Previews

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Ashes of Creation’s latest video walks players through building up a node in Alpha Two

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Nodes. They're an important piece of the gameplay loop in Ashes of Creation, letting players establish towns, become citizens, and ostensibly giving players reasons...
Good job.

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen promises a focus on updating its ‘old’ and ‘unappealing’ art style

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The mechanical things that Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is reportedly doing well aren't going to matter if the game is hard to look...
mlem?

Baldur’s Gate 3 adds more epilogue for Karlach, along with more bug fixes and improvements

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What's the difference between "cut content the designers couldn't finish" and "cut content the designers didn't finish?" That might seem like splitting hairs, but...

Dauntless outlines plans for weapon overhauls and a weapon swapping feature coming next summer

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If you've been following along with the news out of the multiplayer critter hunting RPG Dauntless, you'll know that things haven't been particularly happy...
Not quite the same stuff, but it is a different day.

New World previews Season 3’s planned changes, which include the end of the expertise system

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Big changes are coming to New World when Season 3 rolls around, and you know that's the case because previews of that content are...
oh boy

EverQuest II begins public beta testing of its Shattered Overture update

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Normally one wouldn't want to listen to a shattered overture because it's likely just someone banging on piano keys with a sledgehammer. However, EverQuest...

Valheim shares an update on the terrain generation of its Ashlands biome

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A place known as the Ashlands probably has a distinct visual style to it, not only in terms of texture but also the terrain....

Here’s what Tencent is considering for Tarisland’s crafting and gathering revamp

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As Tencent slowly reinvents some of Tarisland's big systems ahead of its release, the studio has been explaining its thinking in Discord. The latest...
New World ROTAE

Previewing New World’s Rise of the Angry Earth expansion: Artifact gear, endgame, crafting, and onward

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In my previous Vitae Aeternum column, I covered the big tentpole features of New World's first paid expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, including...
New World ROTAE

New World’s first expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, launches October 3 with mounts, flails, new housing, and more

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New World's 2023 roadmap promised its first expansion, but until now, we had few details on what that meant. Recently the folks at Amazon...
Burning everything.

World of Warcraft drops a launch cinematic video for next week’s Fury Incarnate patch

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Have you gotten enough of cinematics in which Bad Guy does Mean Thing before Bad But More Reasonable Woman stops him, and then has...

Star Trek Online Incursion launches for PC on September 12, starring Garrett Wang, Kipleigh Brown, and Erin Macdonald

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Star Trek Online players will soon be boldly going back into the Multiverse plotline with the release of Incursion, coming to PC on September...

Grim Dawn unveils its Fangs of Asterkarn expansion and version 1.2 update

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Bundle up for some frigid weather, Grim Dawn fans. The ARPG has just introduced its next expansion, and it will indeed take players to...
Thrones and something, I guess?

NCsoft and Amazon are planning a big western Throne & Liberty technical test in September

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NCsoft's Throne & Liberty may be a tangle of delays, but some lucky testers are going to get a sneak peek, as Amazon and...

Black Desert Mobile gets Land of the Morning Light in September, opens season characters today

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The Heidel Ball presentation for Black Desert Mobile had some big reveals for fans of the mobile MMO over the weekend, as Tuesday, September...

Eternal Tombs promises September gameplay demo following fan reaction to its reveal trailer

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Eternal Tombs, aka the game formerly known as War of Dragnorox, put out a reveal trailer as well as a sprawling and aspirational overview...

Abyss is a new PvP sandbox MMORPG coming in 2024, and it’s already selling currency

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We've updated the end of this post with new info that's come to light regarding the game's origins. MMORPG fans eager for new frontiers can...

Albion Online is killing off its Crystal League Championship PvP tournaments in spite of 300K daily players

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So Albion Online has some bad news this week: Sandbox Interactive is bringing its long-running Crystal League Championship PvP tournaments to an end, with...

Fae Farm drums up launch hype with a PAX West appearance, community event, and launch trailer

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Cozy life sim gaming fans are now less than two weeks away from the full release of Fae Farm, which naturally means that developer...

Genfanad is swapping out its classic MMORPG combat model with a TCG deckbuilder instead

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The old-school-styled indie MMORPG Genfanad was always something of a unique duck in our genre, but Rose Tinted Games' next major update is going...

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