Haven and Hearth had an undoubtedly rocky launch, with a thread dedicated to discussion of the new pay-to-play system spanning a stunning 95 pages of disgruntled player opinions as of this writing. And that isn't the only one. Dozens of others like it exist in the Critique forum. Yesterday, the two-man team behind the game released a patch they call [...]
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The Hostile Territories are the latest content update for for Allods Team and Obsidian Entertainment's free-to-play collaboration, Skyforge. These new territories are meant to provide challenging group content for groups of five looking for high risk-high reward content. The rewards are said to be good for further advancement and can be increased as players' Tactical Sense stat increases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=RowbwJUyBhQ In [...]
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I had a chance to sit down with Alexander Zacherl of Fairytale Distillery during Das Tal's playtest this past weekend. Das Tal is an upcoming open PvP sandbox MMO that takes a lot of design inspiration from MOBAs. In its desert-themed world, you battle over settlements, camps, resource nodes, and more. Players battle using a system similar to those seen [...]
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Webzen announced in a press release sent out today that MMO sequel Archlord 2 has received a new content update entitled "Season of Siege." This new update is primarily to introduce the Castle Siege PvP system. Sieges are an integral part of some of the best PvP MMOs available and it is nice to see that they are now included [...]
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No, no, not the lizard. Trove is getting actual, legitimate, bearded dragons. They're calling them "Ancient Dragons" but that doesn't quite do justice to the fact that it's a dragon with a beard. To get one, you must obtain 5 Dragon Souls from Ancient Dragon Caches, the latest in gashapon-styled rewards boxes in Trove. As with all of the others, [...]
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While I am not personally familiar with the earlier days of Lineage 2, I often see players bemoan changes made to the game, calling the earlier version one of the definitive PvP MMORPGs. Announced some time ago, 4Game, the game's European publisher, want to bring players that experience once again, hence Lineage 2 Classic. The good news announced today is [...]
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With the Imperial City DLC out of the gates on PC, now seems as good of a time as ever to put the base Elder Scrolls Online game on sale. Almost as if it were planned, the game is currently discounted 33% on Steam, or about $20. You will probably notice this is the approximate price of the new DLC, [...]
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If you're chomping at the bit for anything related to the upcoming Warcraft movie, you may be interested in knowing that a Russian site has leaked its trailer. It's low quality, obviously recorded by someone holding a camera up to it, and some talks over the end of it, but it is there. You can clearly see CGI orcs go [...]
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Seems that the sale on LEGO Minifigures Online that happened yesterday is actually related to the release of LEGO's 14th series of collectible minifigures. Funcom sent out a press release today noting that players can now play each of these minifigures—all monster-themed!—in-game, each with their own personality. You can also purchase each actual minifigure in stores to get a code [...]
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After preparing for so long that the guy that wrote the Steam Community update acknowledged it, Mortal Online is finally on Steam. Players can now download through everyone's favorite gaming client and get started on their sandbox adventure for free. Should you want to subscribe, raising your skill cap in the process, the developers have done you the favor of [...]
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