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The anime action MMORPG Kritika Online launched the Dawn of Awakenings update yesterday which introduced advanced awakening classes for Warriors and Monks upon completing the Windhome story line. Take a look at the key changes: Second Awakenings: Warriors and Monks achieve a new level of power in the latest update. When your Advanced Class Warrior or Monk reaches level 70, [...]
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Grinding Gear Games launched the Incursion update for Path of Exile today on the PC (The Xbox One version comes out next week). In Incursion players can travel back into the past to explore new areas and discover new treasures. In plain English, the update adds what players expect from a new Path of Exile update, so expect things like [...]
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Who’d have thought we’d get to experience World War 3 in our lifetime? Don’t go running off to your heavily-armed bug out locations just yet. I’m talking about the new multiplayer first-person shooter by The Farm 51. The ominously-named shooter promises “the most authentic bullet vs. armor system in the FPS genre to date.” “World War 3 is a multiplayer [...]
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In what seems like an unprecedented move for a live game, Bless nerfed damage across the board for every class by about 50-70%. The reasoning behind the move was as follows: Before today’s patch, character’s stats were set differently from what we intended. For that reason, we found out that only a few set of skills have been used in [...]
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The SMITE Dragon’s Fortune 5.9 Update is now live on the PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The update brings with it new god skins, cosmetics, chest items, tweaks and balances, and a ton of bug fixes. The update also introduces minor changes and balances to a few of your favorite gods. Ah Puch’s Corpse Explosion will now deal [...]
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South Korean publishing giant Nexon has grown even bigger when it acquired majority control of NAT Games. NAT Games is a Korean game developer known for their free-to-play mobile ARPG Heroes of Incredible Tales, or HIT. HIT was published by Nexon in 2016 and was a global success. The mobile game has since been downloaded over 25 million times. Overhit, [...]
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So far Guild Wars 2 has been doing a great job releasing episode after episode for four seasons of the Living World. Unfortunately, Episode 3 of the Living World Season 4 will be slightly delayed according to a recent forum post by game director Mike Zadorojny. “The Living World Team currently is hard at work preparing Episode 3 of Living [...]
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There's nothing more annoying than shelling out you hard-earned money on a game only to find out that you had to pay even more to unlock "exclusive" content. Amid the industry-wide controversy concerning lootboxes and after the PR backlash that Electronic Arts took with Star Wars Battlefront II’s business model, the publishing giant has opted to do away with lootboxes [...]
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The Dauntless Open Beta launch last week was a huge success for Phoenix Labs. According the studio’s Twitter post, more than 1.1 million players have joined the game since launch day. The successful launch, however, turned out to be a double-edged sword. The massive influx of players over the weekend resulted in ridiculously long queue times which later led to [...]
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Team-based survival game Rend has started Alpha testing during the weekend. Frostkeep Studios announced the game in March last year and plans to move the game into Early Access by the end of 2018. Unlike other in the market, however, Frostkeep promises a “complete” game when it transitions into Early Access. “Following a thorough Alpha test phase, Rend will enter [...]
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