Star Vault is reopening the Mortal Online public test realm later today for its third Unreal Engine 5 playtest. The main focus of the test is to pinpoint the cause of the stalling and performance issues that testers experienced during large battles in the last testing round. To replicate the issue, the studio will be running a battle event during [...]
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Project Gorgon developer Elder Game has hit a major development roadblock as the three-person indie studio announces that its run out of money. Studio co-founder Eric Heimburg admits that the past three years have been hard for them due to the COVID-19 outbreak and his and co-founder Sandra Powers recent diagnosis with cancer. The husband-and-wife duo are both former Turbine [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment’s senior art director Samwise Didier has announced his retirement after 30 years with the iconic video game company. He joined Blizzard back in 1991 and has been instrumental in shaping the art style and look of several big-name titles, including the Warcraft and Diablo franchises. “Today is a huge day for me and I wanted to share the [...]
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Sony’s ambitious plan to release a dozen new live service titles by the end of its 2025 fiscal year has gone up in smoke, or at least part of it. During the company’s latest earnings call, Sony President Hiroki Totoki revealed that they’ve delayed six of the twelve live service games due to quality concerns after a “rigorous portfolio review [...]
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An army of new creatures of the night will be descending on V Rising in its next content update. While the developer Stunlock Studios hasn’t revealed a timeline for its release just yet, they did offer a preview of what’s to come in its latest dev blog. The studio reports that they’re currently working to group enemies into “unit families” [...]
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Another ancient dragon is waiting to sow chaos in RuneScape with the arrival of the classic MMORPG’s Vorkath, Battle for Forinthry update later this month. As the title suggests, players will go toe to toe with the eponymous dragon and the necromancer Zemouregal as part of the ongoing Fort Forinthry questline. “Our new quest and boss battle takes place during [...]
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Pax Dei developer Mainframe Industries is gearing up for the sandbox MMORPG’s first large-scale alpha test next week. Dubbed Home Valley, the playtest will run from November 14th through November 27th and will focus on “peaceful” gameplay systems, with a particular focus on player housing. “The ability for each player to claim a plot in a shared world and make [...]
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Tencent continues its Tarisland class preview series with a sneak peek at the in-development MMORPG’s assassin class – the Shadow Swordsman. Like Tarisland’s other classes, the Shadow Swordsman follows the typical MMORPG assassin trope with dual-wield blades and poison attacks. They can also specialize in one of two distinct builds: Cunning and Dueling. “As a master of poison, the Cunning [...]
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Guild Wars 2’s upcoming weapon proficiency update is set to introduce new weapon skills for all classes when it goes live next year. For Thieves, their arsenal of weapons will be expanded to include the axe and its associated weapon skill – Venomous Axe. “The axe is a ranged damage-dealing weapon that can be utilized by both power and condition [...]
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EVE Online didn’t do too well last quarter but it’s still business as usual over at CCP Games as it rolls out an update for the space MMO’s in-beta launcher. The new launcher version not only offers a sleeker and more modern look, it also touts new cutting edge security measures, better performance, a customizable interface, and other highly requested [...]
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