This past weekend, Ubisoft announced that it was ending online support for some of its older games, including several Assassin’s Creed titles and the city-building sim Anno 2070 among others. It looks like there’s some internal disagreement with the latter though as the game’s German developer, Ubisoft Mainz, has decided to try keep the lights on themselves. “After an initial [...]
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As Blizzard Entertainment prepares to wind down the World of Warcraft Season of Mastery progression server this November, the studio will be leaving players with a parting gift. Players on the Season of Master realms who aren’t ready to retire their characters just yet will be allowed to transfer them over to either the vanilla Classic or the Wrath of [...]
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With Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle live across all platforms for a few weeks now, it’s only a matter of time before the dev team starts hyping up the next content drop for this year’s Legacy of the Bretons storyline. That time is now. Zenimax Online has taken the wraps off the next major update for the fantasy MMORPG in [...]
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“Last Oasis sucks,” admitted the game’s own Creative Director, Florian Hoffreither, in the latest developer blog from Donkey Crew. That’s in fact the actual title of the actual blog post. Hoffreither acknowledged that he wasn’t having fun when playing the game for a long time compared to other survival MMOs. “I should know - I designed it. And more than [...]
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Despite complaints about its controversial monetization system, players are still flocking to Diablo Immortal which has seen over 10 million downloads on mobile since it launched last month. This is probably the Diablo series’ biggest launch ever since the previous record holder, Diablo 3, didn’t reach 10 million sales until six weeks after it launched. To be fair, Diablo Immortal [...]
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Square Enix has rolled Final Fantasy XIV’s Patch 6.18 along with the new data centers after an extremely long maintenance downtime. With the new data centers online, the rush to transfer characters over to the new Worlds that came with them has caused the Data Center Travel system to bog down due to extreme congestion. This has prompted Square Enix [...]
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Unity game engine developer Unity Technologies has reportedly laid off hundreds of employees over the past month. According to VentureBeat, a total of 263 employees were affected by the series of layoffs as the company responds to a significant drop in revenue following Apple’s crackdown against target advertising in the past year. A big chunk of the Unity Technologies’ revenue [...]
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One of the glaring problems in No Man’s Sky is that player who’ve reached the endgame often find themselves with a boatload or in-game currency and almost nothing to spend it on. This is apparently because currency in the sci-fi sandbox MMO can easily be duplicated or gained through exploits that it doesn’t have any real value. This also the [...]
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Aero Tales Online: The World is a new anime-style fantasy MMORPG that’s headed to Steam Early Access later this summer. The game comes with all the trappings of a modern MMORPG and various PvE and PvP features such as dungeons, raids, and ranked arenas. Players can also engage in other non-combat activities like farming, playing music, and decorating houses. Players [...]
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Aside from pitting players against vampires instead of zombies or aliens, Redfall has a few other unique features that help set it apart from other co-op first-person shooters. Publisher Bethesda Softworks touts these features in the studio’s new dev blog. “An open world packed with mystery, a diverse roster of heroes to choose from, strategic combat that will keep you [...]
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