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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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Monster Hunter World sales have gone through the roof since the highly-awaited MMORPG launched last week. Capcom reports in a recent press release that they've shipped 5 million units to date. This comes as no surprise considering the fact that the Monster Hunter series started the “Monster Hunter Craze” social phenomenon when it first launched 14 years ago. “Monster Hunter: [...]
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It's that time of year again! It's time for the announcement of Warframe's TennoCon 2018, slated for July, 2018! Ah, I can feel the warm summer rays on me already... Digital Extremes, the minds behind Warframe, have announced that TennoCon 2018 will start on July 7th, in London, Ontario, likely at the London Convention Centre that it was held at [...]
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Legends of Aria, previously known as Shards Online, will launch into "Closed Beta 1" on January 29th, 2018 with founders packs also going on sale starting on the same day. Characters created during the final alpha will NOT be wiped going into closed beta and there won't be any NDAs in place. For those who haven't kept up with Legends [...]
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I don't think many people expected it today, but it's here: Final Fantasy XIV's Preliminary Patch Notes for their upcoming patch, Patch 4.2 - Rise of a New Sun - are here. This patch includes the long-awaited balance changes to classes, as well as other important updates. New Main Scenario quests - a chain of eight quests, with names omitted [...]
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