Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
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Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
MMORPGs have offered the promise of player agency and being able to shape the world but those promises usually fall flat beyond the premise of having a stronghold in one part of the world or adjusting tax and trade ratios in another. Bitcraft: Age of Automata aims to break that concept down to the basic voxels by allowing players to literally shape the shared world as they see fit. With a single shared world to craft bit by bit, there's something special in the works with Clockwork Labs, Inc. My play session saw me along with one other developer showing […]
ZeniMax Online has recently started its celebration of the 10th anniversary of Elder Scrolls Online with an event in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Bethesda kindly invited and arranged for Wccftech to attend the celebration event, which was mainly centered on the upcoming Gold Road Chapter due to launch in June for PC/Mac (where the game is also now playable via GeForce NOW) and consoles. While we previously covered the finer details of Gold Road's main feature, the Scribing system, here's a full transcript of the one-on-one chat I had with Elder Scrolls Online Creative Director Rich Lambert during last week's event in […]
Earlier this year, ZeniMax revealed Elder Scrolls Online had registered over 24 million accounts since its launch. The game is also closing in on $2 billion in customer spending. It was nominated for a BAFTA award last year, and the studio says it is the largest cross-platform RPG on consoles. As the game now celebrates its 10th anniversary with the addition to GeForce NOW and with a free play event live through April 9 on all platforms, ZeniMax Online also discussed the upcoming launch of the new Chapter, Gold Road, due on June 3 on PC and Mac and June […]
A few days ago, Unchained Entertainment (previously known as City State Entertainment) re-emerged after a long slumber and revealed that Final Stand: Ragnarok would re-launch on Steam Early Access this Thursday, while Camelot Unchained, the original MMORPG project devised by the studio, would come out in late 2025. To be honest, fans and Kickstarter backers were almost losing hope at this point. The studio had received over $2 million in funds back in 2013, but the MMORPG seemed still far from completion. The current focus on Final Stand: Ragnarok, which is a very different game, also might have certainly disappointed […]
The MMORPG Camelot Unchained, funded through Kickstarter nearly eleven years ago with $2.2 million, will finally be released late next year. The news comes today from developer City State Entertainment, which is rebranding as Unchained Entertainment. The studio founded by veteran Mark Jacobs of Mythic Entertainment fame (Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online) has recently received new investments by A16Z GAMES, Island Capital, and The Lauder Family, allowing Unchained Entertainment to ramp up its hiring and publishing efforts not only for Camelot Unchained but also for the spin-off multiplayer co-op PvE hack and slasher action game Final Stand: Ragnarok slated […]
As promised last week, ArenaNet has released The Realm of Dreams, the second major free content update for Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure expansion. This new patch for the PC MMORPG adds several content pieces and new features, such as new weapon proficiencies for each profession (class). These are: Guardian: Pistol (main and off-hand) Revenant: Scepter (main hand) Warrior: Staff Engineer: Short bow Ranger: Mace (main and off-hand) Thief: Axe (main hand) Elementalist: Pistol (main hand) Mesmer: Rifle Necromancer: Sword (main and off-hand) There's a lot more, though. Two new legendary Convergences bosses are being introduced with The Realm of Dreams: the Hell Sister and the Dreadwing. […]
Today, Amazon Games announced the fifth Season coming to the MMORPG New World. Season of the Guardian will officially begin on March 12, adding a new Seasonal Trial called Winter Forge where groups of up to 10 max level players will have to overcome Rune puzzles, slay an Icey Construct, and face an Ancient Ice Guardian to get 'unique rewards'. This fifth season also adds eight new Artifacts to New World: the Hatchet Sin, the Spear Venom, the Great Axe Tempest Fury, the Medium Chest Nature's Wrath, the Heavy Glove Gilli's Gravity Gauntlets, the Heavy Leggings Ironheart, the Light Footwear […]
Like clockwork at this time of the year, ZeniMax Online Studios has announced Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road, the MMORPG's next Chapter. Wccftech attended a remote press presentation to get the full lowdown on what's on the way. As Elder Scrolls lore buffs have probably already surmised, this expansion will bring players to the West Weald, a zone sandboxed between the Gold Coast to the West, Craglorn to the North, Reaper's March and Malabal Tor to the South, and most importantly Cyrodiil to the East. The West Weald was, in fact, featured with its main city of Skingrad in The […]
