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As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
First Impressions videos are not full reviews, please don’t confuse them as such. In most cases, this is the first time we are playing the game, we do this so you can see the game exactly as you may come across it for the first time.
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CARDS AND CASTLES is the premier fast-paced CCG and Tactical genre blend! Collect cards, build decks, and challenge players head to head on a tactical game board. Play as Vikings, Pirates, Ninjas and more!
Cards and Castles is free on Steam!
First Impressions videos are not full reviews, please don’t confuse them as such. In most cases, this is the first time we are playing the game, we do this so you can see the game exactly as you may come across it for the first time.
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What’s up Attackers! Happy Friday, December 18th, almost Christmas time, I hope Santa brings you guys some new memory, maybe a new video card, or heck .. even that shiny new solid-state drive you’ve been looking at on Amazon for the past three months. Whatever it is, I hope you have a fantastic time with your family and I truly do appreciate you guys watching and commenting on our videos. Thanks so much!
On today’s episode of the show we’ll be talking about Crossfire 2.0, World of Warships, Dota 2’s balance of power update, a rough start for Devilian, Ghost in the Shell’s early access, Skyforge, Riot Games and more! The XP starts now.
Smilegate Entertainment, developers of the immensely, and no I’m not just saying that word to sound all fancy-like, IMMENSELY popular online shooter game CrossFire, announced this week that version 2.0 of the game was now available to download in North America, and maybe in your country, I dunno, I dunno where you live. We took a look at CrossFire as recently as last month, and .. not impressed, it just wasn’t fun and didn’t look work anyones time, but 2.0 should make a huge difference. A graphical overhaul, a new UI, new simuluations, ranked matches and much more have arrived. We will be taking a look at version 2.0 with our First Impressions video coming up soon. Hopefully by next week, so stay tuned.
If you’ve wanted to play World of Warships, the semi-realistic wartime warship shooter game from Wargamin.net, but were always like “yeah, I’d play but .. I wish they had some anime warships?”, well .. you can no longer use that excuse. That’s right, in the near future, specially designed warships inspired by the anime and manga ‘Arpeggio of Blue Steel – Ars Nova’ will be coming to World of Warships. The flashy new fleet will be available via a series of in-game missions that will grant players access to the new ships. Still won’t have me playing.
A new update has landed in Dota 2, bringing players a whole new mess of cool stuff with it, sure enough to bring back any players who dared spend a week away from the game. The Balance of Power Update adds a new hero, Arc Warden, of which we’ll have a first impressions video for shortly, as well as an awesome Arcana skin for Zeus, a desert terrain pack which also looks pretty sick, UI improvements and the 6.86 gameplay update. Zet, the Arc Warden is an entity made of the primordial power of the ancients who has sworn himself to end the fight between the radiant and the dire, good luck with that, no matter what it takes, again .. good luck buddy! His skill set includes electricity, magnetic fields and some summons. You’ll also find a map change with new paths, two new creep camps, by the secret shops and private chat channels among the many updates in the patch. I’d check out the dota 2 website if you want to know more, there’s a literal fuck-ton.
As I mentioned last week, Devilian, the brand new free to play hack’n’slash styled MMO from Trion Worlds released last week and they’re already having some issues. Well, one issue in particular. Players on the Seadrift served logged in over the weekend, hoping to pick up where they left off, slay some baddies, level up, get some new gear .. only to find that a server update had wiped their characters progress. After the server restart on December 12, players found they’d lost experience, items and credit for completed quests. The Devilian team, for t heir part, has kept players up to date on what’s going on, and distributed gear tokens and marketplace items to replace ones that players had lost.
Neson’s free to play Ghost in the Shell team shooter, First Assault is officially available on Steam’s Early Access this week as the game launched on the service. To play, you’ll need to have one of four different Early Access Packs that range from $4.99 up to $30.00, OR $51.00 if you want to buy all four packs at once. Which, cool .. good for you! First Assault early access offers players seven playable Section 9 operatives, 3 team-based modes and 5 maps inspired by the Stand Alone Complex Series. Go check out Ghost in the Shell on Steam now!
Last thing I wanted to mention today was the new region in Skyforge, Usuni Valley. Allods Team and Obsidian Entertainment opened the new region yesterday, for players who have reached 187,000 prestige to explore. Usuni Valley was once a serene place, surrounded by beautiful mountains and friendly beasts, locked away from the harsh realities of the world. But now .. you guessed it .. not quite the same. The inhabitants of the valley have been victims of invading forces, and the area has been ravaged and destroyed. The villagers, however, have not given up and are willing to reward YOU, for helping turn away the invaders so they can take back their land. If you’re able to help, you will be rewarded with equipment and continued development on your Atlas. Sounds fun.
