If you’re an Elite: Dangerous player, listen up. There’s a little contest going on in-game right now that could give you the chance to win one of five shiny new Nvidia GTX Titan Black graphics card. All you have to do is take part in the scavenger hunt that’s going on across the many, many systems in-game right now.

As the in-game bulletin from GalNet says:

“The NVIDIA labs, in association with Reynhardt IntelliSys, are pleased to announce that prototypes of the GeForce GTX Titan Black graphics card are now available for purchase from one exclusive outlet’. A masterpiece of engineering, the NVIDIA Geforce GTX Titan Black represents the cutting edge of display technology. It balances a sleek design with uncompromising performance and unparalleled processing power, making the Titan Black one of the most desirable display modules in the entire galaxy.

 

To celebrate the pre-release of the new module, NVIDIA are offering 5 lucky pilots the opportunity to win a commercial grade GTX Titan Black. Winning the competition couldn’t be simpler. The first 5 pilots to sell a canister of NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Black Prototypes back to NVIDIA HQ aboard Godel Ring will be rewarded with a commercial model as soon as they become available. The only problem is NVIDIA isn’t saying where the prototypes are being sold. Happy hunting Commanders.

 

Entrants must have transported the prototypes under the Pilots Federation rules of ‘open play’ to be eligible to win.”

All you need to do is locate those prototypes, buy one and transport and sell it at the Godel Ring starport in the Ededleen System. Then e-mail community@frontier.co.uk with your Commander name and the subject title “I sold an Nvidia Titan Black” to make your attempt to claim the prize. The contest is being judged by how quickly you sell the prototype, not how quickly you send the e-mail.

Good luck everyone, it’s going to be quite difficult trying to find the one starport!

The end of season 2 of Diablo III is nigh say Blizzard, the company having set an end date for it as well as announcing the start date for the next season. Season 2 will be ending on April 5th and Season 3 beginning on April 10th. The downtime might also bring with it the latest patch update, and a wave of new content too.

Patch 2.2 has been on the PTR servers being tested for a little bit and it’s rebalanced classes as well as new legendaries. It seems ready to go, so go look up what it’ll bring to prepare yourself as its implementation could come during the 5 days between seasons.

The exact times for the end of Season 2 are as follows:

• North America: Sunday, April 5 @ 9:00 p.m. PDT
• Europe: Sunday, April 5 @ 9:00 p.m. CEST
• Asia: Sunday, April 5 @ 9:00 p.m. KST

Season 3 will be starting shortly after at the following dates and times for each region:

• North America: Friday, April 10 @ 6:00 p.m. PDT
• Europe: Friday, April 10 @ 6:00 p.m. CEST
• Asia: Friday, April 10 @ 6:00 p.m. KST

All those of you waiting to log back into The Elder Scrolls Online, you can go ahead and do it now. Zenimax have made the Tamriel Unlimited update for the game live already, a day sooner than expected. This means that once you’ve bought the game, it’s yours to play as much as you want – the subscription is now gone. At least if you have boxed copy, Steam players had to wait a bit longer.

Some bits of the update aren’t live yet though, the purchasing of the in-game currency, Crowns, doesn’t seem to be live and not all of the allotments have been distributed yet to players although Zenimax say everyone should have theirs by Friday. There’s also a bug with Champion points not showing up which can be fixed with a simple relog.

The update is live even if you let your account lapse, so if you feel like getting back into it now’s your chance.

Ok, EGX Rezzed 2015 kicked off today and teh press were invited to check out ArenaNet’s 40 minute demo of the new Heart of Thorns expansion that’s coming soon

The first thing that jumped out at me was how the game honestly feels like nothing has changed… at all…

So rather than roll a new character and try the new Revenant class, I decided to basically make my main lvl 80 necromancer that has served me well since day one of the Guild Wars 2 release. And again, nothing new. apart from having to bind the controls slightly based on how I’ve played the game from release, the game felt exactly as it has the whole time.

The demo kicked off with a quite nice intro sequence in typical Guild Wars 2 style, but you very quickly realise that this is mid campaign, as you have no idea WHY they are doing what they are doing and what for, and this lack of info drops you squarely into what appears to be a Destiny’s Edge/Pact team up against a new jungle dragon, which quickly goes HORRIBLY wrong, leaving you and a few survivors to make your way through the jungle to save other survivors and find out what happened to Destiny’s Edge and the rest of the very quickly destroyed fleet.

What DOES happen very quickly is the learning of your first Mastery Point, this leading to learning how to glide for short distances. I must admit, I used this only once, to jump between a platform for a boss event that you stumble on pretty much straight away. This was interesting, albeit typical GW2 style, everyone is in it for themselves, 99% of people won’t help you if you are downed and the rest only for the extra experience for helping you back up, not for team work at all

This was a fun boss fight though, much more movement from the boss, a Wyvern instead of a dragon this time, on a roundish platform, although his rotation of moves got memorised very quickly and his fire breath attack is reasonably easy to evade. It was still enjoyable though, but I can see it getting boring quickly if too many people did it regularly, but then this is the problem with all the GW2 world boss fights

Now, some reading this will ask why I didn’t try the new Revenant class and there are two reasons… 1, I plan to make one and live stream it on release. and 2, I had to wait in the que to play this for nearly two hours. I watched every other person play one, apart from the odd veterans like me that wanted to see if our main class had changed.
Now the Revenant looks interesting, and I’m sure I will enjoy it when I play it, but really? If I wasn’t going to get it to stream, I’d wait a while after release and get it at discount.

I must say on a personal note though, the day was made all the more fun by the awesome Gaile Gray, the Guild Wars 1 community manager that always had time for us idiots in GW1, even the super opinionated ones like me and the PVP community, and although I very much doubt this gets read by anyone at ANet, I highly recommend the devs listen to the Lady Gray and bring back Lions Arch and International Districts, the game needs more conga lines and Froggy

The release date for Final Fantasy XIV’s first expansion, Heavensward, has been given a release date by Square Enix at PAX East. The expansion will release for everyone on Tuesday June 23rd, but those who pre-order will gain access from the 19th through a special early access weekend.

Rumours had hinted that gamers would expect to see the expansion arriving in the spring, but director Naoki Yoshida told attendees of the panel at PAX East that more time was needed to further polish the elements. The expansion will bring a lot of new content to the world of Eorzea, and that introduced a whole heap of new bugs and incompatibilities to the game which couldn’t be fully fixed in time for a sprint release date.

Mac gamers will also have their long wait ended as Mac support will launch around the same time as Heavensward does.