Weekly Recap #227 Feb. 16th – SkySaga, Shadow Realms, EQNext & More!

A quick look and discussion for every major announcement and update during the week! This week we discussed updates from the following games: FireFall, Elsword, Skyforge, Armored Warfare, Guild Wars 2, Shadow Realms, Heroes of the Storm, SMITE, EverQuest Next, Trove, & SkySaga!

Weekly MMO News summary for the week ending February 16th, 2015 (Feb. 9th – Feb. 16th).

FireFall releases its update 1.3 introducing the very first warzone and big game hunter challanges:
http://mmohuts.com/news/firefall-update-1-3-war-in-the-amazon-available-today

KOG Games releases the crimson avenger for Elesis in Elsword:
http://mmohuts.com/news/elsword-crimson-avenger-for-elesis-now-available
http://mmohuts.com/video/elsword-elesis-dark-knight-trailer

My.com details the mechanics of stats and abilites in Skyforge:
http://mmohuts.com/news/skyforge-mechanics-of-stats-and-ablities-explained

Armored Warfare debuts a new map that takes place in an old airfield in the mountains:
http://mmohuts.com/video/armored-warfare-ghost-fields-map-trailer

ArenaNet gets detailed with the new Strongholds PvP mode in Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns:
http://mmohuts.com/news/guild-wars-2-stronghold-pvp-game-mode-revealed

EA Games cancels Bioware’s new 4 Vs 1 Action RPG “Shadow Realms”:
http://mmohuts.com/news/shadow-realms-action-rpg-cancelled-by-ea

Heroes of the Storm brings back the lost vikings as a three in one hero:
http://mmohuts.com/news/heroes-of-the-storm-the-lost-vikings-have-returned
http://mmohuts.com/video/heroes-of-the-storm-the-lost-vikings-trailer

To many season 2 changes in Smite for just one video:
http://mmohuts.com/video/smite-season-2-changes-overview-series
http://mmohuts.com/news/smite-new-conquest-map-headlines-season-2-patch-update

EverQuest Next Development to continue dispite layoffs:
http://mmohuts.com/news/everquest-next-development-to-continue-despite-layoffs

Trove introduces Wings, Shadow Hunters, Runecrafting and more in the new Take Flight update:
http://mmohuts.com/video/trove-take-flight-trailer

SkySaga prepares to start up closed alpha in the US and Canada:
http://mmohuts.com/news/skysaga-us-canada-alpha-starts-feb-19th
http://mmohuts.com/video/skysaga-north-american-alpha-testing-announced
http://mmohuts.com/video/skysaga-pvp-tutorial-part-1
http://mmohuts.com/video/skysaga-lessons-from-alpha-1-and-2

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

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