EA Confirms Battlefield 4 Beta Invite by Pre-Ordering Medal of Honor Warfighter

(Source: GameRanx) Remember that little snaffu over the weekend by EA's Origin digital service? The one where they accidentally confirmed the existence of Battlefield 4 and how you can get in the beta just by pre-ordering Medal of Honor Warfighter? Well, if that banner pic wasn't enough, EA has now officially confirmed it...and with a multiplayer trailer commentary, to boot! The multiplayer video is narrated by Warfighter Creative Director Kristoffer Bergqvist and shows us a couple of new footage from the game's multiplayer. It shows the Fire Team mechanic, class abilities, Support Actions and more. While this, in itself, is big news, it's sadly overshadowed by the announcement that DICE's next major entry in its Battlefield franchise...

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League of Legends - Mid-July Patch Preview Gameplay Changes

(Source and posted by RIOT's Phreak) Welcome to the Patch Preview, summoners! In this episode we’ll discuss our changes for Sona, Malzahar, Jax, Xin Zhao, Evelynn, and Twitch! For more information about these updates, take a look at the video above!Head to the video on YouTube to change your subtitles. Remember to comment on the video and subscribe to the Riot Games YouTube channel!Stealth Rework A lot of changes for this patch with the addition of League of Legends 101's champion, Zyra. Hopefully the Sona changes are enough to play AD again like her build oh so many patches ago early last year X...

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What’s New in the Final Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event

(From ArenaNet's Blog) The final Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event is nearly here. From Friday, July 20 to Sunday, July 22, hundreds of thousands of players from Europe and North America will experience the beta version of Guild Wars 2 one last time before the game launches on August 28. As you can imagine, this is an exciting time for everyone here at the studio. Guild Wars 2 launches in a matter of weeks, and with playable asura and sylvari characters and a lot of other cool content, this last Beta Weekend Event will be our biggest yet. Let’s take a look at what we’re all so excited about. Create an Asura or Sylvari Character Beta players will be able to create asura and sylvari characters for the first time this weekend, exploring each...

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Tales of the Mists: Week in Review (7/9 - 7/13 2012)

Tale of the Mists Weekly Update This week, Ren and I tackled on Signet themed builds, plus we have 6 additional builds to view. I also updated 3 builds. Signet Challenge: [21] Elementalist: Staff "Signet" Build |PVE [22] Ranger: Greatsword & Dual Axe (Darius and Draven in One) "Signet" Build |PVE [24] Warrior: Dual Sword & Dual Axe "Raging Dual-ist" Signet Build |PVE [25] Thief: Dagger/Pistol & Sword/Pistol Signet Build |PVE [26] Mesmer: Illusionary Signets Build |PVE [27] Necromancer: Dagger/Warhorn & Axe/Dagger - Signet Build |PVE [29] Guardian: Zealously Radiant Greatsword Vanquisher (Signet) Build | PVE New Builds: [20] Guardian: Spirit of Restorative Resolve - Mace/Focus & Staff (Heal/Support)...

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Now Playing: Guild Wars 2 - Asura race

(Click "Read more >>" to see the video) Kevin VanOrd from GameSpot and Mike Zadorojny from ArenaNet show off the Asura race in Guild Wars 2. Some cool highlights I enjoyed after watching the video. new map implementation 'vistas' "/dance" function was shown. Oola's Skill Point Challenge An epic jump puzzle - entrance / sky Aurora's Remain's - ghosts of the Shining Blade and White Mantle still fighting! Skrittsburg - home hub for the Skrit...

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Champion Sneak Peek - Zyra, Rise of the Thorns

(Read full preview here) Are you ready to meet one of the fiercest and deadliest champions ever to step foot out of the Valoran wilds? Meet Zyra, Rise of the Thorns. This floral femme fatale packs a lot of petals and punch, planting seeds directly on the battlefield and springing them to life into deadly plant allies. Abilities: Queen of Thorns (Passive): Upon dying, Zyra transforms into a vengeful plant that fires one last shot before expiring. (Q) Deadly Bloom: Zyra grows a bud at target location. After a brief delay it explodes, launching damaging thorns at all nearby enemies. If cast on a seed, Deadly Bloom grows a Thorn Spitter plant, which fires at enemies from afar. (W) Rampant Growth: Zyra plants a seed, granting vision...

