Today on Headline
RePLAY: Guild Wars 2 aims to set a new
MMO-genre standard, Diablo III
problems persist and a new Castlevania
game.
Is the MMO-genre
formula for success set by Blizzard’s World
of Warcraft changing? ArenaNet’s global brand director thinks so, and
believes that the company’s upcoming Guild
Wars 2 will set a new standard in the genre.
“We’re finally seeing a
point where companies realize that they’re not going to create the next great
MMO by just copying what’s come before [World
of Warcraft],” said ArenaNet’s Christopher Lye. “Honestly, I think the
problem is that there’s been a lack of change in MMO design and that Guild Wars 2 is a reaction to that.”
Guild Wars 2 deviates from the World
of Warcraft blueprint with the “Dynamic Events” system to replace traditional
questing, which allows the development team to “easily modify and add new
content.” ArenaNet’s upcoming MMO also revamps the action-bar combat system to
be more like Bluehole’s TERA MMO with action-based combat that employs active
dodging.
“People will call this
risky, but we think it’s riskier just to churn out the same MMO that everyone
played before,” said Lye. “People can read the words, but it’s not until
someone actually plays the game that they really understand some of the
fundamental changes that we’ve made to the genre.”
|Source: Gamasutra
The problems with Diablo III continues to mount up like a
pile of trash loot that nobody wants, except it now comes in the form of
enterprising hackers rather than server gremlins.
Reportedly hackers
have compromised many Diablo III players’
accounts and stolen in-game gold, items or even the accounts they have
hijacked. It appears that the Blizzard Authenticator is ineffective at preventing
these attacks, as there has been speculation that hackers are simply able to ‘jump
into’ accounts—completely bypassing the Blizzard authentication process.
Blizzard has yet to
comment on the issue, but has been ‘rolling back’ victimized accounts to a
point prior to when the hacking took place. Any items lost to the hacking,
however, will not be returned.
|Source: GamesIndustryInternational
Castlevania is making a return to handhelds via the 3DS, according to
rumors by Dutch Nintendo site N1ntendo.
The new game will be
called Castlevania: Mirror of Fate
and it is to be revealed by Konami at this year’s E3. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow producer David Cox and writer/director
Enric Alvarez are rumored to be part of the development team.
Is this the reason why
Cox Tweeted from the “land of Dracul” last month and teased his reason for
being there?
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