World of Warcraft

All the latest updates on WoW's Next Expansion "Warlords of Draenor".

Friday 29 November 2013

Perfect World Entertainment may release DOTA 2 in China.



Perfect World Entertainment, the China-based publisher behind games like Perfect World International,NeverwinterStar Trek Online, and Champions Online, ended the last financial quarter in a strong place. Citing the Chinese release of Swordsman Online and Saint Seiya Online as driving factors, Perfect World claimed $136.2 million in revenue and $19.8 million in net profit -- up from last year's marks of $114.2 million and $14.2 million respectively.


Perfect World also expressed its hope for even better quarters to come thanks to big launches in the pipeline. It is currently localizing Neverwinter for a Chinese release and will be overseeing Valve's Dota 2as it makes its way into Chinese markets.

Source:joystiq



Thursday 28 November 2013

World of Warcraft In-Game Store PTR 5.4.2

The latest PTR build updated the new in-game store yet again, making use of more of the category icons by adding pets and mounts to the store. Purchasing anything now requires you to input your Battle.Net password.


Below Here are some in-game store screenshots,






Source: MMO-Champions

Razer Comms Gaming VoIP and Chat Software To provide League Of Legends Voice Chat and Scouter



Razer Comms is a free all-in-one communications solution for gamers, offering crystal clear VoIP and versatile instant messaging with group chat capabilities. Built with advanced in-game overlay functionality and cross-game chat support, Razer Comms allows you to get in touch with your friends without compromising your gameplay. This is how gamers were meant to communicate.



LOL VOICE CHAT & SCOUTER

Tired of coordinating your team via text chat in the Summoner's Rift? Razer Comms detects when a game has started and allows you to join a voice chat with other Summoners in your team on Razer Comms.
Razer Comms scouts your opponents in LoL for you, giving you in-depth details about their League while you're in the loading screen. Win/Loss-Ratio, K/D/A and even the runes and masteries they are running in your current game at one single glance to prepare you to win yet another match.
However if you would like help razer comm development team by giving them suggestions and feedback use the Poll at the bottom of the page.

Everquest Next Landmark Timelapse Video and Founder Pack Details

Build It, Break It. Make It. is an online social building game where you can create anything you imagine, powered by Forgelight Engine Landmark Feature Cutting Edge Technology and Tools, Below you find the teaser of Everquest Next Landmark, which is really well made and attractive.

Click Here for Landmark TimeLapse - Concept art challange, you also find more videos on Everquest Next Landmark from their Everquest Next Landmark Youtube Channel . 



EverQuest Next is due to release into alpha around February 28, next year. Founders pack details are  available here.



Wednesday 27 November 2013

Guild Wars 2 Fractured update arrives today


Guild Wars 2 fans benefit from a stack of new content today with the arrival of the Fractured update, which includes time travel and challenges for the most daring of combatants.
The update’s name, Fractured, refers to the fact that it brings with it a new fractal enabling players to explore events from the past. Thanks to the research efforts of Ellen Kiel, you’ll be able to pass through the mists to the Thaumanova Reactor meltdown.
There are a further two fractals and two boss fractals, as well, and the battle in the Tower of Nightmare is ongoing, with new Fractal rewards on offer. ArenaNet has also added leaderboards for Fractals events.
There’s a trailer below and full details on the update page.


Thanks Tentonhammer

Tuesday 26 November 2013

Gear Changes in Warlords of Draenor


Now that BlizzCon is over and Warlords of Draenor has been unveiled, we’ve been getting some additional questions about the gear changes currently planned for the expansion. To help shed some more light on what you can expect, we thought we’d take a bit of time to clarify a few things.

Keep in mind that as with anything still in development, the information we share now will likely change as we progress, but this should help give you a good understanding of our goals and thinking.


Armor Pieces: Head, Shoulders, Chest, Legs, Gloves, Belt, Boots, and Bracers

Primary Stats

One of our main intents for primary stats is to make sure that higher Item Level (ilvl) pieces from new content are almost always superior to items from older content. Further, the changes we’re making to primary stats will help make pieces more universal, so groups will find gear drops more useful more often. This means you’ll be disenchanting less Intellect plate (only usable by Paladins today) or Agility mail (only usable by Hunters and Enhancement Shamans today). As we discussed at BlizzCon, we’re accomplishing this by making it so primary stats for a given piece of gear will change based on your current spec, though it’s likely that only new gear added in Warlords will work like this, as it might be impossible to implement this for all existing gear. Here are some additional points to know regarding the changes to primary stats:

  • Armor pieces will always have some amount of Stamina and Armor value.
  • Armor pieces always have Strength, Intellect, or Agility as a primary stat. Plate has either Strength or Intellect. Mail and Leather have either Agility or Intellect. Cloth has Intellect.
  • In the cases of Plate, Mail, and Leather, the primary stat will change depending on your current spec. Specifically, casters (including healers) will get Intellect, and melee or tank specs will get Strength or Agility.

