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Elephants were the real hero of The Quinfall’s third...

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2024/10/03

What happened in the third beta for The Quinfall? A lot of people on war elephants and a lot of people fighting in fields, it seems. That’s what the game’s trailer covering everything that happened during the third closed beta has to show us, and to be quite honest we have no reason to doubt […]

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Temtem Swarm shares trivia from its recent beta test,...

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2024/10/03

Were you among those who were kicking the tires of the co-op bullet hell Temtem: Swarm, or did you happen to miss out on that run? Whether you’re looking to hop back in or try the game for the first time, the unreleased title will be making its comeback during the Steam Next Fest from […]

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The First Descendant previews new character, boss...

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2024/10/03

The first season for The First Descendant is continuing to roll on through the month of October with the second update for the season on October 10th, which offers up another character, some more fights, and a new mission type to look forward to. The patch is headlined by the arrival of Ultimate (aka slightly […]

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Nightingale fixes issues include with pots, boss AI,...

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2024/10/03

So apparently pots and garden plots in Nightingale were accidentally being possessed by a thousand angry vengeful plant spirits. That’s the official explanation in the patch notes for why invincible trees were spawning near the items in questions, and it’s not like the developers would fib in the patch notes. So you can instead take […]

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Dungeons and Dragons Online releases Myth Drannor...

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2024/10/03

What’s spookier for you this year: The dead rising from the grave or a raid that’s going to replenish those graves with the corpses of failed players? Dungeons and Dragons Online players get both this week with the Wednesday release of Update 69.3, starting with a challenging group instance in the most recent expansion. “Stop […]

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Final Fantasy XIV gets Moo Deng fever as prices for a...

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2024/10/03

The internet is full of flash-in-the-pan moments when a completely innocuous thing suddenly becomes a viral sensation. So it is with a baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng, whose raucous attitude and pudgy shape has created a whole wave of references including merch, ads for Moo Deng-inspired blushes, and (regrettably) an Etherium-based cryoptocurrency. This tiny […]

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Fight or Kite: Is Wild Card Football ready to be the...

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2024/10/03

Ah, the beauty and the wonder of a new season. School is back in session. New episodes are on TV – well, streaming TV. It’s fantastic really. Summer is gradually bleeding away to fall and bringing with it the best part of the year. Of course, many people are excited about the weather cooling and […]

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New World’s Aeternum launch trailer shows the MMORPG...

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2024/10/03

We may be two weeks out from launch, but MMORPG New World has dropped its Aeternum launch trailer this afternoon anyhow. And the framing is actually pretty cool, as it shows a character going backward through time, starting with her confrontation with archenemy Isabella and going all the way back to being thrown off the […]

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Casually Classic: World of Warcraft’s delves have...

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2024/10/03

Ever since World of Warcraft released back in 2004, there’s been an tension in this game between casual, solo play and hardcore group progression. It was a revelation at the time for an MMO to have a design that was accessible to the masses, but the original Blizzard team fashioned this title to eventually funnel those casuals […]

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Ultima Online’s New Legacy will finally launch...

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2024/10/03

If you noticed that Ultima Online’s New Legacy stress test came to an end on Tuesday without, you know, an actual date for the launch, then you weren’t alone. I even spent part of yesterday digging around the forums, where people were wondering what exactly is going on. Fortunately, Broadsword didn’t make us wait all […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The dark side of meaningful MMO...

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2024/10/03

We’ve been in Leveling Month over here in Vague Patch Notes, and I had intended for this particular column to close off that discussion by talking about when we get to meaningful leveling after talking about both leveling that goes too fast and leveling that goes too slow. But it occurred to me before I […]

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GeForce NOW’s October games lineup kicks off with the...

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2024/10/03

Throne and Liberty seems to be kind of everywhere right now, what with its free-to-play launch on Steam, PS5, and Xbox X|S this week, but it also arrived to one more games platform on its October 1st release: GeForce NOW, just in case you really want to get into this game but you’re not at […]

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EverQuest’s 31st expansion, The Outer Brood, launches...

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2024/10/03

With EverQuest II’s end-of-the-year expansion already in testing and ready for preorders, you had to figure that Classic EverQuest wouldn’t be far behind, and indeed, Daybreak has dropped a little bit more info about the older game’s next expansion in its latest producer letter. “As you already know from Fippy Fest back in June, the […]

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Blizzard begins the countdown for Diablo IV’s Vessel...

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2024/10/03

I sure hope you’re ready for a huge influx of Diablo IV info because Blizzard absolutely dumped a ton of previews and details for Vessel of Hatred ahead of next week’s launch. For starters, Blizzard released a massive preview with the launch schedule and campaign plan. We’ve been saying the game will launch on October […]

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Final Fantasy XIV suspends housing demolition on NA...

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2024/10/03

Hurricane Helene hit the United States pretty hard, if you’ve somehow missed hearing about it. The Final Fantasy XIV team wants to make sure that players affected by the hurricane’s impact are able to focus on putting things back together and recovering, not things in the video game. That’s why the team has announced that […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best level up...

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2024/10/03

It’d be nice if real life worked like an MMO in terms of getting a shine and a burst of light the moment you happened to level up. Wouldn’t that be satisfying? You find yourself more skilled at something and suddenly you’re bursting with energy? It’d be kind of nice. Or maybe that’s just me. […]

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Skyforge delays timeline for data and launcher...

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2024/10/03

A month ago, we were a bit stunned to learn that MMORPG Skyforge had changed hands, moving from MY.GAMES to a US-based company called Music Guru, which had bought the game with plans to publish it through EU-based Innova. The process abruptly began on September 4th, when Steam players were told they had to do […]

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Finally, we know what to expect from Pokemon Go’s...

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2024/10/02

Despite Niantic announcing the event months ago, Pokemon Go’s upcoming Wild Area event has until now been opaque to players. The studio initially said it’d be like Go Fest or the yearly Tours, but it gave no further details beyond the date and location: November 16th to 17th in Fukuoka, Japan, followed by the global […]

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PlanetSide 2’s Nanite of the Living Dead rises from...

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2024/10/02

It’s time for the Halloween season to once more cover the battlefields of PlanetSide 2, and regular players of the persistent war MMOFPS know what that means: The Nanite of the Living Dead event is back for another pumpkin-filled spooky season through the entire month of October. Activities in this year’s event will all be […]

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Necesse’s latest update brings the plains biome to...

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2024/10/02

The change in game is mainly on the plains… in Necesse, anyway. The game’s most recent update has recently gone live – and faster than usual thanks to the addition of two artists who also helped with the game’s most recent graphical update. But this update brings the first part of a new biome, the […]

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