Activision is stepping up its anti-toxicity measures in Call of Duty games with a new voice chat moderation system. The publisher touts the new tool as “the next leap forward” in its ongoing battle to combat toxicity and disruptive behavior in the multiplayer shooter series. It’s basically a version of Modulate’s ToxMod that’s been tweaked to work with Call of [...]
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The free to play battle royale Ring of Elysium is shutting down. In a terse official notice posted on Steam, it was announced that the game would be closed on December 1, 2023. Ring of Elysium first launched in 2018 and offered a free to play experience inspired by PUBG: Battlegrounds. The game had several interesting mobility features including climbing [...]
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Phoenix Labs has been facing intense criticism from the Dauntless playerbase due to the content drought that’s currently plaguing the monster hunting MMO. It’s not just the lack of content either as the studio has also been recycling battle passes and events for a few months now. The said complaints, however, haven’t fallen on deaf ears and Phoenix Labs is [...]
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Amazon Game Studio has dropped another Balance of Power episode for New World’s ongoing Forged in Aeternum video series. This time around, the developers talk about major balance changes coming in the open-world MMORPG’s third season. Of particular note is the removal of the expertise system as part of the team’s efforts to streamline progression and make it less stressful [...]
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As you’d expect from a big game-changing update, Lord of the Rings Online Update 37’s launch arrived with its fair share off issues. Players apparently weren’t exaggerating when they complained that their characters were significantly weaker after the stat crunch as the update inadvertently made mobs a bit too tough and nerfed healing too much. The team has promised a [...]
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Superhero MMORPG Champions Online is celebrating its 14th birthday today and its kicked off several events all throughout September to mark the occasion. “Happy Anniversary, Champions! It’s been fourteen years since you began defending Millennium City from the ravages of alien threats, gangsters, ninjas, monsters and more, and it’s time to take a load off and celebrate! For the next [...]
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Sea of Thieves has kicked off the next chapter in its ongoing Legend of the Monkey Island narrative with a new Tall Tales questline. The next installment of the Tall Tales series, aptly-titled “The Quest for Guybrush” tasks players with freeing Guybrush from a prison dream by taking on three new Legendary Trials. “Guybrush has been imprisoned in a dream-world [...]
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With Baldur’s Gate 3’s massive first update now live on the servers, Larian Studios is now gearing up for the release of patch number two, which they teased is “right around the corner”. In spite of the first patch’s massive size, it lacked any new content updates and focused mainly on bug fixes and various gameplay improvements. The team, however, [...]
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Dungeons and Dragons Online marked the beginning of the end of its Codex of the Infinite Planes Saga when the Vecna Unleashed DLC launched earlier this month. The story isn’t over yet though, as Standing Stone Games continues to reiterate on the mini-expansion with plans to improve the rewards for its heroic dungeons. The changes are set to arrive as [...]
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As Visionary Realms works to polish up Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s gameplay systems and mechanics in preparation for persistent pre-alpha testing, one thing that’s conspicuously remained untouched is the game’s outdated visuals. It’s one of the pain points that testers and fans have been complaining about for a while now. The good news is that the studio is now [...]
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