Shroud of the Avatar, the indie fantasy MMORPG created by Richard Gariott and Portalarium, launched its latest update today titled Release 93. Release 93 Introduces the following to the game: New Adventure Scene: Jotungrund (new Tier 14 adventure scene in Mistrendur which is only available to Episode 2 access holders) The Outlaws' Run (new Tier 8 adventure scene added as [...]
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Apple has made several concessions to its App Store payment policies in order to settle a class-action lawsuit filed against the company by small US-based developers back in 2019. Note that this is a different lawsuit than the one filed by Epic Games last year but is presided over by the same judge, Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers. One of these [...]
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Kingshunt is running a free-to-play demo on Steam this weekend to give interested players a chance to take the 3D medieval fantasy hack-and-slash MOBA for a test run. The weekend playtest will run until August 29 and will feature various enhancements over the game’s June beta build, including a new Rune menu, new Attacker and Defender Utilities, NPC balance changes, [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV is celebrating the 8th anniversary of it’s a successful reboot as A Realm Reborn with the return of the annual The Rising event. This year’s anniversary event comes with a new quest called “Rising Calm” and new event rewards in the form of the Red Moon Parasol and the Nymeia Potpourri. Players are apparently grumbling over this [...]
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Pearl Abyss has released a new DokeV developer commentary video as a follow up to the gameplay trailer that came out earlier this week. The video offers more insight into the game, which has officially been scaled down to a co-op action adventure game instead of an MMORPG. From the gameplay trailer itself, we can probably see how the upcoming [...]
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Earlier this week, Blizzard Entertainment announced that they were renaming the Overwatch character McCree after the employee that the character was named after, Jesse McCree, was fired from the company as part of Activision Blizzard’s efforts to clean house amid the sexual harassment and discrimination scandal that’s gripping the company. In addition to requiring extra man hours to roll out [...]
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It’s only been a week and a few days since Bless Unleashed launched on PC but it seems that Round 8 Studios is already having problems with cheating and real-money trading. The studio is now taking swift action against both illegal third party programs and the players using them. “Recently, we have received a large amount of reports related to [...]
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It’s been an eventful week at Daybreak Games and their sub-studios with the release of Aliens: Fireteam Elite, the PlanetSide 2 NSO _Integration launch on consoles, and DC Universe Online’s new House of Legends episode. Not to be left behind, EverQuest and EverQuest 2, are also getting their fair share of updates. Over on EverQuest, the team at Darkpaw Games [...]
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When Pearl Abyss first announced DokeV back in 2019, they described the game as “a collectible MMORPG for all ages.” Sadly, that won’t be the case as the studio officially confirms that the highly-awaited monster taming game will in fact be a co-op open world action adventure game rather than the full-blown MMO that they promised. “DokeV was initially introduced [...]
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The Ceaseless Whirpool Goddess, Charybdis, has officially joined SMITE as the newest hunter in the free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena. As we reported earlier this month, Charybdis is the daughter of Poseidon and the soul sister of Scylla, the Horror of the Sea. She wields a monstrous being called The Maw and can disappear inside enormous whirlpools, control the tides, [...]
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