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Play Asura and Sylvari in the July 20-22 Beta Weekend Event!

From ArenaNet's Blog BY DAVID CAMPBELL JULY 9TH, 2012 For our final Beta Weekend Event (July 20-22), we’re making the asura and sylvari races available to beta players for the first time. Players will be able to create characters from any of the five main races of Tyria—human, norn, charr, asura, and sylvari—and begin their Guild Wars 2 experience in any of the five radically different home regions. For asura players, this means beginning your tale in Metrica Province, a vivid, exotic jungle area full of high-tech laboratories, quirky golems, and competing krewes of mad scientists. Nearby, the massive monoliths of the asuran capital Rata Sum hum with technomagical power. These diminutive geniuses may seem cute at first glance, but never...

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Riot teases 101st League of Legends champion, Zyra

(Source) For many, League of Legends' 100th character is a milestone of sorts. For many, this next champion is a landmark for the game, which released back in 2009 and has since become one of the most successful MOBA games on the market. Unfortunately, not everyone was happy about Jayce, the Defender of Tomorrow. Many wanted something epic for the 100th release, but as Riot Games' lead champion designer Ryan 'Morello' Scott points out, "every champion needs to be a milestone of some kind".Morello defended Jayce, while emphasizing Riot's stance of "if there was something more special we could have done here, why aren't we doing that for every champion?" "While I maintain that Jayce's whole weapon-transforming thing is really fun, it's...

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Guild Wars 2 Biography Template for Microsoft Excel

Download link here With Guild Wars 2 nearing release, people are starting to focus on what kind of characters to make. One of the essential aspects to character creation in Guild Wars 2, is the in game biography. With the use of Microsoft Excel, I created an easy to use template so anyone can keep a record of their character's biography information. This is really useful for those who are planning to make plenty of character at release. There are 4 different templates, Character Box (CB), which are separated according to the Profession Group: Soldier: Guardian, WarriorAdventurer: Engineer, Thief, RangerScholar: Elementalist, Mesmer, Necromancer This was done because of the formula length restriction on the drop boxes that I encountered...

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FINAL FANTASY VII for PC - Announcement Trailer

It has been 14 long years since Final Fantasy VII first appeared on computers, and 15 years since the game was released on the Sony PlayStation. The latter version is the one most people associate with the game because, quite frankly, the PC port just was not that great. It had numerous bugs and was not optimized all that well, but a lot can change over the years, and hopefully for the better. Square Enix has confirmed the rumors (mostly) and will re-release Final Fantasy VII on the PC later this year (hopefully). As was rumored, this re-release will include achievements you can compare against friends, cloud saving, and a "character booster" to give you maximum HP, MP, and Gil levels. That seems like a bit of an easy way out for some gamers, but maybe it is designed to remove the grinding...

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Champion Sneak Peek - Jayce, the Defender of Tomorrow

Read full preview here Riot's League of Legends' 100th is coming! Here is a preview of Jayce, the Defender of Tomorrow: Abilities (Mercury Hammer): Hextech Capacitor (Passive): Jayce gains a quick burst of movement speed and ignores unit collision each time Transform is cast To the Skies!: Jayce leaps to an enemy dealing physical damage and slowing enemies. Lightning Field: Passive: Jayce restores mana per strike. Active: Jayce creates a field of lightning damaging nearby enemies for several seconds. Thundering Blow: Jayce deals magic damage to an enemy based on their maximum health and knocks them back a short distance. Transform: Mercury Cannon (Ultimate): Transforms the Mercury Hammer into the Mercury Cannon gaining new...

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Guild Wars 2 Has A Release Date!

I'm a little late on posting this here as I'm more active on my tumblr at the moment XD. Anyways, if you haven't heard, one of 2012's most anticipated MMORPGs, Guild Wars 2 has a release date. That date is Tuesday, August 28, 2012. However, those who have pre-purchased the game will have early access beginning on Saturday, August 25, 2012. I highly suggest pre-purchasing the game if you intent on playing it from the get go. ArenaNet also confirmed their next and final BWE which will held from July 20-22, 20...

