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Old School RuneScape applies another round of Leagues...

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2024/12/05

It’s probably going to come as little surprise to Old School RuneScape players that Jagex is absolutely laser-focused on Leagues V. Following a dev blog outlining hotfixes and planned adjustments, the game’s weekly patch continues the trend with more tuning and tweaking of the game mode server. This week brings a bug fix for a […]

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Albion Online continues patching up Horizons with...

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2024/12/05

The application of patches to the Horizons update continues for Albion Online, and this time around it’s everyone’s favorite kind of patch: the item balance patch. Ahh, yes, that endless dragon’s tail chase of perfect balance in a PvP game. Smells like wormwood and bacon. This latest round of gear adjustments is pretty much spread […]

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Crimson Desert’s latest promo trailer showcases the...

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2024/12/05

It’s been a long time since Crimson Desert was announced, its entire gameplay style has changed multiple times, and at this point it is up to each individual person whether or not the current game resembles one that you still want to play… but it is getting closer to being an actual playable game, and […]

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Lineage II releases new individual updates and a...

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2024/12/05

Yep, there’s another news update for Lineage II that effectively condenses four stories into one, as Live, Aden, and Classic have all received their own specific content updates alongside a shared wintertime event. We’ll begin with Live’s Enchantment Evolution update, which has applied several class ability tweaks like improved critical strike and overhauled Iss Enchanter […]

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Ahead of tonight’s launch, Marvel Rivals outlines its...

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2024/12/05

So you know that Marvel Rivals is going to be free-to-play, and you know that it’s going to offer all its maps, content, and heroes for free. But you also know from basic logic that it’s still going to want to take your money in some fashion via cosmetics, and the game has detailed exactly […]

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Enter to win a Neverwinter Swashbuckler Companion...

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2024/12/05

In celebration of last month’s multiplatform launch of Neverwinter’s latest module – As Above, So Below – Return to Pirates’ Skyhold – Arc Games has kindly granted us gift codes to raffle to our readers! We’ve got 20 keys for the account-bound Swashbuckler Companion Pack, which includes – you guessed it – the Swashbuckler companion […]

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Dauntless showcases some of the new weapon abilities...

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2024/12/05

Today is the day when Dauntless finally gets its long-awaited Awakening update, which brings a whole bunch of new things to the co-op hunting RPG’s table. Ahead of the new release, developer Phoenix Labs has put out one last dev blog about the revamp’s features, this time with a focus on some of the new […]

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Marvel Heroes emulator project gets loot updates and...

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2024/12/05

The long and hard work of getting Marvel Heroes back into a functional state for emulator runners pushes forth, as the 0.4.0 version of the game’s files have come out with the return of some vital gameplay features – as in, features that literally make the game worth playing in the longer term. Specifically, the […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Nostalgia isn’t the problem with...

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2024/12/05

So it hasn’t been long since World of Warcraft launched a new set of WoW Classic servers, except this time it’s WoW Classic Classic, which is just… really dumb. Not the name of “Classic Classic,” which is itself dumb, but just the whole concept is kinda dumb because they’re actually less classic than the classic […]

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Grab a King of Meat alpha test key courtesy of Amazon...

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2024/12/05

Back in August, Amazon and Glowmade took the wraps off a new co-op dungeon-runner called King of Meat, and I think you can tell just from the name that it’s meant to be goofy fun as players fight their way through dungeons – and even create their own to stymie fellow players. “Step into the role […]

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MMO Hype Train: My growing obsession with Stars Reach

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2024/12/05

As much as I respect Raph Koster for all of his passion and pioneering of MMORPGs, I’ve rarely crossed paths with his games, notably Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. We’ve kind of traveled down different roads, he of gaming and I of journalism, connected only by our mutual love of tracking MMO history. Yet I sense […]

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Lost Skies preps its Worlds Adrift-esque island...

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2024/12/05

Back in the spring of 2023, the studio behind the defunct MMO Worlds Adrift Bossa Games popped back on the scene with a new game that sorta looks like Worlds Adrift but better. It’s called Lost Skies, and it’s been in fairly quiet (and fairly granular) development ever since as the devs discuss everything from […]

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Throne and Liberty’s Call of the Spear is live with...

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2024/12/05

As promised, Throne and Liberty is patching up morning with the Call of the Spear update. If you’ve been following New World or Lost Ark for a while, you know how their updates run like clockwork, and that appears to be how Amazon is going to run T&L too. The big content drop in this […]

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NetEase formally unveils its cute new solo/co-op game...

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2024/12/05

NetEase and studio Naked Rain have a big announcement this morning: The cute anime traversal-oriented game it’s been teasing under the codename Project Mugen finally has an official name and a trailer go with it. It’s now called ANANTA. “Nova City has plunged into Chaos, from spooky paranormal phenomena to toilets racing through traffic in […]

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Now XLGAMES is sunsetting the Korean version of...

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2024/12/05

Well, Korean players could probably see the writing on the wall when Kakao/XLGAMES shuttered ArcheAge here in the west earlier this year, but now it’s officially happening in ArcheAge’s home country too. Kakao announced last night that after 12 years of operation, ArcheAge’s core servers will shut down in Korea, specifically on March 6th, 2025. […]

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The Daily Grind: What retired content should a...

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2024/12/05

Over time, every single long-running MMORPG has certain pieces of content that are no longer available. Lots of games do their best to keep things available and even relevant for a long time, but eventually that fades away. Maybe some areas got repurposed or changed. Maybe something just generally works differently. Maybe there were even […]

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The Stream Team: I put on my robe and wizard hat in...

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2024/12/05

Seriously! Look! There are robes and wizard hats! Massively OP’s Larry has donned his hat. Now if he can just convince MJ and the others who are playing Enshrouded with him to don theirs, too, then that would truly be something. In the meantime, they’ve decided to continue to explore all the content they are […]

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Roblox is introducing a new Roblox-centered chat...

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2024/12/05

Sure, Roblox has found a way to turn its player population into an endless font of content that the owners can monetize and give the players pennies on the dollar, but at some point people might log off from Roblox. Wild, right? This is why the game has launched a new specialized chat client called […]

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Warframe’s Tennobaum gifting event this year benefits...

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2024/12/04

As it has for the last many years, Warframe studio Digital Extremes has kicked off its Tennobaum event, prompting gift-giving for the benefit of players as well as a charity. This year’s beneficiary is Toys for Tots Canada. Here’s how it works: Players are encouraged to spend money on the in-game market and gift their […]

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World of Warcraft shares the behind-the-scenes of its...

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2024/12/04

World of Warcraft has made a tradition for years of selling charity pets which offer all of the profits to charity for a limited time, and the newest pack, the Reven Pack, is up for sale now. It offers players a chance to buy both an adorable fox pet and a backpack that shows the […]

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