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They announced the premiere: Oct 3rd at 9pm for the 1 hour double-episode launch. Then the regular time will be Monday at 9pm starting with episode 3 on October 13th. This is a bit of a surprise as originally they had said there would be a special premiere this fall and the show would go to...

I applaud them for taking their time and letting the experiences with Landmark translate into actual lessons learned, however the development timescale on EQNext is going to be really damn long as a result.

Hardcoded factions are just plain terrible. They increase your content development effort by a wide margin as you need to craft separate-but-equal content for both factions and provide almost no actual value. Look at WoW and SWTOR for example, at no point are you actively in conflict with "the...

I just read Elantris and yeah its clear that he has gotten much better over time. His earlier works are fueled by persistent cockteases of really awesome cool things that magic can do and which you only see in the last couple chapters whereas his more recent works, while still teasing the cool...

I quite like their approach with respect to items as well as their notion of class abilities. The examples they gave of items which grant passive synergies rather than simply +gooder stats intrigues me. The best items are the ones that open up new possibilities rather that simply boosting your...

Technomages feature prominently in Crusade.

Since I'm coming into it very late to the party I had presumed that any changes they were making to the Alliance story had already happened. I mean it is possible that the cutscenes are leaving out all sorts of really interesting plot interactions, but I really am not seeing it in the actual...

Yeah Fox retains those rights, and there is currently no love lost between those media giants.

Im pretty sure that Blizzard has no actual lead content developers that play on the Alliance side. Metzen being blatantly Horde-aligned is well known and painfully obvious, but in each expansion it seems as if they frame out the Horde version of the story first and only then sketch out alliance...

I really like what I am seeing with the class and ability system. It seems dynamic and more importantly makes sense within the context of the universe.

All the videos are done in the dark elf "city" that was made by players. I have a feeling that very few environment artists / zone creators are working on this.

Not seeing a lot of improvements from last year

Well the dark elves do kinda look like Skeletor now...

The portals and gameset objects seem very handy. Well crafted.

Being able to design your own 'battleground' is pretty darn sweet.

I am liking their overall style with Landmark. One must assume that they are sharing resources with Next

Dark Elves have horns now?

After this expansion can we hopefully have a moratorium on anything to do with orcs for the next 10 years? How about dwarves, or elves (night and blood), or even worgen and gnomes.

I wonder if they will mention an effort to release content faster at Blizzcon this year? As I recall they get the question often enough and everytime apologize and say they are implementing new tech or new design teams or something to make it faster. I even think they said something about it...

The real story is that they were able to get away with it with minimal subscriber loss. They are currently raking in tens of millions of dollars a month for literally nothing other than keeping the already existing and fully depreciated hardware running. Its one thing to have a profit engine...

So 14 months after the release of the last content patch the launch of the new content comes. That's pretty extremely lazy

That was just the first episode of the animated series. Nice how they use Varian and Maraad as the narration and establishing scenes since otherwise it would just be Orc Orc Orc and Orc. So 4 more episodes of the animated series. No more than one per week I suspect so launch is at least a...

"get the whole experience moving.." Yes please do that.

Well that was long and pointless

This is an incredibly dull interview. Not one person in that room nor taking the time to watch the stream doesn't already know these things.

Oh look its a scrawny white guy

If any flex alliance peeps need a healing monk or arcane mage gimme a yell.

Xbox announced they were going to start doing digital preorders in their press conference a couple days ago...but only in late September and only with a couple titles initially. I'm honestly shocked that they did not have this capability from Day One.

I dunno it looks pretty interesting to me in a WoW meets Diablo meets MOBA sort of way. Certainly the role of the shadowlord running around invisible and fucking with the team adds quite a bit of freshness to what would otherwise be kinda dull.

I have some hope with this Arkrise business of them doing more to build this world and have interesting things happen on a larger scale. That is where the show seems to have most of its promise, rather than the wild-west post apocalypse "problem of the week" business.

Their "fan event" starts in ~20 minutes and can be seen :Twitch

Shadow Realms(someone retitle the thread please) Interesting concept, more of a PVP Neverwinter Nights than a traditional game. 4v1 content where you and your buddies battle against content created by the "ShadowLord" who is another player acting as a kind of dungeon master. They are...

Another short

Note not one mention of Kinect by Microsoft or Vita by Sony. The new bundles were Kinectless and the media molecule papercraft game is now coming for the ps4 as well.

Yeah this was rather shocking. Timed exclusive I have to assume.

Quantum Break is looking fun, fairly traditional 3rd person action game with funky powers...but I'm a fan of such story driven content so I'm okay with that.

Well I hope that this "same timeperiod as Shep" sequel does some justice to the Rachni. That was the biggest let down for me from ME1 and continuing through the hints of ME2. I was expecting the Rachni to come in and just fucking destroy some shit old skool and be the ultimate biology in...

So Gamescom 2014 starts tomorrow and the media briefings are starting up today. Xbox is up first at 8AM Eastern (5AM on the left coast) :Twitch

I wonder if Jonathan Winters dying last year had a role to play in Robin Williams depression getting worse. It has been reported that they were very close friends and Mr. Winters had been his idol and mentor. Winters also, quite famously, suffered from mental illness.