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Rare Ltd has announced that their latest multiplayer swashbucking title Sea of Thieves has sold over 2 million copies since its March 20, 2018 release. These result were enough to make Sea of Thieves the best selling first-party title from Microsoft this generation. The 2 million sales number include both Xbox One and PC versions, but does not include players [...]
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Normally buy to play (B2P) games eventually become free to play, but Faeria has decided to go in reverse. On March 30, the Faeria team made a major announcement. The fantasy card game will go back to a buy to play model while also shutting down its iOS and Android versions. The lengthy official post lays out a brief history [...]
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In a surprise update that went live April 1, 2018 New Zealand Time, Grinding Gear Games has revealed a major genre pivot. Now titled Path of Exile: ROYALE, the action-RPG has added a free for all Battle Royale mode! With only a day's worth of development time, the new mode pits up to 100 players against each other. All players [...]
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Square Enix announced today that a new incredibly difficult raid will be launching in Final Fantasy XIV sometime in May, 2018 which will feature permanent death. Once a party wipes, even once, their characters (and items) will be permanently deleted. No details on what the encounter entails just yet, but Yoshi-P, producer of Final Fantasy XIV, said on in an [...]
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Cloud Imperium Games announced today that Star Citizen will be launching on April 15th, 2018 with its full MMO module and all other promised features. To celebrate the official launch of the game, the game will be selling special limited edition Corsair X900 Capital ships for $79,000 each (50% off their regular price and with a special limited time insignia). [...]
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In an interview with SWTOR Central, a popular Youtube channel, Bioware's Eric Musco and Charles Boyd confirmed that they are working on another expansion for the sci-fi MMORPG which will focus on the Empire vs Republic core storyline. The game already has an internal tentative release date, but they can't quite announce it to the public just yet. Once they [...]
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In a recently released tweet, Overwatch announced the return of its exceedingly popular Uprising event, with a short teaser trailer showcasing a little of what's in store for the next chapter of the Overwatch lore. Accessing file 0382… 📂 Overwatch King’s Row Uprising mission returns April 10! pic.twitter.com/K6cAgHqC4x — Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) March 30, 2018 Last year's Uprising event brought Insurrection, [...]
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The latest episode (content update) for DC Universe Online titled "Episode 31: DELUGE" went live today. The update introduces new characters like Black Manta and Corum Rath from the Aquaman family and makes last year's Starro Invasion a permanent feature. The update adds 2 new open world Atlantean areas as well as 2 new Elite raids. Players can also start [...]
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Atlantica Online, the turn based tactical MMORPG on the PC from Valofe, released its latest update today which introduced a host of new things. The most prominent of which are: A new map titled "Hall of Chaos" with new enemies and loot a new mercenary "Nine Tales" which uses a whip weapon new "Abyssal Armors" gear While it's not a [...]
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In December of 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a new controversial addition to its official mental health classification guide. For its upcoming revision in May 2018, the WHO will be looking to add the term "gaming disorder" to its International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The inclusion of a "gaming disorder" label as a mental health issue is currently [...]
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