World of Warcraft Patch 10.2: Guardians of the Dream is turning out to be a giant of an update, promising new story content, upgrade system improvements, a menagerie of new shapeshifting forms for Druids, new Blood Elf hair colors, and the new Blitz Brawl 8v8 battleground. “We’ve made some changes to how players will interact with the battlegrounds, leading to [...]
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Digital Extremes has a new captain on deck as its CEO, James Schmalz, turns the reins over to CCO Steve Sinclair. The new CEO is best known as the former lead developer of Warframe and the current head honcho for the studio’s upcoming MMO, Soulframe. Sinclair will continue to lead Soulframe’s development alongside his new duties as CEO with the [...]
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Artificial Core is gearing up for the start of Corepunk’s next testing phase which will bring on a few more players to help test the upcoming open-world MMORPG. The next closed beta test is set to begin on November 4th and will feature a slightly bigger testing pool that will include a little over a hundred players from four different [...]
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It’s been a busy month for both New World players and the dev team thanks to the release of its Rise of the Angry Earth expansion. Tens of thousands of new and returning players have flocked to the open-world MMORPG over the past few weeks, significantly bolstering player numbers and resulting in multi-hour queues. Amazon has already opened several new [...]
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Lost Ark has revamped its Chaos Gate system with new activities and challenges for endgame players to take on. The new Chaos Gates now feature a combination of the old Chaos Gate content, Treasure Maps, and Ghost Ships, as well as the chance to face off against a hidden boss after each successful run. “Chaos Gates will now consist of [...]
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KingsIsle Entertainment’s new Pirate101 mobile game, Pirate101: Plunder Hunt, has soft-launched on Google Play and the App Store. Plunder Hunt is set in the same Spiral universe and uses the same assets as the PC MMORPG but is an entirely different game with its own unique adventures and mechanics tailored for solo play with no multiplayer features, so this is [...]
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Embark Studios is opening The Finals up to the general public today when it kicks off the team-based first-person shooter’s first cross-platform open beta test. The playtest will run until November 5th on PC via Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox with a brand-new map, game mode, and battle pass. “The Open Beta introduces the brand new Skyway Stadium arena to the [...]
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Since Studio Wildcard unveiled ARK: Survival Ascended to the gaming community, the studio has been extremely close-mouthed about the ARK: Survival Evolved remaster. Aside from a vague launch window of October and several concept art teasers, we didn’t really have anything to go on. Lo and behold! ARK: Survival Ascended has officially launched into early access with a few days [...]
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If you’re an MMORPG player, you’ve probably thought about what it would be like to skip the grind and jump right into the endgame raids at one point or another. PC players were able to do just that when Indie-us Games’ co-op multiplayer boss battler TrinityS launched into early access last year. Now, PlayStation users can too. After more than [...]
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite is experiencing a bit of a content drought this past year, with the last update dropping in April and in February before that. Understandably, this has caused concern among the co-op shooter’s playerbase, especially since player numbers have dropped considerably since the game’s launch in October 2021. As if on cue, developer Cold Iron Studios rolled out [...]
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