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Brick-Force Season 3 trailer highlights Bricksaga update

MJ Guthrie — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:00:00 EST

Filed under: Trailers, Video, Patches, PvP, News Items, Sandbox, Player-Generated Content

If you like brick-by-brick construction in a sandbox environment coupled with a first person shooter, have we got the game for you: Brick-Force! Here, players fight out matches in maps they build themselves. And now Season 3 - Bricksaga brings even more to the experience.

Along with a new medieval setting (complete with wizards and knights), Season 3 introduces a host of new goodies to the game, including features, costumes, weapons, and even new game modes. Players can now use interactive bricks and portals as well as doors, windows, trap doors, and spike traps to add a previously unknown dynamic and variety to matches. Additionally, level progression has been revised, match assignments have been improved, and players can unlock equipment on a regular basis. Check out all the action in the trailer below.

[Source: Infernum Productions press release]

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The Summoner's Guidebook: The real hero of the LoL World Championships

Patrick Mackey — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:00:00 EST

Filed under: Events (Real-World), PvP, Opinion, Free-to-Play, MOBA, League of Legends, The Summoner's Guidebook

If you watched or heard anything about the League of Legends World Championships, it's almost certain that you heard about Faker. Perhaps the best mid-laner in the world, Faker was the star of the show at the World Championships. With his incredible midgame plays, he distinguished himself as "Faker the playmaker" early in the tournament.

But in most of the games where he dominated, Faker didn't do it alone. In fact, a good many of the other world-class mid-laners gave Faker a run for his money. He often did poorly in the laning phase, largely due to counter-picks and targeted bans. But even with the picks and bans against him, SK Telecom T1 had a secret weapon -- their jungler bengi. Before Faker would get the ball rolling, bengi would arrive from the most unexpected locations and often with perfect timing, giving Faker the early game advantage. Throughout the mid and late games, bengi would be everywhere, always at the right moment to win the match for his team. While Faker had an impressive highlight reel, it was really bengi's constant coverage that pushed the team to the top.

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Not So Massively: Star Citizen hits $20m, LoL semi-finals, and Diablo III to cap stats

Brendan Drain — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:00:00 EST

Filed under: Betas, Sci-Fi, Video, Business Models, Expansions, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, Patches, PvP, News Items, PvE, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Dev Diaries, Not So Massively, Sandbox, MOBA, League of Legends, Diablo III, Firefall, Crowdfunding, Star Citizen, Infinite Crisis, Path of Exile

Star Citizen hit the $20 million crowdfunding mark this week and announced that its $22 million goal will be for the purchase of equipment to capture actors' faces and put them in-game. Diablo III site Diablofans found more juicy hints about the upcoming Reaper of Souls expansion in its latest datamining attempt, and developers have opened a discussion on the problems caused by low character health pools. Path of Exile released patch 0.11.6 this week, adding in the new Lightning Trap and Smoke Mine skill gems and rebalancing existing traps and mines. After laying off 10% of its staff, Firefall developer Red 5 Studios has released a new optional subscription package that grants bonus Crystite, manufacturing slots, and marketplace slots.

The semi-finals of League of Legends' Season Three World Championship took place this weekend, ending with Korean favourite SK Telecom T1 and Chinese team Royal Club advancing to the grand final to compete for the million-dollar top prize. Frustrated with the difficulty of learning to use Pudge's Meat Hook ability, a Dota 2 player has developed a standalone mini-game designed to let players train to aim the ability. Classic DC Comics character Catwoman was added to Infinite Crisis as a playable avatar this week, and award-winning Russian MOBA Prime World is now on Steam despite missing its intended mid-September Steam release date.

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The Summoner's Guidebook: LoL Season 3 World Championships' group stage

Patrick Mackey — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:00:00 EST

Filed under: Events (Real-World), PvP, Opinion, Free-to-Play, MOBA, League of Legends, The Summoner's Guidebook

I am at a bit of a disadvantage here. At the time I'm writing this, the group stage isn't over, but you guys will be watching the last of it around the time you read this. Regardless of the time delay, there have been some great matches at the League of Legends Season 3 World Championships.

The matches haven't been the only thing good about the tournament. Riot has added a lot of presentation quality, including pro interviews and an analysis desk. In spite of some minor technical issues, this has been a very solid tournament thus far.

