Krampus, Santa’s demonic antithesis, returns to Secret World Legends to spread holiday fear in this year’s Krampusnacht event. Veteran players will likely be familiar with what the event entails. But for those new to the game, here’s how it works: “The Krampus Gate flings open once more, ushering an invasion of the vile Krampus – defeat them and take the [...]
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Hearthstone is giving away free card packs and skins as part of the Warcraft online CCG’s Winter Veil holiday event. Several retired Tavern Brawls will also be returning to the game for the duration of the event. First off, players will have a chance to earn a total of six free card pack by completing three Legendary quests, with each [...]
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Perfect World Entertainment follows up last week’s Neverwinter expansion reveal with a preview of the new Dragonbone Vale zone that will be opening its doors when the expansion of the same name comes out next month. In a new dev blog, the team offers players a more in-depth look at the titular zone and the new tool that players will [...]
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‘Tis the season to be jolly in SoulWorker as the anime action MMORPG kicks off its holiday event with various in-game gifts and rewards to be given away for Christmas and New Year. The new and depressingly-named Lonely Christmas dungeon is now live with a new dungeon boss to defeat to earn seasonal rewards. Successfully completing the dungeon will reward [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV has added a brand new raid called Pandaemonium: Asphodelos along with a series of new Chronicles of a New Era quests in the latest game update – Patch 6.01. Pandaemonium: Asphodelos is a new 8-player raid that’s open to players level 90 and above with a gear score of at least 565. To enter the dungeon, players [...]
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Every year around the holidays I place a bet. Every year around the holidays I lose a bet. What I lose is time. What I gain is 200 levels in MapleStory. My 3080ti groans. The bets are always inane, stupid, trivial. One year I said that NBC would run sympathetic headlines about Incels by New Years. I played Adele. This [...]
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Chinese video game company XD Games has opened closed beta signups and pre-registration for a new Torchlight mobile spinoff titled Torchlight Infinite. The free-to-play mobile game is set 200 years after the events of Torchlight 2, bypassing the Torchlight 3 timeline. “In the era of Ember Technology, 200 years since the events of Torchlight II, humans have resorted to Ember [...]
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From out of nowhere, Book of Travels developer Might and Delight has announced that they’ve laid off several employees on Christmas week no less. According to the studio, the self-described tiny multiplayer online RPG’s launch didn’t pan out as well as they had hoped which forced them to lay off 25 members of the dev team. “In light of the [...]
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In case you haven’t noticed, Epic Games has been giving out free games every day for the past couple of days. The studio has given away 6 games since December 16th with 9 more mystery titles coming until December 30th. As of today, the only multiplayer titles included in the giveaways are Remnant: From the Ashes and today’s free game [...]
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Perfect World Entertainment and its subsidiaries, including Cryptic Studios, will soon be acquired by Swedish video game holding company Embracer Group AB, formerly Nordic Games, and Gearbox Entertainment. Once the $125 million deal goes through in February 2022, PWE will become a subsidiary of Gearbox and will continue to publish and develop games as they’ve done in the past with [...]
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