Neverwinter’s closed beta is closer than you might think, as Cryptic has just posted the dates of the three weekend events coming up. The beta weekends begin on February 8th, with successive ones starting March 8th and March 22nd, and will be available to residents of North America and Europe…
If a game’s gotta have classes, I say they need to sound awesome. I’m bored of Paladins and Assassins and Clerics and Warriors; I want to see Troubadors and Deadeyes and Tempests and Saboteurs and Disco Bandits. Some games, like Wakfu, have made class names into an artform: Foggernaut. Xelor’s…
Ready for a spell-binding CG trailer for one of 2013’s most-anticipated fantasy MMOs? Well, no, it’s not The Elder Scrolls Online this time. It’s Neverwinter, and a German website called Gamestar has three minutes and 10 seconds worth of Forgotten Realms spectacle for your viewing pleasure. While there’s no gameplay…
Neverwinter’s first beta weekend is almost upon us! From February 8th to the 10th, North American and European players will have their first chance to sink their claws into the game. Players who purchased the Founder’s Pack or Guardian of Neverwinter Founder’s Pack will have guaranteed access to all three…
We’ve seen a lot of clock towers in MMOs, but I have to say that Neverwinter’s Cloak Tower was a first for me. We got an up-close and personal look at this low-level instance at a recent press tour, and the first question on my mind was, why cloaks? The…
Cryptic is well-known for giving players powerful tools to create from the get-go when a new character is rolled in one of its titles, so it stands to reason that Neverwinter would fall in line with this philosophy. Because of this, I wanted to mine some of the details of…
Are you impatiently waiting to get your Dungeons and Dragons on in the upcoming Neverwinter beta events? Then we’re sure you have already planned out what your character will look like. No? Well then, let us help you. Yesterday, we previewed the character creation tools for Cryptic’s upcoming MMO, but…
There’s a lot of devotion running around in Neverwinter, and usually it’s not something to be fond of. Most of the game features a plethora of foes devoted to the idea of ripping your character limb from limb, for example. But devotion isn’t all bad. Take the newest class for…
Neverwinter is all the rage these days among MMO fans as the promise of a Fourth Edition D&D MMO in the Forgotten Realms setting has many old-school tabletop gamers jumping at the opportunity to get into the early testing stages. Thanks to last week’s short press beta and this weekend’s…
The first Neverwinter beta weekend is behind us, and while founders got a chance to hack their way through throngs of kobolds while exploring the Forgotten Realms, everyone else is no doubt still eager for more information. How does the combat feel? Do the powers follow the D&D rules closely?…