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PAX Prime 2013: Riot Games' Whalen Rozelle on LoL Season 3

Patrick Mackey — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:00:00 EST

Filed under: Events (Real-World), Interviews, MMO Industry, News Items, Free-to-Play, Events (Massively's Coverage), MOBA, League of Legends

I was really excited to step into Riot's press room on Friday at PAX Prime. We had just finished the first series of matches of the day, and it was pretty exciting to talk to people about the matches yet to come. But I don't think anyone was more excited to talk about League of Legends' e-sports scene than Whalen Rozelle, or RiotMagus as he's known on the internet.

As the senior e-sports manager at Riot, he's tasked with making sure that events run smoothly, and I took the opportunity to ask him about the format for Season 3 -- especially improvements over Season 2 and the lessons Riot will be taking into Season 4.

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The Summoner's Guidebook: League of Legends isn't just one gametype

Patrick Mackey — Thu, 30 May 2013 16:00:00 EST

Filed under: Game Mechanics, PvP, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Guides, MOBA, League of Legends, The Summoner's Guidebook

After last week's edition of the Summoner's Guidebook, I realized that one of the things I sort of take for granted is the advantage of taking many of LoL's different gametypes into account when I value a particular item. For instance, last week we talked a lot about Rabadon's Deathcap, but it (and its sister item Wooglet's Witchcap) has drastically different values in different game modes. It's a lot easier to justify buying a Deathcap when you have easy sources of gold and a lot of time when you're trying to gather it. If you have to fight, more defense becomes an imperative.

If you don't play a lot of Dominion or Twisted Treeline, you might not realize that Bloodthirster and Infinity Edge are hard to buy when fights can erupt faster than ultimate skills can recharge. Expensive items like a Needlessly Large Rod or BF Sword are hard to justify when you can get some interim item that provides more balanced stats and will help win the fights you're fighting now.

Playing other game modes also gives you a broader look at League of Legends. You don't see the value of certain stats -- particularly HP -- until you realize that an extra 200-500 HP can cause a huge swing in the course of an engagement.

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League of Legends kicks off third season of e-sports

Justin Olivetti — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:00:00 EST

Filed under: Fantasy, Video, PvP, Free-to-Play, MOBA, League of Legends

League of Legends is about ready to begin its third season of the League Championship Series, and this time Riot Games is bringing a few interesting changes to the field. Season 3 goes live on February 7th for North America and Europe and features four-days-per-week of streamed e-sports as teams battle to become the best -- and bring home the dough.

For Season 3, Riot is fiddling with the structure to make a new league ranking system that should offer a "greater sense of progression." Players will battle it out in six tiers of similarly matched teams until the cream rises to the top. To help all players understand the changes, Riot's provided a handy infographic and FAQ covering the pertinent points.

There's also a goofy promo video of players running around an empty stadium in slow-motion, and you know you want to see that. It's after the jump. Thank us later.

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Not So Massively: Jay Wilson steps down, layoffs at Gas Powered Games

Brendan Drain — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:00:00 EST

Filed under: Video, Business Models, Culture, Game Mechanics, Launches, New Titles, Patches, News Items, Free-to-Play, Dev Diaries, Not So Massively, MOBA, League of Legends, Diablo III, Crowdfunding

Gas Powered Games laid off 80% of its workforce this week as the studio's future became uncertain. CEO Chris Taylor revealed that if his Kickstarter campaign for new action RPG Wildman fails, the company will have to close its doors. Jay Wilson stepped down as Diablo III's Lead Game Designer to move on to other projects but assured players that the game will continue to be regularly updated. With less than a week to go until Path of Exile opens its doors to the public, two Massively freelancers recently tried the game and delivered their verdicts.

Rise of Immortals released its new All Random All Mid game mode that promises short casual matches, while Dota 2 revealed its new Least Played mode that forces players to pick heroes they ordinarily avoid. Heroes of Newerth's new ranged agility hero, Bushwack, hit the servers last Friday, and League of Legends announced early details of its upcoming support champion, Thresh. For those who've ever wanted to get into competitive League of Legends gaming, Riot Games also published an infographic this week showing the path to this season's competitive championship tournament.

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New League of Legends video details preseason three patch

MJ Guthrie — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:00:00 EST

Filed under: Video, Game Mechanics, Patches, PvP, Free-to-Play, Dev Diaries, MOBA, League of Legends

Between tournament seasons is a good time to introduce changes to League of Legends, and Riot devs are adding plenty to the MOBA during preseason three. To give players a sneak peek of what to expect, Joshua "Jatt" Leesman and Ryan 'Morello" Scott host an eleven-minute video outlining various changes coming to items, masteries, and the jungle.

