As promised, Bossa Games has begun public testing of Lost Skies as the high-flying multiplayer game takes a big development step to pre-alpha. We’ve been keeping an eye on the in-development tile since the studio first announced it back in May as the spiritual successor to its now-defunct Worlds Adrift MMO. Like Worlds Adrift, Lost Skies is set in floating [...]
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Destiny 2 has officially kicked off Season of the Wish, which will undoubtedly be one of the multiplayer shooter’s longest seasons to date. The new season is set to run for nearly 7 months following the confirmed delay of The Final Shape expansion to June 2024, with interim content and events planned for the latter half of the extended season. [...]
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World of Warcraft Classic is updating its PvP Honor system to significantly cut down on the grinding needed to maintain your Honor rank. In its current state, Honor ranks decayed over time which means that you have to constantly grind out Honor Points if you want to continue using your hard-earned PvP gear. It should have been one of things [...]
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It’s been a little over a month since ARK: Survival Ascended launched on PC and a week after it launched on Xbox Series X|S. PlayStation 5 users, however, have yet to start their journey in the dino-taming survival sandbox MMO as Studio Wildcard worked to get it certified for release on the console. According to the developers, last minute issues [...]
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Insider sources revealed that Ubisoft has locked down a new launch date for Skull and Bones after the French publisher postponed its launch again last month. It’s reportedly now narrowed down the release date to February 16th, in what will hopefully be the final time that the studio announces a launch date for the long-delayed pirate MMO. Skull and Bones’ [...]
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Mortal Online 2 has just received a major makeover as it officially makes the switch to Unreal Engine 5 with the release of Update 2.0. Players can now enjoy improved textures, enhanced lighting, and a better-looking game overall. The visual upgrade, however, comes at the price of increased load on GPU’s. Developer Star Vault noted that they tried to keep [...]
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EverQuest 2 rolled out Ballads of Zimara today, the 19-year-old fantasy MMORPG’s 20th expansion. The expansion sends players soaring to the Plane of Sky where they’ll take on a powerful Djinn and his ruthless army to rescue the Alcazar of Zimara. “Calamitous impacts upon Norrath were but an overture to the songs of strife and oppression ringing out from the [...]
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Sony Interactive Entertainment and NCSoft have entered into a strategic partnership to explore “global collaboration opportunities” across various fields of business. There aren’t any solid plans at the moment, but there’s speculation that Sony might be diving headfirst into the mobile gaming market. The partnership agreement might also have something to do with Microsoft’s recently completed acquisition of Activision Blizzard [...]
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Unity Technologies has shuttered Weta Digital to refocus on game development after acquiring part of the VFX studio back in December 2021. In line with the studio’s closure, Unity has also ended its services agreement with Weta FX and laid off 265 employees which equates to 3.8% of its total workforce. That’s on top of the 8% that were given [...]
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It’s business as usual over at Wayfinder as Airship Syndicated officially assumes development and publishing responsibilities for the early access title. Despite being hung out to dry by Digital Extremes following layoffs at the studio, the action MMORPG’s developer remains optimistic about its future as it works to transfer data over from its former partner. “It’s an exciting time here [...]
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