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Jagex has been giving RuneScape a fresh coat of paint one zone at a time and the Kingdom of Kandarin is next on the list. The studio is offering a preview of the visual updates coming to one of the largest kingdoms in Gielinor in its latest developer blog and video. The Kingdom of Kandarin is a zone that’s rich [...]
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Standing Stone Games is pulling out the stops for Dungeons and Dragons Online’s year-long D&D 50th anniversary celebration. The studio is currently giving away a free 47-quest pack and selling multiple expansions for a steal until February 11. The team also promises something different every month on top of the big summer expansion and at least two new archetypes this [...]
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The New World dev team has started to tick things off its 2024 development roadmap as cross-world Expeditions and the promised group finder improvements arrives on the public test realm today. Amazon confirmed that the features themselves will be making it to the live game in the middle of Season 4: Eternal Frost, which puts their release sometime within the [...]
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Ubisoft is trumpeting a successful Skull and Bones closed beta test with hundreds of thousands of players and over 3 million ships setting sail during the three-day playtest last month. Testers also apparently milked the six-hour time limit for all its worth, collectively sailing a total of 7 million kilometers all across the 17th century African coast. “I just wanted [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment is keeping things fresh in Hearthstone with a new set of cards to mark the start of a new year. The Delve into Deepholm mini-set is set to arrive on January 18 with 38 new cards in tow including new excavation cards, two new legendary minions, and new dual-class cards. “Beyond sharing Excavate and no duplicate effects with [...]
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DC Universe brings back its Attack of the Anti-Monitor event and is giving away free in-game goodies and a t-shirt as the free-to-play superhero MMORPG celebrates its 13th anniversary. The event, of course, features several open-world missions, the A World Past Hope and Fear solo mission, and the Centennial Collapse and Speed Force Flux raids. Rewards for participating in the [...]
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Klang Games is pooling applicants for another NDA-covered playtest for its in-development space colony-building MMO, SEED. As previously revealed, the SpatialOS-powered game will task players with founding and managing a colony on a new planet called Avesta 1,000 years after the Earth’s destruction. As an MMO, you’ll be able to cooperate with other players to build a sprawling utopia with [...]
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Dynamight Studios was forced to take Fracture Online servers offline yesterday and will again be suffering a rollback due to a duping exploit that’s been running rampant in the early access sandbox MMORPG. The good news is that the rollback won’t be as extensive as the one performed in response to the game-breaking hack in November. “For safety reasons, we [...]
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History repeats seems to be repeating itself as GameStop is once again fading into irrelevance following a brief moment in the spotlight in January 2021 when its stock prices skyrocketed thanks to a pump-and-dump trading scheme organized through Reddit. The video game retail chain also dipped its toes in the cryptocurrency market with the opening of its NFT Marketplace in [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment’s recent announcement that it will be adding passive healing skills for tank and DPS heroes in Overwatch 2 hasn’t gone over well with the hero shooter’s community. Game director Aaron Keller now admits that it was a “mistake” to reveal the change without the context of the other changes coming in Season 9. According to the original dev [...]
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