It’s been three months since the highly-awaited Odyssey expansion arrived in Elite Dangerous, bringing with it the ability to explore planets on foot and foot-based missions and content. Unfortunately, despite nearly a month of testing, the expansion shipped out with a seemingly endless list of bugs and issues and missing features which didn’t sit well with the game’s community. Since [...]
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Since Asmongold, a popular World of Warcaft streamer, began playing Final Fantasy the long-standing MMORPG’s playerbase has seen a significant spike in numbers. Just last week, the long-standing MMORPG set a new player concurrency record on Steam with a peak player count of over 48,000 players. That record was broken just yesterday when concurrent player numbers peaked at an all-time [...]
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As promised last week, Square Enix has rolled out a more challenging version of The Wyrm God encounter in Final Fantasy XI. Surprisingly, the high-tier version has no level requirements but players will need to have at least 10,000 Cruor to make it to the Empyrean Paradox where they’ll get to take on a buffed-up version of Shinryu. New Ambuscade [...]
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Kakao Games and Korean VR game developer Reality MagiQ has kicked off global closed beta testing for their dystopian survival sandbox game Dysterra. The CBT version features a bigger world to explore, a team system, a revamped UI, and a single-player mode for players who want to familiarize themselves with the game without the pressure of having to deal with [...]
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Time sure flies by fast. One moment you’re covering the Riders of Icarus launch and the next thing you know the game is celebrating its 5th anniversary. And to celebrate the occasion, the team is giving away free in-game items from now until July 31. Players can also participate in the 5th anniversary event where they’ll earn Anniversary Cakes for [...]
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Three months after its initial announcement, Swords of Legends Online has finally launched in the west. As expected, and as is the case for most MMO launches, players started running into stability and performance issues on the NA server shortly after the servers went online, including login problems, disconnects, and false maintenance notifications. The problems appear to have been solved [...]
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Tencent launched a new program earlier this month dubbed 'Midnight Patrol' which uses facial recognition technology to stop kids in China from gaming between 10pm - 8am. China has long has strict rules surrounding gaming for minors, but kids would frequently circumvent these restrictions by using their parent's identities to log into devices. This tactic won't work any longer as [...]
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Amazon Game Studios continues its lineup of New World video previews with a brief look at Outpost Rush, a 20v20 PvPvE battleground that players can queue up for alone or as part of a small group. Here’s how it works: “Teams must coordinate and balance their time upgrading outposts, gathering resources, capturing objectives, and defeating enemies,” explained Amazon on Twitter. [...]
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We all know how the Swords of Legends Online team loves its trailers right? Well, with just a few days away from official launch, Gameforge has decided that it’s the perfect time to release the upcoming Xianxia-inspired MMORPG’s official launch trailer. The team also hosted a livestream earlier this week to talk about their post-launch plans for the game and [...]
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Just when we thought that we were finally going to see a perfect MMO launch with Crowfall, things began to get a bit out of hand towards the end of the day. By evening, the servers began to experience heavy loads which was further aggravated by a barrage of DDOS attacks. “We are continuing to work on the server issues,” [...]
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