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Middle-Earth Online announces co-development between Amazon Game Studios and Athlon Games
Life is Feudal MMO went Free-2-Play
Caravan Stories delayed (PS4)
Legends of Aria launches August 8th with a major new patch which removes forced PvP from 90% of the game making it entirely possible to play the game without worrying about griefers.
Destiny 2 moves Free-2-Play this fall
July 30th, 2019 | Read More | 522 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Indie MMORPG Legion: The Eternal War Recruits Gaiscioch for Some Guidance A new MMORPG was recently revealed by a studio of our friends from the north in Canada. They've recruited a few of us to help them guide the development of their game and provide testing support as it moves forward. If you've ever wanted to see a game while it's being developed this is a good chance. You will be talking directly with devs in this and you will never have a better chance to have developers hear your suggestions as you will in one of these Pre-Alpha tests. If you're interested in participating in this testing team please let me know and I can get you set up. But I need people who are in it to help make better games, not people looking to try before they buy. This game is very early in its development phase and is mostly testing various game systems at this point, at set dates and times. It's nowhere near its final form.
July 30th, 2019 | Read More | 499 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Prepare for Rune 2 Betas! Sharpen those axes! Last month Rune 2 ran a quick beta for their deathmatch mode. Over the next month, we should get a peek at the new 4-player coop campaign. Since it shifted directions from a PVP survival game to a cooperative adventure with various additional PvP modes (more in line with the classic Rune) fans have been pretty divided. Personally, I welcome the change and look forward to adventuring with a few of you who decide to play.
July 30th, 2019 | Read More | 471 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Ashes of Creation Resurfaces with More Apocalypse Testing The first piece of the actual MMO makes its way to testing this month. The Mayoral Caravan escort missions will be appearing on the apocalypse testing platform soon. These will be mostly PvE (not sure if PvP is included at all) and require you and your friends to move a caravan from one city to another. All the while surviving waves of being attacked by all means of creatures. This is the framework for one of the cornerstone systems of expanding your node's wealth and fortune. In addition, we should see siege testing this fall if they stick to their timeline. Once this makes its way into testing expect to see an event on the calendar.
July 30th, 2019 | Read More | 502 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Astellia Has Serious Potential. Most Overlooked MMORPG of 2019 Yes, it's Eastern, yet there is NO forced PvP. After playing the first beta extensively and taking the booster to Max level. This game seriously reminds me of RIFT. It plays and feels very similar. The coolest aspect is that you can set up your skills to fire in any order by pressing the same key. Much like how you would set up macros in RIFT, Astellia allows you to sequence your skills to make button-mashing easier.
July 30th, 2019 | Read More | 495 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Gaiscioch Finds A Home In Lord of the Rings Online There's no place like home, and now we have one! After months of waiting, we finally unlocked the ability to purchase a kin house. We found a neighborhood that was almost completely empty in Spearwall, Bree Homestead. As soon as we planted our flag the neighborhood filled up with members flocking to the village. There are all the amenities you need at or near our kin house. Task boards, merchants, crafting supplies, tools and most importantly shared vaults.
July 30th, 2019 | Read More | 448 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Farewell Bless Online, Breach & Kings and Heroes Three of our adventures received news that the game would be heading into the halls of forgotten games as the developers announced they were pulling the plug. It's regrettable, however, I don't believe anyone was taken by surprise on this. All 3 games had their bright spots, but all three struggled to keep their player base. Let us remember the fun times we had in these games and be sure to check out our active adventures to see what else you can play with us.
June 30th, 2019 | Read More | 498 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Lord of the Rings Online From a handful of players to an army we have grown. Every Friday we amass for another fun-filled adventure across middle earth and the population seems to remain constant. We typically have 20-22 players each week as we've made our way across Middle-earth. We've had a great reception with the community and players have flocked to our shores. Our roster has crossed the 100 mark and is now on a consistent growth pattern. It is the leading activity generator ranking #2 overall in Gaiscioch with 29 events logged in June. It shows no sign of slowdown and is consistently growing each week.
June 30th, 2019 | Read More | 511 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Astellia Online Launches into CBT CBT1 Officially kicked off last week and ran through this weekend. For those of us who were able to play we got our first look at this interesting eastern mmorpg. After the flop that was Bless, the tragedy that was Riders of Icarus, the heartbreak that was ArcheAge, the full-time job that was Black Desert, the let down that was Aion, we all have one giant burning question.
