Embracer Group, the video game holding company that snapped up numerous video game companies and studios over the past few months, will soon gain control of The Lord of the Rings IP and all of its associated franchises just as the One Ring controls the Rings of Power. The Swedish company is currently in the process of acquiring Middle-earth Enterprises [...]
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With every other classic RPG seemingly getting a remaster, remake, or reboot in one form or another, one popular JRPG from the mid-90s has yet to be resurrected – Konami’s Suikoden. Fans of the beloved series, however, are looking forward to next week’s Tokyo Game Show where Konami has teased that it will be announcing a new game based on [...]
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Ubisoft has inadvertently pushed out the official store page for their upcoming free-to-play looter shooter The Division Heartland ahead of its Ubisoft Forward livestream event this weekend. The Escape from Tarkov-like standalone game was announced in May last year and won’t require any experience playing any of the previous The Division games. The Ubisoft Store listing has now been deleted [...]
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Genshin Impact is getting an in-game trading card game of its own sometime in the near future called Genius Invokation. HoYoverse has yet to confirm a release date for the mini-game but leaked information reportedly puts it well after the launch of Version 3.0, possibly after Version 3.1. The leaks come from a user from a known Genshin Impact beta [...]
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Tower of Fantasy hasn’t been out for a month but Perfect World is already hard at work on the anime-styled MMORPG’s first expansion. Version 2.0 launches this fall with a new desert region called Vera, a new pink katana-wielding Simulacrum character named Frigg, and reportedly several new fashion choices for the kitchen helper NPC Mia. Recent leaks on Reddit suggest [...]
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It looks like Halo Infinite players will be getting a couch co-op feature after all, but without the blessing of the game’s developer. After 343 Industries announced that they’ve scrapped the promised couch co-op feature for the first-person shooter this weekend, one Halo Creation community member found a glitch that allowed the feature to work. Unfortunately, the glitch only works [...]
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As if ravaging hordes of face-sucking aliens and synthetics weren’t dangerous enough, Aliens: Fireteam Elite players now have to contend with a mysterious disease as the co-op shooter’s new Pathogen DLC officially arrives. As previously announced, the DLC comes with new story missions and gives players their first shot at taking down a Queen. “A mysterious pathogen is wreaking havoc [...]
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Iron Will Games’ Ultima-inspired MMORPG Ashen Empires is now live on Steam after a slight hiccup last month related to the process of porting over the game to the platform. The retro MMORPG also launched alongside its precursor Dransik. Ashen Empires launched into open beta in September 2022 and is essentially the same game as Dransik, a retro 2D fantasy [...]
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Ragnarok Origin, one of the several 3D mobile versions of the cult classic MMORPG Ragnarok Online, has just added the Dancer and Bard as a secondary job choice for Archers. For those who aren’t familiar with the job classes in the franchise, players start off as novices and can change jobs to one of the six main classes once they [...]
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It’s time for Netflix to pop open that bottle of champagne or three as its League of Legends-inspired animated series Arcane comes away with three major awards during this year’s Creative Arts Emmys, including Best Animated Program. Arcane’s win marks the first time that a streaming series has snagged the award, beating out other extremely popular animated shows, including Rick [...]
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