Star Citizen is running another Free Fly event to help draw more players into its persistent sci-fi sandbox universe. The free-play event will allow new players to explore the entire game world with a handful of free ships that you can use to get around. Developer Cloud Imperium Games is also encouraging existing Star Citizen players to invite their friends [...]
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Love Conquers All returns to DC Universe Online in celebration of Valentine’s Day, featuring the tragic tale of Mister Freeze and his efforts to bring his wife Nora back from cryostasis at the risk of destroying the whole of Gotham City. “Mister Freeze knows what the Zamaron crystals are capable of and has hatched a plan to bring his wife [...]
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Jagex confirmed earlier reports that its being sold off by its current owner, The Carlyle Group, to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners in an official press release. After “exclusive negotiations” the CVC Capital has agreed to acquire the RuneScape developer for an undisclosed amount, although its reportedly around €900 million, or roughly $1.13 billion. “CVC Capital Partners will support [...]
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2K Games subsidiary Visual Concepts, the studio behind NBA 2K and Lego 2K Drive, has been hit with a second round of job cuts following the mass layoffs in September 2023. Former art manager Brad Bowling confirmed the unfortunate news on LinkedIn, saying, ”The games industry bloodletting continues. Today, Visual Concepts Austin laid off myself and a group of very [...]
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Erollisi Marr has returned to EverQuest and EverQuest 2 as both of Darkpaw Games’ classic MMORPGs kick off their respective Valentine’s-themed Erollisi Day celebrations. EverQuest’s version of the event is basically a rerun, with the usual assortment of limited-time quests, achievements, and rewards. Several items in the cash shop will also be available at 15% off until February 20. Erollisi [...]
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The future is looking a bit ominous for Fractured Veil following a round of server merges earlier this week. While it could just be chalked up to poor pre-launch planning, merging servers just two weeks after launch doesn’t exactly instill confidence in the game, especially with Mixed reviews and a peak concurrency of just 16 players on Steam. The list [...]
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Free-to-play anime MMORPG Closers is celebrating its sixth anniversary with a boatload of free item giveaways as part of its first-ever jumping event. No, it doesn’t involve jumping around to get rewards, but gives everyone free express tickets to max level. From now until March 27, all newly created characters will receive a free boost to level 92 along with [...]
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World of Warcraft Classic moves on to phase two of its experimental Season of Discovery content with the release of its first major post-launch update. The update introduced a new batch of build-changing ability runes, bumped up the level cap to level 40, and opened the doors to the new Gnomeregan raid. “Gnomeregan is a 10-player raid dungeon consisting of [...]
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If there’s one thing that Amazon learned in the two years that Lost Ark has been operating in the west, it’s that players suck at completing raids. According to the game’s Year 2 infographic, players have died nearly 61 million times in the fantasy MMORPG’s pinnacle raids. Nearly 50 million of those deaths were at the hands of the commander [...]
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One of the key additions coming to World of Warcraft when The War Within expansion arrives later this year is the new hero talent system. Blizzard describes it as an “evergreen form of character progression” that will offer new unlockable spells and abilities for each of the game’s classes and their respective specializations. It’s still a work-in-progress but Blizzard is [...]
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