Pearl Abyss has rolled out a big quality-of-life update for Black Desert Online with the goal of making life easier for players both old and new. The update introduces Artifact Presets, tweaks various quests and world bosses, and makes more cutscenes skippable. As the name suggests, the Artifact Preset feature will allow players to edit, equip, manage, and save Artifact [...]
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Hoyoverse, the studio behind the hit mobile RPG Genshin Impact, announced Zenless Zone Zero, a new mobile RPG with sci-fi elements. This is the second new game announced in the last few weeks, the first being Honkai: Star Rail which was revealed on April 27. Closed beta signups for Zenless Zone Zero are open now, but there's no date for [...]
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With MMO players naturally looking forward to new content, one of the problems that developers now face is how to get players to replay old content. To address this in Neverwinter, Cryptic Studios added the Adventures system which allowed players to experience older content in a more streamlined format with various rewards waiting at the end. One of the more [...]
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Final Fantasy XI continues its Voracious Resurgence storyline and rolls out a new Ambuscade rotation in its latest game update. Players have had the chance to complete two new Voracious Resurgence in as many months and now they have access to a new questline that advances the ongoing narrative. New monthly Records of Eminence objectives have also been rotated in [...]
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Square Enix follows up on Naoki Yoshida’s earlier warning against the use of third-party add-ons in Final Fantasy XIV by banning several Japanese and English-speaking streamers. The streamers were reportedly banned because they displayed prohibited tools during their respective streams even though Yoshida specifically told players not to use them. So far, the community has been very accepting of the [...]
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ZeniMax Online Studios has cast actor Billy Boyd to voice one of the characters in Elder Scrolls Online’s new High Isle Chapter. Boyd is an actor and singer/songwriter best known for his role as Pippin Took in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Online film adaptation. The character in question is a new NPC, named Brahgas, who will introduce [...]
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Standing Stone Games has officially started public testing for Dungeon’s and Dragons Online: Isle of Dread with less than a month to go until the expansion’s launch. Players will be able to jump into the preview server today for first dibs on new content arriving with the expansion, including four new dungeons: The Curse and the Captive Crustacean Plundering Pirates' [...]
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ArenaNet has rolled out another round of small fixes for the Soo-Won encounter in this week’s patch in addition to a whole host of bug fixes. Of particular note though are the PvP balance adjustments for several classes with the Necromancer and Revenant getting the lion’s share of nerfs. The Necromancer’s Death Nova, Rise, Unholy Feast, Well of Corruption, and [...]
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After a prolonged maintenance downtime, Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis has kicked off the first leg of its month-long 1st anniversary celebration with this week’s game update. The update brings celebratory content to the sci-fi fantasy MMORPG including anniversary decorations, limited-time quests, new trials, and several anniversary-themed activities. Various rewards are also up for grabs during the anniversary event, [...]
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New World players who are fans of the Great Axe and its Insatiable Gravity Well perk will be disappointed to know that the perk has been significantly nerfed. Amazon’s latest patch has reduced the secondary burst’s weapon damage by 25%, block stamina damage by a whopping 80%, and lifesteal amount from a range of 20% to 50% down to 15% [...]
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