Standing Stone Games reopened the Lord of the Rings Online test server earlier this week to put Update 39 through its paces. Testing is now in full swing for nearly all of Corsairs of Umbar’s final set of instances, except for The Streets of Râhal Bakh three-player instance, which the studio says will be coming soon to the test build. [...]
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Smilegate and Amazon are planning a sweeping round of server merges and one massive region merge for Lost Ark by popular demand. The server merges will include all four server regions and will be done in two batches, the first on March 6 and the second on March 13. Those will be followed by a region merge this summer which [...]
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Hearthstone is turning ten years old next month and Blizzard is marking the milestone with Year of the Pegasus, a year-long celebration that begins on March 11. Over the next 12 months, players can look forward to a plethora of freebies, in-game events, new game modes, and new cards courtesy of three upcoming expansions for the free-to-play card battler. “It [...]
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Tower of Fantasy is introducing a frosty new simulacrum character named Yanuo when its next update lands next week. Yanuo is a master of disguise who wields explosive icy spells and a high-tech spear called Wicked. Her love for roleplaying also allows her to easily hide her true identity as a cold and ruthless undercover agent under a happy-go-lucky façade. [...]
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ZeniMax is back like clockwork to follow up its Elder Scrolls Online DLC announcement with a preview of the first of its two dungeons. For Scions of Ethelia, that’s the Oathsworn Pit dungeon, a training ground for the loyal orc followers of the Daedric Prince Malacath, a.k.a. the God of Curses and plenty of other ominous titles. The Pit has [...]
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Now that Final Fantasy XIV is in the final leg of its ongoing story arc, Square Enix has lifted several gameplay restrictions to allow players to make the most of their remaining time on Eorzea before they're whisked away to another continent in this summer's Dawntrail expansion. Yesterday’s update bumped up the weekly Allagan tomestone cap to 900, which in [...]
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It looks like things are starting to pick up for NCSoft as the South Korean video game publisher finally sees a 15% increase in revenue after a three-quarter drop, according to its Q4 2023 financial report. It’s still far below the company’s Q4 2022 and annual revenues are still down by 31% compared to 2022 but it’s a start. To [...]
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Blizzard is making its World of Warcraft Classic hardcore servers even more hardcore with the addition of the Self-Found mode. The new mode will require you to put a lot more effort into finding items and gear with no one to rely on but yourself. The in-game mail, auction house, and all forms of trading will be disabled in addition [...]
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Overwatch 2 is cooking up another major anime collaboration featuring the classic 90s space western animated series Cowboy Bebop. Blizzard hasn’t officially announced the crossover event just yet, but we do know that it’s coming at some point during Season 9 thanks to a teaser at the end of the season trailer. The clip shows Overwatch 2’s resident cowboy, Cassidy, [...]
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Seekers of Skyveil started its development journey as a co-op fantasy ARPG codenamed Project Skies before Elodie Games decided to hop on the extraction game bandwagon and take the game along for the ride. Seekers of Skyveil is now a full-fledged PvPvE extraction fantasy RPG and has been in alpha testing since October 2023. Elodie Games has regularly been running [...]
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