Waven is giving players more time to get acquainted with its colorful turn-based world by extending its tutorial through to the Astrub island. The slightly longer tutorial will offer new pop-up descriptions and tips for everything new that players will encounter on the island, with battle pass explanations moved further down the road. “Contextual explanatory windows have been added to [...]
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After a seemingly endless parade of Dune: Awakening teasers, Funcom is finally looking to step up its marketing game with actual full-length trailers for the highly anticipated survival MMO. The studio is set to get the hype train well and truly rolling as the next Dune movie looms on the horizon. To kick things off, Funcom will be hosting the [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment is diving back into World of Warcraft: The War Within’s new hero talent trees with mockup previews of eight more work-in-progress trees. As previously revealed, the new talent trees will offer new unlockable spells and abilities for each class specialization, with two options available to each spec. A new preview blog offers an early look at some of [...]
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While Embers Adrift was primarily designed with group-play in mind, Stormhaven Studios also acknowledges that grouping up can often prove extremely daunting for new players. To that end, Stormhaven recently rolled out an update featuring new content for low-level players to take on without having to group up. That includes three new dungeons, a.k.a. Ember Veins, to ease players into [...]
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The unfortunate trend of layoffs in the video game and tech industries continues to claim more victims as we move further into 2024. Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that it’s letting go of roughly 8% of its workforce which translates to around 900 employees across the globe to “future ready” the company. CEO and president Jim Ryan announced the layoffs [...]
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Given the meteoric success of several newly released live service games, some developers will probably be tempted to take a stab at a live service title of their own. Cliff Bleszinski, however, offers a word of caution, saying that it’s an extremely daunting task with no assurance of success and that the likes of Palworld and Helldivers 2 are exceptions. [...]
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If the 17th century pirate experience isn’t for you, then maybe being a Jedi space pirate is more to your liking. Star Wars The Old Republic is giving players a taste of the outlaw life, or at least dress up as one as Season 5: Pirate’s Plunder officially begins. The new PvP season brings with it a collection of new [...]
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Microsoft’s classic real-time strategy hit, Age of Empires, is coming to mobile devices later this year courtesy of Xbox subsidiary and Call of Duty: Mobile developer TiMi Studio Group. Age of Empires Mobile promises the same gameplay mechanics as the original game plus multiplayer features like player vs. player sieges. “Age of Empires Mobile is a new chapter for the [...]
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This week’s Palworld update dropped a whole host of quality of life improvements and bug fixes, one of which “inadvertently” fixed a popular exploit that allowed players to catch the incredibly powerful tower boss. The trick was to attack the tower’s Palpagos Island Defense Force (PIDF) officers to get a wanted level, fast travel to the Marcus and Faleris boss [...]
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Project Gorgon developer Elder Game rolled out a massive update for the medieval fantasy MMORPG late Friday night that’s packed to the brim with new quality-of-life features and improvements. That includes a much-needed revamp of the world map which now offers more information on everything that’s around you. “One of [Project Gorgon’s] charms is the sheer amount of exploration available. [...]
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