Last month’s massive Albion Online “Queen” update has apparently enticed a horde of new players to try out the Sandbox Interactive’s cross-platform sandbox MMORPG. According to a recent forum post, player numbers have surged by as much as 40% and monthly active users are up to over 350,000 players for the first time since the game’s free-to-play launch. The developers [...]
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Crescent Sea, this year's first free content update for TERA, is now live bringing with it a new race-class combo – the Elin Valkyrie. The Elin Valkyrie makes her debut along with a month-long leveling event running until March 3rd. During the event, players will be rewarded with various in-game goodies upon reaching certain level milestones and the Crimson Dragon [...]
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Last year, Pearl Abyss decided to jump into the Battle Royale bandwagon with an experimental Black Desert Online game mode called Shadow Arena. But, after just a few months of live service, the studio was forced to shut down the game mode because it took too much of the developers’ time only to be re-announced as a separate standalone game [...]
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Think you’ve got the new Icebrood Saga Drakkar encounter down to a tee? Well, today’s Guild Wars 2 patch mixes things up a bit with a number of small but significant changes to the recently-released Shadow in the Ice world boss event. “As Jormag's influence continues to grow throughout the region, Drakkar and its minions grow more powerful,” says ArenaNet. [...]
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Get ready to mount up and ride as Standing Stone Games gears up for The Lord of the Rings Online Riders of Rohan expansion’s release on the progression servers later this week. Riders of Rohan, which first came out in 2012, is best known for introducing war mounts and mounted combat to the fantasy MMORPG. The expansion continues the Siege [...]
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These past few years haven’t been good on ArenaNet. Since last year, the company has been hit with massive layoffs, company restructuring, and multiple high-profile developers leaving for better opportunities including Lead Game Designer and Lead Writer Bill Friest and Co-founder/President Mike O’Brien. Today, another developer has decided to leave ArenaNet’s ranks. Lead Systems Designer Hugh Norfolk announces his departure [...]
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Lore has always been an important part of the Warcraft universe. With the World of Warcraft Shadowlands expansion nearing its promised release date, Blizzard Entertainment has decided that it’s high time to reveal the official Shadowlands prequel novel – Shadows Rising by Madeleine Roux. Here’s the full blurb (spoiler warning): “’The Horde is nothing!’ With those infamous words, Sylvanas Windrunner [...]
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Everybody deserves to find love on Valentine’s Day, even giant, gloopy, gelatinous, globs like the Slime King. The “clammy Casanova” returns to Runescape with a novice-level permanent quest to set the King up with the girl of his dreams. Talk to Peter in Rimmington to get started. A glutinous pet and a “dapper” new accessory await players who successfully complete [...]
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Apparently, hackers are running amok in Red Dead Online and randomly attacking players using two-headed skeletons of all things. What’s surprising is that most of the game’s community actually enjoyed these attacks probably because it gave them a break from the usual humdrum of robbing stores and shooting innocent civilians for fun. “Good guy hackers decided that if r* won't [...]
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If taking screenshots in Final Fantasy XIV is your thing, then you’ll be happy to know that Square Enix will be beefing up the already-powerful in-game screenshot feature. For newbies to the “/gpose” command, the developers have added a Control Guide to give users a basic overview of the controls. New frames have also been added which will allow “gposers” [...]
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