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Pax Dei confirms arrival of an in-game prayer system in January, along with GeForce Now and EGS releases

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How do you get miraculous help in Pax Dei? Well, you buy it with in-game gold, apparently. You also have to wait until January...

Star Wars: The Old Republic touts 2024’s modernization efforts, updates, and Mac beta

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Compared to some of the cadence of the big dogs in the MMO genre, Star Wars: The Old Republic might not be producing the...

Ashes of Creation previews new dungeon, new races, and player housing added in Alpha Two phase two

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It's a sequel to a sequel to an alpha! OK, not really, but Ashes of Creation is indeed moving forward to phase two of...

RuneScape prepares players for its new Beneath Scarabas’ Sands quest arriving January 13

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Are you ready for some more questing in RuneScape? Well if you're not, then you'd better be because the first of a new trio...

Dune Awakening shares closed beta stats and answers questions about PvP death and Landsraad benefits

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The final Dune: Awakening newsletter for this year is online, and as one might expect, it's mostly a retrospective of the year that was...

Elite Dangerous begins its holiday event and talks space colonization as the Thargoid War ends

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There is a whole lot of curiosity about Elite: Dangerous' upcoming colonization feature (as one might expect), which means that Frontier Developments had plenty...

World of Warcraft previews the features of its Undermined update as Winter Veil brings the Christmas spirit

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The time is almost here when World of Warcraft players will get to experience Goblin Nar Shadaa, aka the city of Undermine, in patch...
A salt.

PlanetSide 2 previews its upcoming Assault gameplay mode, arriving in 2025

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The new Assault mode for Planetside 2 is going to require different playstyles for both attackers and defenders, according to the developers' final missive...

New World’s PvP seasonal worlds and season 7 launch January 21

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At the end of November, Amazon finally released a roadmap for New World, revealing its plan to launch the PvP-themed season 7 early in...

Once Human 2025 roadmap promises Visional Wheel system, new scenarios, and mobile launch

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NetEase-owned Starry Studio looks to have some big plans for the survival MMO Once Human in 2025. That's the message being offered from the...

Fallout 76 begins player testing for playable ghouls tomorrowday

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Ghoulfriends, your moment is almost here: The playable ghoul patch officially arrives on Fallout 76's PTS tomorrow, December 20th. Now, we've known that the TV-show-inspired...
Yay?

Ashes of Creation starts up the second phase of Alpha Two this weekend

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So how glorious are you feeling these days? We know that Ashes of Creation loves to call its community glorious, and this glorious Friday...

Lord of the Rings Online’s 2025 roadmap includes an expansion and new 64-bit servers

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I'm sorry but what is this - a Lord of the Rings Online roadmap published before Christmas?! I might still be scarred from the...

APB Reloaded patches in cross-district matchmaking and new anti-cheat, readies a Christmas event December 18

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This week brought in a fresh patch to the rebuilding MMO APB Reloaded as developer Little Orbit continues to try to modernize the aged...

Digital Extremes delays Soulframe’s eighth prelude test phase into 2025

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Remember earlier this month when Digital Extremes was busily adding thousands of news testers to Soulframe's "preludes" test phases, with an eye toward a...
we go

Blizzard’s 2024 infographic is light on useful info, but gamers did play 8.34B hours in Blizz games this year

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Blizzard president Johanna Faries penned a dev blog to the Blizzard community last night, with kind words for players and developers alongside one of...

Co-op skyship survivalbox Echoes of Elysium will be published by Snail Games

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Remember Echoes of Elysium, the multiplayer survivalbox coming from Loric Games? It's one of multiple co-op skyship-themed sandboxes we've been watching for the last few...
DEATH STALKS YOU AT EVERY TURN

World of Warcraft is surveying players on removing the Mythic+ timer and replacing it with a death counter

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In any sort of combat-focused gameplay, the player character is generally seeking to not die. (Also during non-combat-focused gameplay, to be fair, but the...

Path of Exile 2 is adding inter-map fast-travel and a bunch of buffs and nerfs in its next update

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As I type this, more than half of Path of Exile 2's peak Steam concurrency was playing the game - well over 300,000 humans...
It's a jumping off point.

Elder Scrolls Online ends its chapter-based cadence in favor of a seasonal model in 2025

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We've been speculating for the last few weeks on what would be in the Elder Scrolls Online end-of-the-year letter and whether it would portend...