Following the MMORPG's 10-year anniversary celebrated last year, ArenaNet has picked up steam (partly thanks to joining Valve's namesake store) with the ongoing development of Guild Wars 2. The Bellevue-based developer released the fourth expansion, Secrets of the Obscure, in August, and there's more coming between free content and paid expansions with the new yearly model. Wccftech had the opportunity to access the studio's end-of-year blog post in advance, where ArenaNet confirmed Secrets of the Obscure has been a financial success and promised that the next update (which includes new story chapters, the Temple of Febe Strike Challenge Mode, nine […]
Around a month and a half ago, former Age of Empires, World of Warcraft, and League of Legends designer Greg Street (also known as Ghostcrawler) announced he partnered with NetEase to make a new triple-A fantasy MMORPG codenamed Ghost. Street leads a fully remote studio called Fantastic Pixel Castle, which was established earlier this year. Plenty of other industry veterans have been hired, including Gameplay Design Director Brian Holinka (Homefront, Transformers, World of Warcraft), Chief Technology Officer Cameron Dunn (L.A. Noire, Guild Wars 2), Content Design Director Candace Thomas (World of Warcraft, New World, Diablo IV), Principal Game Designer Graham […]
A little over a year ago, we hosted a Guild Wars 2 Complete Collection giveaway to celebrate the game's 10th anniversary. Today, we're renewing our partnership with ArenaNet to bring you a Guild Wars 2 Elder Dragon Saga Collection giveaway of five codes. What was called the Complete Collection is now basically the Elder Dragon Saga Collection, with the exception of the Living World DLCs, which are not included in this new giveaway. Other than that, winners of the raffle will receive all the first three Guild Wars 2 expansions (2015's Heart of Thorns, 2017's Path of Fire, and 2022's […]
Earlier this month, a new independent game development team called AVALON announced its highly ambitious namesake debut project. This MMO game seeks to largely deliver on the concept of the Metaverse as it was enunciated in Ernest Cline's seminal science fiction novel Ready Player One while also pushing the user-generated content trend forward and taking advantage of the latest technological advancements, including two different generative AI tools (Didimo's Popul8 and Inworld AI's Character Engine) that we previously covered on Wccftech. The development team at AVALON is led by Jeffrey Butler, who was a producer on old-school MMORPGs like the original […]
MMORPGs have offered the promise of player agency and being able to shape the world but those promises usually fall flat beyond the premise of having a stronghold in one part of the world or adjusting tax and trade ratios in another. Bitcraft: Age of Automata aims to break that concept down to the basic voxels by allowing players to literally shape the shared world as they see fit. With a single shared world to craft bit by bit, there's something special in the works with Clockwork Labs, Inc. My play session saw me along with one other developer showing […]
ZeniMax Online has recently started its celebration of the 10th anniversary of Elder Scrolls Online with an event in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Bethesda kindly invited and arranged for Wccftech to attend the celebration event, which was mainly centered on the upcoming Gold Road Chapter due to launch in June for PC/Mac (where the game is also now playable via GeForce NOW) and consoles. While we previously covered the finer details of Gold Road's main feature, the Scribing system, here's a full transcript of the one-on-one chat I had with Elder Scrolls Online Creative Director Rich Lambert during last week's event in […]
Earlier this year, ZeniMax revealed Elder Scrolls Online had registered over 24 million accounts since its launch. The game is also closing in on $2 billion in customer spending. It was nominated for a BAFTA award last year, and the studio says it is the largest cross-platform RPG on consoles. As the game now celebrates its 10th anniversary with the addition to GeForce NOW and with a free play event live through April 9 on all platforms, ZeniMax Online also discussed the upcoming launch of the new Chapter, Gold Road, due on June 3 on PC and Mac and June […]
A few days ago, Unchained Entertainment (previously known as City State Entertainment) re-emerged after a long slumber and revealed that Final Stand: Ragnarok would re-launch on Steam Early Access this Thursday, while Camelot Unchained, the original MMORPG project devised by the studio, would come out in late 2025. To be honest, fans and Kickstarter backers were almost losing hope at this point. The studio had received over $2 million in funds back in 2013, but the MMORPG seemed still far from completion. The current focus on Final Stand: Ragnarok, which is a very different game, also might have certainly disappointed […]
