Lost Ark debuts its newest class as the card-throwing Arcanist steps foot in Arkesia with today’s Spells in Spades update. The Arcanist is the third advanced class for the Mage and has the ability to imbue playing cards with Magick and use them to devastating effect. The Arcanist’s skills are built around building stacks on enemies before blasting them with [...]
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In an interview last week, Unity CEO John Riccitiello dropped a statement criticizing developers who don’t include monetization features in their games, calling them, and I quote, “fucking idiots.” Naturally, this drew the ire of the entire gaming community and video game companies, which Riccitiello responded to by labeling the websites who reported on it, even those that published the [...]
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Lootboxes in video games have come under intense government scrutiny by various countries over the past few years due to their randomized nature. Some of these countries have deemed them as a form of gambling and have implemented stricter measures to control their sales and purchase, with a few countries banning them altogether. In a recent statement, the United Kingdom’s [...]
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If you’re up for catching and collecting over a million different kinds of critters, then you might want to take a crack at Untamed Isles when the new Kickstarted creature-collecting MMO launches later this year. Technically, the game will only feature 10 base creature types, but the game’s creature generating system will be able to churn up over 1.5 million [...]
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AdventureQuest Worlds: Unity, Artix Entertainment’s reboot of the iconic 2D side-scrolling MMORPG, is steadily inching its way to full release as the game’s Steam page goes live. The official Steam page reveals that the game is expected to launch in 2023 and will be compatible on both PC and mobile as part of the studio’s Omni Project. “AdventureQuest Worlds: Unity [...]
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Black Desert Online’s Drakania class will soon gain access to a whole new set of abilities as Pearly Abyss prepares to roll out the dragon warrior’s Awakening skills. Drakania’s Awakening will come equipped with two spears and the unique ability to switch between Hexeblood and Dragonblood states. “Her “Hexeblood” state can be seen as her human form, in which she [...]
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Over the past few years, we’ve been keeping one eye on Past Fate, an open-world medieval fantasy MMORPG developed by Finnish indie development studio Icy North Games. The studio tried but failed to secure funds through a $15,000 Kickstarter campaign but bullishly soldiered on with the game’s development. They eventually got the funding they needed in a second Kickstarter campaign [...]
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Earlier this year, Jagex ran a month-long event on RuneScape called Frank’s Free Deaths that effectively removed all penalties from dying in specific boss battles. This whipped up the playerbase into a boss-killing spree that resulted in over 6.5 million bosses killed for the entirety of the event. Apparently, that event was designed to gather feedback which the studio will [...]
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Gala Lab’s Flyff Universe reboot has surpassed the 800K player mark a month after the browser-based MMORPG’s launch. Not too shabby for a browser game and nearly-twenty-year-old franchise. The developers are looking to keep the momentum going with numerous updates planned for this summer. “With over 800,000 players since its global launch, Flyff Universe offers an easy pick up and [...]
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As a live service game, various bugs and exploits are still bound to pop in World of Warcraft from time to time even after nearly 20 years in operation. One such bug was reported by a Warlock player earlier this month which inadvertently beefed up his Felguard after completing a Torghast run. The Felguard had apparently retained the dungeon’s Anima [...]
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