Pearl Abyss has shared its vision for the future of Black Desert Online at the Heidel Ball 2025, an annual event that brings together the game’s global community. This year’s announcements covered sweeping changes and additions, including a new class, a fresh continent to explore, and a slew of quality-of-life improvements designed to make the game more approachable for both [...]
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Riot Games is making a significant change to its approach on sponsorships for its two flagship esports titles, League of Legends and Valorant. The company announced it will now allow official sports betting sponsors for its major esports tournaments, reversing a long-standing policy that kept betting-related advertising out of its broadcasts and events. Other competitive multiplayer games like Counter-Strike 2 [...]
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Monsters & Memories, an upcoming subscription based MMORPG inspired by EverQuest, wrapped up its 2 day community alpha test today. It was available to the public entirely for free. If you missed it, don't worry, the game will hold more free public tests up until its early access launch in Q1 2026. Additional testing is scheduled for July and August. [...]
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Wolcen Studio has announced that Project Pantheon, its upcoming extraction RPG, will hold its third Closed Alpha test (CA3) from July 25th to July 27th, 2025. This new phase brings a range of significant gameplay updates, including a full crafting system, expanded questlines, new enemies, and improvements to the player sanctuary. Project Pantheon is a free-to-play, live-service title that blends [...]
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Trials of Osiris is not your average PvP playlist. It’s chess with hand cannons. Every move is final. One overpeek, one missed melee, one premature super—and boom, you’re back in orbit holding a broken card and wondering what just happened. So here’s the thing: can pure skill still carry you? Or has Trials turned into a spreadsheet shooter—where god rolls [...]
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Eldramoor: Haven in the Mist, a new fantasy VR MMORPG, made a strong debut on Kickstarter on June 24, rapidly surpassing its initial funding goal in less than two hours. At the time of writing, the campaign has raised over $80,000, unlocking its first two stretch goals and closing in on a third. The game is being developed by Resolute [...]
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Pearl Abyss is set to bring a new playable demo of Crimson Desert to Gamescom 2025, giving attendees a first look at the game’s latest build. The event, hosted at the Koelnmesse Exhibition Center in Cologne from August 20 to 24, is one of the gaming industry’s biggest annual gatherings. Crimson Desert is an upcoming open-world action-adventure game from the [...]
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Dungeon Fighter Online, the long-running 2D beat-em-up MMORPG from Nexon, rolled out a new update titled "Forged God, Nabel" on June 27. This marks the arrival of the first-ever raid in the Sunken Depths region, expanding the game's roster of challenging endgame content. The centerpiece of the update is the introduction of Nabel, also known as Artificial God No. 3, [...]
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Persona5: The Phantom X, a mobile Persona game with gacha mechanics, launched today in English on Steam and mobile. The game has been out for over a year in China where it was developed by Perfect World and Atlus. While it's clearly designed as a mobile game, it has a robust PC client (that's 70 gigs in size). The game [...]
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Umamusume: Pretty Derby, one of the most popular and successful mobile games in Japan, launched today in English on both mobile and Steam. The game is developed and published by Cygames, the same studio behind Shadowverse. It originally launched back in 2021 and made its way to Western audiences today. The game's Steam launch is off to a strong start, [...]
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