Frostfell has started in Norrath already, but that doesn’t mean that the team at Daybreak isn’t adding more gift giving goodness into their free-to-play MMORPG EverQuest II. Starting on December 22nd, two additional methods of both gift giving and gift obtaining will launch in The City of Freeport or Qeynos Capitol District.
The second map is Neon, a virtual training center designed for urban warfare. Neon is a digitized battle arena where cars and other structures spawn out of thin air and enemies dissolve into hundreds of pixels when defeated. Middle lane sightlines will cater to long-range players while the outsides of the map allow for quick counter-attacks in close-quarter action.
By choosing to set Watch Dogs 2 in the smart city of San Francisco, Ubisoft’s game creators were able to sharpen their criticism of the nation’s tech companies and how they are undermining freedom and abetting criminal behavior through their monopolistic practices and weak security.
Brianna Wu, a game developer who stood up for women facing harassment in the game industry, has decided to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. She hasn’t officially announced she will run yet, but she posted the picture below on her Facebook page earlier today. And she confirmed via email that she is serious.
The mobile game segment was the largest at $41 billion (up 18 percent), followed by $26 billion for retail games and $19 billion for free-to-play online games. New categories such as virtual reality, esports, and gaming video content were small in size, but they are growing fast and holding promise for 2017, SuperData said.
November is the coolest month for new game launches. And this year, total digital revenue grew to $6.7 billion in November, up 13 percent from a year ago, according to market researcher Super Data Research.
Not to put any more pressure on you during the stressful holiday season, but you’re running out of time to find that NES Classic Edition that you want to give as gift this Christmas.