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Keeping up with tradition, Final Fantasy XIV's next patch, Patch 4.1 - also known as The Legend Returns - has had its Preliminary Patch Notes published! Typically, a major patch will see its patch notes released a few days before the patch goes live, so players know what to expect. With the Preliminary Patch Notes live, lets go over some [...]
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Dauntless makes sword-wielders a lot harder to hit with a new dodge attack that rolled out with the release of patch CB 0.2.4. They even get a shiny new Shrowdsaber! Phoenix Labs says that this is just the first of new movement-based attacks that they’ll be rolling out for all weapons in the near future. The Chain Blade special pull-in/flip-out [...]
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Over the past couple of months, Portalarium has been giving fans numerous chances to try out The Shroud of the Avatar for free with free-trial runs ranging from a few days to a few weeks. The devs have once again opened SoTA’s doors to anyone who wants to take a stab at the game, albeit with a few restrictions. The [...]
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Texas-based mobile game developer Spacetime Studios announced on Twitter last week that they will be running an NDA-covered closed beta test for an “Unannounced Game.” In a press release earlier today, the studio officially confirmed that they are working on Pocket Legends Adventures which they describe as “A Charming Homage to World's First 3D Mobile MMO.” “Pocket Legends Adventures [is] [...]
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Warframe's much-awaited Plains of Eidolon expansion is nearly upon us, and it is probably the largest update to come to Warframe thus far. The Plains of Eidolon expansion will add new areas, and most importantly, an open world aspect to the already popular MMO - which has lost a few players since we are between content updates. All part of the [...]
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The sidekick system in City of Heroes was a key feature of the superhero MMORPG. The system allowed casual and low-level players to team up with more experienced high-level players to accomplish quests. According to a Twitter post, Valiance Online, the game’s spiritual successor, will also be getting a sidekick system and it's already been coded. Unfortunately, there's no word [...]
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Originally broke by PCGamer, more information has come out of the UK Studio "Automaton Games," and their tactical MMO shooter known only as "Project X." This game doesn't have a release date yet, it doesn't even have a name, but it does have a very lofty goal. Two of them, actually. The first is 1,000 players, "in a world that [...]
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With Patch 4.1 less than a week away, Final Fantasy XIV has finally rounded out their Patch 4.1 Teaser Site! Additionally - thanks to Reddit user /u/Valfreeze, we have excerpts from a Famitsu interview with Producer & Developer of FFXIV himself, Yoshi-P! Lets dive right in. Rounding off the Special Site, we have new information on what more "Additional Updates" [...]
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Last week, Dungeons and Dragons Online revealed the juicy details of the Cleric and Favored Soul-centric Mists of Ravenloft expansion. If you’re waiting on word about the expansion, you’ll be happy to know that Standing Stone Games has just started testing a few of the planned changes that will be introduced into the game. The features available in the test [...]
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Last week, Fortnite debuted its free-to-play Battle Royale mode and recording a whopping 1 million players on the first night alone. Yesterday, that number has not only doubled, not even tripled, but septupled! (That’s x7 by the way.) Here’s the official Twitter announcement. Thanks to over 7 million of you who have played Fortnite! We want to keep the Battle [...]
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