KOG Games has an interesting way of accessing the Velder Academy Concert dungeon during a new event. From now through October 10th, every 10 minutes spent in game will yield two Velder Academy Concert Tickets that grant access to the "dungeon". Once in, players find that Phoru is wreaking havoc on stage and it's up to them to "stop his madness and reap the rewards" by dodging sound wave and taking on the note monsters.

For the seventh year in a row, the Harnkegger Games will be held in Lord of the Rings Online. The Games are an LOTRO version of the real world Olympics and feature fifteen events that are sure to appeal to competitors and viewers alike. Event winners will be treated to prizes including LOTRO Points and in-game gold. The event will run from Monday, September 24th through Sunday, September 30th on the Laurelin server.

This week's MMOFTW is all about the upcoming bit Battle for Azeroth content update, Neverwinter's crafting overhaul, Lineage II's classic servers, Wargaming's new MMO and more. Watch and learn!

The latest Overwatch Developer Update for September has been published, this time with Jeff Kaplan speaking about the long-awaited Torbjorn overhaul. Other heroes will see some adjustments as well as hinting about the upcoming Halloween event. Most notably with the latter, Kaplan says that there won't be big changes in the event, but that the team is working to improve the existing features.

It appears that a massive round of layoffs has hit Telltale Games, developers of such well-regarded titles as Batman: The Enemy Within, the Minecraft: Story Mode games, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Walking Dead and others. While no official statement has been released, sources speaking to VentureBeat have confirmed the layoffs. Another source said that the company is down to only 25 remaining employees. Some believe this is a precursor to a complete shutdown of the respected studio.

World of Warcraft's PTR has been updated to bring the v8.1 patch to players looking to help test (or just to see what's new) the patch that was discussed earlier this week by Blizzard's Ion Hazzikostas. Dataminters are already hard at work and have ferreted out the Kultiran Human Balance Druid form. In other races, Balance Druids are formed like a Moonkin. Kultiran Humans...aren't as can be seen in the hero image.

When it comes to custom keyboards, Varmilo is one of the top names in the business. They refer to themselves as "keyboard artists," and for good reason as we'll find out today. On the review bench is the VA87RGB, a high-end mechanical keyboard packing Cherry key switches, PBT caps, RGB lighting, and dye-sub legends. They call it the Double Rainbow - all the way.