Here’s some good news for free-to-play Lord of the Rings Online players. Standing Stone Games is planning to make extra class, race, and virtue trait slots free for everyone. The additional slots are currently locked behind a paywall but will soon be unlockable by reaching certain level milestones instead. The changes will roll out with Update 32 which is now [...]
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Inflexion Games’ CEO Aaryn Flynn, who you might remember for his work in BioWare, is back to talk up their upcoming Victorian Gaslamp survival crafting game, Nightingale. In a recent interview with IGN, Flynn revealed that the shared world multiplayer game was originally conceptualized as a full-blown MMORPG but was scaled down to allow for more intimate interactions between players. [...]
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Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction has officially launched on all platforms with full cross-play, cross-progression, and cross-save support. The game features various operators from across the Rainbow Six franchise tasked with containing and neutralizing a new kind of threat – a parasitic alien race called Archaeans. Players can choose from 18 REACT operators, each equipped with specialized weapons, gadgets, gear, [...]
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Wemade, the South Korean developer behind the 'play to earn' crypto MMORPG Mir 4, announced in their last earnings report that they will be releasing additional games on their WeMix blockchain platform and 2 of those games caught my eye - DarkEden and Yulgang (Scions of Fate). Both of these franchises existed as PC MMORPGs for over a decade. Darkeden [...]
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Mir 4, the first major 'play to earn' cryptocurrency powered MMORPG, announced 'Seoul Spooning 2022' which is a roadmap for the evolution of DRACO (Mir 4's play to earn crypto). The goal is to expand DRACO's used in the decentralized finance / game finance universe with additional features (like staking and a new token called HYDRA). Seoul Spooning 2022 is [...]
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Last weekend’s PlanetSide 2 playtest saw over a thousand well-armed troops descend on the new Oshur continent, all of which will receive an exclusive “Work in Progress” profile banner for their help. Aside from getting to try out and explore the new tropical-themed map, Test Build 01 also gave players the chance to test out planned adjustments to how players [...]
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Most developers can attest to the fact that development roadmaps are fickle things especially for in-development games. Content and feature releases can get shuffled around or delayed as development progresses and unexpected issues pop up resulting in disappointed players. This is why the Profane dev team has decided to do away with windows and hard dates in their development roadmap [...]
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Black Desert Online has kicked off Lunar New Year festivities on PC with the return of the annual Lucky Rice Sieve of Good Fortune event. During the event, players will be awarded one Lucky Rice Sieve a day per Family upon accumulating 60 minutes of playtime. The Lucky Rice Sieve can be exchanged for the Tender Braised Short Ribs event [...]
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Last July, Craftopia developer Pocket Pair revealed their plans to do away with portals in the survival MMO and transform the game map into one seamless open world. The idea, however, seemed to have been put on the backburner and was never mentioned again even as the team continued to roll out various game updates. The good news is that [...]
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It looks like TERA didn’t quite capture the hearts of Japanese players as it did the rest of the world and will officially be shutting down just three and a half years since it first arrived in the region. Japanese publisher Pmang announced the closure on Twitter with the sunset date set for April 20, 2022. “Thank you for using [...]
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