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Echoes of Elysium’s ‘airship survival loop is nearly...

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2024/07/11

Loric Games’ multiplayer airship survivalbox Echoes of Elysium continues development – and continues teasing that development – in its latest dev blog, which this time is penned by lead producer Ray Soto. “If I were to provide a headline, it would be that our game’s airship survival loop is nearly complete as a playable experience,” […]

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Team-based PvP FPS Concord preps beta test for this...

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2024/07/11

Last month the team vs. team FPS world was introduced to a new arrival in the form of Concord, a 5v5 shooter from developer Firewalk Studios and publisher Sony that promised fast-paced action, unique abilities, and mechanics that would be easy to learn yet challenging to master. If any of that sounded like your cup […]

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Bellwright’s latest patch brings FSR support and...

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2024/07/11

The co-op survivalbox of Bellwright has once again elected to use its latest patch release to crush some more of the game’s bugs and apply requested adjustments based on player reports. Also, there’s FSR support for those who have hardware capable of that sort of thing. The FSR upscaling support comes alongside other tech updates […]

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Tarisland adds a new Spider Queen raid fight and...

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2024/07/11

Gosh-darn it all, who let the spiders have a queen? Tarisland has just added a new raid boss, the Spider Queen, and that means the game is going to be dealing with arachnid nobility for years to come. Players are going to have to spend ages organizing charts of intermarriage and spider descent. It will […]

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Diablo IV brings tweaks to boss summoning material...

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2024/07/11

Diablo IV already showcased what this little patch was bringing, but now we’re just reminding players of the OARPG that it’s latest update is online with some adjustments to some of the game’s items. In case you didn’t click through previous reporting, this patch increased the sale prices for materials needed to summon bosses, improved […]

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World of Warcraft Classic begins Season of Discovery...

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2024/07/11

The time is now for players of WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery to move to The Next Episode, or more specifically the next phase: Season of Discovery Phase 4 officially begins this afternoon. Readers will remember that this next step in the MMORPG’s alt ruleset servers was delayed a bit in the interest of giving […]

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Riot Games was reportedly working on a Smash...

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2024/07/11

What would happen if you blended together the platform brawling of Super Smash Bros. with the character roster of League of Legends? You would have a cancelled game project, apparently: Insider sources reporting to a former journalist for The Washington Post confirm that Riot Games was working on just such a title, but it got […]

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Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds Kodan are basically cute...

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2024/07/11

Before today, I might’ve said that nobody loves talking about bears as much as our writers, who keep penning articles about cool MMO bears, chiefly out of spite, I think. In any case, it seems I must revise my assessment, as ArenaNet also loves its bears, and by bears, I mean the Kodan race in […]

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Dungeons and Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings...

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2024/07/11

Dungeons and Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online both have community-led Discord channels where players and developers hang out, but Standing Stone has apparently conjured plans to open official Discords for both games, with volunteer moderators. SSG’s Jerry “Cordovan” Snook gave DDO forumgoers the news yesterday, telling them that “DDO is getting it […]

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Global Chat: FFXIV rides out on the Dawntrail

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2024/07/11

The blogosphere is buzzing about the recent release of FFXIV: Dawntrail, including The Nosy Gamer, who provided some first thoughts and impressions of this expansion. “The devs decided to show off the new engine on the ocean voyage from Old Sharlayan to Tuliyollal. I have never seen a video game look so gorgeous. Admittedly I […]

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Raph Koster lays out the (first) four pillars of...

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2024/07/11

I have some good news and bad news. The bad news is that Raph Koster’s Stars Reach is probably a good long while away for everyone but lucky pre-alpha testers. The good news is that means we’re in for a whole lot of dev blogs and videos about the game along the way, the latest […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Yes, tutorials are a good thing in...

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2024/07/11

For those of you who haven’t been reading the site for a while or just don’t keep this in your head, I’m going to start by laying down a couple of bona fides. I am, at the time of this writing, 41. I have been playing video games in one form or another for most […]

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World of Warcraft’s Ion Hazzikostas reflects on a ‘a...

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2024/07/11

World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas has a lot to say regarding the changes that the game’s development staff is making moving forward in The War Within. But the changes don’t come out of nowhere; they’re very specifically being made as part of a change in how Blizzard incorporates feedback from players from Shadowlands […]

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Albion Online celebrates seventh birthday with cake...

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2024/07/11

Albion Online is coasting into its seventh birthday this week with its Living Legacy event splashed across all three regional servers, pitting players against open-world mega-mobs based on some of the players who won seasonal competitions. There will indeed be cake, but more importantly, there’s a horsie and a fireworks cannon too. “[T]o kick off […]

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Wayfinder preps a huge quality-of-life patch as it...

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2024/07/11

How many launches is Airship Syndicate’s Wayfinder going to get in its lifetime? We had the early access release last year, the Echoes re-launch last month, and the full 1.0 PC and console releases are still on its way for late 2024. In the meanwhile, however, is a meaty quality-of-life patch that should hit the […]

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Lord of the Rings Online says there are ‘lots and...

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2024/07/11

In a recent forum discussion around whether or not Lord of the Rings Online will wrap up its story when (and if) the Scouring of the Shire arrives, Standing Stone Games assured fans that this won’t be the case. “If the star of the show is Middle-earth, you can definitely have adventures there even after […]

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The Daily Grind: Have you ever been a part of a large...

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2024/07/11

The first guild I ever joined in an MMORPG was in Final Fantasy XI, and it was made up of about 40% new people from the game in question and 60% an existing guild that had migrated over from EverQuest. This made a certain amount of sense, since the latter game was not all that […]

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The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming gets some flight...

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2024/07/10

Backseat Streaming is once again hopping into the virtual pilot’s seat with tonight’s game footage! This time it’s the multiplayer team dogfighter Nuclear Option with footage from one of our readers! Strap in and come enjoy the flight tonight at 8:00 p.m. EDT! What: Backseat Streaming – Nuclear Option Who: MJ Guthrie & Chris Neal […]

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TERA Console releases a balance patch that seeks to...

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2024/07/10

Most of the time when MMO gamers see the words “balance patch,” they likely envision a planar saw smoothing every class into a flat, homogenized board. Ideally that is not the case for players of TERA Console, as the MMORPG has released a new class balancing update that’s not “making simple numerical adjustments to equalize […]

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Lost Ark’s Cool Retreat update next week boasts solo...

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2024/07/10

This week’s Eye on Arkesia may begin with a recap of what Lost Ark did in June, but the real focus of the video is on July – specifically, what players can expect out of the game in next week’s Cool Retreat update. The core of the update is the introduction of solo raids. “Players […]

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