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During PAX East this weekend, the staff at ArenaNet officially announced that there would be closed beta testing for Heart of Thorns coming very soon. While an official date was not announced, the Guild Wars 2 team stated that after attending Rezzed next weekend, "[they'll] start closed beta testing shortly after." The words "closed beta" might cut deep in some [...]
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The new entrant to the MOBA genre, Infinite Crisis, is coming to Steam later this month. Announced by Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment, the game will be officially released on Valve's content platform on March 26th. This is the date in which the game will be out of beta and officially launched, so fans should make sure to mark it [...]
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Often referred to as the true successor to the ever popular MMORPG, Ragnarok Online, Tree of Savior has been slowly making progress in its country of development, Korea. However, international fans are often forced to paw at the scraps of information given by imcGAMES. This is why there was a big surprise earlier today when the legendary "Father of Korean Online [...]
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Daybreak Games has seemingly sought fit to reduce the powers of their gamemasters in both EverQuest and EverQuest II. This is reflected in an updated support policy for EverQuest, which details when the gamemasters would not intervene. Many things that they were able to do before, such as fixing deleted items and restoring deleted characters, are now beyond their powers. The GMs will [...]
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Zenimax just made some very large changes to The Elder Scrolls Online through their latest update, "Update 6". A big addition was the new "Justice System". This new system allows players to "commit criminal actions throughout Tamriel such as theft, burglary, pickpocketing and murdering NPCs." Players will now have more freedom to really do what they want in ESO. Although [...]
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After the announced closing of Grand Chase's North American servers, Elsword seems to be inviting the Chasers over with some bonus incentives. For those making the switch over, KOG Games is offering a huge level boost for any characters that they may play. Characters will be boosted up to level 70, depending on the player's Grand Chase characters' levels. Additional [...]
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ArenaNet has announced that they will be attending PAX East 2015, and that they have planned events for the attendees. First and foremost, there will be a playable demo of "Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns" for anyone who wants to get a taste of the upcoming expansion. The event will also be the first time players will be able [...]
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Being a game older than many MMORPG players themselves, EverQuest has reached its 16th year. Daybreak Game Company has outlined the events planned until the end of April, which involves several in-game holidays and events. These events will include multiple player-designed missions that everyone will be able to take part in. In addition, developer Johnathan Caraker mentioned that there would be changes to [...]
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KOG Games has just announced their partnership with Perfect World Entertainment, and as a result, Elsword will now be available on Arcgames.com. In addition, there will be a twitch stream about the game later today at 5pm EST at http://www.twitch.tv/perfectworld_community. As of now, Elsword is still available on the main site at elswordonline.com, so this is not a migration in anyway. Who [...]
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In the upcoming "Secrets of Ayanad" update, ArchAge will be receiving some special new weapons. Trion has announced that on the update scheduled for March 10th, each currently existing weapon type will receive an obsidian counterpart. The first obsidian weapon players get will be given upon completion of a special quest chain. However, the quest chain is not to be [...]
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