June 30th, 2019 | Read More | 506 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
New Games Roundup This month a few new games surfaced and updates on games we've been following.
May 28th, 2019 | Read More | 474 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
RUNE II News Surfaces Some big news Dropped this month about Rune. After last year's test the developers knew that people wanted more story and less sandbox survival game. What was needed was a massive undertaking that wasn't going to be cheap. Their coffers were running low and they had two options. Rush the game out the door in a state they knew would not appease the gods, or find an investor that could give their studio another 6 months to fix and adapt the game to what the players were asking for.
May 28th, 2019 | Read More | 447 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Dauntless Launches with Crossplatform Compatibility This past month Dauntless officially launched on PlayStation, Xbox One, and PC with full crossplay support. We have a guild formed in Dauntless and I can send you an invite if you add Foghladha to your Epic Games Friends List. We will be streaming this one on Fridays in June at 3PM PT so that will be a great opportunity to join the clan and boop some noses. Join us in Dauntless by heading over to https://gsch.info/play/daun
May 28th, 2019 | Read More | 454 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Lord of the Rings Online Continues to Grow Through Month 2 Join us in Middle-Earth as we set course for Mordor. Over the past month and a half we have grown to almost 80 players actively playing and have several events on the calendar each week. We have a progression group which is venturing through the lands together every Friday at 6PM PT. In addition we have several events for players just getting started. Now is the perfect time to join up and start enjoying Lord of the Rings Online.
May 28th, 2019 | Read More | 442 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Gaiscioch and Harbingers of Light give the Black Tusks a run for their money in Division 2 In a joint effort Gaiscioch and HoL have launched into Division 2 on both the PlayStation 4 and PC. If you’re playing on the PC version, hit up Pookha for an invite to Harbingers of Light. If you’re playing on PlayStation 4, connect with Foghladha for an invite to Gaiscioch on PS4. Both groups are actively storming strongholds and Dark Zones, and have plenty of loot to acquire and share.
April 30th, 2019 | Read More | 458 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Gaiscioch Invades the Lord of the Rings Online So I asked "Hey guys, who wants to come play Lord of the Rings Online with me?" Everyone apparently. Our Kinship has exploded like Mt. Doom and people are flocking to join the community in our latest adventure. In just a few days we went from 8 to 50 and it doesn't seem to be slowing down soon.
April 30th, 2019 | Read More | 498 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Path of Exile PS4 Adventure Just a few days ago Path of Exile finally made its way to PlayStation 4. We are actively measuring the desire of the community to play and will be evaluating if we will have a regular adventure there or just some livestreaming adventures. There is no guild system in the game yet so we'll be running off friends lists.
March 29th, 2019 | Read More | 448 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Gaisicoch Joins the Ashes of Creation Dungeon Community One of our friends whose very excited about Ashes of Creation launched a Dungeon running community site which has a wonderful Guild Finder application. To help him get it off the ground we've created a snazzy Gaiscioch page where people can learn about us. Please feel free to head over there and say hi on our discussion thread. Feel free to share a story or two. As we near the launch of the Siege Beta we'll be scheduling some weekly activities to get things rolling.
March 29th, 2019 | Read More | 489 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Gaiscioch [GSG] Launches on Division 2 PS4 I am pleased to announce that we have launched a official Gaiscioch Adventure in the Division 2 on PlayStation 4. For those of you that would like to join up and prepare for the upcoming raids, be sure to request to join using the in game clan finder. We are listed as Gaiscioch for easy access and the clan is open to the public. For those who are on PC, Yobam has started up a Harbingers of Light [HOL] guild that is open to all of us. Come save DC with us!
March 29th, 2019 | Read More | 434 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Farewell Orcs Must Die Unchained This is your last month to enjoy Hateweavers pride and joy Orcs Must Die Unchained. Robot entertainment will be pulling the plug on my birthday, April 8th. If your trying to unlock all the achievements, now is your time as everything is free and you can play any class you like. After April 8th it will be impossible to get those achievements. This game was tremendously awesome and I will deeply miss it. Hateweaver has moved on from Robot Entertainment and alas so has our favorite little game.
