It’s time to tap the kegs and pour yourselves a cold one as EverQuest 2 kicks off its annual Brewday Festival in honor of the Norrath god Brell Serillis and St. Patrick’s Day in the real world. The event will run until March 20, featuring a new quest to add to the usual lineup of intoxicating activities from previous years. [...]
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Now that the first official Dune: Awakening trailer and the second Dune movie are out in the wild, fans are naturally curious as to how much of the books and the movies will make it into the upcoming survival game. While the game takes plenty of cues from the movies, Funcom will be taking a few liberties of its own [...]
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Beast Burst Entertainment’s efforts to secure additional funding for its old-school MMORPG Scars of Honor through Kickstarter has come to a disappointing end. The month-long crowdfunding drive was only able to raise $34,041 of its $200,000 funding goal which means that the studio will be coming away empty handed. It’s not the end of the free-to-play cross-platform World of Warcraft-clone’s [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has put a date to the Overwatch 2 x Cowboy Bebop crossover event that it teased last month. The event goes live on March 12 and will feature exclusive skins inspired by the classic bounty-hunting anime series. For those who aren’t familiar with Cowboy Bebop, it’s futuristic space Western Japanese anime series that first came out in 1998. [...]
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Electronic Arts is looking to expand the scope of Apex Legends past its current battle royale modes over the next few years, as revealed by CEO Andrew Wilson during his presentation at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference last week. According to Wilson, the expansion is in line with its ongoing efforts to refocus on the growth of [...]
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Clockwork Labs is taking a big step in BitCraft’s development as the studio begins using actual player accounts in preparation for the sandbox MMORPG’s closed alpha tests. It’s also locked in April 2 as the start date for the playtest and has begun handing out the “secret item” that it promised its pre-alpha backers now that permanent player accounts are [...]
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The Tower of Fantasy x Evangelion teasers continue as Hotta Studio drops more information about the special crossover chapter on the Update 3.7: Evangelion Fantasy microsite along with a new trailer showcasing EVA-02 pilot Asuka Shikinami Langley and her weapon, the Spear of Longinus. Asuka will be making her way to the anime-inspired free-to-play MMORPG as its newest simulacrum character [...]
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Deathwing the Destroyer is poised to emerge from the depths of Azeroth for another round of world smashing. He won’t be coming to World of Warcraft Classic until later this year, but open beta testing for Cataclysm Classic is now underway for those who want to help Blizzard iron out the kinks before its launch. “From the fires of destruction, [...]
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MMO players are going to be busy next week as some of the most popular MMOs prepare to roll out their respective updates. Unfortunately, that will no longer include New World’s Season of the Guardian as Amazon Game Studios pushes back the season launch indefinitely for more work and fine-tuning based on feedback gathered from testers. “To better address your [...]
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As layoffs continue to pile up in the video game industry, Capcom remains one of the few video game companies that seem to be weathering the financial storm. In fact, its even raising its employees’ salaries by at least 5% and increasing its monthly base starting salary for new hires by roughly 21%, from ¥235,000 to ¥300,000. All current employees [...]
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