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Stream Team: A hero’s work is never done in Enshrouded
It's time to step into Enshrouded again with Larry and MJ. They have a lot of house guests now, and all of them are demanding, asking them to fetch things and do this and that for them. You rescue some people from the brink of death and that's still not enough. Our Steam Team is starting to feel like...
Skull & Bones boosts event rewards and talks up September’s patch improvements
It would be pretty easy to remember Skull & Bones' last patch purely because of its long deployment delay and subsequent bugs, but the devs at Ubisoft Singapore would also like to point out that there were lots of other good things as well, and they're doing so through the medium of video.
The footage goes over the many improvements...
Class action lawsuit alleges Ubisoft unlawfully shares personal information with Facebook
By now we're all pretty familiar with the option to log in to alternate platforms and websites through accounts like Google, Steam, and Facebook, but a class action lawsuit filed this past weekend is alleging that Ubisoft's digital store shared personal information with Facebook company Meta when buyers used their Facebook account to log in.
The suit was filed by...
Old School RuneScape reduces downtime and improves its winter boss fight
The great GM knows that all of us have gone through an endless parade of boss fights in MMOs. But most of those encounters involve punching and blasting an oversized critter in the face -- most, but not all, as Old School RuneScape's Wintertodt boss fight demonstrates as players use skills to light fires to win.
It's this fight that's...
Elder Scrolls Online teases backstories for its upcoming pair of companions, Zerith-var and Tanlorin
When update 44 arrives in The Elder Scrolls Online later this month, its most exciting feature is surely its two new companions, Tanlorin and Zerith-var. Both have now seen profile in ZeniMax Online Studios' new dev blogs, though do note, these are very lore-heavy pieces!
Zerith-Var is described as a "stoic Khajiit" - and a necromancer. "Zerith-var is a formidable...
My Time at Evershine devs: Get our Kickstarter to $2.5M and we’ll leap past early access
We weren't particularly surprised to see My Time at Evershine, the multiplayer follow-up to Pathea Games' My Time at Portia and My Time at Sandrock, fund on Kickstarter in less than an hour and rush to $1.2M raised on the platform in just a few days. But you definitely surprised Pathea Games, which has penned a memo to players...
TERA Console’s October patch opens a new dungeon and activates Halloween
The first update since August's new screenshot mode patch arrived for TERA Console this week, opening up a new dungeon and welcoming players to Halloween festivities.
The dungeon first: The Stormed Citadel is now open for business, but you'll need to get your equipment level to 900 before thinking of taking on this bad boy.
Between instance runs, however, you're invited...
The Stream Team: Answering the call of Purribean adventure in Cat Quest III
MOP's Chris and his best friend Britarnya are back once more for another round of cat-based swashbuckling! That's right, it's time for some more Cat Quest III as our daring duo follows the North Star guide or whatever whims they want to feed, whichever comes fur-st! Join them today at 2:00 p.m. EDT for the fun!
What: Cat Quest III
Who:...
Roblox Corp denies short-seller’s report that it lies to investors and hosts ‘a pedophile hellscape’
The dark clouds that hang over Roblox have been well-documented by us for quite some time, but now there's a damning new report from short-seller Hindenburg Research that accuses the company of " key metrics for Wall Street" while calling the game itself "a pedophile hellscape for kids."
Hindenburg claims that its research "revealed an X-rated pedophile hellscape, exposing children...
Apex Legends gets transparent about drop rates in response to a recent South Korean gaming law amendment
It's a generally widely understood assumption that items are made rare purely because the drop rate numbers are fudged by game studios, but players of Apex Legends are learning just how rare certain item drops are around the globe - despite this information being mandated by law in South Korea.
The law in question is an amendment to the country's...
Tarisland lays out its philosophy for seasons ahead of Blight Dragon Elegy
With Tarisland's Blight Dragon Elegy launching later in October (no, we still don't know which day, bizarrely), Tencent is deep-diving what players can expect from its future seasons with a "rules" dev blog.
First, Tencent is copying many other games with its exclusivity plan. "The limited appearances of Season 0 (including specified limited appearances from achievements, battle passes, etc.) serve...
Perfect Ten: The complete list of CCP’s weird EVE Online projects and offshoots
CCP Games, like some other studios we could mention, seems to be a place where the team got one very successful MMO off the ground and then could never make a follow-up work. The historical road of EVE Online is littered with countless fascinating wrecks, oddities, and half-baked projects.
Wait, "countless?" That's a bit of an exaggeration there, Justin. I...
Final Fantasy XIV’s October 15 Moogle Treasure Trove event includes a… donut earring
The next Final Fantasy XIV Moogle Treasure Trove event is kicking off next week, and it is clearly aimed at the Homer Simpson crowd. Why? Because like every one of these events, it has a unique cosmetic reward, and this time it is an earring styled after a donut. Yes, a donut. A pink-frosted donut, even. We have included...
Embracer-owned Cryptic Studios will suffer devastating layoffs at the end of October
We've been keeping a very worried eye on Cryptic Studios for the last year or so, ever since it became clear that the floundering Embracer Group was planning to split up the Gearbox-run studios and parcel them out to soothe investor worries, at the cost of many jobs at the end of 2023. And though Cryptic was one of...
Bungie faces copyright infringement lawsuit from an author over Destiny 2’s Red War story beats
It's been a long time since Destiny 2's launch, so it might have been easy to forget the Red War and some of its characters and story structure, but the similarities between that narrative and the work of an author are at the center of a lawsuit that Bungie is facing.
Matthew Kelsey Martineau, who was writing under the pen...
Brighter Shores confirms November launch date following October 22 closed beta
Back in August, we learned that Brighter Shores, the new MMORPG en route from Jagex and RuneScape co-founder Andrew Gower, was targeting November 5th for its early access launch - a delay, but maybe a wise one given how packed fall is for MMOs already. Well, what if I told you there's been another delay - of exactly one...
Lost Ark will be offline most of today patching in the Arkesia Ignited update
It's patch day for Lost Ark, though you may not get to play much today, as downtime for Arkesia Ignited is currently underway, with T4 for endgamers and the new Ignite progression servers for everyone else.
"The Arkesia Ignited Update arrives on October 9, heralding the beginning of a new age for new and veteran players alike," Amazon says. "The...
World of Warcraft’s 20th anniversary update goes live on October 22
World of Warcraft players now have a hard date for Update 11.0.5, which is coming in less than two weeks on October 22nd. The big feature of this patch is the debut of WoW's 20th anniversary, which is a souped-up version than what we've had in years prior.
From October 22nd through January 6th, 2025 (yes, all the way into...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs perform a soft reboot on their storylines now and then?
Here's the thing when it comes to ongoing narratives, whether they're TV series, a string of novels, or online games: You can't keep escalating the threat and stakes indefinitely. It gets exhausting after a while for every new expansion or episode to try to somehow top the conflict of the previous one. This makes me think of how Buffy...
The Stream Team: Fighting titan blight in Guild Wars 2
Massively OP's MJ is finally out of the Kodan village in Guild Wars 2. Now, she gets to explore the wilds of Janthir. However, it's not all play; there's work to be done. Her next tasks are to index the sickly wildlife health in Slithering Outskirts and to help slow the titan blight that is creeping throughout (the aptly...
