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Have you felt that the conquest mode map in SMITE 2 could do with some graphical touching up? Your thoughts have been heard by Hi-Rez Studios, as the developer of the MOBA has provided a look at some visual upgrades coming to the map. The map update in question appears to be more than just a little spitshine, as it...

Games creation and hosting platform Roblox unveiled some big plans during its Roblox Developers Conference this past Friday, with the promise of more tools, more access, more revenue sharing, and more performance improvements for the "experiences" that creators put together for the company - in spite of ongoing complaints about Roblox's alleged child labor exploitation and sketchy monetization. Roblox Corp...

Presumably, someone clawed into a pot full of IP names and gaming sub-genres, tossed it at a wall, and saw the words "racing game," "rogue-lite," and "Transformers" stick. Or there was some forethought into how to make a new game stand out. However it happened, we are all now informed of the existence of Transformers: Galactic Trials, a new...

An update is coming to anime-styled Tower of Fantasy next week, as the team's been teasing some of the features coming with Version 4.3 on September 19th. The patch, titled Ethereal Rose, promises a new chapter to the online RPG's storyline. "The turmoil from Public Security and Aurora Industries has just subsided, but a new crisis has arisen. It seems...

The strike initiated by voice actors in the SAG-AFTRA union this past July is beginning to yield some positive results for voice actors who don't want their performances used to train AI. The union announced last week that multiple studios have signed agreements with represented performers, securing AI protections for actors in 80 different game projects. Several companies have agreed...

Wayfinder has already stealth-launched its "quality-of-life 2" patch on Steam as of this past weekend, and now it's live on the the PlayStation console too - yes, the Echoes version of the game is finally up to date on Sony's platform after months of waiting. The patch includes everything from the lobby browser and in-game chat to a housing...

Apparently the players of EVE Online have a very different idea of what it means to celebrate labor. The Labor Day holiday weekend saw a pretty meaty fight break out in nullsec, resulting in over 1.1 trillion ISK worth of internet spaceship get nice and exploded. The fight took place at G3D-ZT in the Detorid system over a Staging Fortizar...

Last year we reported on the arrival of emulator files for Marvel Heroes appearing on Github, effectively letting fans begin the process of reviving the much-loved MMOARPG from its 2020 sunset. Today brings some good news, as the fan devs behind the project have released the 0.3.0 build of the emu files, which gets many playable features functioning for...

With today marking the official 10th anniversary of the first Destiny - and the future of Destiny 2 still feeling pretty wobbly thanks to bad executive moves - Bungie has taken a moment to both celebrate the FPS's milestone and assure players that there's plenty more to come for the game. Leading the studio's latest announcement is a two-year content...

Something interesting is going to happen when Final Fantasy XIV adds Beastmaster to the game as a limited job. No matter what weapon the job uses, it's going to leave at least one group of established Beastmasters as outliers. I noted this in my speculation column about the job when I suggested that it might use one-handed axes, I...