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NCSoft’s promised Lineage game won’t have anything in common with other Lineage games except, well… nothing, as the studio revealed in a new dev blog. Project TL, a.k.a Lineage 3 (also Lineage Eternal and Project The Lineage) has been rebranded as Throne and Liberty to reflect the team’s new direction and vision for the game. Apparently, the game has been [...]
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Genshin Impact's newest update, titled Zephyr of the Violet Garden, is set to launch on March 30, 2022. The newest update to the hit mobile action RPG includes the following new features: The Chasm: a brand new area for players to explore located at the westernmost of Liyu. The new zone features a ton of new story content and enemies. [...]
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As promised, the Blade and Soul Unchained Chaos update is now live with the Gunslinger’s third class specialization – the Way of the Arsenal. The new class spec is available to all Gunslingers who have completed the “Legacy of the Hongmoon Clan” quest. “[…] The Way of the Arsenal skill spec uses a high-tech wrist launcher to summon holographic guns [...]
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Swords of Legends Online, the Chinese developed fantasy action MMORPG, officially went free to play today with the launch of its Firestone Legacy Update. Prior to going free to play, the game was struggling with its playerbase numbers, averaging just 177 players online in February. With the recent free to play transition, the game hit 2,500 peak players which should [...]
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Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons, the latest expansion for the game, went live earlier today. ArenaNet also released a new launch trailer for End of Dragons, which you can check out below: Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons Launch TrailerWatch this video on YouTube End of Dragons includes new raids, strike missions, items, skills, elite specializations, monsters, fractals, and [...]
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An official post published on February 16, 2022 announced that Royal Crown would be shutting down on April 28, 2022. Released on February 23, 2021 Royal Crown was a PC/Mobile multiplatform Battle Royale title with fantasy and RPG elements. The game was published by Line and enjoyed some success during its initial launch window, with the concurrent Steam player count [...]
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While the Lost Ark head start program has been a massive success (over 530,000 concurrent users), Lost Ark officially launched today which means anyone can play the game without having to purchase a founders pack (though they're still available). Now that anyone can play for free the game's player base has shot up to nearly 1,000,000 concurrent players. Lost Ark's [...]
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Living Phoenix Entertainment announced a fork of their in-development Tibia-inspired 2.5D MMORPG on January 22, 2022. Dubbed Ravendawn Eternal, the game will be a blockchain-powered fork of Ravendawn Online. Ravendawn Online is expected to release first and will be free of NFT and Blockchain elements. Many gamers, including many of the original crowdfunding backers of Ravendawn Online, have no interest [...]
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It looks like TERA didn’t quite capture the hearts of Japanese players as it did the rest of the world and will officially be shutting down just three and a half years since it first arrived in the region. Japanese publisher Pmang announced the closure on Twitter with the sunset date set for April 20, 2022. “Thank you for using [...]
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Every year around the holidays I place a bet. Every year around the holidays I lose a bet. What I lose is time. What I gain is 200 levels in MapleStory. My 3080ti groans. The bets are always inane, stupid, trivial. One year I said that NBC would run sympathetic headlines about Incels by New Years. I played Adele. This [...]
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