Blizzard Entertainment recently unveiled a new Polynesian-themed control map for Overwatch 2 during the Overwatch League Grand Final this weekend. The new map, dubbed Samoa, is described as a tropical paradise with three distinct control points: a beachside village, a downtown urban location, and the inside of a volcano. During the map preview, Blizzard offered insight into the map’s design, [...]
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Embers Adrift is celebrating its first birthday this month and will be running another free-to-play weekend event to mark the occasion and encourage new players to try the group-based MMORPG. Stormhaven Studios is also inviting inactive players to return to the game and active ones to spend more time in the game with a dungeon schedule spreadsheet created by Community [...]
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Epic Games’ efforts to increase their profits have not only affected its employees and studios but will soon be affecting players as well. In addition to the mass layoffs and restructuring at the studio, they’re now planning to jack up the price of Fortnite V-Bucks. 1,000 V-Bucks currently go for $7.99 a pop which will be bumped up to $8.99 [...]
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Medieval fantasy MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot has kicked off its 22nd anniversary celebration ahead of its actual original launch date on October 9th. To mark the occasion, developer Broadsword Online Games has brought back the Traveling Merchants and boosted XP and realm point gains until November 1st. The merchants are now available on all existing servers while the XP [...]
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“We aren’t meant to live forever.” That’s the title of ARK: Survival Evolved’s farewell video as the dinosaur-themed survival sandbox officially shuts down. Developer Studio Wildcard also penned a dev blog thanking players for their support over the years with a reminder that the game will live on in ARK: Survival Ascended and future ARK titles. Speaking of the remaster, [...]
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The Lord of the Rings Online developer team came together over the weekend in their latest weekly developer stream to talk about the upcoming crafting system refresh and the long-delayed forester crafting event. According to Lead Systems Designer Allan “Orion” Maki, the plan is to upgrade the old crafting system with new features such as the ability to upgrade craftable [...]
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When Genshin Impact’s Version 4.1 update went live last week, it introduced a new region, new playable characters, and new deep sea activities, as well as a surprise quality-of-life feature that players have been absolutely raving about. The said feature warns players via a UI pop-up when taking on a new quest that will prevent the completion of other quests. [...]
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Update 62 will be going live on the Dungeons and Dragons Online servers this month and will mark the return of the annual Night Revels Halloween event. This year’s event will pretty much be a rerun from previous years, although Standing Stone Games did confirm that they’ll be sneaking in a handful of new rewards. Aside from kicking off the [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has yet to announce the next expansion for World of Warcraft, but there may be clues buried deep in the game’s code. Dataminers have unearthed what could potentially be clues to what the next expansion’s theme will be and where players will be headed next. Over the past few years, Blizzard has taken us across Azeroth, the Outlands, [...]
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Intrepid Studios hasn’t pegged down a release date for Ashes of Creation’s Alpha 2.0 build but they’ve at least narrowed it down to roughly a year from now. Alpha 2.0 testing is expected to begin sometime in 2024 and will be followed by several smaller rounds of testing for backers. The backer-exclusive tests will be covered by an NDA, although [...]
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