Blizzard Entertainment is capping off the year with its 2024 development roadmap for both the retail and classic versions of World of Warcraft. Next year’s highlights, of course, include The War Within, the first expansion of the new Worldsoul Saga trilogy, and Cataclysm Classic. Both releases are at least six months away, but players can look forward to three more [...]
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Online collectible card game DC Dual Force is shutting down just four months after it launched. Developer CCG Lab didn’t give a reason for the game’s closure but it’s presumably due to its extremely poor performance. SteamDB reports an all-time peak of just 919 players a week after its launch followed by a significant dip to just 48 players today. [...]
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Steam’s annual platform-wide winter sale is back, offering great deals on virtually every game in its extensive library. Of course, that includes a long list of MMOs, MMORPGs, and multiplayer games that will likely be of interest to our readers. Here’s a list of several popular titles that caught our eye: Baldur’s Gate 3 – $53.99 (Original Price: $59.99) Diablo [...]
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Bobby Kotick’s scandal-riddled term as CEO of Activision Blizzard is coming to an end next week in line with Microsoft’s acquisition of the company. Kotick became infamous in these parts for his anti-union efforts despite his claims to the contrary, condoning sexual harassment within the company, as well as allegedly harassing employees and flight attendants himself and threatening to have [...]
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The Lord of the Rings Online dev team has yet to officially unveil their 2024 development roadmap for the game, but executive producer Rob Ciccolini was more than happy to share a brief rundown of what’s coming in an interview with YouTuber Bludborn. According to Ciccolini, they’ll continue to focus on rolling out new Corsairs of Umbar content with plans [...]
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Mabinogi’s roster of arcana classes has just been updated with two new advanced classes as the anime MMORPG’s Arcana: Dark Arts update goes live. Players can now advance into either the Alchemical Sharpshooter or Dark Diviner in addition to the existing Elemental Knight and Harmonic Saint arcana. As its name suggests, the Alchemical Sharpshooter combines the archery and battle alchemy [...]
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Rogue Planet Games is looking to breathe new life into PlanetSide 2 with the coming of the new year as it reveals plans to rework and improve the MMOFPS’s core gameplay components. As such, players can expect less balance tweaks and small-scale updates as the team shifts their focus to larger and more impactful updates throughout the year. “In 2024, [...]
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The Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen dev team is closing out the year with a retrospective blog from Visionary Realms CEO Chris Rowan where he looks back at their “triumphs and troubles” over the past year. He also expressed pride at the progress that they’ve made on the in-development fantasy MMORPG in 2023 which he says is more than they’ve [...]
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Palia is opening its cozy, colorful community to a wider audience as Singularity 6 prepares to launch the free-to-play MMO on Steam. The Steam version is expected to launch sometime next year and will run alongside the existing PC and Nintendo Switch clients. Singularity 6 has yet to narrow down the extremely vague launch window, but the game’s Steam page [...]
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Epic Games has made wholesale adjustments to Fortnite battle royale and all of its newly released spinoffs including LEGO Fortnite, Fortnite Festival, and Rocket Racing. First on the docket is the free-to-play battle royale mode which saw various gameplay improvements, including faster movement speed while running and crouching, improved storm edge and medallion visibility, brighter areas at night, and a [...]
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