Weekly Recap #230 Mar. 9th – Overwatch, Gigantic, ArcheAge & More!

A quick look and discussion for every major announcement and update during the week! This week we discussed updates from the following games: Skyforge, Rift, ArcheAge, Defiance, Guild Wars 2, Gigantic, Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, Warframe, Infinite Crisis, Arena of Fate, Otherland & Unreal Tournament 2015!

Weekly MMO News summary for the week ending March 9th, 2015 (Mar. 2nd – Mar. 9th).

Reminder – Skyforge closed beta 1 starts this week on the 11th:
http://mmohuts.com/news/skyforge-first-closed-beta-testing-date-announced

Trion Worlds showed off content updates for all of its games at PAX East:
http://mmohuts.com/news/pax-east-2015-day-1-recap-trion-worlds-dreadnought-indie-games-and-cosplay/2
http://mmohuts.com/news/pax-east-2015-day-1-recap-trion-worlds-dreadnought-indie-games-and-cosplay/3
http://mmohuts.com/news/pax-east-2015-day-1-recap-trion-worlds-dreadnought-indie-games-and-cosplay/4

ArenaNet showcased two playable demos for Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns at PAX East:
http://mmohuts.com/news/guild-wars-2-arenanet-announces-pax-east-activities-for-fans

Motiga announces plans for Gigantic to be released on Windows 10 and Xbox One this fall:
http://mmohuts.com/videos/gigantic-xbox-one-windows-10-announcement-trailer
http://mmohuts.com/videos/gigantic-pax-east-2015-trailer

Blizzard makes a nice apearance with Overwatch showcasing two new characters and a new map:
http://mmohuts.com/videos/overwatch-mccree-gameplay-preview
http://mmohuts.com/videos/overwatch-zarya-gameplay-preview

Heroes of the Storm introduces Sylvanas Windrunner and the Tomb of the Spider Queen:
http://mmohuts.com/videos/heroes-of-the-storm-sylvanas-trailer
http://heroesofthedorm.com

Blizzard also introduces Blackrock Mountain the latest single player adventure for Hearthstone:
http://mmohuts.com/news/blackrock-mountain-coming-to-hearthstone-in-april
http://mmohuts.com/videos/hearthstone-blackrock-mountain-cinematic-trailer

Warframe drops tons of new features during its PAX East livestream including parkour 2.0:
http://mmohuts.com/news/warframe-tons-of-new-features-revealed-at-pax-east-2015
http://mmohuts.com/videos/warframe-tennolive-2015-reveal

Infinite Crisis is set to launch via Steam on March 26th:
http://mmohuts.com/news/infinite-crisis-to-launch-march-26-on-steam

Arena of Fate came out of the blue and announced its technical alpha test:
http://mmohuts.com/news/arena-of-fate-alpha-test-coming-soon

Otherlands started up round two of its closed beta test introducing the eDNA system:
http://mmohuts.com/news/otherland-starts-second-cbt-with-new-edna-system

Unreal Tournament 2015 put out a new trailer for Outpost 23:
http://mmohuts.com/videos/unreal-tournament-outpost-23-gameplay-trailer
http://unrealtournament.com

Catch up on more PAX East 2015 with the daily recap articles here:
http://mmohuts.com/news/pax-east-2015-day-3-recap-echo-of-soul-gigantic-guns-of-icarus-online-cosplay-and-more

http://mmohuts.com/news/pax-east-2015-day-2-recap-smite-xbox-forced-2-just-shapes-and-beats-and-much-more

http://mmohuts.com/news/pax-east-2015-day-1-recap-trion-worlds-dreadnought-indie-games-and-cosplay

More news @ http://mmohuts.com/news

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