While most Final Fantasy XIV fans are excited for the newly announced expansion, Dawntrail, Endwalker is set to receive patch 6.5 in October and January. The update is titled "Growing Light Revealed" and will include the climax of the Endwalker expansion and pave the road ahead for Dawntrail. Details of Patch 6.5 were revealed in an hour long letter from [...]
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As promised, Blizzard Entertainment has outlined the sweeping changes that they’ll be making in Diablo 4 to address the negative feedback that it received from its Season of the Malignant update. Players now have a reason to rejoice as next week’s Patch 1.1.1 will be all about improving classes and class-specific items, as well as increasing monster density in dungeons [...]
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While Path of Exile 2 fans are still digesting this weekend’s juicy reveals, it’s business as usual at Grinding Gear Games as the studio shines the spotlight on the next expansion coming soon to the original Path of Exile game. Dubbed Trial of the Ancestors, the expansion is set to come out on August 8th and will mark the start [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida (aka Yoshi-P) sat down for an hour long Q&A session with various media outlets at Fan Fest in Las Vegas (including MMOs.com). Check out the the full list of questions and a brief summary of Yoshida's answers below. Q) You mentioned the theme color for Dawntrail is gold; could you tell us what kind [...]
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It’s turning out to be the year of PvPvE extraction shooters as MY.GAMES prepares to launch their own addition to the genre in the form of Hawked. The Indiana Jones-styled third-person shooter is set to kick off a limited-time open beta test next week. “Hawked is an extraction-shooter in which teams of three players race to collect and extract Artifacts [...]
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Tencent will be making significant changes to Tarisland in response to player feedback, particularly when it comes to the WoW-wannabe’s core gameplay mechanics. During the closed beta, the studio conducted a poll among its dedicated testers, and the results revealed a strong preference for PvE content. Casual play and questing, on the other hand, ranked lower in interest, which is [...]
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Dawnlands is an upcoming free-to-play open-world survival crafting game from Chinese developer Amazing Seasun Games. The game promises as multiple biomes, relics, and puzzles scattered throughout the vast fantasy world, as well as cross-platform multiplayer modes when it launches on PC and mobile next month. It will also apparently offer microtransactions and battle pass reward tracks for those with extra [...]
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Blade and Soul has opened a new high-level dungeon with the release of the martial arts MMORPG’s latest update. The new Chaos Avalanche Den mythical dungeon can be found in the northern continent and is now available for players level 60 to explore and complete with bonus rewards awaiting those who clear each of the dungeon’s levels for the first [...]
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It’s been a month since Stormhaven Studios decided to drop mandatory subscriptions in Embers Adrift in favor of optional VIP subs. Now that players aren’t required to throw money into the game every month, it looks like the studio is feeling the loss and is encouraging players to subscribe to guarantee the future of the game. “Now that we are [...]
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Despite the success of Pokemon Go, Niantic hasn’t had much luck with its succeeding titles which have either turned out to be big failures or have been cancelled altogether. The studio, however, is determined to duplicate Pokemon Go’s success with another big-name augmented reality MMO called Monster Hunter Now. Niantic recently opened pre-registrations for the upcoming Monster Hunter mobile game, [...]
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