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HoYoverse, the studio best known for the open-world RPG Genshin Impact and the sci-fi hit Honkai: Star Rail, is stepping away from flashy combat and into cozier territory with Petit Planet. The newly announced life simulation game is heading to PC and mobile, and the first “Coziness Test” closed beta is now taking sign-ups. This announcement comes after HoYoverse announced [...]
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Blue Protocol: Star Resonance, the anime-styled MMORPG, now has an official western launch date of 9 October 2025. The studio confirmed that the game will arrive simultaneously on PC, iOS, and Android, with full cross-platform progression. Players can already wishlist the title on Steam and the Epic Games Store or pre-register on Google Play and the App Store. While the [...]
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Amazon Games is gearing up to launch Season 10: Nighthaven for its PC MMO New World: Aeternum on Monday, October 13. The patch is free for all and represents one of the game’s most sweeping overhauls since its 2021 debut. Beyond the usual new zone and story questline, the update raises the level cap to 70, introduces a fresh 10-player [...]
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Pearl Abyss has released the second chapter of Edania: The Demon Realm for Black Desert Online, expanding the fantasy MMO’s latest narrative arc with fresh quests, high level monster zones, and a competitive throne defense system. The update is available now on PC and arrives as the studio celebrates its 15th anniversary. First launched in the West in 2016, Black [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of “Turtle WoW” today, alleging the private server enterprise infringes World of Warcraft copyrights and trademarks, circumvents anti-piracy protections, and even constitutes a racketeering enterprise. The complaint was filed August 29, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Case No. 2:25-cv-08194). Turtle WoW has long [...]
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In a lengthy post today Final Fantasy XIV game director Naoki Yoshida clarified the game's stance on using mods. This comes after one of the game's most popular mods "Mare Synchronos" was taken offline after a receiving a "legal inquiry". The mod was a platform of sorts that allowed users to register custom visuals and animations which were 'synced' to [...]
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HoYoverse has revealed Honkai: Nexus Anima, the next game in the long-running Honkai series, and is already taking applications for its first closed beta, the “Nexus Bond Test.” The studio, best known for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, describes Nexus Anima as a creature-collecting strategy title that blends team-building with the fast-paced combat. Based on the trailer, the core [...]
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Blizzard has officially announced Midnight, the second chapter in World of Warcraft’s multi-expansion Worldsoul Saga, and digital preorders are live starting today. The expansion returns players to Quel’Thalas for the first time since 2007’s The Burning Crusade, while pushing the ongoing Light-versus-Void storyline that began in the upcoming expansion, The War Within. Digital editions are priced at $49.99 (Base), $69.99 [...]
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Square Enix has pushed live Patch 7.3, The Promise of Tomorrow, for Final Fantasy XIV. The update continues the post-Dawntrail storyline and expands the ongoing crossover raid series, Echoes of Vana’diel, which pays homage to 2002’s Final Fantasy XI. Players can dive into new main scenario quests, tackle a fresh dungeon, and square off against Seiryu in a revamped Unreal [...]
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Guild Wars 2 is preparing to release its sixth expansion, Visions of Eternity, on October 28, 2025. Developer ArenaNet has outlined a variety of new content and features for the long-running MMORPG, continuing its trend of yearly expansions and system updates. This expansion will open up the previously unexplored island realm of Castora, bringing with it new areas, storylines, and [...]
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