Items received quite the overhaul in this patch. Not only were new items like the Muramana added, but others were removed (namely the Heart of Gold). Some items, such as The Black Cleaver, were reworked. The devs also discussed balancing the game to give support roles more gold and lessen their ward burden as well as make various jungle strategies more viable. Masteries have also been moved around, and the utility tree has been spiced up. Check out all the details in the video after the break.

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The Summoner's Guidebook: Why play League of Legends Dominion?

Patrick Mackey — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:00:00 EST

Filed under: PvP, Opinion, Free-to-Play, MOBA, League of Legends, The Summoner's Guidebook

Lately, there's been a bit of doomsaying about League of Legends' point capture gametype. Red posts on the subject have mentioned that while the dedicated Dominion playerbase is slowly growing, the lower-level playerbase is shrinking. This is unfortunate because a lot of LoL players just don't seem to get Dominion. I don't actually understand this because Dominion is a less complex game than Summoner's Rift even though it maintains similar levels of strategic depth. Top players have been pushing for ranked since Season 2 started, but the devs have pushed aside their requests, saying "Dominion needs more time."

RiotNome mentioned that one of the biggest problems Dominion currently faces is that there's not enough propagation of information. That means that if we want new Dominion players, we have to show them why Dominion is great and what the basics of the game mode are. It'll be no surprise to regular readers that it's my favorite gametype, so I'm ready to do my part.

Why play Dominion? Because it's fast and fun.

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Dragons gone wild: Might and Magic: Heroes Kingdom's third season reveals all

Justin Olivetti — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:30:00 EST

Filed under: Fantasy, Patches, PvP, Free-to-Play, Browser

The browser-based strategy MMO Might and Magic: Heroes Kingdom (winner of the "We want to write that title in a completely different order" award) has cracked a peek into its third season, and soon the doors will be flung wide open for all to see.

Season three launches on Thursday, September 15th, and will introduce a host of new challenges for both PvE and PvP players. It appears that the air dragon Ylath has aroused from his slumber looking for a good meal while those nasty Dark Elves are on the prowl for an unprepared hero or two. Runic fortresses also have appeared out of thin air, begging players to battle over these swanky summer homes. Finally, fans of the title should enjoy the enhanced character customization coming with the update.

The free-to-play title will add an in-game store with this update to help monetize the game. You can check out what we thought of the title with our First Impressions series.

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Dan Stahl talks Star Trek Online's Season 4 and beyond

Eliot Lefebvre — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:00:00 EST

Filed under: Sci-Fi, Culture, Events (In-Game), Game Mechanics, Interviews, News Items, Star Trek Online

Since taking over last year, Dan Stahl has made a point of being very accessible to players when it comes to the future of Star Trek Online and the team's overall plans. The United Federation of Planets, a fan forum celebrating the variety of games set within the universe, has conducted an interview with Stahl in the most recent issue of its magazine. As always, there's a large number of different projects behind the scenes as the team turns its focus toward Season 4 and beyond.

The overarching plan for the game's second year seems to be to improve and reinforce the game's elements to date, with Stahl mentioning that he hopes to put the Romulan faction into the game before the year is out. There are plans for another increase in level cap, possibly including Admiral-rank uniform variants as seen on the shows. And with Season 4 on its way, the team is hard at work trying to step up the storyline elements about the mysterious agenda of the Iconians, as well as the war between the KDF and Starfleet. The full interview begins on page 10 and should prove interesting to any Star Trek Online fan.

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Star Trek Online: Deep space exploration on a budget

Justin Olivetti — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:00:00 EST

Filed under: Sci-Fi, News Items, Star Trek Online, Promotions

It's never been a better time to be a fan of the final frontier, particularly with Star Trek Online's recent Season 3 update. But if you've been biding your time on STO, just waiting for that perfect deal, today might be your lucky day.

Amazon is selling the digital download version of STO for a mere $2.50 -- and that includes a full month of gameplay. Seeing as how a month's subscription runs around $15, it's quite a steal. But we'd advise you to go for the deluxe edition of STO on Amazon instead. For $5, you not only get the game and 30 days of play, but also a classic series uniform set, the Joined Trill race and a handful of other goodies that would cost you well over $10 to buy separately on the C-Store.

