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Valofe has settled on a date for Kritika Online’s return as Kritika: Zero following its relaunch announcement last month. The anime-styled free-to-play MMORPG will be available to download and play through the VFUN platform starting on January 25. The game will also be launching on Steam but its Steam page has yet to be updated with a launch date. “Immerse [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment is capping off the year with its 2024 development roadmap for both the retail and classic versions of World of Warcraft. Next year’s highlights, of course, include The War Within, the first expansion of the new Worldsoul Saga trilogy, and Cataclysm Classic. Both releases are at least six months away, but players can look forward to three more [...]
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Tencent offers a post-mortem report on Tarisland’s second closed beta test last month, revealing some of the adjustments that they’ll be making in response to player feedback. Apparently, one of the main complaints about the game is its gender-locked classes and the developers have promised to remove it entirely. “[We] have decided to remove the gender lock for all the [...]
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To say that World of Warcraft’s lore is extensive is a bit of an understatement. It spans nearly three decades in real world time and millennia in the game world that started with the original Warcraft real-time strategy games, evolved through multiple novels, novellas, and short stories from different authors, and continues to grow as Blizzard Entertainment releases more expansions [...]
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Another The Game Awards has come and gone and a pretty controversial one at that. Drama aside, the media outlets have spoken and named the best games in 31 categories, all of which were announced during the awards show livestream earlier this week. Alan Wake 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3 came out on top this year with eight nominations apiece. [...]
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Whil EverQuest helped popularize the MMORPG genre over 20 years ago back in 1999, the game is far from dead and is still releasing expansions regularly. The game's 30th expansion, titled "Laurion's Song", officially launched yesterday and with it comes new areas for players to explore as well as several new features including: Increased level cap to 125 Alternate Personas [...]
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Rockstar Games has suffered from a case of premature err… publication as its highly awaited Grand Theft 6 trailer was leaked prior to tomorrow’s big reveal. Not to be deterred, the studio has decided to release the game’s first official trailer earlier than expected, asking fans to “watch the real thing.” Grand Theft Auto 6 takes players back to Vice [...]
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Under a Rock is a colorful new open-world multiplayer survival crafting game from Chinese indie developer Nordic Trolls and Gameforge. Players take on the role of early 19th century hot air balloon explorers stranded on a mysterious island where magic is real and creatures have evolved differently from the rest of the world. Nordic Trolls describes it as, “A procedural [...]
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Aika Online will be coming back to life in a few short days through the efforts of HanbitSoft and CBM Interactive. The 14-year-old MMORPG is officially relaunching on December 5th with an opening event and pre-registration rewards to mark the occasion. Pre-registration is still open for those who want to score a free one-month premium package which includes membership perks, [...]
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Krafton is looking to cash in on the popularity of extraction shooters with a PUBG: Battlegrounds spinoff called Project Black Budget. The shooter subgenre was first popularized by Escape From Tarkov and The Division’s Dark Zone game mode a few years back and has continued to gain traction to become the current go-to genre for studios and players. Not much [...]
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