If you attended PAX East 2014 this year, you might have seen LEGO Artist extraordinaire, Mariann Asanuma, constructing a WildStar Rocket House made entirely from Lego pieces. As promised, Carbine Studios donated the entire 50,000 piece Rocket House, along with a $10,000 check, to Child's Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games.
"CIVILIZATION IN SPACE!" sounds like a dream, but it's a dream that Firaxis Games is making a reality. Revealed just last week, Civilization: Beyond Earth is the next great chapter in the ever-popular Civ franchise. Denizens of Earth: commence tears of joy. To shed light on the future of future-Civ, the developers took to the stage:
"For all of you fans out there that loved Alpha Centauri,
this is the game we have made for you."
Heroes of the Storm saw some action during PAX East and Blizzard has released three video recaps encompassing the event. Check them out below!
Last weekend was PAX East and ZAM was able to sit down with Colin Johanson and Jon Peters of ArenaNet to talk about today’s Feature Pack patch, as well as the Living World and Guild Wars 2 China.
PAX East is officially underway this weekend and if you've been paying any attention to the news surrounding the upcoming MMO WildStar, then you know Carbine has landed smack dab in the middle of Boston and is preparing for world domination. Seriously, I wonder how many Settlers it took to set up this booth! With 300 demo computers installed with the game, developers answering questions and giant bulletin boards that would give even the largest in-game bosses a run for their money, if you didn't know about WildStar before, chances are it'll at least be on your radar by the time the weekend lets out.
While the WildStar booth is pretty impressive, the highlight of the show for most fans–and those still discovering the game–had to be the Carbine panel, "$#!& Just Got Real", that was held Friday afternoon. During the panel the Carbine team primarily discussed WildStar's "Elder Game", reviewing previous information like rated PvP Battlegrounds and Arenas, but also dishing out a handful of new tidbits including Elder Game solo story-content and Itemization. A pretty epic "WildStar Flick" for the game's 40v40 Elder Game PvP type, Warplots, was shown during the panel as well, but we'll talk more about that at a later date.
For now I want to focus on the information we received relating to solo story-instances and item progression, because who doesn't like epic encounters accompanied by epic loot?
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is the latest entry in the Civilization series, due out this fall.
Set in the future, global events have destabilized the world leading to a collapse of modern society, a new world order and an uncertain future for humanity. As the human race struggles to recover, the re-developed nations focus their resources on deep space travel to chart a new beginning for mankind.
Held tantalizingly above our greedy paws, Heroes of the Storm remains in a closed "technical alpha". Presumably to tease us further, Blizzard released two three new videos to show off the game. For good measure, they threw in a few new heroes and the fan-favorite "Pajamathur" skin.
Okay, no more stalling. Take a look and tell us what you think!
This morning the anticipated news about Hearthstone's adventure mode was finally released. Curse of Naxxramas: A Hearthstone Adventure, will feature an all-new game board, new cards to add to your collection, unique class challenges, iconic bosses and more!
This morning, developer Robot Entertainment unveiled their latest title: Orcs Must Die! Unchained. Three tiers of Founder's Packs, offering instant, alpha, or beta access, are already available and PAX East attendees can check out the game this weekend at booth #1124. The game is slated for a late 2014 PC digital download release.
