Previews

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Elder Scrolls Online counts 22M players, teases Necrom content, and schedules April 17 PTR test

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If you're the sort of MMORPG fan who puts a lot of weight behind player numbers (and we've argued that you probably shouldn't), then...

Old School RuneScape beta tests the rewards for its upcoming Desert Treasure II quest

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What MMORPG beta tests the rewards of its quest line before those rewards or the quest itself go live? Old School RuneScape, that's what,...

VR MMO Zenith previews the Skyward Summit patch’s PvP mode

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Ramen VR has been teasing Zenith's next release - and its Cyber Ninja class - for literally months now, and now a dev-written piece...

EVE Online is putting its new launcher and graphical upgrades to the test today

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MMO launchers follow a very basic principle: Nobody ever notices a good one, but a bad one can sully the whole game. Which one...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Arcanist class hopes you like the color green

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At its Vegas community event yesterday, ZeniMax Online Studios deep-dived the Arcanist class coming to The Elder Scrolls Online in the Necrom expansion. "With the...

Warframe’s Duviri Paradox mesmerizes players on April 26 – here’s the new trailer

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Warframe's next big thing is almost here: The Duviri Paradox launches on April 26th, and there's a brand-new trailer to celebrate. "Arriving for all platforms...

V Rising drops new trailer to celebrate May 17 launch date for Secrets of Gloomrot expansion

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So we already knew that Stunlock Studios is planning a big expansion called Secrets of Gloomrot for vampire survival game V Rising, and we...

Mad World’s new game guide teases pets, gear, and ‘Mad Pass’ monetization

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We're just a few weeks away from the release of Mad World - 11 days for folks who've preordered and secured access to the...

RuneScape launches its Unwelcome Guests quest, Old School RuneScape players want to go sailing

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If you have unwelcome guests, the best practice is to not wield medieval weaponry at them in order to make them go away, but...

Lost Ark’s April update and Sweet Sugarpetal Festival go live tonight – here are the patch notes

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Lost Ark fans better furbish up their patchers because the spring update is officially live tonight - technically, tomorrow, as downtime begins at 3...
Sure, why not, right?

Mortal Online 2 offers a preview of player-built towns arriving in its upcoming territory control update

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Sure, you can just walk up to characters in Mortal Online 2 and smack them in the head with your weapon of choice, but...

New World unleashes exploding bunnies on hapless players in tomorrow’s update

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Now this is some appropriately thematic Easter content right here: New World is patching in Rabbit's Revenge overnight. Servers are expected to go offline...
Sparky!

City of Heroes Homecoming is testing two new arcs and a Storm Blast powerset

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If you know anything about me and City of Heroes, it's probably that I have an absurdly huge number of storm characters. I just...

Profane adds armor textures, previews PvP, and shares its latest end-of-month roadmap

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We are once more scraping together Profane's development reports, which continue to come via tweet storm, and we start things off with the end...

Galactic Getaway offers a video rundown of gameplay, multiplayer scope, and monetization model

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Last month we pointed our gaze in the direction of Galactic Getaway, a comfy-looking multiplayer game that predicated itself on players enjoying minigames together...

Myst Online Uru Live dev shows off an original Myst V puzzle coming soon to the multiplayer title

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Who here remembers the puzzles of the Great Shaft in Myst V? We appreciate if your memory doesn't stretch quite that far, which means...

DC Universe Online’s Shock to the System update gets an April 13 release date

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When the forthcoming Shock to the System episode for DC Universe Online made its way to the PTR last week, it was an easy...

Tower of Fantasy introduces Icarus, a flouncy outfit-wearing yo-yo wielder

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Are you ready for a new Simulacrum and a whole bunch of new events for Tower of Fantasy? The game isn't going to wait...
All this and more dinosaurs besides.

‘Our bad’: Wildcard addresses Ark Survival Ascended debacle and server sunsets

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When ARK: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard announced an Unreal Engine 5 remaster that would ultimately close the game's official servers (unless they copied...
Sure, why not.

EverQuest II adds more rewards and flexibility to the Kael Drakkel server

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When you're playing EverQuest II, sometimes it can feel like there's a great deal of pressure on you to perform or group with others....