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Help Us Stress Our Servers on June 27

From ArenaNet's Blog: We were very pleased with how our servers performed during our second Beta Weekend Event, but we want to gather additional data on how they operate under load before the next one. That’s where you come in. All players who have pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 are invited to participate in our upcoming stress test. This four-hour test event will run on Wednesday, June 27th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT (GMT-7). We won’t wipe characters for this event, so if you played in our previous betas, you can pick up right where you left off. All we need you to do is log in and have fun—leave the stress to ...

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Blade & Soul Open Beta in Korea

PlayNC Korea kicks off their Blade & Soul Open Beta on June 21st, 2012! For those of you who aren't aware yet, PlayNC removed the fatigue system so you'll be able to level up to your hearts content. If you're in the US and lucky enough to have a Korean SSN, I suggest you check this game out. I would definitely recommend this game for players who are looking into a fast paced oriental fantasy action MMOR...

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1UP's 2012's Best RPGs So Far... and Yet to Come

Read full article here... Cover Story: Halfway through 2012, we take stock of the best role-players so far and up ahead. The role-playing genre may not be quite as dead as some people would have you believe. In fact, we've seen quite a few in the first half of the year, some of which were downright excellent. And you can expect even more in the months to follow. We've pulled together a dozen of 2012's standout RPG titles 2012 -- the six best RPGs we've played already, and the six we're looking forward to the most. This steady drip-feed of role-playing content guarantees we'll never extricate ourselves from the shackles of our consoles and PCs. There'll always be one more level to grind, one more super-boss to crush, one more piece of...

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Destructoid Editorial Review of E3

Read full article here... E3 is kind of bullshit. Though not many will say it, developers, publishers, investors, and media alike think it. And so, it’s not really a controversial statement, except for the one group that isn’t aware of the expo’s privy charades. I’m speaking of the general public.  For a show that is supposed to inform consumers, E3, in recent years, seems to confuse and disappoint game enthusiasts more than anything. I continue to love the spectacle and insanity that E3 brings, but lately I’ve been wondering what purpose this show serves in 2012. It’s supposed to be about more than the press bellyaching over promotional practices and internet users getting upset when publishers show up without a surprise in tow,...

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Is it Fun? Colin Johanson on How ArenaNet Measures Success

Read full article here... To begin this blog post, let me pose a question: How do you measure the success of an MMO? Historically, it’s been easy to point to success with traditional MMOs: subscription numbers were the ultimate means a company used to measure how well a game was doing, and customers typically looked at those same numbers as well to gauge the success of the game. The number of concurrent users—how many players are online at a given time—was also important, but that number was usually hidden from users, since it typically painted a less rosy picture of a game’s health when compared to the number of active subscriptions. Now let me pose a second question: If the success of a subscription-based MMO is measured by the number...

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RIOT: You Sneaky Snakes

Upcoming Ahri skin: Firefox Ahri But it all makes sense... when you put these other skins together Explorer Ezreal Chrome Ramus Safari Caitlyn Browser references FTW! So which Champion will be Opera? I would like to think Leblanc, Karthus or So...

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Korea's Fair Trade Commission Raids Blizzard's Offices

Read full article here... The tricky thing about company policy is that it has to be fair, valid and withheld within the countries they are operating in. A reader has posted this: "Korean Law gives them 7 days to return any software product if there is a problem with it and the problem is not the end user's fault. That's the main issue." The problem is indeed Blizzard's fault as they have not prepared for the titanic of players trying to log in and play the game. Seeing South Korea as one Blizzard's main flagship countries, I'm not surprised by all the complaints of the Error 37 fiasco. Playing Diablo III myself, I believe Blizzard were lazy about a lot of things in the development and release of the game. Shame real...

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Champion Sneak Peek - Draven, the Glorious Executioner

Read full preview here Draven is brother to the previously released Champion Darius. Also, this will be the 99th Champion to be released by RIOT. I wonder what they have in store for their 100t...