That’s all I’ve got for you today! Be sure to like and subscribe to this video, I know I ask you every week, but it really does help! I hope you have a great weekend, a great Christmas or Holiday Season, and we’ll see you next week! Buh bye!
Time for our awards for the best of the best for 2015. We have several categories as listed below. Be sure to share what games you think deserved to win and debate in the comments!
Best New Client MMO for 2015 – 1:29
Best New Browser MMO for 2015 – 2:26
Best New MOBA for 2015- 3:32
Best MMORPG Expansion of 2015- 4:50
Best Overall Free to Play MMO – 5:50
Best Overall Subscription MMO – 6:53
Best Overall Boxed MMO – 8:03
Best Beta of 2015 – 9:14
Best Early Access Available now – 10:22
Most Anticipated MMO – 11:45
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Our first impressions gameplay video for the free to play mobile RPG Eternal Arena, which is available for both Android and iOS devices.
What’s up Attackers! Kirk here with your December 4th edition of The XP, where I break down some of my favorite stories happening in the MMO world for the week. I hope everyone’s had a great start to December, with winter breaks coming up and ample opportunities for some winter-time gaming while you’re parents are yapping away with uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima downstairs. On this week’s episode we have Lord of the Rings Online, AD2460, a new champion in Paladins, Tom Clancy’s Endwar, Dragomon Hunter and more! The XP starts now!
The latest closed beta patch for Hi-Rez’s free to play team shooter Paladins introduced the first new character, aside from all the characters being technically ‘new’, to the game. The Winter Witch Evie brings with her a classic hit-and-run gameplay style and some cool mis-direction abilities like Teleportation and Illusions. The 0.8 patch to Paladins also brought some other new features including a system that will help you deal with players who bail in the middle of matches, who by the way are my most hated people of all-time, and tweaks to existing maps and new cards.
Today, the space-based Sci-Fi strategy game AD2460 announced a brand new patch, and, most importantly, that the web-based MMO will be going free to play. That’s right, come December 7th, a mere 3 days from now, the game will go from a subscription-based game to a free to play game due to the anticipated user growth, not user growthing, which is imperative in an MMO. The game does have a 15 day free trial however, so basically you can sign up today and continue on with free to play when your trial ends. The developer, 5th Season is very clear with their stance against pay to win, so they say there will be no elements of that in the free to play version, the elements you can spend money on will be based around fun and customization.
Update 17.1 is coming for Lord of the Rings Online and as usual will come with a long list of bug fixes and improvements to the game. There aren’t a huge number of things I wanted to talk about with this new update, but one in particular I did want to mention, and it’s not the first time we’ve seen this tactic in an MMO game. Blessing of Valar is a new item that you can purchase that will instantly boost your character’s level to 95. That’s right, buy this item and you can jump to 5 levels below the max level. This can be taken both ways I think, 1. It’s a great idea because it will help new people wanting to enter the game a chance to see some end-game content and higher level play without committing a TON of hours, but 2. It sucks because all the hard-work loyal players have put in to make it to that level and you’ll be playing with quote unquote ‘Noobs’ at end level content? I want to know what you think about this sort of item, in favor of, or hate it? Let me know in the comments.
Dragomon Hunter and Aeria Games went massive this week, adding in a new PvP arena that will finally introduce large-scale, nay, massive-scale battles to the game. The new battlefield, The Final Frontier, will feature 300 vs 300 battles that can raise your Star Rank, allow you to use a unique War Mount on the battlefield and earn massive Battlefield points you can trade in for new rewards. So how do you participate in The Final Frontier? Well, you have to be level 30, in which you will automatically receive the quest “Red vs. Blue” and you’ll have to complete that and then choose a faction. So after the question and you’ve chosen a faction, you’re ready to battle. During the battle there is a 10-minute preparation period and a 30 minute timed battle, where there will be one player selected as Warlord, and two others selected as his or her Centurions. The Final Frontier is only avaialable twice per day on Tuesdays, Thursdays Saturdays and Sundays, so check it out if you’re level 30!
