By now, I imagine that Shadowverse is well known for its generous giveaways; Cygames hosts a giveaway with every major event. Today, the company announced that the game has hit the 9 million download milestone. To celebrate, it is giving all players nine free card packs. Three new story chapters, including new story content for Arisa, Erika, and Luna, went [...]
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Mirage: Arcane Warfare's latest Closed Beta update, Beta Patch 3, has gone live, bringing with it nine new maps and character customization. The "new maps and variants" are as follows. Capture Point Mirrors Rock Bottom Capture The Flag Bridge Push Dry Dock 10v10 Team Deathmatch Bridge Falcon Ridge Mirrors Team Objective Academy Ravine The new system of character customization allows [...]
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If you didn't hear, the other day during the Live Producer Stream, Square Enix released the benchmark test for Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood. You can download it for yourself and make sure you computer is up to snuff when the expansion releases on June 20, 2017. But, in the interest of fully appreciating what's coming next, here are the best [...]
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Ashes of Creation is fully funded on Kickstarter, and in less than 12 hours. It is easily one of the fastest funded big-budget projects to hit the crowdfunding website. If you happened to check in on the campaign at all today, there was little reason to doubt that the it wouldn't meet its funding goal. What is surprising is just [...]
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CCP announced that they will be making a few changes to the PLEX system in EVE Online. If you don't know, or maybe don't remember, PLEX is an in-game currency which can be exchanged for subscription time, or sold on the market for ISK. The May update will break PLEX into smaller units, to make it more accessible to players [...]
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Blizzard announced that Hearthstone passed the 70 million player milestone earlier today in an official blog post. Who knew 70 million was akin to a quinceañera? I didn't. Of course, that doesn't indicate the number of players currently hopping online in a 24 hour period, but the number of total unique players who have tried Hearthstone over the game's lifetime. [...]
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The Game Creators' online action RPG maker MyWorld received a new major update last Friday that introduces barrels upon barrels of loot. The update represents the first of the company's "long term [Early Access] goals" to be completed. In all, there are now 967 sets of armor, rings, and weapons to be found. The update also introduced varying levels of [...]
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Nexon announced today that it has signed a deal to publish a new multiplayer game from ex-343 Industries and ex-EA Black Box developer Kevin Franklin's new studio First Strike Games. For those of you who don't know, 343 Industries is the company that took over as the primary developer of the Halo series after Bungie left the series behind to [...]
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Blizzard is hosting a Q&A regarding Diablo 3's upcoming Necromancer class on May 3rd. Start jotting down questions in you notebook. The Necromancer has been a bit of a tease since the class was announced at BlizzCon back in November, 2016. Since then, not much has been done to alleviate lingering questions: mainly when is it releasing and what's the [...]
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Ashes of Creation's Kickstarter began today at 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT and it is looking like it is an instant success. Intrepid Studios is asking for $750,000 and it raised over $200,000 of that in a mere half an hour. In the five minutes that I've been watching the campaign as of writing this sentence, it has [...]
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