This screenshot was just posted up on Twitter. What does it mean? The Free Realms Pirate Treasure Hunting minigame! It means that Pirates are coming to Free Realms! No longer will those pesky Ninja get to rule the roost, for their nemesis is upon them. I think I just found a new favourite career. There had been rumours that the scurvy swabs might be incoming, ever since a sharp-eyed dataminer found piratical content in some of the gamefiles. Now [...] Bitey the Armoured Highland Stalker mount from EQ2′s Sentinel’s Fate This is Bitey, Maltheas’ new Armoured Highland Stalker mount that came with the Sentinel’s Fate collector’s edition that I won. It’s very nice, with a 65% speed boost, and a realistic feline run animation that is so bouncy that if I use it for too long I get motion sickness. For looking cool, though, it’s top of the heap of EQ2 mounts at the moment. EQ2 has a fair [...] Looks like these Free Realms Summer themed quests are only going to be available for a while, so catch ‘em while you can! Quests, Collections & New Content: Sizzlebottom has drawn quite a crowd near the inn at Seaside. To celebrate his booming business, this Robgoblin has decided to kick-off a special holiday called Seaside Summer Splash! Join in the fun and find these celebrants and take on their challenges: * Tarisa Teaspoon is trying to host a cooking competition… [...] Some very cool info from Pex about what is coming up soon. I’m particularly looking forward to the driving jobs. They’re one of the most fun things to do in Free Realms, but are woefully underused due to not giving much in the way of rewards. When I can find other players to race against, it’ll “kick drive shaft”, as Jazz would say. It’s late, so I’ll just bullet-point what was said tonight in the approximate order of when things [...] I don’t see me joining a guild in Free Realms, but it is still the feature that marks yesterdays patch as one to notice. Mysterious incidents are happening across the land. Help out any of these people, and jump in the middle of the adventure: * A Royal Courier is in trouble in Greenwood Forest * Impress Sal Monella at Blackspore, and see where the next adventure takes you * Henry Farnum has trouble with the local hooligans * [...] Fresh news from the depths of the Free Realms twitter feed. The first iteration of guilds will be arriving “very very soon”. Not much information at the moment, beyond a 32 character limit for guild names. It’s a pretty big deal though, as it is a basic MMO feature that Free Realms has been sorely missing. In the picture below, we can see a guild tab has been added to the chat window, and there is a guild panel on [...] Only got highlights info so far. I’ll update when and if full patch notes appear. With patches coming on a weekly basis at the moment, I’ve been very satisfied with the amount of goodness in them. Of course, we are in the early phase of a game wherein the new content is mostly stuff that ideally would have been in at release, but wasn’t quite finished in time. Thus it is hard to judge accurately what the future flow of [...] | | |