Secondary Stats

Our intent for secondary stats is to differentiate pieces that occupy the same slot, allow for player customization, and to further differentiate specs within a class. Here are a few important points regarding the changes that are currently planned for secondary stats:

  • Secondary stats don’t change based on spec on armor pieces (or any piece).
  • Secondary stats on armor pieces can still include Haste, Crit, and/or Mastery.
  • Secondary stats on armor pieces will no longer include Hit, Expertise, Dodge, or Parry. These are being retired in Warlords, and will likely be removed even from existing gear.
  • Secondary stats on armor pieces will also no longer include Spirit, nor will they include Bonus Armor, which are reserved exclusively for non-armor pieces (which are explained below).
  • In addition, secondary stats on armor pieces may include several new stats we are exploring such as Readiness, Amplify, and Multi-strike. Technical Game Designer Chadd “Celestalon” Nervig has been sharing more details about these on his Twitter account.

Additional Properties

Armor pieces may have three other properties at random. First, items may be higher Item Level than normal. For sake of this discussion, we’ll call these items Warforged for now.

Second, items may have gem sockets. Unlike gem sockets today, gem sockets in Warlords of Draenor will be rarer but more powerful. There will be no socket bonuses, but we are strongly considering requiring the right color gem for the socket. All gems will grant secondary stats, including Spirit and Bonus Armor (see below).

Finally, items may have tertiary stats. These include things like a bonus to Movement Speed, Sturdiness, Life Steal, Avoidance (less AoE damage), and Cleave. Because of the rarity of tertiary starts, stacking them to produce (for example) a Movement Speed set will take enormous effort.

The design intent of these additional qualities on items is to make itemization more exciting and to give it more longevity. Rather than waiting weeks to get a breastplate, you might get one pretty quickly—but to get a true “best-in-slot” item will take much more effort and a bit of luck. Here are a few more points to consider for these properties:

  • We haven’t decided on exact numbers yet, but for the current discussion, assume something like a 10% chance for an item to have an additional property. It’s possible for one item to have all three of these properties, but the chance of that is very small.
  • The properties are determined at the time an item is looted (and possibly even includes crafted gear). For example, if an ogre boss drops two copies of the Bracers of Crithto, one might be a normal version, while another might have a tertiary stat.

Being Warforged, having a socket, or having a tertiary stat do not count against the stat budget of the item—they are strictly bonuses. The item will not have reduced primary or secondary stats in order to have these additional properties.

Set Bonuses

Similar to primary stats, set bonuses will also change depending on your current spec. This means a Paladin may only need one tier set rather than one for Holy and one for Retribution. It also means that set bonuses can be more tailored towards a spec. For instance, Marksman Hunter set bonuses can have different bonuses or different numbers than a Survival Hunter set. Like today, not every helmet, chest piece, or other piece of armor that drops will be part of a tier set.

Non-Armor Pieces: Weapons, Rings, Cloak, Necklace, and Trinkets

Primary Stats

In general, most of these pieces will not have Strength, Agility, or Intellect. Instead, they may have Attack Power or Spell Power to make sure they are more universal. However, our current thought it to keep primary stats on weapons so that they continue to feel iconic and special. Many of the items will have Stamina as well.

Secondary Stats

The information about secondary stats on armor above also applies here. In addition, Spirit and Bonus Armor can appear on these items. Spirit is only useful for healers. Bonus Armor is generally only useful for tanks. A Spell Power piece without Spirit may be attractive to healers or may be attractive to DPS casters instead.

The intent of including Spirit and Bonus Armor on these pieces is to make sure some items are still valuable only to healer and tank specs, helping to make sure they don’t have too much competition for gear against the more numerous DPS players in a given group. These are also stats we consider interesting, because how much of each of these stats a tank or healer might want is more subjective. For example, one tank in a group might prefer more Bonus Armor while another might prefer more Haste.

In the case of Spirit, imagine that stacking Spirit on every non-armor slot will give you more mana regeneration than you would reasonably need. That is to say, you likely won’t need Spirit on every single spot in order to function as a healer.

In the case of Bonus Armor, this stat fills the niche that Dodge and Parry fill today. We like tanks avoiding attacks as a mechanic, but it hasn’t proven to be a particularly interesting gearing strategy. However, we still want a dedicated damage-mitigation stat, and Bonus Armor will be it.

Additional Qualities

These items will also have a chance to have one of the additional qualities discussed above (Warforged, gems, and tertiary stats), and the information related to these qualities on armor still applies here.