The MMORPG Camelot Unchained, funded through Kickstarter nearly eleven years ago with $2.2 million, will finally be released late next year. The news comes today from developer City State Entertainment, which is rebranding as Unchained Entertainment. The studio founded by veteran Mark Jacobs of Mythic Entertainment fame (Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online) has recently received new investments by A16Z GAMES, Island Capital, and The Lauder Family, allowing Unchained Entertainment to ramp up its hiring and publishing efforts not only for Camelot Unchained but also for the spin-off multiplayer co-op PvE hack and slasher action game Final Stand: Ragnarok slated […]
As promised last week, ArenaNet has released The Realm of Dreams, the second major free content update for Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure expansion. This new patch for the PC MMORPG adds several content pieces and new features, such as new weapon proficiencies for each profession (class). These are: Guardian: Pistol (main and off-hand) Revenant: Scepter (main hand) Warrior: Staff Engineer: Short bow Ranger: Mace (main and off-hand) Thief: Axe (main hand) Elementalist: Pistol (main hand) Mesmer: Rifle Necromancer: Sword (main and off-hand) There's a lot more, though. Two new legendary Convergences bosses are being introduced with The Realm of Dreams: the Hell Sister and the Dreadwing. […]
Today, Amazon Games announced the fifth Season coming to the MMORPG New World. Season of the Guardian will officially begin on March 12, adding a new Seasonal Trial called Winter Forge where groups of up to 10 max level players will have to overcome Rune puzzles, slay an Icey Construct, and face an Ancient Ice Guardian to get 'unique rewards'. This fifth season also adds eight new Artifacts to New World: the Hatchet Sin, the Spear Venom, the Great Axe Tempest Fury, the Medium Chest Nature's Wrath, the Heavy Glove Gilli's Gravity Gauntlets, the Heavy Leggings Ironheart, the Light Footwear […]
Like clockwork at this time of the year, ZeniMax Online Studios has announced Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road, the MMORPG's next Chapter. Wccftech attended a remote press presentation to get the full lowdown on what's on the way. As Elder Scrolls lore buffs have probably already surmised, this expansion will bring players to the West Weald, a zone sandboxed between the Gold Coast to the West, Craglorn to the North, Reaper's March and Malabal Tor to the South, and most importantly Cyrodiil to the East. The West Weald was, in fact, featured with its main city of Skingrad in The […]
Following the MMORPG's 10-year anniversary celebrated last year, ArenaNet has picked up steam (partly thanks to joining Valve's namesake store) with the ongoing development of Guild Wars 2. The Bellevue-based developer released the fourth expansion, Secrets of the Obscure, in August, and there's more coming between free content and paid expansions with the new yearly model. Wccftech had the opportunity to access the studio's end-of-year blog post in advance, where ArenaNet confirmed Secrets of the Obscure has been a financial success and promised that the next update (which includes new story chapters, the Temple of Febe Strike Challenge Mode, nine […]
Around a month and a half ago, former Age of Empires, World of Warcraft, and League of Legends designer Greg Street (also known as Ghostcrawler) announced he partnered with NetEase to make a new triple-A fantasy MMORPG codenamed Ghost. Street leads a fully remote studio called Fantastic Pixel Castle, which was established earlier this year. Plenty of other industry veterans have been hired, including Gameplay Design Director Brian Holinka (Homefront, Transformers, World of Warcraft), Chief Technology Officer Cameron Dunn (L.A. Noire, Guild Wars 2), Content Design Director Candace Thomas (World of Warcraft, New World, Diablo IV), Principal Game Designer Graham […]
A little over a year ago, we hosted a Guild Wars 2 Complete Collection giveaway to celebrate the game's 10th anniversary. Today, we're renewing our partnership with ArenaNet to bring you a Guild Wars 2 Elder Dragon Saga Collection giveaway of five codes. What was called the Complete Collection is now basically the Elder Dragon Saga Collection, with the exception of the Living World DLCs, which are not included in this new giveaway. Other than that, winners of the raffle will receive all the first three Guild Wars 2 expansions (2015's Heart of Thorns, 2017's Path of Fire, and 2022's […]
Earlier this month, a new independent game development team called AVALON announced its highly ambitious namesake debut project. This MMO game seeks to largely deliver on the concept of the Metaverse as it was enunciated in Ernest Cline's seminal science fiction novel Ready Player One while also pushing the user-generated content trend forward and taking advantage of the latest technological advancements, including two different generative AI tools (Didimo's Popul8 and Inworld AI's Character Engine) that we previously covered on Wccftech. The development team at AVALON is led by Jeffrey Butler, who was a producer on old-school MMORPGs like the original […]