WildStar

The latest State of the Game letter has been published on the WildStar site. It's a somewhat short letter, but it has some interesting tidbits of information about what players can expect to find coming to the game in the future. Of particular note is the forthcoming addition of the Prime difficulty setting for raids.

The WildStar team is ready to unleash another double XP weekend starting April 14th and ending on April 17th. During the "Double XP X-Plosion" event, all experience boosts through Signature membership will stack with the bonus given through the weekend.

As pointed out by the official site and MOP, the Power of the Primal Matrix update is now live in WildStar and Nexus! The main focus of this update is on the end-game progression, adding a never-ending set of progression mechanics to keep your character growing beyond 50 - you even get a free level 50 to try it out.

The WildStar team is excited about Wednesday's launch of Primal Matrix, its brand new end-game progression system. Being twitterpated shows too with today's announcement that will see all players who log in at launch receiving a free Level 50 character.

WildStar players will be pleased to hear that the end-game progression system, Primal Matrix, will be making its debut on March 8th. To help players earn Essences (used to unlock the Matrix upgrade nodes), a pair of new instances, Evil from the Ether and Coldblood Citadel, will also be included in the update. Several dungeons and Expeditions will also become compatible with the Prime Difficulty, a new challenge to earn powerful rewards.

Carbine Studios is expanding on the benefits enjoyed by WildStar signature members with new rewards.

The WildStar site has been updated with the news about the Primal Matrix System, the next significant update to the game coming in February 2017. The Primal Matrix is a way for end-game characters to progress beyond level 50 by collecting Primal Essence that can be spent to unlock new class abilities and more.

WildStar players will be able to take part in the Battle Chase event that is set to start on Thursday, January 6th and that will run through January 16th. During the event, players collect Battle Bits by completing Battlegrounds and can also score Battle Chase Crates with some nifty in-game rewards including the Exile or Dominion hoverboards.

From the "news about news" files, Carbine has announced via Twitter that the next significant WildStar update will be revealed on Tuesday, January 4, 2017. The announcement came alongside a tiny video that says, "The fate of Nexus rests in your hands..."

From December 18th through January 1st, WildStar players will have the opportunity to check out this year's version of Protostar's Gala Winterfest Extravaganza. By helping out Protostar, players earn a currency that can be used to purchase season-specific goods including some brand new goodies for 2016.

Chad "Pappy" Moore has taken to the official WildStar site to give players a bit of a retrospective look at 2016 and all that happened in the preceding months. In addition, he wraps it up with the promise that the team has much more in store when 2017 rolls around.

The WildStar forum has been updated with the latest game notes that brings the fantastic news that dye unlocks are now account wide. In addition, players can now change the color of housing items thanks to a new "action" available in the UI.

WildStar players will be able to start forming cross-faction groups when the next update goes live on November 9th. In addition, the second half of Redmoon Terror will debut and a ton of new social features to enhance the overall game play experience of WildStar players will be coming along too.

Carbine Studios has announced that the next major WildStar update will be launching on November 16th. Called Redmoon Mutiny, the update brings the second phase of the Redmoon Terror to players as well as cross-faction grouping.

Carbine has released another brand new "first look" video for WildStar that shows off factions, provides a peek at combat, housing, questing and world story, dungeons, raids, PvP and adventures. All this comes packed with Carbine's signature humor so be sure to check it out!