Trion’s Free to play action-RPG Devilian kicked off it’s Open Beta this week, and will run until December 7th at 1AM EST. After the beta, the team will begin to prep for its official launch, which is scheduled for December 10th. We took a look at Devilian in October and you can find that video on our channel if you’re interested to see what it’s about. Also going into open beta this week was Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Endwar Online. On December 3rd the open beta began and launched with a new PvP mode, War Game in which players will use special decks, yes, another game with card elements, while offering big rewards. You can check out the Endwar Online open beta by creating an account on their website, which at the time of my writing, had been hugged to death by the internet, so hopefully by now you can check it out at endwaronline.com.
That’s all I’ve got for you today, thanks so much for tuning in and subscribing and commenting, remember the question I asked you earlier? I hope you’re having an awesome Friday and an awesome weekend, happy December!
Project Genom is a sci-fi MMO shooter with a sophisticated role system, live game universe, interactive storyline and more! Take a look at our first impressions gameplay video of the alpha version of the game.
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Our first impressions video for Chronicle Runescape Legends, a collectible card game RPG from Jagex.
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Our first impressions video for the free to play ship simulation MMO, Steel Ocean.
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Our first impressions video for the brand new character shooter from Hi-Rez Studios, Paladins. The game just went into closed beta this week and we jump right in to check out what it has to offer and see if it’s worth our time compared to the other character shooters that are coming our way soon.
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What’s up Attackers! Happy Friday, hope everyone had an awesome Halloween. Kirk here with your weekly dose of MMO news right here from your friends at Attack Gaming. On today’s episode I’m gonna school you on Albion Online, Forge of Empires, ARK, World of Warcraft and probably a bit more. If you’re lucky. The XP starts .. .. now!
Sandbox Interactive today published a brand new state of the game letter for October, introducing fans of Albion Online to what the developers have been working on, including the arrival of the highly anticipated Closed Beta testing event scheduled to take place at the end of this month. Fans from around the world will be delighted to hear that the team have also been working on translating the client for different regions, with English, German, French, Russian, Brazilian-Portuguese, Polish and Spanish, all planned for release some time during the Closed Beta event.
In the state of the game letter the team also squeezed in some questions pitched by the community. The more exciting information as a result of the questions is that both the original and new continent will be available during the Closed Beta, Silver will be used mainly for repairs and certain armor pieces have undergone some resistance improvements.
The team have also been working on other elements of the game including:
Reduction to crafting costs
Huge balance changes to farming and consumables
New animations and improved sounds
An overhaul to the Destiny Board
Brand new avatar icons
The debut of a new weapon type, the Quarterstaff
For the full lowdown on the many changes coming to Albion Online during the Closed Beta and beyond, check their official website.
The popular city building simulator from InnoGames, Forge of Empires, has taken a step towards new horizons this week as the developers release a brand new age, The Future. Beginning today the rulers of Forge of Empires can embark on an entirely new journey into the future, allowing aspiring city builders to research new technologies, recruit new units and construct new buildings.
The introduction of the new age also sees the addition of a brand new story line that sees players explore an exciting new plot with corruption, dirty warfare and the struggle for basic resources all providing an immersive story-based experience. Among the other assets introduced with the arrival of The Future include the exoskeleton soldier, the satellite spotter, the hover tank, the drone swarm and the rail gun as new units with the Food Printer and Levitation Outlet as new buildings.
The hugely diverse list of species on the challenging island of ARK: Survival Evolved grew one further today as developers Studio Wildcard reveal the release of a beast of epic proportions, the Giganotosaurus. Currently sitting atop the food chain as one of the biggest carnivores in the game, the Giganotosaurus is an enormous and deadly new predator that looks down upon even the Tyrannosaurus and Spinosaurus.
Only the best equipped hunters of ARK: Survival Evolved will have the skills to take down the new flagship dinosaur. Designed as an intense late-game challenge for the best players and most skilled Tribes, the Gigantosaurus is arguably the most challenging enemy in-game to date. Studio Wildcard also today introduced two swords and a set of primitive and modern shields. You can check all those out in game, or via the video playing right now. I’ll let it sink in for a bit.
The official Twitter account for the upcoming World of Warcraft Motive posted a Tweet this week revealing a brand new movie trailer as well as a date for an upcoming trailer. The worldwide release of the new trailer will take today, but hasn’t yet at the time of me recording this, I wouldn’t be able to put up any video of it anyway in fear of getting flagged, so be sure to keep an eye out for the video! The Tweet did however included some exciting media in the form of a brand new poster for the upcoming Warcraft movie. Which you’re watching me scroll ever so slowly across your screen.
