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Although his dedicated Grand Prix is long over Spyro is still getting content in Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled with the addition of a brand new skin. You'll be able to get your hands on it from this Thursday as part of the new Winter Festival Grand Prix.


The Winter Guardian Spyro skin will be available in the pit stop so all you'll need to get it is enough coins.

The seventh post launch playable Skylander addition to the mobile game Skylanders Ring of Heroes has been released and it's the Life Sensei Boom Bloom!

Rounding out the Senseis from Imaginators you can earn enough soul stones to summon her through playing the brand new Episode Dungeon that has released alongside her, which is as usual only open for two weeks.


You can read the full patch notes to get the full details but Boom Bloom and the Episode Dungeon are pretty much the entire patch.

For the past couple of months Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled has been running online "Grand Prix" events that you could take part in to unlock new characters and customisations, the upcoming one, starting this Friday, is the turn of the previously announced Spyro and Friends Grand Prix.


The unlockable characters for this event are Spyro, Hunter, and Gnasty Gnorc. For a closer look at the Spyro themed track itself, called Spyro Circuit, and some other unlockables (like a Reignited style Dark Spyro skin) you can head on over to the PlayStation Blog.

The fifth and sixth post launch additions to the lineup of Skylanders in the mobile game Skylanders: Ring of Heroes were released today, they were the Undead element Chop Chop and the Light element Spotlight. Unlike the previous additions they were not accompanied by an episode dungeon, so you'll just have to unlock them both the regular way: through sheer random luck when summoning.


The full patch notes give more details about the many other changes to the game that 1.0.12 has brought with it. Most notable are the changes to how you earn Soul Stones, the game has removed the ability to earn them through Adventures and has instead greatly boosted how many are given to you when summoning. Naturally this has meant a lot of changes to the rewards for activities throughout the game, with most being reduced or switched to make it harder to earn a summon than ever before.

Anyone who has finished powering up a Skylander and found themselves with excess Soul Stones will be interested to hear that there is now a way to convert them into "Soul Stone Shards" which can then be combined into an "Element Ticket" which is then used to summon either 200 Heroic or 100 Legendary Soul Stones for a random Skylander of your chosen element. Of course this has an incredibly low exchange rate considering it requires 12,000 Shards for one ticket.

Today's update for Skylanders: Ring of Heroes has brought with it a brand new mode: Guild War. If your guild has 10 or more members you can take part in daily battles against members of another guild, rewards for competing include guild points and wish stones as well as gems at the end of each season. You can find all the details on how to get battling by reading the official Guild War Guide.


The patch also brings a few changes to several Light and Dark Skylanders and lots of initial cooldown changes which may mean you'll want to change up your start of battle strategy.

Meditating Woodland has returned to a useful EXP amount, the active Skylander EXP is slightly lower than it was originally but spectators in the Woodland now get the same EXP as the active Skylanders.

And the Magic Shop has gained two more purchasable slots, it now also sells Runes and the stock can be refreshed with Gems.

As usual check out the full patch notes for all the details.

Today's patch for Skylanders: Ring of Heroes brought with it two newly playable five star Skylanders: Drobot and Head Rush. As with the previous set of new Skylanders the update also brings a new Episode Dungeon, this one featuring Drobot. It'll only stick around until June 6th so don't dawdle if you want to earn all the rewards!


The update also makes some more changes to the arena system, the incredibly harsh reset introduced in the last update has been cut back to now only dropping you back one rank group rather than two. And earlier in the week a small update cut defense losses in half.

And you now have three entries per day for the Guild Invasion but the rewards have been reduced for each go. You also cannot use the Skylanders that were defeated in your previous runs from that day so you'll now need 9 strong Skylanders if you want to get the maximum rewards from it.

Check out the full patch notes for all the Skylander ability modifications and other assorted changes and bug fixes.

Skylanders: Ring of Heroes has today added a brand new set of boss fights against none other than Kaos himself. Rewards for taking part include soulstones for the three newly released playable villains and cubes that are used to level up in the brand new talent system.


There's also an Easter event going on that gives you some extra bonuses every day and an arena event where you earn points to spend on soulstones. See the full notes for more details on those.

Another large update has hit for Skylanders: Ring of Heroes this time adding the first pair of new Skylanders since launch: Nightfall and Blastermind.


The update also includes a new set of levels they're calling an Episode Dungeon (it will only be available to play until April 11th so don't hang around!), many changes to lots of existing Skylanders and a lot more changes and fixes.

A patch was released today for the Spyro Reignited Trilogy which addressed several major requests for additions or changes. Most notably it has added subtitles to the areas of the games that didn't have them, added a toggle for motion blur, and reportedly fixed several progression blocking bugs.


The full patch notes are as follows:

Quote: Activision Support

SUBTITLES

• Added subtitles in all languages (across all three games) for previously unsupported cinematics, including:
  
• Character headers to identify active speakers
  
• Succinct line splits for readability
  
• Colored text for improved character association in most languages
  
• Subtitle on/off toggle added under the Options menu

MOTION BLUR

• Added an option to toggle motion blur on/off under the Options → Camera menu

BUG FIXES

• Fixed progression and completion bugs impacting Wizard Peak, Hurricos, Fracture Hills, Lost Fleet, Fireworks Factory, and Charmed Ridge
  
• Fixed camera bugs in Sgt. Byrd's Base and Dino Mines
  
• Stability improvement fix in Spider Town
  
• Additional misc. bug-fixes and improvements impacting Glimmer and Ripto's Arena

Guilds in the mobile game Skylanders: Ring of Heroes just got their first bit of actual content, Invasion!


