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Calling all max-level TERA players! The Valkyon Federation is looking for fresh recruits to join the elite ranks of the Guardian Legion and take on the mysterious new threat called the Red Raiders. With the release of today’s Guardian Legion update, players can now work together to complete open-world missions and earn points which can be exchanged for reward boxes [...]
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Maiev Shadowsong of Warcraft III and World of Warcraft fame has made her way over to Heroes of the Storm. A member of the Night Elf special police force called the Wardens, and Illidan the Betrayer’s jailor, Maiev now brings her deadly skills to bear against her opponents in the Nexus. “Maiev Shadowsong stood watch over the imprisoned Betrayer for [...]
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Nintendo revealed their 5th mobile title today: Mario Kart Tour. The game is expected to be released sometime between March 2018 - March 2019 though we'll likely see it sometime this year for both Android and Apple's iOS. The venerable racing series got its start back in 1992 with the release of Super Mario Kart for the SNES. Mario Kart [...]
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In an official statement posted today Perfect World Entertainment announced the upcoming closure of their action MOBA Gigantic. This month's update will be the last for Gigantic, though the servers will remain open until July 31, 2018. The news won't be much of a shock to those who have been following the troubled game's development. Perfect World already closed Motiga, [...]
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Atlas Reactor kicked off Season 5 today with the launch of a brand new Freelancer (hero): Vonn the Scion of Ice. Players can begin climbing the ladder again once ranked mode starts up again on February 13th. With Valentine's Day right around the corner too, the game added a bunch of Valentines themed items to its lootboxes which are available [...]
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World of Warcraft's latest expansion, Battle for Azeroth, has made some waves across social media today, when it was announced that Battle for Azeroth is now available for pre-purchase. Battle for Azeroth will come in three flavors - Standard, Digital Deluxe, and a retail-only Collector's Edition, "featuring art, music, and lore to celebrate the release of Battle for Azeroth." Battle for [...]
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Mythyn Interactive announced today that their Ultima Online like hardcore MMORPG Linkrealms will be shutting down "by the end of the month", which is tomorrow. Link Realms was a free to play retro sandbox MMORPG with a skill based progression system. Here we are at the end. I suppose everyone had a sense that this announcement was coming: the Linkrealms [...]
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SuperdataResearch released their 2017 Year in Review report today and in it they revealed the top free to play PC games by revenue. The #1 spot should come as no surprise - League of Legends, which took in a whopping $2.1B in revenue in 2017, up from $1.8B in 2016. Take a look at the full list below: Dungeon Fighter [...]
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Capcom and Monster Hunter World have teamed-up with Jon Downes, a real-life monster hunter and Cryptozoologist, and are offering £50,000 (roughly $70,000) for evidence of “real-life” monsters including the Loch Ness monster and Big Foot. Other monsters on the list are: Mongolian Death Worms, Mermaids, Earth Hounds, the Yeti, Chupacabras, the Flying Snake of Namibia, Yowie, and the Cornish Owlman. [...]
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We've all been there. Be it League of Legends, Dota 2, CS:GO, Overwatch, or literally any other multiplayer game with a ranked ladder - at some point, we've all hit a wall, and been unable to progress. Hearthstone's Ben Brode has heard the community, and the Hearthstone team is now planning a slew of updates to the ranked ladder, and [...]
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