Previews

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City of Titans previews flight and combat animations ahead of testing

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Not everything goes smoothly when it comes to testing things for an MMO. The City of Titans team absolutely wanted people to be able...

Desert Oasis: The key takeaways from Black Desert’s Heidel Ball 2021

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It's been a busy two weeks for Black Desert Online. The past week saw another Arena of Arsha event, this time with trial characters. And...

Chris Roberts checks in with word on Star Citizen alpha 3.15, server meshing progress, and finishing Squadron 42

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"It was meant to be a five minute video," remarks creative producer Jared Huckaby in the background of the final minutes of Star Citizen's...

Warframe’s Sisters of Parvos launches July 6 with Yareli ‘frame and Corpus Lich system

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Digital Extremes has been relatively quiet this year, but Warframe is due for a big update next week: The studio says it's launching Sisters...

SWTOR announces Legacy of the Sith expansion with new planet, PvE content, and combat styles

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Star Wars The Old Republic fans, it's time to get excited, at least if you missed the leaks from early today, as during its...

Albion Online is ‘bringing open-world gameplay back’ in next content update

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If you didn't get enough Albion Online news from the recent AMA, then you're going to want to point your eyeballs at Sandbox Interactive's...

Elite Dangerous posts latest Odyssey patch notes plus delivers expansion’s first monthly dev report

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Frontier Developments has tried to put out as much information as possible regarding Elite: Dangerous Odyssey in order to mollify fans who believe that...

New World unveils player housing system in goofy HGTV-esque video

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Someone somewhere in Amazon Games greenlit the pitch of making a video series set in New World that follows an in-game couple going house...

Crimson Desert, originally set to launch this year, posts mocap video

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One of the biggest MMOs we were expecting to launch this year hasn't made many moves so far, and that would be Crimson Desert....

Swords of Legends Online reveals post-launch roadmap and battle pass systems

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If you missed Gameforge's Swords of Legends Online stream last night, you missed some big announcements that are appeasing the game's fledgling community, including...

Mortal Online 2 previews updated AI behavior in a video, updates crafting in recent patch

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If you've been underwhelmed by the enemies you've faced in Mortal Online 2's PvE content, perhaps you'll be heartened to know that the devs...
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Ultima Online is streaming more New Legacy reveals this afternoon [Updated with summary]

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Broadsword has been talking up Ultima Online's incoming New Legacy server since the game's 23rd birthday stream last fall. So far, we know that...

Genshin Impact offers trailer previews of the game’s latest roster addition

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Did you think you were done with character collecting in Genshin Impact? Well, no, you probably didn't because adding more party members to the...

Elite Dangerous plans an Odyssey development update post tomorrow ahead of the expansion’s next patch

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Elite: Dangerous' has been cranking out the fix-filled updates for its Odyssey expansion all month as Frontier Developments stated, but that statement also seemed...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s latest producer’s letter recounts development updates, outlines its next test objectives

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's producer and creative director Chris "Joppa" Perkins has a lot of progress to mark for the developing PvE sandbox,...

Swords of Legends Online posts preload and name-claim schedule ahead of July 9 launch

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As the xianxia action MMORPG Swords of Legends Online inches ever closer to its July 9th PC release date, those who have pre-ordered the...

Starbase details station sieges in a video, notes progress on large ship generators and station easy build mode

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The sci-fi sandbox of Starbase is generally about building things, but there are points where others are going to want to destroy those built...

SEED shares new blogs about buildings, multi-agent activities, and duck and yoga-related bugs

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It's been a little over a week since we've peeked in on the ever-growing library of SEED's developer blogs, which means there's another bulleted...

Destiny 2 outlines returning weapons and Iron Banner, butts heads with the datamining community

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This past Friday has seen another newsletter from Destiny 2 hit the internet, and it's primarily about things coming back. Most notably, a variety...

Valorbound promises a full-loot PvPvE MMO with horizontal progression and ‘hardcore’ health management

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That headline sure makes this one sound like a big, snuggly time, doesn't it? But developer Team Scionica believes there's a market for an...