If you're in a guild then once a day you can take on a Dark Doom Raider in an attempt to inflict as much damage as you possibly can, the more damage you do before it defeats you the better your score and the better your reward.

Your individual score will then be combined with your fellow guild members' scores to give your guild a total score. That's used to compete against other guilds on your server with rewards given out at the end of each week based on your guild's ranking.

Today finally sees the global release of Skylanders: Ring of Heroes, check out the long list of countries that that includes as it misses plenty of places but they do continue to promise more regions will be added in the future. Or just hop on over to your local version of the App Store or Google Play Store to see if you can download it and get started playing.


The game has also seen a new patch that updated a fair few things like adding in the ability to have private realtime arena battles with your friends instead of just randomly selected opponents.

As they continue to prepare for a wider release, Skylanders: Ring of Heroes today updated to add a real time friendly arena mode that lets you fight against other randomly selected players. There's no ranking in this mode so no penalty for losing and there is not yet a way to battle a specific opponent but that is apparently on its way in a future update.


They've also kicked off a couple of new events. The "Create Your 5* Dream Team" event asks you to use the Ultra Premium Summon (800 Gems) and they'll then give you a Legendary 5* Skylander (or 50 Soul Stones for it if you already own it) on the 3rd time, the 10th time, and the 20th time you use the summon. The event lasts 14 days but that's an awful lot of gems to spend....


The second event they've started is "Hugo's Portal Master Mission Book" which is a lot more manageable and gives you smaller rewards for completing a variety of basic tasks. Every three you complete will get you a bunch of bonus gems. This one lasts until the beginning of April.


And there were also a whole slew of other changes as detailed in the full patch notes below:

Quote: Update Notice

1. New Content: Friendly Match

• This is a REALTIME Arena mode where you can compete against other Portal Masters!
  
• You can enter Friendly Match from the Duels menu then to Friendly Match.
  
• Quick: Random matches with current participants.
  
• Unlike the Arena, no Gears will be needed to play a match on Friendly Match.
  
• Private mode (against friends) will be added on future updates.

2. New Packages

• 4 brand new packages will be added.

1) Energy Package

• 300 Energy + 20 Red Potions (S)

2) Value Package 1

• 1,250 Gems + 450 Energy

3) Value Package 2

• 1,250 Gems + 45,000 Gold

4) Power-up Package

• 1,250 Gems + 250 Energy + 15 Red Potions (L)

3. Town Background Change

• Winter themed Skylands are now over! We’re going back to original Skylands.

4. Improvements

1) UI Improvements

• Tutorial and Quest menus are revised to be more intuitive.
  
• Rune menu layout and usability has been improved.
  
• Tutorial features are added for more user-friendly experience.
  
• The battle result screen has been improved.
  
• The currency you get when defeated are displayed.
  
• Recommended guild display conditions are added.
  
• The info of Watcher stones in boss stages are now displayed in the battle preparation screen.
  
• The enemy team's power rating is also displayed in the battle prep screen.

2) Battle

• Invincibility buff will now remove all debuffs granted on the target.
  
• Behavior of Hot Dog when in auto-battle will be improved. (Fire Bark skill is now used more frequently when HP is low.)

3) Summoning

• You will be able to summon Skylanders with sufficient Soul Stones right from the result screen.
  
• The tutorial summoning has been re-vamped. (Previously: 1 type of 4? ? Changed to: 1 type of 4? and Soul Stones of 2~4?)

4) Others

• You do not need to build a Spring of Souls anymore. We've done that for you.
  
• Amount of Gold required to use Red/ Blue Potions (L) and (XL) has been reduced!

1) Red Potion (L)
2,500 Gold → 2,000 Gold

2) Red Potion (XL)
12,500 Gold → 7,500 Gold

3) Blue Potion (L)
300 Gold → 250 Gold

4) Blue Potion (XL)
900 Gold → 550 Gold

* Gold cost per potion usage.

• More precise Power Rating calculations.
  


• Displayed power rating may look different than previous rating due to the improvements in calculation method.
  
• Summon Villain’s power will also be included in the power rating calculation.

5. Bug Fixes

• Addressed typos on several skill descriptions translations.
  
• Correct Arena grade icons will be displayed at the top ranks.
  
• Incomplete requests will now show at the top of the guild support menu.
  
• Battle play time will now stop counting at the end of each battles.
  
• Skylanders will not be defeated anymore when Instant Defeat debuff is removed with a debuff removing effect.
  
• Distorted Dimensions' drop Rune info will show properly.
  
• Fixed a bug where buffs did not activate when summoning characters.
  
• No damage will be done with damaging effects while Invincible buff is active.
  
• Additional damage will be done to enemies for Awakened Chain Reaction while shield is active.
  
• Enigma's skill "Mystic Staff" now casts ATK UP to correct ally target.
  
• Skylander Soul Stones required to summon Krypt King has been addressed to the correct amount.
  
• The battle pause pop-up won't be exposed while auto battle is on.
  
• Nightshade will now activate counterattack when using a skill right after using the Clone skill.
  
• Fixed an issue where Shadow King Pen did not return to its original position during battles.
  
• The limits on deletions of friends per day will now reset every day.
  
• Auto battle won't be disabled if you tap the auto battle button while using the auto battle function.
  
• Fixed an issue where Tidepool's Whale Tale skill heals a random target.
  
• Fixed an issue where Cynder’s passive skill ‘Ghost effect’ did not show when activated.