Previews

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Destiny 2 plans a grandmaster nightfall catch-up feature November 19 and Revenant Act II preview November 12

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The next two weeks are potentially big ones for players of Destiny 2, assuming those players want to access all of the hard mode...

Black Desert improves accessory enhancement and monster zones on PC, previews a costume extraction feature on console

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While the mobile version of Black Desert got top billing thanks to some major updates, this week is not without news from the PC...

Sea of Thieves is continuing to bring back stealth features – incrementally – in Season 14

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We've reported previously how Sea of Thieves' Season 14 shipped with enough bugs that most of its stealthy gameplay features had to be temporarily...

Final Fantasy XIV outlines PvP updates and shows off gear in the preliminary patch notes for Patch 7.1

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Next week will bring new things to do for Final Fantasy XIV players, and that means that Square Enix's Creative Studio III has put...

Stars Reach’s new trailer shows significant visual improvement – and a partial list of professions

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Late last night, Playable Worlds dropped a new trailer for Raph Koster's incoming MMORPG sandbox Stars Reach, along with an update for its NDA. As...

Star Wars Galaxies Legends is working on two theme parks – including one from an Ewok movie

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Earlier this week, Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends dropped a developer diary for October with several teasers for the content the player...
Eye see.

Final Fantasy XI’s November update adds higher-level Besieged content

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Besieged used to be a big deal for Final Fantasy XI, but in large part the game has moved on from when the content...

NetEase drops a roadmap for EVE Echoes promising more content – but with few timelines

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"Will there be no more content for New Eden in the future?" is probably not the best way to announce your roadmap, but that's...

MMO sandbox BitCraft is launching its third closed alpha next week

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BitCraft's latest letter from the producer heralds another big milestone for the game, as Clockwork Labs is launching closed alpha 3 as of November...

Old School RuneScape gets multiple mobile updates, outlines PvP plans, and adds Curse of Arrav quest

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Old School RuneScape has got a lot of irons in the fire as evidenced by the MMORPG's variety of dev blog posts and updates,...

Wuthering Waves adds two new characters and brings back a roguelike mode November 14

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Without any sort of context, we have to presume that the next content update for Wuthering Waves involves a location with a huge kitty...

V Rising teases a new region, multiple PvP modes, and the Fusion Forge gear feature

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Vampire survivalbox V Rising has been fairly quiet since its official launch last spring (which we loved); Stunlock Studios even told players in June...

Crimson Desert unveils a fight against Black Desert’s Hexe Marie in its new G-STAR playable demo

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First off: No, we still don't know whether the current version of Crimson Desert has retained any of its originally planned multiplayer features, nor...
We're in this together.

Star Trek Online is bringing its Borg multiverse event to Xbox and PlayStation next week

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It's not Star Trek if you're not milking the popularity of the Borg for all its worth -- a lesson that Star Trek Online...

Star Citizen marks progress on alpha 4.0’s AI, server meshing, and backend tech in October report

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This week is when Star Citizen looks back at the work of last October and condenses it into a developer progress report. Regular followers...

World of Warcraft’s newest map, Siren Isle, will eventually allow some flight with tons of rep and token farming

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Update: Fresh datamining of the latest PTR build released just after we published this renders it all moot, so flight folks can rejoice: Apparently,...

Trove is already preparing its Thanksgiving event as Gamigo puts its whole catalogue on sale

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With Halloween behind us, blocky sandbox Trove is already gearing up for a holiday that most MMORPGs don't do at all: Thanksgiving. Trove's version...

EverQuest II’s Scars of Destruction expansion now has a hard date of November 20

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The fact that EverQuest II is getting an expansion toward the end of the year is not any sort of revelation, given that Daybreak...

First Impressions: Brighter Shores has gobs of potential buried under mountains of grind

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When I first heard of it, I wasn't sure that Brighter Shores would be a game I wanted to play, but watching development unfold...

Path of Exile 2 shares 30 minutes of gameplay footage from this year’s Tokyo Game Show

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How will Path of Exile 2 players salve themselves knowing that the OARPG's early access is being delayed into December thanks to demons in...