Previews

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Wayfinder prepares its community for this week’s early access launch

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August keeps racing along, heedless of any laidback summer vibes, and the next thing on the release calendar is the early access debut of...

Lord of the Rings Online hopes to get River-hobbits in your hands by the end of August

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Lord of the Rings Online is progressing slowly but surely to Update 37 later this month with the much-anticipated addition of the playable River-hobbit...
Cutty time

World of Warcraft’s patch 1.14.4 adds in the new honor system for Classic on August 22

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Do you hate dealing with the fact that your biggest opponent in the Honor system in WoW Classic is other players? Probably, since that...

Star Wars The Old Republic begins its move to the cloud August 15, previews update 7.3.1 features

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Back in March, Star Wars: The Old Republic announced its plans to make the switch to cloud server tech with the aim of modernizing...

Dungeons and Dragons Online previews Vecna Unleashed patch notes ahead of August 16 release

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The Vecna Unleashed expansion for Dungeons and Dragons Online isn't due until Wednesday, August 16th (even if pre-orders have been open since July), but...

Torchlight Infinite launches City of Aeterna on September 8

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Multiplayer mobile title Torchlight Infinite announced a new expansion overnight: It's called The City of Aeterna, and it's arriving on September 8th. We don't...

Destiny 2 outlines Season 22’s exotics buffs – and Arc Titan and Strand’s suspend effect nerfs

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While last week brought a general overview of Season 22's updates for Destiny 2, this week has a more granular look at what's changing...

World of Titans plans ‘major facelift,’ November 2023 release, and closed testing soon

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World of Titans, aka TitanReach (or Titan Reach depending on the chronology), has had one extremely weird and eyebrow-raising journey in case that opening...

Tarisland promises details on the next stage of testing at its Gamescom reveal

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Tencent's Tarisland is apparently gearing up for a big reveal: The company announced on Discord late last night that it'll make its "grand debut"...

Guild Wars 2 exhibits Secrets of the Obscure’s rift hunting in another new vid

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When Secrets of the Obscure launches later this month, Guild Wars 2 isn't going to abandon old Tyria in favor of the new zones....

Cubio is a ‘fully featured sandbox game creation platform’ headed for alpha testing soon

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A new game has once again landed in our lap, and it can basically be described as Gameforge's swing at releasing its own version...

Viking-themed survival ‘tribe builder’ ASKA begins multiplayer closed beta August 11

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Last November we first heard word about ASKA, a "multiplayer Viking survival tribe builder" from publisher/developer Sand Sailor Studio that lets up to four...
War-filled.

Warhammer Return of Reckoning’s three-year-long ability rework is ‘nearing a release-ready phase’

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It's taken the player developers of Warhammer Online's Return of Reckoning rogue server three years to rework the MMORPG's massive number of abilities, but...

Guild Wars 2 shows off the landscapes and points of interest in latest Secrets of the Obscure trailer

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Time to get hyped for Secrets of the Obscure: The Guild Wars 2 team at ArenaNet has dropped a new flip-through trailer highlighting "some...

New World’s Luck of the Bones portal-summoning event looks somehow familiar

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If you're starting to feel a little sluggish about New World's current season, fear not because Amazon is preparing a little pick-me-up in the...

Monsters & Memories spends July refining a dungeon, zones, character models, and backend tech

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Throwback MMORPG Monsters & Memories has once again started this month with a look back at progress made this past July, with most of...

Single-player MMORPG Erenshor prepares for a demo release this fall, previews gameplay

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A couple of weeks ago we threw a spotlight on Erenshor, a single-player game from Burgee Media that seeks to recreate the classic MMORPG...

EverQuest II brings Rise of Kunark to Varsoon server, reschedules Shattered Overture open beta to August 29

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It's not often that a beta test gets pushed to an earlier date instead of a later, but that's just what has happened for...

Pirates of the Burning Sea improves visuals, tweaks gameplay, and brings back a server from the brink

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The player-run Vision Online Games studio that's kept Pirates of the Burning Sea afloat since its near-sunset back in 2019 continues to be hard...

Indie time-travel MMO Into the Echo releases interactive lore website experience

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If you've forgotten all about time-travel MMO Into the Echo, we'll totally forgive you because we had too. And that's because we haven't heard...

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