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Fight or Kite: Gigantic is a fantastic MOBA, but it’s missing a bit of Q and A and TLC
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been keeping a cursory eye on the development and release of Gigantic: Rampage Edition - another resurrected MOBA game. I suppose I’m on a bit of a kick with these recently. However, this time I’m not playing a spin-off of Paragon. Instead, it’s the revival of another popular title that was scrubbed...
Grand Theft Auto Online hikes its optional monthly subscription fee GTA+ by two bucks
Stealing cars, gunrunning, and building a criminal empire in Grand Theft Auto Online is about to become more expensive.
Starting on June 11th for existing subs (and immediately for new accounts), Rockstar will increase the subscription price for GTA+ from $5.99 (€5.99) a month to $7.99 (€7.99). This marks the first time that the studio jacked up the sub price...
Myth of Empires plans a new region-locked Jade Era server set for North America and Europe
Survival MMO Myth of Empires is entering its Jade era - that is, it's launching a ton of new localized North American and European servers under the Jade Era server group name.
"The Jade Era server group is exclusively for North American and European players; players from other regions will not be able to enter," Angela Game's T'ien-Kung Studio explains....
Metaverse MMO Avalon gets $10M investment, talks up its game features, AI tools, and Web3
Depending on one's point of view, this news is either the next step forward for Jeffrey Butler's gestating MMO Avalon or proof that investors will throw money at anything if the right buzzwords are used: The still-developing title, which promises player-built worlds using AI tools in a metaverse of play linked to Web3 tech, has raised another $10M in...
Gigantic hands out goodies and preps a double XP weekend as compensation for server issues
Last week, the shooter MOBA Gigantic promised a compensation package for fans as an apology for its rickety relaunch. This week, those fans now know just what awaits within that package.
Everyone will be receiving a bundle with 5,000 crowns as well as the Cult of Greed weapon and character skin for the character Charnok, while a later update will...
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...
