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In their latest dev blog, Red 5 announced the tinkering feature that will soon be available in Firefall. These tinkers are "craftspeople, technicians, and scientists who are at the cutting edge of crystite technology. Found in major locations such as Copacabana, Dredge, and Kanaloa Research Station, you’ll be able to use their services to upgrade your weapons, abilities, and battleframe [...]
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The ever popular Bobby Drake was added to the endless roster of Marvel Heroes earlier this week. As his name might suggest, Iceman wields an assortment of cold-based abilities, used to defeat the enemies before him. Players are able to purchase him in-game and jump right into the action. Gazillion is also offering an Iceman Hero Pack that includes the base hero, two [...]
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Star Citizen released their monthly report for February, and as always, it is a doozy. Chris Roberts went into extreme detail, talking about the statuses of various studios around the world. He also talked about the states of the engineering, design, and art teams and how they would move forward. Most importantly, Roberts discussed Arena Commander 1.1, stating that it [...]
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In a similar vein to the successful Naxxramas expansion last year, Blizzard has officially announced the Blackrock Mountain adventure pack for Hearthstone. Coming out in only one month's time, it was also feature five wings with 31 new cards to spice up the current metagame. Purchasing the full bundle will cost $24.99, but players will also be able buy each wing [...]
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After the death of Leonard Nimoy last week, there were numerous showings of support and remembrance throughout the world. Star Trek Online has just put up their personal memorial dedicated to the half-Vulcan, but also took it one step further. In addition to the statue erected in-game, Cryptic Studios also saw fit to have a plaque engraved with the names of other [...]
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Overwatch, the upcoming battle arena game shown off at last year's Blizzcon has been progressing without any real information as to when it would come out. Well, fans need not hold their breaths any longer. Blizzard officially announced at PAX East that the game would be coming out in beta form Fall 2015. That means players will be able to play [...]
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During PAX East this weekend, the staff at ArenaNet officially announced that there would be closed beta testing for Heart of Thorns coming very soon. While an official date was not announced, the Guild Wars 2 team stated that after attending Rezzed next weekend, "[they'll] start closed beta testing shortly after." The words "closed beta" might cut deep in some [...]
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The new entrant to the MOBA genre, Infinite Crisis, is coming to Steam later this month. Announced by Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment, the game will be officially released on Valve's content platform on March 26th. This is the date in which the game will be out of beta and officially launched, so fans should make sure to mark it [...]
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Often referred to as the true successor to the ever popular MMORPG, Ragnarok Online, Tree of Savior has been slowly making progress in its country of development, Korea. However, international fans are often forced to paw at the scraps of information given by imcGAMES. This is why there was a big surprise earlier today when the legendary "Father of Korean Online [...]
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Daybreak Games has seemingly sought fit to reduce the powers of their gamemasters in both EverQuest and EverQuest II. This is reflected in an updated support policy for EverQuest, which details when the gamemasters would not intervene. Many things that they were able to do before, such as fixing deleted items and restoring deleted characters, are now beyond their powers. The GMs will [...]
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