Battlestate Games yesterday presented Escape from Tarkov – a hardcore MMO mixture of FPS/TPS and RPG. The game pushes the boundaries of genres and offers a new kind of gameplay based on a multitude of tactical and combat factors and the use of additional modules that improve game realism. Events take place in a realistic setting in the Russian city of Tarkov. Main characters work for two private military companies locked in bloody conflict on the streets of the settlement surrounded by UN forces and Russian Military. Players need to find a way out of the isolated Tarkov, survive the deadly hazards and unearth all mysteries of the city. Following the wildly twisted plot, heroes of Escape from Tarkov meet many dangers – from hostile mercenaries of enemy faction to aggressive environment. Death may come suddenly in a multitude of ways: character may perish because of consequences of different injuries, illnesses, exhaustion and radiation poisoning. To survive in a harsh and unpredictable world, players use numerous MMO system modules: users can control all actions and movements of their character and choose from a wide range of behaviors and tactics. You’re watching the video which was released yesterday now, but Escape from Tarkov is planning for a closed beta test in early 2016. Players can register for more information and the beta test on the official site of the project: www.escapefromtarkov.com .
That’s all I’ve got for you today, be sure to leave this video a like and give us a subscribe for more. Have a great weekend everybody!
Our first impressions gameplay video for Tree of Savior, a free massively multiplayer online role playing game developed by IMC.
Part 1 of our first impressions of the upcoming sandbox-oriented massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Korean video game developer Pearl Abyss. The game has been in development since 2010 and we can finally check the game out here in NA.
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What’s up Attackers! Kirk here with another edition of The XP, bringing you the latest happenings in the world of MMO. I know, I’m late again .. this time though, I have a better excuse. I was up at a press event with Obisdian Entertainment in LA to talk to hear about Skyforge and Armored Warfare, I should have some videos coming from the event shortly, so stay tuned. On this episode we’ll talk about Robocraft, Wild Terra, Guild Wars 2 and otherland. All that and more on today’s episode of the XP.
Robocraft, the indie robot fighting game has released their League of Mech update. The main part of the update includes the addition of mech legs which give your robot more of a mech-fighter feel while in battle. You can see from the video that their are a ton of options for the mech legs which give you a whole new playstyle for the game. Additionally the update brought a new game launcher and leagues, which will allow you to show off your robot building and battling skills.
Our friends over at Juvty Worlds let us know that they have opened up their test server to anyone and everyone interested in checking out their still in development, multiplayer online role playing game, Wild Terra. THe open test server started on October 22nd and will run for a few more days, up until October 26th. We checked out the game not too long ago and our very own Skylent Shore had a decent time playing so that’s why we thought we’d bring up a much smaller title on today’s show. The test client will work seperately from the main client and won’t interfere with play. You can download it at files.playwildterra.com/dev.
Black Eye Games released an extensive update aimed at improving the competitive combat elements of Gloria Victis this week, along with huge improvements to the environment and new locations and objects. The Mount and Blade style MMO already has a rather large following, even in its early stages of development thanks to a skill-based combat system taht rewards players based on their ability, not the level of their items. One of the most exciting elements to hit in this update is the headshot detection in PvP combat, which allows players to deal huge amounts of damage if they are able to land a powerful blow to the head.
The long awaited Guild Wars 2 expansion, Heart of Thorns officially went live this week and to commemorate the event ArenaNet released an infographic highlighting some of the various milestones since the game first launched. Boasting 7 million players, which is no small feat, Guild Wars 2 players have played 1.4 billion hours, and sent 223 million gifts.
An update in Otherland added over 120 new quest, 10 additional levels to your characters max and more. The update titled, ‘The 8 Squared Conflict, went live this week and gave players even more of an incentive to join the White Army forces. New locations were also added in the update like the Mausoleum and the Red Castle and like I said, increased the level cap to 40. Additionally, bug fixes and a reworking of male characters and zone transitions were also added by Drago Entertainment during the update.
That’s all I’ve got for you today, hope you’re having a great Saturday and be sure to check out our additional videos coming up from Obsidian Entertainment! Cya.
Our first impressions gameplay video for Devilian, the persistant-world action RPG from Trion Worlds. Join us as we take a look at the first 20 minutes or so of the game and let you know what our thoughts are, and whether or not you should check out Devilian yourself!
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What’s up Attackers! Kirk here to bring you all the latest happenings in the MMO world for the past, I guess, 10-11 days. Yes, normally this video comes out on Friday, but I was taking a mini-vacation and couldn’t really get to it, you’d be surprised how much work this video takes! Anyways, on today’s episode we have Defiance, Trove, Devilian, Echo of Soul, Overwatch and more! The XP starts now!
