League of Legends Twisted Treeline map details

Riot Games has released details on the newest map for the upcoming PC game League of Legends The new map, Twisted Treeline, is one of the League’s newest arenas best suited for 3 vs 3 action and will officially be added to the closed beta on October 20. A full profile for Twisted Treeline can be found below.

Twisted Treeline Description

The Field of Justice known as the Twisted Treeline is one of the League’s newest arenas, and as such, still quite the mystery to most of the League’s competitors. The arena itself is located north of the Ironspike Mountains in a large expanse of forest nestled between the city-state of Zaun and one of the major passes that connect Noxus with the northern reaches of Valoran. It is one of the few remaining forests near Zaun that has not been exploited for natural resources; a mere cursory glance at the geography of the arena quickly explains why. The misuse of magic – mainly from Zaun but also from the numerous battles fought here during the various Rune Wars – has warped the verdant environs of the Twisted Treeline into terrain with a bizarre, alien-like visage. The two nexuses that power the Twisted Treeline do more to try and maintain the physical stability of the region more than any other function they would normally perform.

Twisted Treeline map features faster paced 3v3 action due to its two lanes/ two forests layout. One lane is curvy, and the other is straight. The map also features several neutral monster camps, and plenty of opportunities for team fights due to the two large forests located on the map. The top forest is accessible only from the top lane, has high reward monsters, and is structured to increase random forest encounters. The lower forest narrows in the middle, allowing for increased ganking opportunities. Other features of Twisted Treeline include new Sigil monsters, in addition to a new monster whose buff reveals the bottom forest for a short period of time.

New map and vehicles deployed to War Rock

GamersFirst has launched a new map and several new vehicles to its free-to-play online action game, War Rock. Part of a brand new update, War Rock now features the brand new Skill Pointer map and 3 new vehicles. Along with this new update there will be a 25 percent experience boost for the weekend. Skill Pointer is a new Conquest Mode map that focuses heavily on vehicle combat. Players on Skill Pointer will have ten seconds of invulnerability to load into a vehicle before fighting to control the Neutral base and protect home base.

Skill pointer features three tanks - the M109, the new Japan 90 (J90) and M1A2. The J90 is a Type 90 uses modular ceramic and steel composite armor, while the J90 offers a mounted 120 mm smoothbore cannon, and the M1A2 comes equipped with a 7.62 mm machine gun and a 120 mm M256 smoothbore cannon. Both the J90 and the M1A12 tanks will only be available on the Skill Pointer map.

More details on the new map and tanks can be found at warrock.net.

Bethesda Portal Map: Ren_Test3

Bethesda Softworks designer Daryl Brigner has created another map for the PC version of Portal called Ren_Test3. The first map, Ren_Test2 was very popular according to Bethesda; the original post about the map on Bethesda’’s blog has been the most popular post to date; and the map was featured on many blogs and inside the pages of PC Zone.

The new map is available here, along with a download featuring both maps in one package. There’’s also Step, Portal and Time challenges available for those that crave some extra fun. Details on how to install this new map can be found on Bethesda’’s Blog.