Inflexion Games has spent the last few weeks ironing out the kinks in Nightingale following the realm-hopping survival game’s early access launch in February. Last week’s realm-deleting bug further piled on to the list of things that the developers needed to address. Now that the vanishing realms have been restored, it’s freed the developers up to talk about its early [...]
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Before it became a standalone pirate game, Skull and Bones was originally meant to be an expansion for Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. Now that it’s officially launched, it’s naturally drawn attention back to Black Flag which is seeing a significant increase in its player count on Steam. Prior to Skull and Bones’ release, Black Flag’s peak player count sat [...]
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More information has come to light on the impending mass layoffs at Microsoft’s gaming division. Last month’s announcement revealed that roughly 1,900 employees are in line to be dismissed from multiple Microsoft-owned studios on March 30th. That number has now been confirmed to include 812 Activision Blizzard staff, 478 of whom work at the company headquarters in Irvine, California, despite [...]
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Ukrainian indie studio Artificial Core is determined to develop Corepunk at its own pace as it delays the self-described fog-of-war MMORPG’s second public test. It’s now been pushed back from “end of winter” to the final week of April to give the team more time to get everything in order. “Due to the end-of-year crunch we experienced in December, we [...]
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Nexon has outlined its plans for Maplestory in the classic 2D MMORPG’s first quarter 2024 roadmap which includes one major update each for February and March. Early February will mark the arrival of V.248, the highlight of which is a wholesale reorganization of the world selection screen. That will include new server names, server groupings based on playstyle, and a [...]
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As far as update mistakes go, Dynamight Studios’ was a good one after the developer accidentally patched in its in-development tutorial island on the Fractured Online beta build. “In a moment of rare cleverness, we’ve accidentally released the build of the Tutorial Island on Terra,” the indie developer explained. “Say hi to the Terrorial Island!” The preview was short-lived though [...]
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Sea of Thieves players can now embark on one final adventure with Guybrush Threepwood on Monkey Island to finally confront his ghostly captor, LeChuck. The final installment of The Legend of Monkey Island Tall Tale trilogy, dubbed The Lair of LeChuck, sends players to the eponymous island where they’ll need to complete various challenges and make their way through a [...]
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Conan Exiles ushers in the next phase of its Age of War expansion as Chapter 2 officially hits the live servers with revamped purges in tow. “In Chapter 2, take full control over both when a purge attacks, and the difficulty of the event,” Funcom announced. “As Stygian fighters pour from a nearby war camp, defend your base and the [...]
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With Fae Farm less than two weeks away from official launch, developer Phoenix Labs has pulled out all the stops and is sending the hype train barreling full speed down the tracks. In their latest developer livestream, the team made several announcements and showed off more co-op gameplay from the cozy life sim. One of the announcements was that Phoenix [...]
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Ilysia’s long-delayed inaugural beta test finally went live over the weekend following multiple delays to fix a persistent game engine bug. Interested gamers can now take the VR MMORPG for a spin to help push the live servers to their limits until August 18th. Developer Team 21 Studios warns players to expect various issues to pop up as its only [...]
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