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Game show shooter The Finals gets super-green in Patch 4.3
Forget orange and purple: Green is the color of the month when it comes to game show shooter The Finals and its Patch 4.3.
Currently, The Finals is in Season 4, and as such, added the Mean Green Beanstalk set and Green Gunk set to the game's store.
The team shooter also put the final touches on Season 3, saying, "Following...
DayZ brings a frosty new map with related new dangers in its Frostline DLC
Life in DayZ can arguably be pretty rough, but it could also always be much worse. For example, players could find themselves in a frigid landscape within the survivalbox with all of the threats and miseries that sort of setting suggests. However, if that is something you want to experience as a player, you now have that option with...
No Man’s Sky’s soundtrack is on the bill for a November 4 charitable games music concert
If you can travel to the Electric Theatre in Guilford, UK, like the music out of No Man's Sky, and are looking to help out a good cause, then you're in luck because all three of those things will be possible on Thursday, November 14th, when the Bonus Stage Orchestra will be playing.
The orchestra in question is described by...
Tarisland is adding a roguelike mode and a ‘Fair Raid’ mode in tomorrow’s Blight Dragon Elegy
We're a day away from Tarisland launching its first full season's worth of content, which means that Tencent is continuing to hype up what's coming with another video that elaborates on the gameplay features players can expect.
A large amount of the video's run time is mostly filler, talking up a friend referral program, repeating the storyline behind the Scardino...
NCsoft Korea is reportedly restructuring after multiple weak revenue quarters
Korean media is reporting bad news for NCsoft, or at least fans of the company's developers and games.
Seoul-based Yonhap News has a long piece out today on the Korean gaming giant's now-finalized plans to restructure the entire company. We've previously covered some of the turmoil inside NCsoft that led to an angry investor meeting and even voluntary resignations earlier...
RuneScape provides information about Gate of Elidinis drop rates as it prepares for Halloween
Have you been running through RuneScape's Gate of Elidinis skilling boss fight over and over again, wondering why you can't get that one freakin' pet to drop? Wonder no more because Jagex has laid the drop rates for the encounter bare as promised so now players can finally know the odds.
The odds of getting that pet, by the way,...
33 Immortals delays early access into 2025 to address player feedback and stability problems
Earlier this year we started reporting on the not-so-massive 33 Immortals, a multiplayer co-op roguelike game that put 33 players together (natch) to try and escape hell together, slaughtering enemies and bosses along the way. We checked the game out ourselves in a closed beta test last May and in a Fight or Kite column in June, both of...
Helldivers 2 completes sweeping buffs and commits to more comms as jump-jetting Automatons menace players
Last month brought some big changes to the co-op shooter Helldivers 2, as Arrowhead Studios deployed a huge buff-granting update that brought the "power" back in firepower for many weapons and stratagems. And last week saw the studio complete its planned "60 day timeline" of updates with another patch that kept the buff party going.
The patch mostly continues the...
Fractured Online reworks consumables and tweaks armor penetration ahead of free-to-play transition
Following the news that Fractured Online is tweaking its content roadmap and going free-to-play, Dynamight Studios has followed through on its planned updates with its latest major update, which introduces several changes that regular players may want to know about.
First, consumables have been reworked to a significant degree: They now have their own dedicated hotbar slot and have been...
Lord of the Rings Online says Legacy of Morgoth is on track for early November launch
"Everything seems to be cooking along just fine." That's the word from Lord of the Rings Online's team regarding the upcoming early November release of the Legacy of Morgoth expansion.
According to last week's livestream, the studio said that there shouldn't be any further patches between here and there, other than a final expansion test on the Bullroarer server.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=667MEQmPC_c&t=266s
And if you need...
Wisdom of Nym: The dark side of role quests in Final Fantasy XIV
I haven't been shy talking about liking the role quests that are currently available in Dawntrail. Indeed, I think that Final Fantasy XIV has finally hit on a good tone for the role quests, and the actual mechanics of those quests are good. So I think it's important to note right up front that I am not, broadly speaking,...
Ashes of Creation players spill the beans about pre-alpha testing as verbal and written NDAs lift
If you've got Ashes of Creation targeted in your gaming news and social feeds, then you probably woke up to a deluge of information about the game's most recent pre-alpha testing round. That's because Intrepid Studios has lifted the verbal and written NDAs covering the test and players are more than eager to share their initial impressions.
Generally speaking, many...
Sea of Thieves Season 14 releases with an ‘incredibly disappointing’ number of bugs
Sea of Thieves players were likely looking forward to getting sneaky and tricksy with the launch of Season 14: Making Mischief and its suite of stealth and deception-based features. Instead, what has released has been, by Rare Ltd's own admission, a bug-loaded update.
Multiple issues are being raised by players that run a pretty wide swath including achievements not working,...
Nightingale discusses building updates, Halloween event, and the impending arrival of Nightingale City
Nightingale has once again brought Inflexion CEO Aaryn Flynn and head of audio Neil Thompson together for the survivalbox's second dev talk video where the pair talk about some of the features currently in the game's PTR and one major update coming sometime down the line.
The immediate future for the game is mostly couched in the most recent PTR...
Albion Online players are not happy with new P2W bundles that fast-track skill learning
Last week, Albion Online decided to offer up something new for players to purchase: warden mastery packs, a series of four new bundles with some of the usual goodies - and one highly controversial item.
These new packs provide things like tradable cosmetics or mounts, premium account access, and gold, but the thing that's getting under most fans' skin is...
Hi-Rez’s Realm Royale Reforged and Divine Knockout will be sunsetting in February
The top of October spelled some worrisome portents for Hi-Rez studios as the company announced layoffs as well as team reductions for the original SMITE and Paladins. Now it looks as if two more games from the company's sub-studios are on the chopping block: Realm Royale Reforged and Divine Knockout, which will both sunset next year.
Both titles posted twin...
Wayfinder officially launches today on PC and PS5 after a year of early access
It's launch day for multiplayer OARPG Wayfinder, which means it's patch day too for this game that's come such a long way over the last year.
Readers will recall that Wayfinder originally hit early access on PC, and then was hit with a nasty whammy: Its then-publisher, Digital Extremes, abruptly closed down its external publishing outfit, setting Wayfinder adrift and...
The Daily Grind: How detailed should MMORPG character creation sliders be?
A few weeks back, there was a fabulous thread on Twitter that dug deeply into the concept of character creation in video games, specifically character sliders. And this morning, I want to talk about how detailed is too detailed.
See, I am one of those people who loves character creation. I will totally spend lots of time really seeing what...
MMO Week in Review: New World’s promising Aeternum, Star Citizen’s big promises
New World was the big MMORPG story this week as Amazon officially brought the game to consoles under the Aeternum banner, though PC players are still unhappy about how it's all gone down.
Meanwhile, Ultima Online officially launched New Legacy, we learned who bought the PlanetSide IP, and Star Citizen actually brought some big news to CitizenCon. Plus MOP is...
The MOP Up: Lost Ark readies a two-gate raid and server transfers
Lost Ark is pumping out two updates in October, with one already live and a new raid, transfers, and cosmetics coming on October 23rd: "The new, two-gate Kazeros Raid will require you to face off against dangerous threats, with Akkan returning for a fight in the first Gate, and Aegir appearing as your foe in the second Gate."
And this...
