Trion Worlds announced today that ArcheAge will be receiving a new major update called "Erenor Eternal" on June 7th. The news was announced via this month's Producer's Letter and there's quite a lot of info to sift through. The highlights from the announcement are as follows. The update will include several new oceanic zones, including Whaleswell Strait, Aegis Island, and [...]
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With PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds dominating the battle royale genre, previous reigning champion H1Z1: King of the Kill is going to have to improve significantly in order to compete in the long run. Players of Daybreak's battle royale game have long felt that there are a number of issues with the game, some of which may have been fixed in today's update. [...]
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Can you believe that Age of Conan has been online for nine years as of this Saturday? I certainly can't. I certainly remember when the game was basically the pinnacle of high quality graphics in an MMORPG, but it doesn't feel like it's been nine years since then. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Funcom is giving away one free level [...]
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I imagine that, when most of you think of MMOs, you don't really consider flight simulators. I can understand that entirely; after all, few flight simulators provide a truly massive experience. But whether or not Flight Sim World will eventually be an MMO on its own—its multiplayer mode is currently in Alpha, so we won't likely know for some time, [...]
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Insurgency developer New World Interactive's World War II FPS Day of Infamy received a new update today, known as the "Aussie" update. The update introduces a community-made map of the Rhineland, four new units, the Owen submachine gun, new melee weapons, and more. The full list of new content is as follows. New Map: Rhineland. New Units: Australian unit includes [...]
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Following a short delay, Neojac Entertainment's new sandbox MMORPG Arcfall has launched on Steam Early Access. Arcfall allows players to explore an open world, fight monsters, craft gear, own houses, furnish said houses, and more. While the store page makes it difficult to discern where exactly the game is at in terms of development, simply listing whether major features are [...]
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While any sort of MMO development is as-yet unconfirmed, Paradox Interactive announced today that it has opened a new studio in Malmö, Sweden that will focus on the development of mobile games. The studio will employ a "small team of experienced developers" with the overall goal of "bringing mobile gamers the kind of deep, challenging experiences the world has come [...]
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Gazillion announced yesterday via Twitter that Marvel Heroes Omega's PlayStation 4 Open Beta is set to begin on May 23rd. On that day, the game will become free-to-play for all PlayStation 4 users, allowing them to jump in either alone or with a friend in local multiplayer and begin beating up the bad guys of the Marvel universe. Despite the [...]
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Jagex announced today that it has partnered with Improbable in order to use SpatialOS in future game projects. Even just one sentence into this article, I know what you're probably wondering. "Does this have anything to do with the nebulous NextGen leak?" I can hear you ask. The answer is that we don't know. What we do know is that [...]
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Kakao Games Europe announced today that Black Desert Online's Striker is set to go live on May 24th, the same day that the game is launching on Steam. The Striker has been available in the Korean version of the game for some time now, NA/EU players will get their first chance to try out the martial arts-based class once the [...]
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