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Genshin Impact developer Mihoyo is planning to release another character just two weeks after the release of Update 1.2 and Albedo. Ganyu is a Cryo Archer equipped with a variety of AoE and crowd control skills. She will be joining the mobile MMORPG’s ever-growing roster this month. “The calculations and data behind the Qixing's every decision in Liyue, as well [...]
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Outriders developer People Can Fly and publisher Square Enix have just announced that they will once again be pushing back the upcoming third-person shooter’s launch. In a post on Twitter earlier today, the team says that they have moved the game’s release date to April 1, 2021 to give them more time to fine tune the game and deliver “a [...]
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It seems like large-scale faction wars will be a big thing in Elyon with the recent addition of a 300-player faction war system to the Korean version of the game. The new PvP mode pits 150 players from the Vulpin Council against 150 players from the Ontari Union in three simultaneous 50vs50 matches. According to MMOCulture, Faction Wars will be [...]
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The Twisting Corridors now awaits World of Warcraft: Shadowlands players who are brave enough to face the Jailer’s henchmen in hopes of claiming the precious rewards within. To enter the Twisting Corridors, players must have first completed the “Signs of the Lion” quest in Oribos. “The ever-changing halls of Torghast, Tower of the Damned now reveal a new passageway through [...]
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Mojang has just announced their plans to shut down Minecraft Earth, their mobile augmented reality Minecraft spinoff, just under two years after launch. According to Mojang, the current COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions that were put in place to prevent the spread of the virus played a huge part in their decision. “Minecraft Earth was designed around free movement and [...]
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Since the Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War merger last month, Warzone’s meta has been absolutely dominated by several Black Ops weapons namely: the DMR 14, Type 63, Mac 10, and dual-wield pistols. Over the past few weeks, the DMR 14 has been the weapon-of-choice because of its ability to kill enemies in two [...]
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Steam has broken its own record for the highest number of concurrent users over the weekend. Online users peaked at 25,418,674 on January 3rd surpassing all-time highs set in March last year at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns. Steam usually sees a surge in user concurrency during their annual Winter Sale. The global pandemic along with the recent release [...]
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Rust, Facepunch Studios’ survival sandbox game, has seen a sudden surge of players and has hit its all-time peak concurrency since the game launched into Early Access back in 2013. SteamDB shows that the game peaked at just over 134k players on January 4th and is continuing to show high player numbers as of this writing. The sudden influx of [...]
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Torchlight 3 will be joining the growing list of games that will be offered with the Xbox Game Pass subscription service on January 14th. The game will be available on consoles, and Android devices once it hits Microsoft’s cloud streaming platform. Microsoft recently announced that many of the games available on the platform will feature touch controls although it’s still [...]
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TERA Console gets new features and a new dungeon in this week’s update. Of significant note is the addition of a content leveling system that allows players to earn XP by participating in four content categories: Adventure, PvP, Hunting, and Life. Gaining a level in the above-mentioned categories will reward players with parcels containing various rewards including gold, gems, consumables, [...]
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