When Amazon Games launched New World in October it shocked the gaming world with its huge numbers. The game averaged over 410,000 concurrent players on Steam and hit a peak concurrent playerbase of 913,027. These numbers are absolutely staggering. It was the biggest MMO launch since World of Warcraft. Players didn't stick around though; the game averaged 155K players in [...]
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Microsoft announced today that they're purchasing Activision Blizzard for about $69B USD (Nice). The acquisition is the biggest ever in Microsoft's long corporate history and shows that the company strongly believes in the gaming market. Both companies have agreed to the transaction, the deal isn't expected to close until 2023 and there's still a chance regulators may not approve the [...]
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Jagex is still continuing to tweak Nex as the recently-added boss is still proving to easy for Old School RuneScape players. In addition to last week’s buffs to the final God Wars Dungeon boss, the team has also adjusted the loot table to account for the speed in which players are killing him. “To clarify – we always make week-one [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV Executive Producer Naoki Yoshida is back with an update on the overpopulation issues that have been plaguing the game since the Endwalker expansion launched early last month. Yoshida assures the community that they’re working to fix the issues as fast as possible but, unfortunately, it’s still going to take a while due to the ongoing global semiconductor [...]
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With Season 14 well underway in Albion Online, Sandbox Interactive is now gearing up for this season’s Crystal League Championship which will take place on February 26-27. Eight teams will be selected to participate in the tournament based on their wins per level during the regular season. Matches will have short timers to allow for more flexibility on slot times [...]
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It’s the end of an era for Microsoft and console players as the Xbox manufacturer confirms that they’ve stopped manufacturing Xbox One S units altogether and are just waiting for the remainder of the units to sell out. The tech giant ceased production of all Xbox One consoles as of December 2020 and are now focusing on the Xbox Series [...]
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic will be receiving its next content drop early next week as Phase 3: The Black Temple rolls out on January 17th alongside the start of a new PvP season. The Battle for Mount Hyjal and The Black Temple raids where players will face off against Archimonde and Illidan, respectively, will be opening their [...]
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In true Grinding Gear Games fashion, the studio has released yet another teaser revealing the name and the launch date of the next Path of Exile league. The next league, dubbed Siege of the Atlas, will be launching on February 4th at 11:00 am PST and that’s pretty much everything we know about it up to now. As with previous [...]
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Two-man development studio and Epic MegaGrants recipient Code Three Fifty One, formerly Foresight Games, has released fresh gameplay footage from their upcoming multiplayer tactical turn-based shooter, Project Haven. The new 10-minute gameplay video gives fans a longer look at the game ahead of its big update next month. According to the official press release, the February update will bring major [...]
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James Cameron’s epic sci-fi film Avatar is getting a video game adaptation courtesy of Disney and Tencent, titled Avatar: Reckoning. Before you get too excited though, it’s not going to be the big PC open-world MMORPG that most of you have probably been wishing for since the movie came out. Instead, it’s going to a mobile-exclusive multiplayer shooter and will [...]
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