TERA may not be a stranger to bizarre item shop items, but the announcement that "the charming world of Hello Kitty will collide with TERA’s true action combat in a partnership unlike anything ever seen before" is something I never expected to read. From now until May 19th, players of the action MMORPG will be able to purchase various Hello [...]
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Aeria Games announced today that it will be bringing X-Legend's Twin Saga to the West later this year. From the looks of it, Twin Saga is a fairly typical X-Legend game with a few twists. Much like Final Fantasy XIV, players will be able to swap between classes freely. The most unique feature, however, is the "mobile housing system." Known [...]
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Nexon announced today that it will be hosting a free weekend for Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - First Assault from now until May 1st at 1 PM PDT. The game can be downloaded now from the Steam store page. The Specialist Early Access Pack—which contains two 100,000 GP coupons and an extra character unlock—is 50% off for [...]
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Soulbound Studios has unveiled aging and body mechanics in a new video for their upcoming MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria. Aging is one of the game's core mechanics: as character's age their physical attributes decline while mental and social skills become easier to develop. I'm already in the aging stage of my life now. The video below demonstrates a character aging from 25 [...]
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Melty Blood Stream - THE CINDERELLA STORYWatch this video on YouTube Melty Blood Gameplay (Stream Highlight) by Omer Melty Blood: Actress Again is a buy to play retail fighting game on Steam with Type-moon characters. I was playing for over an hour on Stream with Shurelya, Which1, and a few other stream viewers and I mostly got my salad tossed, but [...]
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Warhold is a dark fantasy game that is partially MOBA and partially city-building, where players are sovereigns of their own city-state engaged in eternal clan wars. Choose from four different professions and manage the politics and economics of the city-state. [singlepic id=50837 w=428 h=240 float=none] Developer: InQuake Softworks Type: Strategy MOBA Release Date: Unreleased Abandoned: August 28, 2019 Pros: +Team-focused [...]
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Funcom's annual report is here and it is somewhat of a mixed bag. Highlights include the fact that the company wants to create one "smaller game" per year. The first of these was The Park. Another was confirmed to be in development in the following statement: "the Company has started internal concept development and [prototyping] for a smaller game based [...]
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I recently had the chance to sit down with Executive Producer Tim Anderson, Producer Giovanni Martello, and Programmers Robert Thompson and Richard Kuhn of Stormhaven Studios, the developers of Saga of Lucimia. We talked about the caravan system, emergent gameplay, tomorrow's Early Access build, and more. [singlepic id=51087 w=600 h=338 float=none] Me: You talked a bit about emergent gameplay and [...]
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NCSoft released two new Master X Master videos today, detailing gameplay in English and introducing Taejin, the first of the game's 30 available masters to be highlighted. Master X Master is different from traditional MOBAs, in that you have direct control over your character at all times. You also choose two masters, rather than one, at the beginning of each [...]
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IMC Games did something a bit unorthodox yesterday when it named each and every one of the bots and gold sellers caught in the latest round of bans. A staggering 778 bots and 79 gold sellers were permanently banned. Players that applied for a transfer to the EU or SEA servers have been granted their transfer. From now on, they [...]
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