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Eleon Game Studios has partnered with Funcom to publish its co-op space survival sandbox game Empyrion. The indie studio tried but failed to raise funds for the game via Kickstarter in 2014, but surprisingly still managed to launch the game to positive reviews in August 2020. Now, its managed to secure support from the Conan Exiles and Dune: Awakening developer. [...]
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Lord of the Rings Online brings back its Ill Omens skirmish event with its first update of the year – Update 38.2. The event is now live and challenges players to defeat a set number of “harbingers” per day to earn Tokens of Ill Omens until February 1. The said tokens can be used to purchase event-exclusive pets, including the [...]
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Lost Ark just opened up a new tropical adventure island map with the release of its major update of the year. The update, dubbed Fire up the New Year, introduced the new Lai Lai island map, complete with tropical island activities for players to participate in. Those still enjoying the wintry activities in Freja’s Island needn’t fret as the icy [...]
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Old School RuneScape is starting off the year with a sunny new subsrcriber-exclusive quest called Children of the Sun. The aptly named questline paves the way for the journey to the Kingdom of Varlamore, a.k.a. the Shining Kingdom, and its associated questline. “Children of the Sun begins on the familiar streets of Varrock, where a delegation from Varlamore has arrived [...]
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Star Trek Online will be kicking off its 31st season later this month with the arrival of its Both Worlds update on PC on January 23. The upcoming season will pick up from where the storyline left off last season with the tearing of the Reality Vortex and will send players into the heart of the Mirror Borg Unicomplex where [...]
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Tencent continues to rework Tarisland’s gameplay systems to address feedback gathered from the last closed beta test. One of the pain points that testers noted was that the crafting system was too complicated. “We have learned that some players find Crafting to be too complex and time-consuming, with low outputs, impacting both the in-game economy and player experience,” Tencent reports. [...]
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The monstrous one-eyed duo of Lucanus and Decimus have returned to terrorize Aeternum as New World brings back its Legacy of Crassus event. The limited-time encounter will be available from now until January 23, giving players another chance to grab its exclusive rewards. “Banish General Crassus’s monstrous captains for new event-specific, daily rewards,” Amazon said. “Lucanus and Decimus, brothers bound [...]
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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight will soon be kicking off its fourth and final season, which will of course come with a new collection of gear sets to earn. Unlike previous seasons, however, Blizzard is leaving it up to players to decide what the gear sets will look like and what bonuses they’ll grant through a community poll on the official [...]
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ZeniMax Online Studios may have ditched its year-long story arcs in Elder Scrolls Online but its apparently still sticking to its traditional reveal timelines. January 18th will mark the studio’s first Chapter reveal of the year where it will also be revealing its general plans for the nearly 10-year-old fantasy MMORPG in 2024. “During the show, we’ll give you a [...]
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Square Enix has announced another 24-hour maintenance downtime for Final Fantasy XIV next week in line with the release of Patch 6.55 and a massive data center upgrade. The extended downtime begins on January 15 at 2 a.m. PST. Barring any unexpected issues, the servers are expected to go online at around the same time on January 16. Patch 6.55: [...]
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