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Funcom is expanding its survival-crafting sandbox Dune: Awakening next month. The studio has dated Chapter 2, the game’s first free story update, for September 10 and will launch a paid add-on called The Lost Harvest on the same day. Players can sample the desert planet for themselves right now thanks to a limited-time Steam trial running alongside Gamescom. Dune: Awakening [...]
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HoYoverse used gamescom 2025 to pull back the curtain on Genshin Impact’s next stop on the map. The studio’s free-to-play, open-world action RPG is heading to Nod-Krai, and the Cologne show floor offered the first in-game glimpse of its newest playable hero, Flins. Visitors can explore a themed booth that recreates the upcoming region while those at home catch the [...]
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Dungeons & Dragons Online has opened the gates to Lamordia in its newest expansion, The Chill of Ravenloft. The long-running MMORPG, first launched in 2006 and now operated by Standing Stone Games, revisits the gothic horror setting it last explored in 2017’s Mists of Ravenloft. Players can jump in today on PC to investigate a land locked in endless winter [...]
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Square Enix and Capcom are teaming up this autumn, bringing creatures and gear from Monster Hunter Wilds into the long-running MMO Final Fantasy XIV Online while sending Eorzean icons the other way. The collaboration was announced during Gamescom 2025’s Opening Night Live, where FFXIV producer Naoki Yoshida and Monster Hunter series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto shared a brief teaser and an [...]
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Lost Ark’s next major update goes live tomorrow on August 20, and it is a busy one. The free-to-play action MMO, co-developed by Smilegate RPG and published in the West by Amazon Games, is rolling out the Rise of the Valkyrie patch on PC. Headlining the update is the new Valkyrie class, a hybrid support-DPS option that fills a gap [...]
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Blizzard has officially announced Midnight, the second chapter in World of Warcraft’s multi-expansion Worldsoul Saga, and digital preorders are live starting today. The expansion returns players to Quel’Thalas for the first time since 2007’s The Burning Crusade, while pushing the ongoing Light-versus-Void storyline that began in the upcoming expansion, The War Within. Digital editions are priced at $49.99 (Base), $69.99 [...]
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At Gamescom’s Opening Night Live showcase in Cologne, longtime MMO specialist NCSoft turned heads by unveiling two very different shooters: Time Takers and Cinder City. The announcement marks a clear move beyond the studio’s fantasy comfort zone as it prepares a seven-game slate for 2025-2026. While the last few years have been pretty NCSoft is best known for online staples [...]
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Two decades after its original launch, MU Online is still finding ways to keep veteran warriors busy. The long-running Korean MMORPG has rolled out the second half of Season 20 Part 1 on PC, headlined by a fresh endgame dungeon and a level cap increase (to 1,700). The patch targets players who have already pushed well into the four-digit level [...]
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Blue Protocol: Star Resonance, a mobile-ready version of the anime MMORPG that debuted and shut down on PC last year, is gearing up for a worldwide launch in October. Starting August 22, players on Android and iOS can pre-register for access, while PC users can add the game to their wishlists on Steam or the Epic Games Store. A closed [...]
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South Korean publisher Ncsoft, best known for long-running MMORPGs like Lineage and Aion, is ready to show its next big swing: Cinder City. The MMO tactical shooter, once code-named Project LLL, will share the spotlight during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live on 19 August. It is scheduled to hit PC and unnamed consoles in 2026. Developed by internal studio BigFire Games, [...]
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