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New World talks buffs and nerfs for weapons and siege weapons coming in May
Amazon is back with another episode of Forged in Aeternum this week, this time homing in on New World's combat, although technically, player experience design lead J.R. and combat designer Josh Hurley begin by addressing the messy launch of season five, promising to continue to work on shoring up the update.
Hurley then outlines what's on deck for the May...
Overwatch 2’s Season 10 arrives with spunky archaeologist hero Venture
Not every archaeologist is Indiana Jones; some are actually more destructive and insane as they plunder ruins for trinkets and treasures. One such figure is Venture, the newest hero to arrive in Overwatch 2.
Venture is a damage hero who officially launches with this week's Season 10 after the past few weeks of trialing: "Armed with a massive drill and...
Elder Scrolls Online is rolling back a ton of NA accounts after last night’s PTS database fiasco
If you happened to log into the PC NA server for Elder Scrolls Online last night, well, you couldn't log into Elder Scrolls Online last night. That's because a major bug brought at least a few of the servers to theirs knees.
The thread on the official forums from players last night made the problem clear: The North American server...
The Daily Grind: What problematic MMO trends have you become inured to?
I was reading a review of a certain tiny MMO the other day when a line jumped out at me. The player was complaining about $40 cosmetics and arguing that those prices are absolutely stupid and indefensible, yet people defend them anyway - essentially, because we've just gotten used to their existence over a long span of time.
The gamer...
The Stream Team: Daring to do Warframe’s Dante Unbound
In Warframe's recently update Dante Unbound, curator and caretaker of the Leverian has asked for help to defend it from Parvos Granum and the Corpus. Of course, Massively OP's MJ will step up to the task! She'll need to track down his assistant and chief chronicler, the Warframe Dante, facing the Murmur as she goes. Tune in live at...
EG7 transfers PlanetSide 2 development from Daybreak to Toadman, posts 2024 roadmap
Ever since Daybreak's February investor report that admitted the company had sold off a "noncore IP for USD 5.9 million" to " EG7 with further improvement to its liquidity" - an IP that later turned out to be PlanetSide - we've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. And now it has, although not really in the way...
Ubisoft pulls The Crew 1 from player libraries, encourages them to ‘check the store to pursue your adventures’
Last March was the final bell tolling for multiplayer racer The Crew 1, as Ubisoft completed an announced sunsetting of its servers, effectively making the game unplayable. It looks as if the company has decided to go above and beyond that step; it's straight-up removing the game from player libraries.
Players began reporting that licenses to the racer began disappearing...
Closers teases more story and a new character as Fun Month begins
We're going to preface this Closers news story with a little bit of forewarning: The video shared by the anime MMO recently is probably not going to make a whole lot of sense for those who aren't fully engrossed in its story. Still, even those without intimate knowledge of just what in the McAnime hell is going on can...
ARK Survival Ascended opens temporary Scorched Earth servers, confirms premium mods for consoles in April
Evidently there are a lot of fans who are trying to get into the Scorched Earth map of ARK: Survival Ascended - enough that Studio Wildcard has elected to open temporary servers to meet player demand, so those who really, really want to experience Scorched Earth first and foremost should be more readily able to do so now. Just...
World of Warcraft opens beta signups for The War Within
The hour of testing has arrived for World of Warcraft's next expansion... well, sort of. The hour of signing up for the hour of testing has arrived. More accurately the hours of testing, but... all right, this metaphor got away from us. The important thing is that you can now sign up to beta test The War Within by...
TERA is celebrating its sixth anniversary… on console, that is, because PC is still dead
Did you forget TERA was still alive? On console, anyway. The game's latest update opens the Draakon Arena dungeon in regular and hard mode, adds new accessory gem items (Arun Stones and Shara Stones), kicked off the Ancient Dungeon essence event, and tweaked Archers. But perhaps the most important update is the opening of the console version's sixth anniversary...
World of Warships adds the historical USS Wisconsin – and funds the restoration of the real deal
World of Warships is bringing an absolute unit of a ship to bear with its April patch. Update 13.3 arrived a few days ago with the USS Wisconsin, a Tier 10 Iowa-class battleship that boasts nine 406mm main battery guns.
Players who want to unlock the Wisconsin for play can either complete 30 shipbuilding combat missions or pay for a...
Survival MMO Myth of Empires hopes to make ancient Greek armor cool again
Two months out from launch, survival sandbox Myth of Empires is ramping up for post-release civilizations. One of those is Greece, which is slated to come to the game later in 2024 and bring a stylish new twist to the scene. In a second dev blog on the culture, the developers highlighted the steel armor sets coming with the...
Embers Adrift begins testing ‘content compression’ that seeks to address several gameplay issues
Does climbing up to a maximum of 50 levels in Embers Adrift fill you with a sense of dread? Would climbing up to 30 levels be better? That's effectively what's happening in the latest QA test build of the sandbox MMORPG, as Stormhaven Studios is working on a "content compression" update that hopes to get more people playing together.
The...
LawBreakers fans have created an emulator – with Cliff Bleszinski’s stamp of approval
Do you miss Boss Key Productions' team vs. team FPS LawBreakers? If you're among those who were left twisting in the wind after its 2018 shutdown, then you'll perhaps be delighted to learn that fans have come together to make a functional emulator of the game in the form of The RELB Project.
According to information posted in the emu's...
Wisdom of Nym: Benchmarks, better graphics, and bountiful schedules for Final Fantasy XIV
What kind of deal does Final Fantasy XIV have with the Yo-Kai Watch people? For some reason this event keeps not just re-running but actively expanding each time, despite the fact that the franchise is just plain not popular. The fourth game never even got localized here, and the brief moment of success that the game had in Japan has...
SMITE 2’s founder’s editions will get you into this spring’s alpha tests
Momentum is gathering behind SMITE 2, Hi-Rez's next entry in its hit MOBA franchise. One sign of this is the sale of Founder's Editions, which went live on Monday and offer benefits for both SMITE and SMITE 2.
While SMITE 2 will be free-to-play at launch, players may elect to pay for one of the three Founder's Editions to get...
Life is Feudal MMO continues its comeback with a relaunch on Steam
In May of 2023, we learned that the MMO portion of Life is Feudal was coming back from its 2021 sunset under the stewardship of Long Tale Games, a company that's big into crypto. That influence doesn't appear to have infected the game's return, however, and indeed that return is likely further set in stone as it's now available...
Albion Online is shaken to its Foundations with today’s massive territory update
While Albion Online is currently in the middle of open beta for the Albion Europe server - players have just under nine days to go until that server has officially launched - there's plenty to do in the sandbox in the meantime thanks to today's arrival of the Foundations update.
"Albion Online continues to enrich its guild warfare experience, with...
Guild Wars 2 teases next expansion, plans cosmetic inspection, and preps Super Adventure Box
Furbish up your "Fashion Wars" jokes, friends, because Guild Wars 2 is leaning hard into it. This morning, ArenaNet announced that this week's update (dropping April 16th) will "help level the playing field for new and aspiring fashionistas" by way of an inspect feature, so you can finally figure out what the people standing at the bank are wearing.
"After...