Examples

A Holy Paladin has a raid tier set from the Blackrock Foundry. If she switches to her Retribution spec, the tier set is still functional, as the primary stats and set bonuses change. However, if she prefers Haste for her Retribution spec and Crit in her Holy spec (and is someone who enjoys the min-max game), then a single set of armor may not be optimal.

For her healing set, let’s assume this player also has one ring with Spirit, a shield with Spirit, and a trinket that procs on heals. The trinket is almost useless in her Retribution set. The shield is also useless, since Retribution is designed to wield a two-handed weapon. The ring will be sub-optimal because Spirit is useless to a Retribution Paladin, but if it has another valuable stat (e.g. Haste), it may still be worth using—again depending on how min-max-focused the player is.

A more casual player would probably be fine just using the trinket anyway and using a lower Item Level two-handed mace when she plays Retribution. A more min-max player would probably want separate rings, cloaks, trinkets, neck pieces, and weapons to use in the different specs. A very min-max player—such as someone competing in world-first Mythic raid progression—might even want different heads, shoulders, chests, and so on depending on the mix of secondary stats. This player might even swap out gems between the two specs.

This may seem like a lot to take in now, but we’ll continue to watch feedback and answer any additional questions where we can. And again, keep in mind that as with anything still in development, this information or some of the details will likely change as we progress.

As always, we welcome your constructive feedback, and we look forward to reading what you think.


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New Steam Machine Prototype - Revealed by IBuyPower



Gaming PC manufacturer iBuyPower has revealed their own Steam Machine prototype, and are hoping to capture a slice of a market with their particular design: a grey box with a light strip cutting through its middle, so as to resemble a plastic neon sandwich.

As reported by Engadget, the iBuyPower Steam Machine is planned for an early 2014 launch, and that - while it is running SteamOS - it's still some ways off being a finished build.
The Verge, meanwhile, got some idea of the specs. The demoed box was carrying a multicore AMD CPU, and used a AMD Radeon R9 270. The full package will be bundled with the Steam Controller, and will cost around $500. It will offer Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a 500GB hard drive as standard, be larger than the PS4, and smaller than the Xbox One. Then again, some Alsations are smaller than an Xbox One.
This is only the first of what is sure to be a slew of Steam Machine announcements, covering various specs and price points. That's one of the benefits to Valve's acceptance of third-party variation: there's bound to be a model that fits your needs. Just how well their OS can compliment those needs will, for now, remain an open question.

Saturday 23 November 2013

Gambit Gaming Vs Cloud 9 [ IEM Cologne S/F Preview ]


Gambit Gaming[EU] Vs Cloud 9[NA] 

Head to Head [0-0]




Cloud 9
  • 1st LCS North America Season 3 Summer Playoffs
  • 5-8th Season 3 World Championship
GMB 
  • 1st IEM Season VII - Global Challenge Katowice
  • 3rd-4th IEM Season VII - World Championship
  • 5-8th Season 3 World Championship
  • 3rd LCS Europe Season 3 Summer Playoffs
  • 2nd LCS Europe Season 3 Spring Playoffs
Gambit Gaming was previously known as Moscow 5, they were considered beast during Season 2 as they almost won every LAN tournament they entered, you can check their info here.

Player Roster:


Position
Cloud 9
GMB
Top
Balls
Darien
MID
Hai
Alex Ich
JUNGLE
Meteos
Diamondprox
ADC
Sneaky
Genja
SUPPORT
LemonNation
Edward
SUB
Otter
-
SUB
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-
SUB
-
-
SUB
-
-
Key Players:

GMB:


Alex Ich [Mid Laner] - One of the best mid laners in the world, Alex Ich's performance has always been consistent through-out season 3, even though his team had  some sloppy times , he has always tried to give his best. Alex has a wide champion pool, has played 15 champions in last LCS summer, with Twisted Fate being the champion with highest win-rate(75%) , in other words it also defines his play-style, Alex Ich loves to farm a lot and roam around the map.
Alex Ich was the All Star Mid Laner for EU in Season 3.

Champions to Watch Out For- 
Kassadin
Twisted Fate
Orianna

Cloud 9:


Meteos [Jungle] - You cannot mention Cloud 9 without Meteos, his the one the biggest reason for the success of the team, said to be one of the best junglers in the world, which he totally deserves it. Meteos has unique style of playing as jungler, he tends to farm a lot compared to other junglers , and makes huge impact in team-fights. In the previous LCS summer Meteos picked Nasus 10 times and has 100% win-rate on it, the same goes for his Zac which was picked 8 times.He was the MVP of NA LCS Summer Season. Meteos will be facing Diamondprox for first time, this is going to be exciting match-up for me since Diamond has always been my favourite jungler.