February 27th, 2019 | Read More | 460 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
The Division 2 Guilds There was some great news this month that the Division 2 would have full fledge guilds at launch. We will be able to form up a guild on Day 1 and get people involved. I am hoping that I can find someone on PC to help manage things while I manage the forces on PS4. Our new adventure system allows us to create multiple battlegroups in games so if anyone is interested head over to: https://www.gaiscioch.com/adventures/the_division_2/
February 27th, 2019 | Read More | 478 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
The Anthem Adventure For those of you playing Anthem be sure to join the Anthem Adventure. We currently have a warparty setup for PS4 and we'd like to see someone open one for PC. The day one patch improved many of the games shortcomings from the beta weekend and they are committed to a long term 9 month roadmap.
February 27th, 2019 | Read More | 431 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Join us at the Summit for a Look at new Adventures At this months Summit I'll be showing some trailers from some of our newest adventures. We've got some pretty cool games announced over the last quarter and some surprises in store. It seems the industry is trying to find that next big thing and many studios are looking to "make a lasting experience, not a cash grab". The past few years have been laced with quick buy-2-play early access, then the studio just moves on to the next thing. These quick cash grabs have decimated the number of people who are even willing to support a title before launch and more so have driven the financial gains away from the studios who actually need it and have long term plans.
January 28th, 2019 | Read More | 481 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Sail the Atlas… a Bit Later Many of you likely saw the very dramatic and action packed trailer for Atlas during the Video Games Award presentation. Everything in that trailer looked awesome. However, their tight deadline for early access resulted in a 9 day delay, and like most games the first week was a bit of a nightmare. Let this be a lesson for all developers. Never Launch an Early Access game the week before Christmas. All you'll get is a bah humbug.
December 30th, 2018 | Read More | 511 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Gaiscioch Adventures Undergo Changes In 2016 we launched the idea of Social Adventures. They were a way that we could play games outside our chapters and still continue our progression within the community. Over the years they have grown in popularity and today they provide our community with some light hearted, small scale fun.
December 30th, 2018 | Read More | 485 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
The Rundown There's been a bit of news coming around the Adventure scene. Let's give it a rundown so you can stay in touch with the developments.
November 28th, 2018 | Read More | 491 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Fallout 76 What started as a livestream by Doc Restless has become a chain reaction into a bunch of people playing Bethesda's newest addition to the Fallout Universe. If you are playing Fallout 76 on PC be sure to connect with our Adventure at: https://gsch.info/sa/f76
November 28th, 2018 | Read More | 492 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Rune Delayed In a move I wish more developers would take, Human Head Studios decided to delay the launch of early access until "Winter" to allow them more time to polish the game and improve game systems after a grueling series of technical tests. They don't want to release an unfinished product and try to win back people over time. They want to astonish out the gate and improve upon a solid start. That said we will happily wait for the game to make it's way to Steam before forming up our Rune Social Adventure. If your interested in learning more about Rune head to https://gsch.info/play/rune
September 26th, 2018 | Read More | 482 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
New Middle-Earth MMO Appears on Horizon The first major announcement was from the parent company of the developers of Warframe and Gears of War with their new MMORPG set in the time before the Lord of the Rings. The developer has yet to be announced for the project but they are seeking to bring the period of time leading up to the fellowship of the ring. This announcement trended very well among our community with a whopping 78% of the people who took our poll stating they were interested in it. https://gsch.info/play/memmo
September 26th, 2018 | Read More | 477 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
New World Enters Alpha Testing I am unsure how many people are interested in Amazon.com's first MMORPG titled New World, however I can say they have been sending out invites to their newest alpha test. This title takes place in the early days of the west as pioneers tried to settle the land. You can join up with friends, take control of areas, and build up fortifications. Feel free to take a look and sign up for testing at https://gsch.info/play/newworld
September 26th, 2018 | Read More | 510 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Gloria Victis Moves Forward In the next few months the World of Gloria Victis is gonna change. Siege weapons are making their appearance soon. We have weekly raids every Sunday at 11AM PT and welcome all levels to join us. In the past couple weeks we've captured castles and even begun holding our own against some of the toughest foes in the realm.
