Dungeons and Dragons Online quest packs aren’t the only things that Standing Stone Games is giving away to mark the D&D franchise’s 50th anniversary. The studio is also promising monthly dragon-themed freebies until the end of the year as part of its Year of the Dragon celebration. “[…] Starting on the last Wednesday of every month, new drops will be [...]
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Funcom is back with a new Dune: Awakening preview reel narrated by yet another member of the dev team. This time around, Chief Creative Officer Joel Bylos talks up solo and group gameplay in the upcoming open world survival MMO. “When playing alone, you’ll be able to explore the world and find unique locations marked by the Fremen and left [...]
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New World players can finally embark on cross-world expeditions with the release of Patch 4.0.4, promising faster matchmaking times now that players can group up with players from any of the available servers. “Similar to Outpost Rush, any player from any world within the same region can be matched together to form a new instance,” says Amazon. “This means significantly [...]
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Lost Ark officially kicked off its anniversary celebration with the release of its 2 Extreme update earlier today. As previously revealed, the stylized update title refers to the western version’s second anniversary and the addition of an extreme challenge mode for the Valtan legion raid. The anniversary event itself is twofold, promising several weeks of seasonal quests and missions for [...]
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Airship Syndicate continues to fine-tune Wayfinder with an upcoming patch that will introduce major changes to in-game menus, another round of balance changes, and quality-of-life improvements. The bigger half of the update will focus on giving the entire user interface a fresh coat of paint to make it look sleeker and make it more user-friendly. That includes an overhaul to [...]
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Since Enshrouded launched to critical acclaim on Steam a few weeks ago, its developer Keen Games has been busy churning out hotfix after hotfix for the co-op survival sandbox game. This week isn’t any different, except that the fixes now come in a slightly larger package in the form of the game’s first major post-launch update. The update is relatively [...]
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Tencent has gobbled up another video game development studio as it acquires controlling stake in Beijing-based Wangyuan Shengtang Entertainment. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the studio behind the now-defunct wuxia-inspired fantasy MMORPG Swords of Legends Online. The Chinese tech and media giant now owns 94% of Wangyuan Shengtang, which it already had a 20% stake in, along [...]
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RuneScape developer Jagex is once again up for sale to the highest bidder, in this case it’s CVC Capital Partners. According to Sky News, the studio’s current owner, The Carlyle Group, is currently in “exclusive negotiations” with the private equity firm after it out-bid other interested companies with its £900 million ($1.13 billion) offer for controlling stake of Jagex. Other [...]
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Visionary Realms is expanding its Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen testing pool and starting with this month’s alpha test. A bigger testing pool means that the developers will be able to gather more feedback and data on a larger scale. The next alpha test will also mark the studio’s shift to seasonal content updates every six weeks. “Every six weeks [...]
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Don’t you just hate it when your opponent in Mortal Online 2 would rather cower behind their shield as you pummel them with blows for what seems like forever. The good news is that you’ll no longer find yourself in that situation when the next balance rolls out. If you’re the cowering shield-user, enjoy it while it lasts my friend [...]
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