Valve is giving Steam users another reason to stay away from early access games as it expands its refund policy to include early access titles. Prior to the policy changes, Steam users could request a refund no questions asked two weeks after purchasing a fully launched title, provided that they haven’t reached the two-hour playtime limit. They could also sink [...]
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Over the past few years, we’ve seen the video game industry shift from one-off buy-to-play titles into live service games which now make up a good chunk of the market. If done right, live service games have the potential to generate continuous revenue for developers and publishers. The drawback is that they also require constant upkeep to roll out regular [...]
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Bohemia Interactive’s free-to-play extraction shooter Vigor is finally coming to PC after it first launched as an Xbox One-exclusive title. The game was ported over to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch in 2020 and will soon be making its way to Steam Early Access in May. Vigor is set in a post-apocalyptic version of Norway in the 90s and offers a [...]
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Snail Games and Donkey Crew’s new multiplayer survival game Bellwright has launched into Steam Early Access even. Surprisingly, it’s received a lot of praise from the Steam community in stark contrast to the lukewarm reviews that’s been thrown at its predecessor, Last Oasis. The game thrusts you into the role of a medieval warrior forced to rebel against the Crown [...]
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Big changes are coming to World of Warcraft when The War Within expansion arrives later this year. The expansion will not only kick off a brand-new storyline, but it will also introduce new gameplay features to the long-running MMORPG which will unfortunately also require some unpopular changes to be made. One of these changes is the removal of the Diplomacy [...]
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Albion Online’s new European server is officially open for business as Sandbox Interactive starts letting founder’s pack owners in. Crystal and Gold pack owners can now begin their adventures in the new fresh start regional server, with Silver pack owners set to follow on April 26, Bronze pack owners on April 28, and everyone else on April 29. All progress [...]
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Pearl Abyss continues to make life better in Black Desert Online with another quality-of-life update, this time focusing on life skills. Character-based life skills are now family-based with the total XP gained for each life skill added up instead of being based on the highest levels for every character in the family. “With this update, every character in a Family [...]
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Elite Dangerous will be getting its first new ship in years in the form of the Python Mk II, along with several other ship variants throughout the year. Players will be able to purchase the new ship from the cash shop for roughly $12.50 at the current ARX rate starting on May 7 but will eventually be available to purchase [...]
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Back in January, Nexon announced plans to introduce drastic measures to help curb inflation in the Korean version of MapleStory which included placing a hard limit on meso earnings. Prior to that, the studio also got caught secretly manipulating cube drop rates to address the surplus of legendary gear, prompting the Korean FTC to slap them with a hefty fine. [...]
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There’s still no word on when Ramen VR plans to make good on its promise of a non-VR version of Zenith, but both the original MMORPG and its controversial new parkour-based spinoff are now available on the PlayStation Store for PSVR 2 users. Note that while the Zenith: Infinite Realms spinoff is free-to-play, the Zenith: The Last City MMORPG remains [...]
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