NetEase has laid off nearly a hundred employees of its affiliate Shanghai EaseNet Network Technology following disagreements with Blizzard Entertainment that led to the end of its publishing partnership with the American video game company in the country. According to The South China Morning Post (via Kotaku), the Chinese tech giant recently disbanded the team handling Blizzard games at the [...]
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Lunar New Year celebrations have officially begun in Diablo Immortal as the mobile ARPG kicks off its Tong-Shi Renewal event. “Tong-Shi invites you to his Renewal—a call to bask in the fading glow of a finished year and begin the cycle anew—welcoming a new year with open arms and optimism.” During the event, which will run until February 6th, you’ll [...]
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Ubisoft has followed up last week’s announcement that it was delaying Skull and Bones for the sixth time with a developer stream that dives into the pirate MMORPG’s storyline. During the stream, Narrative Director Joel Janisse talked about how the game’s story will unfold as players progress through the game. As with most MMORPG’s, this will be done through story [...]
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Last week, Amazon Game Studios dropped the banhammer on Lost Ark botters which hit two-thirds of the MMORPG’s population. Apparently, there were a lot of collateral damages as the studio began receiving a flood of complaints from legitimate players who were inadvertently hit by the massive banwave. “We’re getting a ton of posts from people that have not played the [...]
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Last month saw the arrival of the twin classes Woosa and Maegu in the PC version of Black Desert Online and Black Desert Mobile, respectively. Back then, it wasn’t clear whether Woosa would be making her way to mobile and Maegu to PC. Today, Pearl Abyss has confirmed that Woosa will be making her mobile debut on January 17th while [...]
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If you’re just about fed up with having to start from scratch every time The Cycle: Frontier kicks off a new season, then you’ll be happy to know that you’ll finally be able to keep your progress when Season 3 begins on March 29th. “Badum managed to pull a few strings and change how things tend to work around Prospect [...]
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Cyprus-based studio Stage23 offers a fresh take on the battle royale genre by combining its rules and mechanics with the fast-paced action of bullet hell games into a one of a kind top-down shooter called Dominance. The game prides itself as being the world’s first bullet hell battle royale game and is now out on Steam Early Access. “What differentiates [...]
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DC Universe Online has finally announced a new episode and it’s going to be an electrifying one as teenage superhero Static makes his way to the superhero MMORPG in Episode 45: Shock to the System. Static will be the focal point of the episode which will send players to the Milestone universe in Dakota City to either help solve whatever [...]
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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is getting its first ever content drop later this month with the release of Patch 10.0.5. The update will kick off the new Storm’s Fury community-wide event which will task players with capturing four portals and a massive elemental boss in the Primalist Future timeline to earn a cache of loot. “The Primalists are rallying some [...]
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All three versions of Lineage 2, namely the original game, Lineage 2 Aden, and Lineage 2 Classic, have each launched its own separate events this week. Depending on which version you play, you can either try to find your way out of an underground maze, plumb the depths of a dungeon, visit a frozen canyon, or collect doll fragments for [...]
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