To celebrate this soft launch, a lot of exciting events and giveaways will be running throughout the launch. Players can get free items while playing the game during the happy hour, and other events will be delivered to the official MU Origin community, including Facebook and Forum. Full launch of the game is currently scheduled for spring 2016 in many other territories of Europe, North and South America. The post Webzen Soft Launches MU Origin appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Paladins Closed Beta Key Giveaway Posted: 30 Mar 2016 01:32 PM PDT MMOHuts has partnered with Hirez Studios to celebrate the latest revealed Paladins hero, Ying, with a closed beta key giveaway! Paladins: Champions of the Realm is a F2P FPS developed by Hi-Rez Studios. Focused on team-based strategy, Paladins combines FPS combat with RPG elements and a collectible card system that allows players to amplify and augment their characters with different abilities. To Use Your Key In-Game:
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| Posted: 30 Mar 2016 01:10 PM PDT When I first saw previews of The Kindred I made the mistake that many others made, since the game looks, from a perspective, like Minecraft. I thought I was going to play another one of those voxel clones that is similar, yet with a slight tweak overemphasized as a selling point. But when I actually started playing, I was flabbergasted by the mistake I had made. Though visually matching the voxel craze, Kindred is an entire genre apart. This time around you get to steer characters to make them survive the harsh world you put them in. But before you make huge buildings and monuments to respect yourself as a god, you have to ensure your Kin can survive long enough to build them.  Don't judge this game by the cover! The characters that will work for you are called Kin, and at the start of the game you can give each Kin their respectable job and the tools required to do them. You can change this at any time but its best to do it straight away before you start playing. The Kindred is a very peaceful game; right from the moment you hear the music through your speakers, you get this relaxing vibe and know that this game hasn’t got any sudden dangers that you will have to deal with. But before you get to the real ‘problems’ you first have to give your Kin a home, a place to sleep with a resource of food so that they will not die of hunger. There are plenty of ways to feed your Kin. You can either plant crops and wait for those to grow so you can harvest them, or you can wait for the trees to grow fruits. But Kin are omnivores so hunting sheep, cows, or breeding chickens are more active options. Having a steady supply of meat makes survival and the game in general a lot easier, so focusing on setting up your reliable source of food first is a must. This is where your Kin specialization comes into play, as assigning them where they are best becomes the micromanagement main game. This can be a bit overwhelming for new players thrown into the mix, so take advantage of the slow down time option to get a grasp of the situation.  The devs seem to have plenty of plans for rewarding keeping your Kin comfortable. Once survival and security is out of the way, The Kindred gets to its core voxel concept – crafting. You start off with decent enough stone tools to get you by for a while, but without crafting you won't get far. From a simple crafting bench you can begin pushing out a massive variety of items, enough to build a full village for your Kin to style in. Now like Rome, don't expect to build a full village in a day. The Kindred does a great job of balancing out projects and micromanagement though so you never feel tedium as you slowly construct the necessary items to create your dream village. See your civilization rise from the dust is satisfying, and the pacing is ideal for a casual sandbox title. As you advance further though, The Kindred will throw some new challenges your way to make sure you don't get too comfortable. Deadly surprises are waiting around every corner to punish Kindred gods that get too complacent. Viral disease, heat exhaustion, and especially being unprepared for freezing winters are the main factors that will seek to throw your civilization into anarchy. I won't spoil my secrets for overcoming these events, but it should be clear that crafting and specialization of Kin holds the answers to anything that stands in your way.  Progress pacing is nicely done, but there's currently only so much you can do before you run out of content. Right now The Kindred is still in Early Access and obviously that means that the game isn’t finished yet. Bugs and incomplete features are bound to be present. I unfortunately experienced a few of those that hindered my progress, such as building a gate that wouldn't connect to a fence, trapping my Kin inside. The community is active and supportive of the trial and error phase The Kindred is currently going through, but there is always the risk of investing in a lesser known developer. But I'm getting good vibes off Persistent Studios so far and think they have real passion to make The Kindred into a finished product. State of the Beta: Good If you were to ask me the same question: "is the game in its current state worth investing into," I’d say yes, but only if you aren't tight on spending money. The game is definitely a lot of fun, it put me straight into a relaxing vibe, and has enough features existing to keep you entertained for at least a few hours. The pacing is slow and not for everyone though, and made slower with occasional game breaking bugs forcing you to reset some progress. AI pathing currently can make you facepalm from your godly throne. Still I'd drop the $15 of support and pop in once a month to see The Kindred turn into something truly original and engaging. The post The Kindred Alpha Impressions appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Elsword Elysion Update Announced Posted: 30 Mar 2016 12:50 PM PDT Elsword has announced that a new area, the town of Elysion, is arriving in an upcoming update. In preparation, players can participate in the “To the Edge of Elrios” event, running from today through April 5. Players can get log-in rewards, earn Sage’s Scrolls, and complete a new epic quest. More details are available here. Today also marks the start of PvP Season 4. Get ready for the intense competition with this breakdown. The post Elsword Elysion Update Announced appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Luna Online Reborn Begins Closed Beta Posted: 30 Mar 2016 12:20 PM PDT Suba Games will begin the closed beta for Luna Online: Reborn, its relaunch of the classic anime MMORPG Luna Online, today. At 7pm Eastern on March 30, players will be able to log into the game and create characters to begin their new adventures in Luna Online. Players can get a head start by having the client downloaded and installed. More information is available on the Luna Online welcome page. The post Luna Online Reborn Begins Closed Beta appeared first on MMOHuts. |
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