Nexon is planning to implement drastic measures to get rid of the extra in-game currency floating around in the Korean version of MapleStory. That includes putting a hard limit on the amount of mesos that players can earn per day from grinding in open maps and removing the passive meso increase in reboot servers. The team also plans to introduce [...]
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Temtem has kicked off a brand-new competitive season with the release of Patch 1.6 earlier today. Dubbed Frozen Tales, the latest season offers new winter-themed content that takes players back to the critter-collecting MMO’s version of the Ice Age. “The slight chill in the air has now turned into a full-blown blizzard, and we remember the old glacial times. Frozen [...]
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The Last Epoch preview parade continues as we count down the last three weeks to its full launch on Steam. This time around, developer Eleventh Hour Games shines the spotlight on the first of the multiplayer ARPG’s final pair of class masteries, the Warlock. For context, Last Epoch’s class system features five base classes which then branch out into three [...]
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With Palworld’s almost immediate rise to video game stardom, it’s easy to forget that the Pokémon with guns MMO is still an early access game. That means that we can probably expect a whole bunch of new features down the line. It’s unclear whether that includes a minimap, but someone has made a mod for it anyway and it’s made [...]
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Inflexion Games is preparing for Nightingale’s early access launch next month and is making sure that everything is in order with a final stress test on February 3rd. The playtest will run for approximately three hours starting at 10 a.m. PST and will feature a “tailored version” of the early game minus the tutorial and with no build restrictions. Testers [...]
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The Epic Games vs. Apple legal drama isn’t quite over yet as it moves on to an epilogue of sorts that will see the return of Fortnite to iOS devices in Europe. As part of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) of 2022, big tech companies are now being given until March 7th to comply with the regulations set [...]
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The job toll in the video game and tech industries continues to rise as January comes to a close. Three more video game studios have been hit with layoffs this week, including People Can Fly, Black Forest Games, and Reikon Games, affecting approximately 140 employees across all three studios. At least 6,000 employees have now lost their jobs across over [...]
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Mithril Interactive is looking to give Dark and Darker a run for its money with its own hardcore first-person dungeon crawler, Dungeonborne. The game is set in a stunning UE-5 powered medieval fantasy world, not unlike those of The Elder Scrolls and Dungeons & Dragons franchises, with PvPvE extraction mechanics similar to Escape from Tarkov and Warzone 2.0’s DMZ mode. [...]
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Enshrouded seems to be doing pretty well following its early access launch on Steam earlier this week. The multiplayer survival crafting is currently enjoying “Very Positive” reviews and just set an all-time peak concurrency of 160,405 players this morning. For an early access game, Enshrouded seems to be extremely polished, apart from one glaring issue: its quests are all server-based. [...]
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Creepypasta-inspired co-op survival game Escape the Backrooms is seeing a huge surge in popularity over the past few days thanks to an ongoing Steam sale. Since the sale went live, the game’s peak concurrency has soared from roughly 2,000 players to an all-time high of 16,529 concurrent players. The spike can also be attributed to the release of its latest [...]
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