Champions to Watch Out For- 
Nocturne
Nasus
Zac

My Take on Both The Teams:

        Out of all the NA teams , its easy to identify how different Cloud 9 is compared to rest , they tend to make less mistake, they focus on objective and team fight oriented game, Cloud 9 steamrolled last LCS Summer Season, but they will be facing a World Class team for second time, the first team they faced was Fnatic in WCS S3, which went bad for them,considering the hype which was around them 2-1 was not expected by the most(GO EU!), this will be the right time for C9 to show what they are really in International Stage, this game against Gambit will decide how much can people expect from Cloud 9 in Upcoming days , especially the Battle of the Atlantic Tournament.

                Coming to Gambit Gaming(Ex Moscow 5), Gambit had gone through rough phase in second half of Season 3, with return of Edward , we can only hope that we get to see the Old Moscow 5, Gambit is a team which loves to play as a team, they focus on quick objectives , you cannot let gambit get what they want, cause they will end the game really quick. Gambit's main strength is their mid laner Alex Ich, he carry his team really well, Diamond never misses a chance to get Alex or Darien fed, every person in Gambit has unique Trait . Facing against Cloud 9 , Gambit will look to end the game really quick as Cloud 9 likes to play a passive game, i can explain Gambit in one line "If Darien feeds, the rest of the team will carry him, if you ignore Darien, he will carry rest of the team".

The Verdict:

              I am expecting a great show tomorrow ,  [GMB 2- 1 C9] will be my safe bet, but still anything can happen,i guess EU vs NA will be a huge highlight twitch chat and reddit.



Friday 22 November 2013

Warlords of Draenor Dev Talk, New Undead Female Character Model Revealed.

New Undead Female Character Model
No animation work has been done yet, so this is still a work in progress.

 


New Cloak Test Models
The team has looked at making different shapes for cloaks, but keep in mind this is definitely an early test still.






WoW Source: Warlords of Draenor
Another episode of WoW Source has been posted. You can find our recap below!




Warlords of Draenor Story

  • The team has been talking about Warlords of Draenor since a few months before the Mists of Pandaria launch. Starting on it so far in advance let them set up the Garrosh story for the next expansion.
  • One of the ideas tossed around was having different Mongrel Horde races united by Garrosh to attack Azeroth. They realized it would be a cooler story if he was reassembling the old Orcish Horde. Then the team had to decide how it would be done, with one idea being resurrecting all of the old leaders. That would be confusing as far as if they were undead or how everything worked, so the idea of going back to Draenor was decided upon.
  • Early versions of old Draenor weren't going to use what is now Zangarmarsh for anything, but someone made a concept art of the giant mushrooms underwater that made the team decide to use it after all.
  • Old Draenor is supposed to be a mix of the familiar and things people have never seen before.

New Models

  • The new Undead Female model is far along enough to show off, but no animation has been done yet.
  • There was a bug that made the eye of the Human Female model look different and people got really upset about it, which is why the team is being so careful in building the new models.
  • The team is looking forward to seeing what machinima authors can do with the new models.
  • The robe models are a little tired at this point and they haven't been improved as much as the team would like.
  • The team also looked at making new cloak models that use alpha to mask out some of the cloak to make new shapes.
  • The team has talked about the different ways they could roll out new character models, including just switching them one day or allowing people to opt out and keep the old ones for performance reasons.
  • NPCs will also benefit from the new models and get some touchups to fix any custom work that was done that doesn't match the new models and animations.

Garrisons

  • Garrisons will take gold and some kind of garrison resource like wood or stone to upgrade.
  • Garrisons are mostly an individual thing because if it were a guild thing first, the guild leaders would take all of the fun parts.

Mythic Raiding

  • A 15 player size was discussed, but the devs are already asking 10 player guilds to grow so they selected the size that would work best going forward.
  • Mythic raiding was set to 20 because of the advantages it gives the team when designing raids.
  • With 20 players, raid designers can assume there is at least one of each class in the raid, something that they can't do with a raid size of 15.
  • Having 20 players also allows for more complex mechanics for the most challenging raid content.

Misc

  • The free boost to level 90 won't expire. You can boost any character to level 90, as there is no level requirement.
  • Ashran will allow you to collect scraps from other defeated opponents to build something like strong armor, a vehicle, or launch a wave of NPCs at the enemy. Players may even have longer term objectives they can work on that span multiple days.

Monday 18 November 2013

Battle.net Desktop Client Update and New Battle.net Store

Battle.Net Store
Battle.net store was update today,now it only sells the virtual items. Physical goods will be back in the future


Battle.Net Client Update:
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