Speaking of Cryptic's in-game store, the company has announced that all C-Store items (excluding the two newest additions) are 20% off from now through January 3rd, 2011. Since a wise starship captain is frugal with his ship's budget, this seems like the perfect time to snatch a few bargains without worrying about breaking the bank.

[Thanks Omali!]

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Replay episodes or make your own with STO's Season Three

Justin Olivetti — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:30:00 EST

Filed under: Sci-Fi, Patches, Previews, Star Trek Online

It's fitting that Star Trek Online's third major update is entitled "Genesis," because in several ways, it feels like a new beginning for the game. In a preview of December's Season Three, Cryptic reveals a trio of significant re-dos: a revamp of the visually lackluster sector space, the ability to replay your favorite episodes, and the beta of STO's player-created mission feature, The Foundry. While Cryptic is uncertain whether The Foundry will go live by Season Three, the studio does promise that players will at least be able to tinker with it on the test servers by then.

The Foundry is one of Cryptic's answers to STO's perceived lack of playable -- and original -- content, allowing gamers to construct their own stories and episodes using STO's robust editor. "Using The Foundry, you can construct Episodes and share them with your friends. If you're not interested in designing missions, you'll still benefit from The Foundry: Player-created missions will be available to you to play and enjoy, right alongside the Episodes you know and love today."

Cryptic has a number of other features on deck for the game following Season Three, including customizing Gorn characters, new uniforms and ships in the C-Store, ground combat improvements, and Klingon-specific updates.

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Cryptic answers the 29 most pressing STO questions

Justin Olivetti — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:00:00 EST

Filed under: Sci-Fi, Interviews, Star Trek Online, Community Q&A

Star Trek Online's monthly Ask Cryptic features are always something for fans to look forward to reading, but this month even more so as executive producer Dan Stahl goes well beyond the normal handful of queries to accumulate 29 questions and answers to some of the hottest topics among the community.

Included in this Q&A session is a sneak peek at the work-in-progress Tholian race (above left), the revelation that Season 4 will primarily focus on retooling repeatable end game content, fleet starbases, passive bridge officer abilities, Season 3 item sets, Memory Alpha improvements, sector space expansion and much, much more. Stahl even explains why he picks the questions he does to answer -- basically, he likes to get into topics that aren't repeatedly touched upon in interviews.

Those hoping for a full-fledged STO expansion shouldn't start holding their breath, however: "It is unclear if we will ever produce a paid expansion as the market is leaning away from expansions and more towards smaller microtransactions. However, if we ever did release a paid expansion, it would be a significant update and add some new functionality to the game that would be deemed worth the price of the release."

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Cryptic discusses user-generated content and future improvements for STO

Justin Olivetti — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:30:00 EST

Filed under: Sci-Fi, Interviews, Patches, Star Trek Online

As Star Trek Online concludes its shakedown cruise of the recent Season 2.0 update, players have turned their eyes to the future and pondered, "What's next?" Coming to their aid is STO's executive producer Dan Stahl, who fields a large number of questions about upcoming features and works in progress in the latest Ask Cryptic article.

One of the inquiries covered was user-generated content, which Stahl confirmed would be coming -- at least in beta form -- with Season 3. "We aren't discussing our specific plans just yet, but we do want the tools to be easy to use so that players can begin to create their own missions and episodes," he said. "This may or may not be the big secret project we are working on."

Other questions into the future development of Star Trek Online included customizable ship interiors, the PvP system, bridge officer promotions, expanding the Sol System, the ability to play as a holographic character, and bridge officer voices. And for those standing at the edge of their captain's chairs, eager to sit down, don't fret: Cryptic is hard at work on the long-awaited "sit in chairs" feature. You can read the full Ask Cryptic over at STO's website.

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Dan Stahl highlights more of Star Trek Online's future direction

Eliot Lefebvre — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:00:00 EST

Filed under: Sci-Fi, Interviews, Patches, News Items, PvE, Star Trek Online

Star Trek Online's Dan Stahl has been fairly vocal since he took the executive producer post at the beginning of last month. We had our own chance to speak with him recently, where he discussed everything from the then-upcoming Season 2 content to the rumors about the game adopting a free-to-play model. His most recent interview at ZAM covers several of the same pieces of territory, but as one would expect with the time elapsed and the release of Season 2, there are several new pieces of information within.

