Free-to-play fantasy MMORPG Aika Online is being resurrected later this year courtesy of its original publisher CBM Interactive. The game first launched in 2009 and was best known for its 1000 vs 1000 PvP battles. It ultimately shut down after a 12-year run in September 2021 alongside Granado Espada under the stewardship of T3Fun. “Originally renowned for its sprawling fantasy [...]
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Get ready to party this September as Recreate Games prepares for not one, not two, but three closed beta weekends for their cutesy multiplayer brawler, Party Animals. The first closed beta weekend is set to kick off on September 1st with succeeding beta tests happening over the next three weekends leading up to the game’s official launch on September 20th. [...]
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World of Warcraft Classic’s highly-awaited Hardcore Realms are now live for those who want to make their journey through Azeroth infinitely more challenging. As we previously revealed, the new hardcore realms feature its own set of permadeath rules based on the community-imposed hardcore rules which have been modified to prevent cheesing and griefing. When you die in the hardcore realm, [...]
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Grinding Gear Games continues to tweak and polish Path of Exile’s new Trial of the Ancestors League as the studio rolls out another hotfix for the recently released challenge league. The said hotfix improves reward scaling at higher rankings and makes various tweaks and adjustments to creatures and mechanics. You’ll now have better chances of obtaining more valuable rewards and [...]
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Back in 2019, Trion Worlds launched a separate premium, supposedly non-pay-to-win version of ArcheAge called ArcheAge Unchained. Three years and a new publisher later, its population is now so low that Kakao Games has finally decided to call it quits. Come November 30th, all of the Archeage Unchained and ArcheAge servers will be merged into just two servers, one for [...]
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Nexon’s copyright complaint against Dark and Darker might have just hit a big bump in the road. The game’s developer, Ironmace, recently entered into a licensing agreement with a different South Korean publisher in the form of Krafton to bring the battle royale dungeon crawler to mobile devices. “Drawing from its expertise in transforming global gaming IPs for mobile audiences, [...]
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Last week saw the beginning of the end of Dungeons and Dragons Online’s ongoing Codex of the Infinite Planes narrative with the release of its Vecna Unleashed mini-expansion. Now that the developers have had time to address various launch issues, they’re now gearing up for the release of the update’s associated raid which is now live on the Lamannia public [...]
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Video game development outsourcing studio Exis Interactive has announced its first independently-developed title in the form of a new fantasy-themed multiplayer extraction game called Dragonhold. The game is described as a dragon riding and melee extraction title that promises a high-flying open-world adventure and two multiplayer game modes. “Soar across a vast, awe-inspiring and living world, join forces with friends, [...]
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Cozy life sim Palia is apparently getting a lot of attention following its open beta launch earlier this month despite multiple issues that popped up over the past few weeks. According to an infographic posted by developer Singularity 6, players have racked up over 7 million hours of playtime in just two weeks. Since its soft launch, players have also [...]
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BioWare will be joining the growing list of development studios and publishers that have undergone some form of restructuring to better cope with the economic challenges being faced by the video game industry. According to General Manager Gary McKay, restructuring will allow them to become a “more agile and focused” studio but will unfortunately require them to layoff several of [...]
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