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Just a few days left before the Destiny 2 Warmind DLC rolls out and Bungie isn’t letting off on the promotions. “Warmind is the start of a new conversation. It’s a step forward in the direction we want to start taking Destiny 2,” says Warmind Design Director Evan Nikolich in their latest developer insight video. The video walks players through [...]
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MMORPGs like Sea of Thieves are social games by nature. But, there’s always someone who’d rather take on the wide open world, or in this case, the wide open seas alone. While this is pretty easy to do in typical “land-based” MMORPGs where you can jump on a fire-footed horse and gallop into the sunset, sailing a massive Spanish galleon [...]
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Dauntless is barreling full steam ahead towards open beta and Phoenix Labs has pulled out all the stops when it comes to its patches. Closed Beta 0.3.9 a.k.a. Seeking the Horizon has just hit the servers and it’s packed full of content that will keep fans busy until open beta launch on May 24th. “Seeking the Horizon is the first [...]
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Activision Blizzard reporting $2 billion in revenue for Q1 2018 which was a record high for the company first quarter. The quarter's success was attributed to strong performance at 3 games in particular - World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Candy Crush. The company reached 374M monthly active users in the company across all of their games. Despite Blizzard's iconic lineup [...]
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Funcom has been busy gearing up for the May 8th launch of their Early Access title Conan Exiles. The buy-to-play survival game has been available for purchase for PC since January 2017, but the full retail release will be the first time PlayStation 4 players will have a chance to try the game. The Funcom team has created several videos [...]
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Echo of Soul Phoenix from Gamigo launched its latest updated this week which introduced the new PvP field "Hidden Cove" along with 2 new dungeons - Temple Cernunnos and Crimson Fortress. Alongside the new content, Gameigo is hosting a level up event where players receive an additional level with each level (similar to the burning event in MapleStory it seems). [...]
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Earlier this week Arc Games announced that two of their Chinese-developed MMORPGs would be shutting down. Jade Dynasty and Swordsman are the two causalities, players will be refunded with Arc credit for any purchases they made since February 1st. Cash shop currency is no longer available for sale in either game, but the servers will remain open until June 5. [...]
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Apparently, SMITE is getting patched a whopping 48 weeks a year for both PC and console combined. A year is 52 weeks just in case you’re wondering. This is according to a subreddit post by Hi-Rez Studios President Stewart Chisam. While it’s quite an achievement, Chisam says that he’s not too happy with the quality of the patches. “[…] our [...]
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May 4th is Star Wars Day and Star Wars: The Old Republic is giving away unique in-game items to celebrate the “holiday”. Players who login by May 7th will qualify for their very own M4-Y7 Astromech Droid. “A deeply loyal and rugged Droid, the M4-Y7 Astromech Droid is known for its steadfast and stoic reliability. No matter how far your [...]
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With the avalanche of new games coming out every month, along with the recent Battle Royale hype, older games like Diablo 3 have sort of taken a back seat, at least for the time being. Well, Diablo fans will be happy to know that the game is still alive and kicking. In fact, Blizzard Entertainment has just released a console [...]
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