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The Stream Team: Fate’s Lost Dream in Elder Scrolls Online
If searching the volume of the card catalogues of yesteryear gave you nightmares, then the Tranquil Catalogue in Elder Scrolls Online's Apocrypha might just elicit some flashbacks. Tonight, Massively OPs MJ, along with the Watchling Scruut, needs to search the place for Vaerniba's servants to stop them from locating and stealing a secret. Join us live at 8:00 p.m....
Astroneer challenges players to plant 10M in-game trees in order to save real trees (and wildlife)
Planting trees is always a good thing, whether it's in the real world or in the sci-fi survivalbox Astroneer, but now those two benefits are going to hold hands thanks to an updated EXO Cares Initiative event that challenges players to plant digital trees so a meatspace charity can get a helpful donation.
The annual event brings with it the...
World of Warcraft previews the Dark Heart update arriving on May 7
Hasn't World of Warcraft promised the final chapter in Dragonflight a couple of times now? Well hold on to your hats because the very absolutely definitely finalest possible chapter (we mean it) arrives on May 7th with the Dark Heart update. It couldn't be more final. It gives access to all of the expansion to all max-level characters regardless...
Palworld CEO addresses Tencent-backed ‘clone game’ Auroria and similar Chinese mobile titles
Pocket Pair CEO Takuro Mizobe is seeing what having the shoe on the other foot feels like, as he has apparently taken notice of Auroria, an in-development survival sandbox from the Tencent-backed studio Tianjin Wumai Technology that he characterizes as a "clone game."
Auroria is an upcoming cooperative sci-fi survivalbox for PC and mobile that sees players land on an...
Sony shuts down LittleBigPlanet 3 for good, along with all its online player-created levels
The only thing worse than your favorite online game getting a sunset is seeing it abruptly shut down with no warning while taking everything you made in it away. This worst case scenario happened this past weekend to fans of Sony's multiplayer puzzle-platform LittleBigPlanet 3, as the studio announced that it is permanently shutting down the game over "ongoing...
Mabinogi’s latest quality-of-life update lets players enjoy minigames anywhere
The month of April is all about quality-of-life improvements for players of Mabinogi, as the game's most recent patch has offered several things to make the MMO more enjoyable. Which is pretty much the definition of a quality-of-life patch. It's genuinely that simple.
The tentpole feature for this update is a new minigames menu that lets players enjoy all of...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen talks pre-alpha Season 3’s new region and future testing content plans
With Season 2 of pre-alpha for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen winding forward to its final weeks, the devs at Visionary Realms are now putting much of their attention into Season 3, so that's naturally the focus of the studio's latest Q&A video.
Chapter 1 Season 3 of testing will introduce the realm of Hanggore, the Orcish "land of blood...
Valheim brings the Ashlands update to its public test server, confirms the game’s nearly full release
After three years in early access and over a year since the update was first announced, the Viking costumed survival sandbox Valheim is finally seeing its new Ashlands biome and related content drop to the game. Or at least to its test server, anyway; this is another case of the test needing to be tested before it goes to...
EVE Online brings login rewards and new missions to its April 30 Capsuleer Day anniversary event
It will soon be time for EVE Online to celebrate 21 years of operation, and you know what that means! Capsuleer Day is coming back from April 30th to May 30th, bringing with it new things for players to do and free stuff for them to gather up like birthday hat-wearing loot gremlins.
Players can expect to see new missions...
Dune Awakening explains why ‘spice is power’ for this upcoming survival MMO
Even those most tangentially aware of the Dune franchise are aware that everyone in that setting is pretty crazy about spice. This resource fuels the conflict between the major factions in the books and promises to do the same in the upcoming Dune Awakening.
In a new short video, Funcom explains why you'll be spice mad just like everyone else...
Star Citizen says alpha 3.23’s personal hangars would have made the game ‘literally unplayable’
This past weekend, we reported on the news that Star Citizen had to delay the addition of personal hangars and other related gameplay elements from alpha 3.23, opting instead to add those long-awaited features to sometime in later content patches. CIG followed up on this announcement in its weekly Q&A video, which brought on senior lead gameplay engineer Chad...
Wisdom of Nym: Does Final Fantasy XIV not have enough minigames?
Based on a wholly out-of-context reading, the headline for this edition of Wisdom of Nym might sound completely ridiculous. Final Fantasy XIV is not a game lacking for minigames. Heck, FFXIV is not a game lacking for content in general, but minigames? You have the Gold Saucer which exists purely for minigames, which includes a card game that can...
Embracer Group announces plans to split itself into ‘three standalone publicly listed entities’
That's right, friends, Embracer Group is back in the business headlines again. Following the stated end of restructuring efforts, corporate leadership has now decided to cut the company up into "three standalone publicly listed entities" to allow them to "focus on their respective core strategies and offer more differentiated and distinct equity stories for existing and new shareholders."
Of the...
Destiny 2 moves group finder out of beta and confirms Into the Light’s permanent content
The weekly Destiny 2 newsletter is once again about the future of the online FPS, specifically offering some advanced looks and important dates for its Final Shape expansion and the current Into the Light update. So let's dig in.
In regard to the expansion, Bungie outlined updates coming to the clans feature that include the addition of a vendor reputation...
Diablo IV runs a charity promotion that sends millions of maggots to feed recovering birds
We appreciate that the idea of maggots paired with our "warm fuzzies" tag might seem at odds, but there's a really good reason why these otherwise disparate notions are being folded together: Diablo IV has begun a charitable campaign that trades likes on a tweet for maggots to send to hungry and hospitalized birds.
For every 25 likes that the...
Nightingale confirms crafting and quality-of-life improvements with next patch
While Victorian-era survivalbox Nightingale has mostly been focused on fixing things and adjusting features, the devs at Inflexion Games appear to be ready to deploy one of its more sizeable updates due soon. According to the studio, this patch will affect several aspects of crafting and make some much needed quality-of-life updates.
In terms of quality-of-life, the patch will (finally)...
Path of Exile’s Steam account is temporarily compromised, sends out scam invites to POE 2 early access
If you saw a message on the official Path of Exile Steam page inviting you to click a link for Path of Exile 2 early access signups, and you clicked on that link, you're going to want to change your passwords and otherwise take steps to secure your data: That signup link was actually a phishing scam.
As first noticed...
Aion Classic celebrates its first birthday in Europe this week with boosts and freebies
It might be cheating to count anniversaries for different versions of an MMORPG, but are you really going to complain if it means more reasons to party? Didn't think so, and neither did Gameforge, which is kicking off a celebration for Aion Classic Europe's first anniversary this week.
"Today, Gameforge is delighted to officially announce AION Classic Europe’s upcoming first...
The Daily Grind: Are there any standard MMO UI elements you consider ‘optional’?
Back in February, MMO YouTuber MarleMMO reminded me that Ashes of Creation is planning to obscure enemy health bars during PvP - a concept that sounds nuts but actually has been done before. "IIRC, you couldn't even see health bars at all in Darkfall," he said. "Its system was closer to Monster Hunter in which you could only determine...
MMO Week in Review: PlanetSide 2 departs Daybreak, WoW tests War Within
PlanetSide 2 is undergoing another round of upheaval this week as EG7-owned Daybreak announced that it's transferring development of the game over to EG7-owned Toadman, following news from earlier this year that the IP has been sold to a third party. It's not entirely clear what's happened to the Rogue Planet staff at Daybreak who'd been working on the...