August 30th, 2018 | Read More | 527 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
A New Kind of Siege Warfare in Rend Launching into early access on July 31st, Rend is a new siege warfare game with a spin. It features both pvp and pve sieges. In the vein of Fortnite you have a base to defend and you must build up fortifications to protect it from waves of relentless foes. In addition, it has a 3 faction siege warfare mechanic built into the game. Choose from the armies of the militaristic Order, enlightened Revenant, and mysterious Conclave as they wage war in an ongoing struggle to survive. Choose your allegiance wisely: your brothers and sisters will prove pivotal in your journey towards ascension.
July 23rd, 2018 | Read More | 452 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
To Arms! Join us in Gloria Victis Alas, one of the games I have worked with is finally in a place where I want to share it with others. Nearly 5 years ago Black Eye Games put out a self run crowdfunding campaign for a new four faction themed after real world nations with no magic and straight true to medieval combat. I quickly became embedded with the team and flushed out a huge 21 page document outlining the perfect guild system. Years have passed, the map has grown, new factions have been added (now at 3) and the gameplay has drastically improved.
July 23rd, 2018 | Read More | 455 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Camelot Unchained Beta Kickoff Beta is rapidly approaching and we will certainly have a group of us playing CU. Be sure to sign up for our Social Adventure at: https://www.gaiscioch.com/social/camelotunchained/ and keep that page handy as we will organize the guild formation and servers from that section. We currently have 45 players signed up to play and will be looking at getting the ball rolling as fast as possible. CU will likely join our Siege War Livestream Lineup and I can forcast a weekly event being reserved for it. We will be the Tuatha faction for obvious reasons. Learn more about Beta 1 at: http://camelotunchained.com/v3/beta-1/
June 25th, 2018 | Read More | 454 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Bless Online Off to a Rough But Improving Start What started as a very rough takeoff has begun to normalize and stabilize. The instant rush of people who were expecting the eastern game localized for the west caused disconnection issues as well as other server integrity problems that NEOWIZ wasn't quite expecting. The general public largely overlooked the fact that the game was part of Steam's Early Access program which is essentially public beta testing and a good way to help up and coming developers fund the development of their titles. It was not a full game release and that upset quite a few people.
June 25th, 2018 | Read More | 436 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Gaiscioch Forming up in Bless Online On May 30th, Bless Online enters early access and several Gaiscioch members are giving it a try. We will be playing on the Hieron faction of the North American shard. Guilds in Bless Online begin at 10 slots and grow up to 120 slots at max level. Until we have 50 slots open we will restrict membership to 1 character each person. Once we have more than 50 slots open we will allow a second character to join the fold.
May 30th, 2018 | Read More | 468 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Bless Online For those of you looking to play on the Hieron side of Bless Online I plan to create a guild named Arach Dubh as a Social Adventure upon release. Being GSCH is forbidden in most Korean games as it is apparently profinity of some sort we will be running by a unique name which means Black Dragons. I plan to stream a short event every week Sunday mornings from 11-1PM PT upon release and welcome anyone who would like to join to feel free to come out and have some fun. This is going to be low key and recreational and I do not intend to make it a big thing. If you’re looking for a more full time guild but still want to hang out with us on sundays feel free to type +rank Bless in discord to unlock and join the channel.
April 25th, 2018 | Read More | 485 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Tera PS4 Launched! In a surprising turn of events Bluehole announced that they would be releasing Tera for PlayStation 4 on April 3rd. This announcement followed 3 very rocky beta tests that were overwhelmingly filled with bugs and server issues. This quick of a launch could be catastrophic if they have not sorted out their issues. Regardless, the Gaiscioch have never shied away from a challenge! We will be working our way to opening a GSCH in Tera on the Dracoloth server. It launched for Headstart on the 27th. Discuss the launch at: http://gsch.info/p/241226
March 28th, 2018 | Read More | 429 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Bless Online Coming in May A few of us have been patiently waiting for Bless Online to release in the US. It was originally slated to launch in 2017 however after a dicy launch in the east the team decided to take its combat system back to the drawing board to make it more engaging. After a massive overhaul of several systems it's ready for Early Access on steam. Learn more at http://store.steampowered.com/app/681660/Bless_Online/.
March 28th, 2018 | Read More | 471 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Tera PS4 Open Beta March 9th On Friday March 9th Tera kicks off Open Beta on the PS4 and Radiologikal and Foghladha will be streaming as part of our Playstation Adventures livestream. If you enjoyed Tera on PC and want to check it out on Playstation 4, connect with Foghladha and we'll get you a guild invite as soon as guilds are available.
