Bethesda Softworks is in the spotlight once again following the launch of its single-player space RPG Starfield earlier this week. It’s not the good kind either as the community points out the game’s buggy launch and similarly bumpy launches in the past. Bethesda Head of Publishing Pete Hines addressed player concerns in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz. He also touched on [...]
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Funcom was forced to roll back all 780 of Conan Exiles’ official servers after a recently added decay timer accidentally made thralls disappear much earlier than intended. All the official servers were reset to Friday, September 1st to bring back the lost companions at the cost of losing all progress made after the rollback point. “While not ideal, given the [...]
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Vela Games is desperately trying to stay afloat after the community’s lukewarm reception of its MOBA/MMO hybrid Evercore Heroes. The game kicked off paid closed beta testing in June but failed to draw in a big enough crowd to support the title and the studio. As a result, Vela Games was forced to reduce its team size and pull the [...]
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Activision is stepping up its anti-toxicity measures in Call of Duty games with a new voice chat moderation system. The publisher touts the new tool as “the next leap forward” in its ongoing battle to combat toxicity and disruptive behavior in the multiplayer shooter series. It’s basically a version of Modulate’s ToxMod that’s been tweaked to work with Call of [...]
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The free to play battle royale Ring of Elysium is shutting down. In a terse official notice posted on Steam, it was announced that the game would be closed on December 1, 2023. Ring of Elysium first launched in 2018 and offered a free to play experience inspired by PUBG: Battlegrounds. The game had several interesting mobility features including climbing [...]
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Phoenix Labs has been facing intense criticism from the Dauntless playerbase due to the content drought that’s currently plaguing the monster hunting MMO. It’s not just the lack of content either as the studio has also been recycling battle passes and events for a few months now. The said complaints, however, haven’t fallen on deaf ears and Phoenix Labs is [...]
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Sea of Thieves has kicked off the next chapter in its ongoing Legend of the Monkey Island narrative with a new Tall Tales questline. The next installment of the Tall Tales series, aptly-titled “The Quest for Guybrush” tasks players with freeing Guybrush from a prison dream by taking on three new Legendary Trials. “Guybrush has been imprisoned in a dream-world [...]
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With Baldur’s Gate 3’s massive first update now live on the servers, Larian Studios is now gearing up for the release of patch number two, which they teased is “right around the corner”. In spite of the first patch’s massive size, it lacked any new content updates and focused mainly on bug fixes and various gameplay improvements. The team, however, [...]
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Skull and Bones’ long-delayed closed beta test, while brief, turned out to be a relative success with no major issues reported over the four-day playtest. Testers, however, apparently made the most out of those four days, waging nearly 550,000 naval battles that resulted in the sinking of over 750,000 ships. Ubisoft also reported that players collectively sailed a distance equal [...]
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After a slight delay, Palia’s first-month long event, the Maji Market, is now live and open for business. As previously revealed, the titular market will only be open when it’s nighttime in the game. The event will run from now until September 26th while the market itself will be open from 6 p.m. – 3 a.m. Palia time. “Every evening [...]
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