The weekly episodes are one of the major points of discussion, with the first one premiering in late August. Stahl discusses the episodes focusing around the Deferi, a race with ties to both the Federation and the Klingons, but not explicitly allied with either. He also discusses plans for an overhaul to exploration, likening the current system to "a small box where you fly around and go through random doors," something that the team is planning on changing for Season 3. The full interview is well worth a read for what it contains -- nothing earth-shattering, but more signs that Star Trek Online's direction is getting progressively stronger.

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Lineage readies Season 3, Episode 1 update

Jef Reahard — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EST

Filed under: Fantasy, Lineage, Expansions, Patches, News Items

Massively is traveling back in time this week with regard to NCsoft titles, first with news about updates to Lineage II and now with word on an exciting bit of new content for the original Lineage. Yes, you heard right -- the first-gen MMORPG (originally released in 1998) is still alive, kicking, and updating.

July 29th will bring players the opportunity to experience Episode 1 of Season 3 on NCsoft's Play Test Servers. Subtitled Crack of Time and featuring new classes, a dungeon, and an expanded storyline, the update has yet to receive an official live release window.

New classes include the dragon knight (a damage-dealer featuring the ability to shape-shift into beast forms) and the illusionist (a PvP-centric class with substantial debuff magic and area-of-effect attacks). The update also brings revamped starting areas, Thebes Dungeon (which features a random entrance-spawn and a challenging completion timer), and tweaks specifically designed to cater to North American audiences. These changes include double XP, higher item drop-rates, and higher boss-spawn rates.

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Season 3 in World of Warcraft grinds to a halt

Matt Warner — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:30:00 EST

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Events (In-Game), PvP, News Items

Season 4 begins Tuesday, June 24th, leaving World of Warcraft players one last day before the ultimate PvP time-sink resets. What comes with it is a brand new ruleset that makes the grind for gear a lot more competitive and inaccessible to the battleground bots because many of the new battleground items that are purchasable with honor will require an Arena rating also.

As for the soon to be obsolete Season 1 gear, Gladiator's items will be moved to Sun Reach's Harbor on the Isle of Quel'Danas and will no longer be purchasable with honor but with Tier 4 tokens instead, ironically these are acquired by PvE raiding. The idea was recently introduced in the 2.4 patch and you can also turn in Tier 5 tokens for Season 2 gear. Speaking of Season 2, the Merciless-Gladiator's gear will be the new clearance epics purchasable with honor points and have no arena or personal rating requirement.

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WoW's Arena Season 3 delayed until after Thanksgiving

Mike Schramm — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:00:00 EST

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Events (In-Game), Patches, PvP

Bad news for you Arena PvPers in World of Warcraft-- while the original plan was to release patch 2.3 yesterday and kick off Arena Season 3 next week, Blizzard CM Drysc says no dice. WoW Insider has the details-- Blizzard wants to wait until Thanksgiving is over in order to have "all available resources" ready for Arena season 3. So it looks like you'll have to stay at the table and tell Grandma just how good her cranberry sauce next Thursday is rather than running off and ganking clothies with your arena team. For the same reasons, the EU launch won't go down until November 28th.

And neither WoW Insider or Drysc says for sure, but I believe this also means the release of Season 1 Arena gear to honor purchases is being pushed back til the same date. Which might not be so bad for some of you-- just means you have more time to hit up those battlegrounds and pick up the honor you need to grab those pieces.

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WoW patch 2.3 next week, season 3 a week after

Chris Chester — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:00:00 EST

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Patches, PvP, Server downtime

Word from our good friends and brothers over at WoW Insider is that patch 2.3 will officially drop a week from yesterday, bringing to Azeroth such wondrous changes as guild banks, experience increases across the board for content in the level 1-60 range, and a plethora of other changes too numerous to list here. So do as the hardcore do, and start farming your rep now and you'll already be well on your to achieving the most necessary of new items before the holidays come around and "real life" conspires to get in the way of your most erstwhile achievements.

Also worth noting is the fact that Season 2 in the arena will officially be coming to a close on the 20th when the server goes down for its first post-patch maintenance. As you'd expect, Season 3 will commence as soon as the realms go live again. The new season in the arena will feature all-new phat loots for you PvP types to fawn over, so definitely check it out.

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