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The FTC isn’t happy with Microsoft ‘degrading’ its...

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2024/07/19

Console players aren’t alone in their discontent over Microsoft simultaneously raising prices on the Xbox Game Pass service and reducing access to day one titles. The United States Federal Trade Commission is calling shenanigans on the game studio for the move, saying that the “price increases and product degradation are the hallmarks of a firm […]

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WoW Factor: The mulligan problem in World of...

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2024/07/19

In World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Illidan Stormrage gets killed. This isn’t actually a surprising end for the character. Illidan as a person was someone who was driven in no small part by a sense of inadequacy, continually trying and failing to live up to other people and getting enormously pissy whenever that didn’t […]

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Settlers of Kalguur brings a massive melee overhaul...

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2024/07/19

Given such a major change incoming with Path of Exile’s Settlers of Kalguur league, you’d be forgiven for wondering whether the rest of the expansion is any less robust – but you’d still be wrong! During Grinding Gear Games’ big livestream reveal, Game Director Jonathan Rogers highlighted the sweeping changes coming to the base game […]

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Gigantic patches in balance and bug fixes ahead of...

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2024/07/19

The Arc team behind Gigantic is more than a little excited at the upcoming first competitive season for the game, which kicks off on July 23rd. But before that happens, you want to make sure that the game is as balanced as possible, right? That’s definitely what the team behind the game seems to think, […]

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Raph Koster’s Stars Reach will offer shorter play...

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2024/07/19

Playable Worlds’ lengthy blog post on Stars Reach’s middle quad of pillars earlier this week wasn’t long enough, or so Raph Koster suggests, as he says he actually forgot to include a section – and has now done so on his own blog. “All this talk of forms of accessibility really needs to include a […]

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Throne & Liberty’s open beta wrestles with login...

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2024/07/19

The past day of open beta for Throne & Liberty has gone about as one might have expected, which is to say that the game’s initial onrush of players has caused a slew of issues to pop up. But then, that is ultimately what these kinds of tests are meant to do. Players are being […]

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Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred introduces a franchise...

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2024/07/19

If you thought that Diablo IV would be content to coast on the traditions of the past for its class design, think again, for the upcoming expansion promises a brand-new concept for the franchise with the Spiritborn. Blizzard fully revealed this fall’s new Vessel of Hatred class in a gameplay blog post, saying that the […]

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Ultima Online previews New Legacy’s themepark...

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2024/07/19

I need to warn you before you click on this trailer: If you played original Ultima Online back in the day, the opening notes of Stones in this video are going to hit hard. But yes, Broadsword has dropped a new trailer for the pioneering 1997 MMORPG UO, the first since the announcement of New […]

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The Daily Grind: What do you think about floating...

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2024/07/19

When Trove launched its Rising Tide update back in June, Gamigo’s PR included a ton of screenshots, including several of a character with massive comicbook-style floating combat text. I don’t remember this from the last time I played Trove, but I have to say it actually looks pretty nifty and meshes perfectly with the goofball […]

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Massively Overthinking: When I’m president of video...

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2024/07/19

This week’s Massively Overthinking is inspired directly by a positively delightful tweet that could totally happen. “When I’m President Of Video Games, all games will have an ‘adults with busy lives’ feature. ‘Hi, I see you haven’t played this game in a month. Here’s a reminder of the last things you did and where you […]

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Elder Scrolls Online has tweaked the Whitestrake’s...

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2024/07/18

Hey, PvPers! Elder Scrolls Online is rerunning the Whitestrake’s Mayhem PvP event just for you starting July 25th – and it’s got a bit of an update since its run last year too. The point of the event, of course, is to kick your fellow players’ butts in exchange for rewards, all while taking advantage […]

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Aetherian Chronicles is a side-scrolling MMORPG that...

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2024/07/18

The majority of large language model (LLM) AI tool proponents suggest that the tech can be utilized to fill out a virtual game world with personalities that can be completely distinct, letting devs craft NPCs that have individual motivations and reactions that can make them all but indistinguishable to human players. We’ll see if that […]

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Here’s how to sign up for Path of Exile 2’s impending...

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2024/07/18

If you are saddened by the fact that the preview and today’s big livestream reveal focused only on Path of Exile ‘s new Settlers of Kalguur league and expansion and lacked the substance you are desiring about Path of Exile 2, we’ve got one tiny morsel for you. Beta sign-ups! Grinding Gear Games has announced […]

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Path of Exile’s Settlers of Kalguur tackles real-time...

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2024/07/18

The Grinding Gear rooster has crowed, signifying the dawn of a new expansion and league. And what might they be? Welcome to Path of Exile: Chickens of Doom! Just kidding. (Although I’m very tempted by such a title!) The next expansion joining the content hen house – er, lineup – is Settlers of Kalguur. And […]

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Here’s how to watch the big Soulframe and Warframe...

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2024/07/18

All right, yes, the way to tune in to TennoCon 2024 boils down to “click a link.” However, it’s the specific link that fans might care to know about, particularly since this Saturday, July 20th, is going to be when some major broadcasts for Soulframe and Warframe are scheduled. As we reported earlier, the major […]

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Fractured has overhauled its PvP to reduce griefing...

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2024/07/18

We’re just a week away from Fractured Online’s official launch out of early access, which means Dynamight Studios has officially rolled out its last big patch before the release. This is the planned patch with a reworked tutorial for new players, the new PvP ruleset, and a ton of quality-of-life tweaks. The new PvP ruleset […]

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Corepunk’s preorder package includes only...

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2024/07/18

Corepunk studio Artificial Core has release a new dev blog this afternoon homing in on “clarifications” about the game’s purchase terms. Notably the team says that the preorder will get players into the fourth alpha playtest, early access, and the first season of the game’s full release, called Light Bless the King. “Future expansions are […]

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The Stream Team: Checking out the extremely weird...

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2024/07/18

You ever see one of those games come across your recommended feed and think that it’s time to roll the dice? That’s where MOP’s Chris is at with Knightfall: A Daring Journey, which is a free-to-play battle royale involving knights wielding revolvers and horses that can drift turn. Are you ready for some of this […]

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Overwatch 2’s new retro sci-fi support hero, Juno, is...

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2024/07/18

If you’re in the mood for an extremely cute retro space-age support hero in Overwatch 2, Blizzard is obliging your very specific tastes with Juno, whom the studio is calling its first Martian hero (in Roman mythology, Juno is Mars’ mom – the more you know!). This weekend, she’ll be available in a limited-time hero […]

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Throne & Liberty starts its open beta today – here’s...

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2024/07/18

Today is the day when players can start in on Throne & Liberty as actual players because the game’s open beta begins today on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. In fact, it’s meant to start at 1:00 p.m. EDT, so right as you’re reading this post. The beta runs until July 23rd, hopefully […]

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