Over the weekend we found out that SyFy would not be renewing the science fiction, obviously, TV show Defiance for what would be its fourth season. I’m not here to discuss how great the show was, never watched it to be honest, and although I love talking TV, maybe an idea for another channel, let’s just assume the show fell off a cliff. Anyways, we’re more concerned with the Defiance MMO from Trion Worlds, what was gonna happen to that!? CEO Scott Hartsman said this “Defiance is Trion’s IP and the game will continue exactly as before. The show has always been a fantastic and interesting partner, but the two were always meant to be able to stand on their own.” So we assume for now, the game will remain unchanged for the foreseeable future, and I can go along and pretend the TV show never existed.
Last week, on October 14th, the award-winning and critically acclaimed voxel-based RPG from .. will you look at this, also Trion Worlds, announced that it was ready to expand to an entirely new audience, the huge video game playerbase of, drum roll please .. Mac. Macs? Apple? The computer company that only has about 10% of the worlds computer sales, that one. The original PC version of Trove launched earlier this year, in July and has amassed over 3.3 million registered players, and now they can expect .. .2 million more! Maybe, I dunno, I don’t do the math stuff. The Mac launch includes 12 playable classes, procedurally generated dungeons, challenging lairs and loot, all sorts of loot. You can play Trove on your Mac computer NOW.
I swear I didn’t do this on purpose, I pinky fucking swear it. Trion Worlds announced last week that the very first public closed beta event would be taking place for its new MMORPG game Devilian later this month on October 22nd. The beta will run through October 26th and players with previous access to Alpha testing will be able to take part in the event. Trion describes Devilian as a frantic and devilish action RPG experience. Sign up for Devilian using the link below and let us know what you think when the closed beta hits later this week! OK, no more news from Trion. I hope.
The latest class to join the free to play MMORPG, Echo of Soul is the Warlock. The Warlock comes in two specializations, the Tormentor and the Reaper. The Tormentor specializes in dealing massive amounts of damage over time by wielding an array of curses, while the reaper is a deadly master of melee combat who leach power from their foes and destroy them. The Warlock comes to us via the 1.5 patch which also adds two new dungeons, a tier 5 Infinite Solo Dungeon and a Tier 6 Party Dungeon with new boss monsters. The first player on each server to level their Warlock to level 60 will receive a special title, while anyone who gets to level 60 with their Warlock by October 31st will receive a special costume. Most likely, Halloween themed. Don’t bet me on that.
This is probably too late to report on, but since it’s my fault I’m late on this video I’m still gonna say it just in case you missed it in the past week even though I’m sure every video game website has already let you know about it. Overwatch, the arena shooter type game from Blizzard announced that October 27th would be the launching of the Closed Beta client as us peasants await the first wave of invites for public testers. The team will be focusing on two major goals during its first public Closed Beta event, one is to get TONS of feedback form players on topics such as gameplay, balance and performance, as well as a hammering out of technical hiccups and making adjustments to the infrastructure. To try your luck at getting invited to the very limited closed beta, check out battle.net.
Rockstar Games today released an exciting new update for Grand Theft Auto Online as Lowriders are now available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, via a free to download automatic update that was released today. The latest addition to the world of Grand Theft Auto sees Benny’s Original Motor Works introduced to the city of Los Santos, bringing with it a huge variety of customization options specifically tailored towards Lowrider cars. Two new vehicles have also been introduced, including the Declasse Moonbeam van and the Willard Faction. These two vehicles join four existing vehicles in-game to bolster the Lowrider options for players. The new Lowriders can be customized in a huge variety of ways including Hydraulics, Engines, Steering Wheels, Rims, Tires, Gear Shift Levers, Horns, Bobbleheads, rear window Plaques, Vanity Plates & Plate Holders, Soundsystem Mods, custom Paint Jobs and more. The team have also introduced three new Adversary Modes including Keep the Pace, Offense Defense and Relay. The Keep the Pace Adversary Mode is a play on the Speed movie, keeping players above a certain speed through the fear of imminent death via explosion. Finally players can now purchase an additional property, to include a total of four Apartment and Garage options for players to pick up – alongside a 25% rebate at Dynasty 8 for launch week of the update.
That’s all I’ve got for you today, be sure to leave this video a like, a subscribe and comment. Thanks for watching, have a great day!
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