Dota 2 Monkey King Announced in Trailer

A new Dota 2 Monkey King trailer teases the arrival of the Champion with the Journey update due for the MOBA sometime in the fall.

 

Overwatch High Bandwidth Servers Go Live

 

A post by community manager Lylirra talks about the arrival of the new server tech, which first made its debut during Custom Matches in beta. The new server tech will bring client refresh rates from 21 updates per second to 63 updates per second, allowing for game actions to be transmitted through the game faster. The new servers will also recognize personal internet connection speeds and scale down to keep pace. The team will also look in to adding an option to self-limit bandwidth consumption for those with internet providers that have data useage caps.

The high bandwidth servers are rolling out today, with full release of the tech to all regions expected in the next several weeks. The servers will be specific to PC players at this time, but the devs are looking in to how to bring the same tech to console versions of the game.

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20748474858#post-1 

Guild Wars 2 Fourth Anniversary Celebration

August 28 is the anniversary of Guild Wars 2, and we’d love to celebrate four years of playing, adventuring, and exploring alongside the fans. Whether you’re saving the world from the perils it faces or helping build the community, there is no Tyria without you!

Throughout the month, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite moments on social media—from launch to the present—and we want to see and share yours, too. Do you have screenshots, videos, and memories of your time in Tyria? Tag them with #GW2BDay on Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram!

On September 2, we’ll host a PAX West Community Event where fans can hang out with the developers for a night of food and fun here in Seattle. We’ve held similar events in previous years, and we’re always happy to have a chance to meet and make friends with members of the Guild Wars 2 community. To learn more about the event and how you can get a pass, please see this forum thread.

Whether you’re able to join us for the community event or not, don’t miss the celebratory livestream on August 26, where we’ll look back at four years of Guild Wars 2 and the contributions from the best online community.

Thank you for making Tyria your home, and we look forward to many more years of fun and adventures with you!

Runescape Wilderness Improvements

Runescape is helping out players with the new wilderness updates

Wilderness Improvements & Task Set 

 

Wilderness newbies and veterans alike should definitely take a walk on the wild side this week. From stealable Slayer contracts and new skilling spots to Task Sets for players of levels, there are more reasons than ever to lose yourself in the wild and earn great rewards in the process.

Be sure to check out all the improvements and features, along with the usual patch notes and other news.

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Wilderness Task Set

The Wilderness can be a really intimidating place for a new RuneScape player to start but thanks to the new Task Set, there is a now a structured way to make your first steps into these dangerous but fruitful lands.

Experienced players will also have loads to gain from playing through the Tasks, not least the powerful Wilderness sword detailed in the Rewards section below.

For convenience, Tasks can be done in any order, but you can’t claim a set's rewards until you've completed it and all the tasks in the previous ones.

Requirements

RuneScape members only

The Easy Set has no requirements at all. Later Task Sets have increasingly high requirements, full details of which can be found in the Adventures interface, under the Achievements tab.

Rewards

As well as an XP lamp, completing the Easy set of Tasks will earn you the Wilderness Sword.

This weapon upgrades as you complete each harder set of tasks and its bonuses stack as follows:

Tier 1 (Easy Tasks)

• Free teleports to the Wilderness herb patch & Edgeville

• Locates the Wildywyrm

Tier 2 (Medium Tasks)

• +5% XP at Wilderness Agility Course (the sword must be equipped)

• Improved pickpocket rates at rogues

• Teleports to Forinthry Dungeon

Tier 3 (Hard Tasks)

• Provides air obelisk shortcut

• Quick teleports to Wilderness lodestone

• Access to item un-noter at the Chaos Altar

• No disease at the Wilderness herb patch

• Choice of destination at the Wilderness Obelisk

• Chance to teleport to centre of the Abyss (the sword must be equipped)

Tier 4 (Elite Tasks)

• 1 free daily teleport to the Warbands camp of your choice

• Lava strykewyrms drop noted ashes (sword must be equipped or in your inventory)

• Free teleports to Wilderness Agility Course

• Improved drop rate for ancient warrior equipment in Forinthry dungeon

• Team capes give the effects of Ava’s devices

Claim your rewards from the following taskmasters:

• Easy Tasks – Mr Ex, Edgeville.

• Medium Tasks – Mandrith, Edgeville bank.

• Hard Tasks – Quercus, on the Wilderness wall between Edgeville and the Grand Exchange.

• Elite Tasks – Kolodion in the Mage Arena.

Enjoy getting out there, completing those Tasks and earning this stunning new weapon!

Read More Here:

http://services.runescape.com/m=news/wilderness-improvements--task-set-?jptg=ia&jptv=community_news 

TERA’s next update arrives on August 9th

TERA’s next update arrives on August 9th

 

A new update for TERA hits the servers on Tuesday, August 9.

Castle Aranea is a new solo dungeon, in which players literally enter history to witness the origin of one of TERA’s greatest villains!

Among various other changes and fixes, Tuesday's update also expands the current flying zones, allowing players to take their flying mounts into the skies of Southern Shara.

http://tera.enmasse.com/news/posts/announcing-tera-s-august-update 

Everquest 2: GU101 - Coming Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Everquest 2: GU101 - Coming Tuesday, August 23, 2016

New adventures await you, Norrathains! GU101 is scheduled to release on Tuesday, August 23, 2016, and there’s something in this update for players of all levels.

New Fabled Content to Explore From The Fallen Dynasty!

These new Fabled dungeons can be accessed through a portal just off the docks in The Village of Shin. This content is intended for level 100 characters, and a membership is required to enter these zones.

The Fabled Fallen Dynasty is made up of The Fabled Nizara, City of the Nayad which will have both Heroic and Advanced Solo versions! Also available will be The Fabled Cavern of the Crustaceans Raid for groups of 12 players and The Fabled Xux'laio's Roost Raid and The Fabled Antechamber of Fate Raid for groups of 24 players.

Public Quests

You’ll find new limited time Public Quests throughout Norrath. Just check your map for these unique battle regions!

Damage inflicted against public quest encounters scales to allow public quest fights to be relevant for players of all gear levels.

New Agnostic Zones that Scale to Level 100!

Agnostic versions of The Crypt of Agony, Crypt of Valdoon, Befallen: Cavern of the Afflicted, Guk: Halls of the Fallen and Kael Drakkel: Iceshard Keep have been added to the dungeon finder and Agnostic Portal, and these dungeons scale from level 10 to level 100.

Read More On the Official Site Here 

TERA MMO Rumored Console Port

TERA To Consoles?

An Email Survey has gone out to select players if they would be interested in a console version and what version they would like to see. 

DO YOU HAVE OR PLAY A CONSOLE? WE NEED YOU!

Bluehole and En Masse are seeking feedback from TERA players that currently own or play console games regularly. If you have a Playstation 4 or an Xbox One, we want to learn more about your console setup, the types of games you play, and how you play them!

Click the button below to take a brief survey:

TAKE THE SURVEY

We greatly appreciate your feedback and value your responses. Thanks in advance for your participation.

—The En Masse Team