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The fantasy anime MMORPG Aura Kingdom just launched its latest update today titled Awakening which introduces the following new features: A new awakening system (Increased level cap) New maps: Secret Forest Lake, Hidden Valley, and more 2 new dungeons: Tree Cave (Level 95 minimum) and Obscura Temple (Level 101 minimum) New events: Tyr's and Ayako's Gaia Chronicle Beetle Event and [...]
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Square Enix announced Final Fantasy XIV's latest expansion today titled Shadowbringers, which will be launching Summer, 2019. Shadowbringers will mark the start of Patch 5.0, just as Stormblood was 4.0 and Heavensward was 3.0. As many speculated in the past, Shadowbringers will be about a major conflict with the Garlean Empire. New features: NPC battle-assist system called 'Trust' System (Likely [...]
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Tera just launched its latest update today on the PC titled Fiery Featherweights which adds quite a bit of new goodies to the game. The update is aptly titled Fiery Featherweights because it allows Elins, the game's smallest and objectively cutest class, to play as Brawlers. New content wise the game is adding a new 5 player dungeon titled Bahaar's [...]
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G-Star, Korea’s marquee gaming trade show kicks off on November 15 in the port city of Buson. While most of the announcements made at G-Star only immediately effect the Korean market, the out sized influence Korea exerts in global PC & mobile gaming market makes the trade show well worth following for gamers across the world. Odds are the games [...]
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It has been a productive year for Grinding Gear Games and their free to play action-RPG Path of Exile. In May, Tencent took a majority stake of 80% in the New Zealand based studio. We've also seen three leagues so far: The Bestiary, Incursion, and current Delve league. GGG has decided to round out the year by bringing the unique [...]
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7 years and 100 billion Won (~$88 million USD) later, Lost Ark finally entered Open Beta Testing in South Korea on November 7, 2018. Smilegate, the company behind Lost Ark, has announced that they are targeting 'more developed countries' such as North America and Europe for their next launch phase. Usually China proves to be a more alluring next-step for [...]
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How many hours a day did you spend playing video games when you were a kid? If Tencent's new policy is any guide towards China's emerging gaming regulations, the likely answer to that question for future generations will be precisely '2 hours.' Earlier this week Tencent, China's largest gaming company and the owner of international hits like League of Legends, [...]
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BlizzCon 2018 took place last week, and boy was it one for the history books. The game announcements were nice, Destiny 2 is free to keep if you claim it by Nov 18, and a remastered version of Warcraft 3 titled Warcraft 3: Reforged is coming out next year. But the real story this year was how badly Blizzard bungled [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment announced a brand new Diablo game today on Mobile titled Diablo: Immortal in partnership with Chinese gaming giant Netease. Diablo: Immortal is a Massively Multiplayer Online Action RPG (MMOARPG) set during the events between Diablo 2 and Diablo 3. A playable demo of the game is available at Blizzcon with a release expected sometime in 2019. Diablo Immortal [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment announced today at Blizzcon that World of Warcraft Classic will be launching Summer 2019 and will be available to anyone with a World of Warcraft subscription. While WoW Classic is available to beta test today at Blizzcon and at home for those that have a virtual ticket, everyone else will need to wait until the Summer to give [...]
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