February 26th, 2018 | Read More | 442 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Ironsight Enters Open Beta Well, I tried to create a GSCH in Ironsight but apparently GSCH means something in Korea that is considered derogatory. It's a prohibited word in Ironsight. So we are known as Laoch in Ironsight. I currently have it set to open join. They are starting to unveil their PVE modes to go with their PVP modes. This game seriously plays like Ghost in the Shell did and is quite a bit of fun. If you’re into FPS, I wouldn't mind having a wing person to stream it with. Here's a highlight video of the way I like to play.
February 26th, 2018 | Read More | 492 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Camelot Unchained Beta Inc! Great news for us Camelot Unchained fans. Beta 1 has been scheduled for July 2018 and we will be forming up on the Tuatha side. For those of you playing other factions I bid you the best of luck and my Leprechaun will try not to kill you too much. For Camelot Unchained I will be focusing primarily on resurrecting the legend of Renny Conchobhair with vlogs, kill logs, and a bit of storytelling. I do plan to throw an event on the calendar or at least a rotating event for the community to join in the fun.
February 26th, 2018 | Read More | 459 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Social Adventure News - February 2018 MU Legend Launches Territory Control
We are actively looking for PvP Warriors who can lead our family to victory in MU Legend on Sundays between 2 and 4PM PT. MU Legend launched its territory wars system this past month and it's 100% scheduled sieges. We are trying to get a 5 man team that can secure a territory for us through the weekly tournament on Sundays. Owning Territory gives us access to a lot of features as a community that we normally wouldn't have including a place to spend all that contribution we've earned. Unfortunately our core group of players can't play Sundays. So if you're playing MU Legend and want to lead our family to victory please contact Foghladha. We have a few players who will likely be on at that time we just need a leader to get them organized.
January 22nd, 2018 | Read More | 468 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Get Involved in Social Adventures Get Involved in Social Adventures
Some of you may wonder, what is this Social Adventure thing and what does it have to do with Gaiscioch? Social Adventures are recreational gatherings of Gaiscioch members to play other games that do not fit our chapter requirements. These can range from FPS games to coop RPGS.
December 28th, 2017 | Read More | 454 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
New Adventures Join The Lineup New Adventures Join The Lineup
This month we added a few more official adventures to the lineup. They are all currently in their trial phase and if there is enough interest they will continue long term. If not they'll go dormant and rest until someone wakes them up. Here are the newest games in our lineup:
November 29th, 2017 | Read More | 490 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
The Horizon Looks Great for Social Adventures Social Adventures are recreational groups of Gaiscioch players who venture into other games for some fun times away from the primary chapters. They can earn social points for participating in activities together.
September 28th, 2017 | Read More | 449 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
July 25th, 2017 | Read More | 471 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Neverwinter PS4 Growing For those of you who are braving Neverwinter on PS4 be sure to connect with Foghladha, Radiologikal, Ckemical or Sekkerhund for an invite into the Neverwinter PS4 GSCH guild. We've been working our way toward upgrading our guild hall and now have 4 of us at level 70. One more and we have a full raid group for epic dungeons. Feel free to join up on the social adventures page at: http://gsch.info/sa/nw
June 29th, 2017 | Read More | 420 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Ashes of Creation Progress Report This past month, Ashes of Creation launched its Kickstarter campaign. They not only met their goal within 12 hours, they broke 1 million within 24. By halfway through their campaign they broke 2 million raised placing them in front of Star Citizen, Camelot Unchained, Chronicles of Elyria, and Crowfall on the top MMO Kickstarter list. There campaign still has a few more days and they're obviously not done yet.
May 30th, 2017 | Read More | 484 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Playstation MMO Update Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
What could be more fun than roaming across the fictional bolivian countryside with a few of your crazy gun toting Gaiscioch? Don and Foghlahda are hosting a casting call to join them on their weekly cooperative Wildlands stream on Mondays at 3PM PT/6PM ET. In addition, we have opened up a Task Force. You're welcome to join with us to compare achievements and keep tabs on the crew. Join us at: http://gsch.info/play/ps4wildlands
April 29th, 2017 | Read More | 491 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
