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Guild Wars 2 kicks off Festival of the Four Winds, preps PvP warclaw overhaul ahead of Janthir Wilds

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When Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds launches at the end of August, the warclaw mount will undergo a major transformation as the journeykin, an...

Star Citizen begins its Ship Showdown community event and demonstrates building a POI

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The time has once again come for fans of Star Citizen to stump for their favorite internet spaceships and ultimately see which one is...

Diablo IV’s Season of the Infernal Hordes features new tweakable wave-based battle scenarios

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Get ready, Diablo IV fans, because we're just a week away from Season of the Infernal Hordes. "Season of the Infernal Hordes begins on August...

Lost Ark’s August-through-November 2024 roadmap heralds new continent, T4, and bound gold

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Lost Ark's third roadmap of the year has arrived as of this afternoon, heralding core new content and features coming to the game from...

Skull and Bones outlines adjustments to food buffs, storage, and ship items arriving August 6

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The next mid-season patch for Skull and Bones is on the horizon, but players of the game are getting an advance look at some...
Swanky.

Lord of the Rings Online’s two new progression servers, including an EU-based one, launch Thursday

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While Boromir once famously said, "One does not simply log into Mordor," that's exactly what's going to happen this Thursday. Standing Stone Games announced...

Once Human outlines tweaks to movement, considers an FPS view, delays account-wide cosmetics

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Once Human is continuing to ponder changes, adjustments, and updates based on player feedback across the survival shooter, as NetEase's Starry Studio took a...

Black Desert Mobile unveils Dosa class, summer season server, and new game modes at Heidel Ball

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This past weekend saw a Heidel Ball presentation premiere for Black Desert Mobile, and as fans might expect, there were a few reveals for...

Marvel Rivals debuts story trailer, adds Thor and Jeff the Land Shark to this weekend’s closed beta test

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Today is the day when NetEase's Marvel Rivals cross-platform closed beta kicks off and it's come with a bit of a surprise in the...

World of Warcraft debuts the official cinematic trailer for The War Within

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Are you ready to get hyped? Possibly confused? Perhaps you're going to wonder just who these people are? There's a little something for every...

SDCC 2024: Daybreak unveils LOTRO’s Legacy of Morgoth and DCUO’s Harley Quinn vs. Apokolips

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This past Friday was a pretty big one for fans of Daybreak Games' staple of MMORPGs, as several members of the various sub-studios under...

Eterspire applies revamps to the Firefly Forest zone and shares a third quarter content roadmap

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The last time we peeked in on the indie mobile MMORPG Eterspire, it was in the process of revamping its early game's progression. The...
Supplies!

Mecha Break announces a surprise open beta test starting on August 10

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Maybe the real breaks were the mecha we made along the way. Is that anything? No. It's complete nonsense. But if you want to...

Destiny 2’s August patch seeks to address Crucible problems and the ‘epidemic’ of PvP quitters

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If you're a PvP player of Destiny 2, then this week's newsletter is almost exclusively for you, as Bungie's PvP strike team is checking...

Cozy MMO Palia teases nameplates, house tours, and a greenhouse in next week’s beta update

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Fresh off its acquisition by no less than MMORPG company Daybreak, Singularity 6's still-in-beta cozy MMO Palia is teasing a bunch of new content...
And again.

Overwatch 2 is pondering a potential return of the 6v6 format, but only after running some tests

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When Overwatch 2 announced it would feature a change in team size from 6v6 to 5v5 in 2021, it was presented as a fundamental...

Star Citizen’s alpha 3.24 personal hangars aren’t quite housing, but it’s a start

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Sure, Star Citizen has showcased cargo and freight gameplay coming in alpha 3.24 already, but who's stopping it from doing so a second time?...

Old School RuneScape share game client update progress, makes more tweaks to Deadman and Guthrix

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Jagex is continuing to work on improving the client for Old School RuneScape, though it has been some time since the studio checked in...

Stars Reach’s Raph Koster: ‘We’re going into space, and it’s going to be awesome’

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Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is back with yet another batch of Stars Reach game pillars, the driving concepts behind the MMORPG sandbox's design. We've...

Guild Wars 2 is using Janthir Wilds’ raid and convergence to assess future raid content

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With less than a month before Janthir Wilds opens up new zones and housing content, Guild Wars 2's devs are now turning their promotional...