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Announcing the Next Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend

For full article read here To sum it up: Beta Weekend Event 2 will begin on Friday, June 8th, at noon PDT (GMT-7) and will run until Sunday, June 10th, at 11:59 p.m. PDT (GMT-7). Marked on calendar. Good thing that's a free weeke...

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New Guild Wars 2 Concept Art Revealed for Hitting 500k fans on Facebook

Shatterer Destiny A little late, but here's the concept art in its glory... Actually it's an in game screenshot that one of their artists touched up. EP...

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Champion Sneak Peek - Darius, the Hand of Noxus

If you’ve ever been frustrated by your progress in a given position, you might want to look to Darius, the Hand of Noxus, for inspiration. In order to secure his own advancement, this determined champion has repeatedly employed the foolproof method of lopping his boss’ head off. So whether you believe that the road to power is paved with the headless bodies of your enemies, or you simply think that a good beheading is a rather expedient method of dealing with red tape, we think you’ll agree that Darius makes a fine addition to the League of Legen...

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Guild Wars 2 Stress Test, Monday May 14 11AM-6PM PST!!!

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New concept art from Guild Wars 2

Like they promised an their Facebook, a new concept art. Big world boss? I like. ...

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Massivity: Will 2012's Big MMOs Hit or Miss? Prediction Time!

For full article read here "We're still a few months from finding out if 2012 will mark the end of the world, but five months in, I think it's safe to say that this year at least marks a new beginning for the MMORPG genre. For the first time in years, developers are producing games that seem like something other than World of Warcraft or EverQuest clones. TERA, Guild Wars 2, and The Secret World all have ideas within them that warrant some attention, and even Blizzard's mixing things up a little with Mists of Pandaria. All in all, it's a good year to be an MMO fan. But will these new games still be standing as tall this time next year? I'm no Mayan, but here are my predictions for how each of these games will perform in the coming mo...

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Guild Wars 2: The Avengers Theme Builds

As a fan of Marvel and Avengers and today's release of the movie "The Avengers", I took a moment to make some fun Guild Wars 2 builds. Don't take them too seriously, but I did make them in mind of their viability. I couldn't think of one for Mr. Hulk Smash, as in weapon set since he uses anything to smash things, but I did have thought of him being in the warrior class, hehe. And yes, go watch The Avengers! Loki Thor Captain America Hawk Eye Black Widow Iron ...

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May the 4th Be With You

The Dark Side... is the Best S...

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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: A Marriage That Works Despite Its Differences

Read full article here "... And yet here we are, mere months away from the arrival of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, which manages to one-up Funky Fantasy both in terms of its preposterous design and its silly name. Nonsensical as the game may seem on the surface, in practice it's surprisingly fun. Rather than going the DDR route, Square Enix has instead chosen to base Theatrhythm's play mechanics more on the Elite Beat Agents model: Players drag and tap the 3DS's touch screen in time to on-screen cues synched in turn to the music. The input methods lack the hand-crampingly manic style of EBA, though on higher difficulty levels the prompts fly almost too fast to keep up with, and the similarity of the three input styles (tap, hold, swipe)...

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Varus, the Arrow of Retribution Revealed!

Full post here Abilities: Living Vengeance (Passive): On kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed. This bonus is larger if the enemy is a champion. Piercing Arrow: Varus readies and then fires a powerful shot that gains extra range and damage the longer he spends preparing to fire. Blighted Quiver: Varus' basic attacks deal bonus magic damage and apply Blight. Varus' other abilities detonate Blight, dealing magic damage based on the target's maximum health. Hail of Arrows: Varus fires a hail of arrows that deal physical damage and desecrate the ground. Desecrated ground slows enemies' Movement Speed and reduces their healing and regeneration. Chain of Corruption (Ultimate): Varus flings out a tendril of corruption that...

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Guild Wars 2 Builds - Mesmer: 2-Hands Greatsword/Staff Illusion Spammer for PVE

Click here for detailed guide I tried out the Mesmer profession last Beta weekend test, and had lots of fun using the Greatsword and Staff. I hope to test out in the next beta weekend in sPVP and WvWvW. This build revolves on spamming your Illusions/Clones, let them do damage and then use your shatter skills...

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