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Funcom’s The Secret World has, since launch, put a strong focus on letting players enjoy great freedom in every aspect of the game. This includes the freedom to wear any clothes and look any way they want. In The Secret World outfits don’t impact gameplay, so no one will be stuck wearing the same armor and looking exactly the same as everyone else week after week just because that gear has the best stats. More and more clothing and outfits are continuously added to The Secret World and a new Developer Guide shows off a host of varied screenshots of many new clothing options and information on how to get your hands on them.

Coming to a computer near you: Mind Games. Kerberos Productions, the creators of the Sword of the Stars: The Pit, are pleased to announce a new expansion for their popular science-fiction game. The Mind Games expansion for Sword of the Stars: The Pit will add new playable characters, new game mechanics and new content to the sleeper hit among PC gamers. The announcement of the expansion in development follows a surge of sales and player response that exceeded the expectations of the game’s small but dedicated dev team when they released The Pit in March of 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

Players in The Secret World can now enjoy a completely new Lair Raid. The barriers between dimensions are weakening and the players are able to enter the extra dimensional prison, The Island of Stillborn Stars, and battle the brutal Eidolon of the Outer Dark, which awaits them. A preview of the new Lair Raid can be seen in the Issue #6; The Last Train to Cairo video, narrated by Game Director Joel Bylos.

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As the new year forges on even in the face of the foretold Mayan apocalypse, Wicked Interactive and Suba Games haven’t stopped their work on bringing fans of ACE Online a world-class experience with Episode 4.2. This major update to ACE Online brings dramatic new changes to the game. Players will be thrilled to find two new maps to play on, two-dozen new quests to take the fight to the treacherous NGC faction in, hundreds of new and upgraded items to enjoy, and more. Read the rest of this entry »

A dark adventure awaits demon hunters and cataclysmic survivors in Please Stay Calm™: Shadow Wars™, an expansive location-based mobile massively multiplayer online (MMO) game available as a free download from Google Play. Award-winning Canadian mobile games development studio Massive Damage first introduced Please Stay Calm in 2011, and has since topped both popular and grossing charts in the Apple App Store™. Now players continue in a parallel journey through Shadow Wars, where hunters and survivors battle demons in an apocalyptic world trapped in eternal darkness. Players can level up their characters, group together to build havens, and align with Shadow Wars’ factions in sanctums to hold back the impending apocalypse and solve the mystery of “The Gloom,” the event that caused the world to plunge into darkness. Read the rest of this entry »

Eon Altar is a new cooperative role-playing adventure that blends the experience of classic tabletop gaming and modern video games in a Tabletop Video Game. We had a sit-down chat with Flying Helmet Games‘ Project Director Edward Douglas a couple of weeks ago, and found the game and its mechanics to be rather intriguing. Personally, I think that Eon Altar will be a great way to bring back family game night, as it bridges the gap between those of us who played Dungeons & Dragons in high school and our digital kids. The nature of Eon Altar’s game play could also open doors for connecting with kids and encouraging conversation as quests are undertaken, feats are attempted, treasure is uncovered and beasts are defeated. Read the rest of this entry »

Kerberos Productions, the makers of the Sword of the Stars series of 4X strategy titles, are pleased to announce the release of their first science fiction role-playing game, Sword of the Stars: The Pit on Steam. A fun, fast, light-hearted RPG in the tradition of Rogue and other old school dungeon-diving games, Sword of the Stars: The Pit is set in the popular Sword of the Stars universe. The game’s turn-based mechanics and playful art style are suitable to a wide audience and offers a rich science fiction backdrop and sharp modern gameplay. Read the rest of this entry »

Last month Funcom announced a unique competition where the community could send in their own self-made music. The winning tunes would be implemented into The Secret World where they could be enjoyed by all the players in the game. Funcom is excited to announce that The ‘Get your Music in the Game’ competition has been a great success, all thanks to the combined creative power of the games’ wonderful community. Funcom has received more than three hundred submissions, many of them containing several songs. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian indie developer Phantom Compass takes its upcoming pinball puzzle role-playing game Rollers of the Realm on several side-quests in March. Rollers brings together the drama of RPGs with the fun and skill mastery of pinball, combining physics puzzle play with a unique nudge mechanic. Each character is a pinball, and each scene in the story is a new pinball board. Players can hot-swap characters during play to combat enemies on each board and protect their vulnerable flippers. A vertical slice of gameplay will debut in San Francisco this month. Read the rest of this entry »

Funcom has revealed an exclusive preview of the next upcoming update for ‘The Secret World’ – Issue #6: The Last Train to Cairo. In this action filled update which is set to launch in early March, players will get to fight atop moving trains, travel back in time to ancient Egypt to secure powerful artifacts, fight with the awesome new Whip Auxiliary Weapon, reap great new rewards for Veterans and Recruiters and face down a new and terrible monster from another dimension in an epic raid size encounter! Read the rest of this entry »