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Gamescom 2023 ONL: Nightingale, Crimson Desert, Diablo IV, Fae Farm, Marvel Snap

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Even if you aren't in Cologne, Germany, at Gamescom right now, you can still glue your eyeballs to the screen for Gamescom's Geoff Keighley-hosted...

Destiny 2’s The Final Shape arrives February 27, 2024, as season 22 launches today

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Bungie is pushing onward with Destiny 2's next chapter: This afternoon during its Twitch broadcast, the studio took the wraps off The Final Shape,...

Preloading has begun for tomorrow’s Skull and Bones closed beta test run

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Skull and Bones is setting sale for beta this week - closed beta, that is, which means you're playing only if you got an...
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The Wagadu Chronicles opens its Steam page and plans for an early access launch by year’s end

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We've been following the development track of the afrofantasy sandbox MMORPG The Wagadu Chronicles as far back as 2020, from its soaring crowdfunding success...

New World discusses the future of wards and banes as players strut their transmog stuff online

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Wards and banes. They're one of the hot button meta topics in New World nowadays, and they're the subject of Amazon's latest Forged in...

Co-op PvE survivalbox Icarus releases a biome-packed New Frontiers expansion August 24

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Do you remember Icarus? We first caught wind of it back in 2021: It's a co-op centered survival title from Dean Hall's RocketWerkz that...

Neocron premieres an updated video for the long-running player-operated cyberpunk MMO

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It might be easy to forget that Neocron is still a thing (despite it being an extremely hard nut to crack as we found),...

Black Desert Console delays Maegu awakening and more to focus on game optimization

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If you're a player of Black Desert Console hoping to park your character's keister on a mythical horse sometime soon, we've got some unfortunate...

Guild Wars 2 video introduces Secrets of the Obscure’s emotionally draining Kryptis

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With a new Guild Wars 2 expansion coming out tomorrow, the lofty realm that players are about to explore won't be solely stocked with...

Star Citizen plays with a new sound tool and continues to show how missions are made

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This weekend in Star Citizen saw Cloud Imperium Games continue to play with its tools in the studios' two latest videos: one about a...

New World gets super-fashionable with transmog this week, and some players are already grumpy

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It's a well-known historical fact that the last import to the real New World was a sense of high fashion. So let us stand...

Lord of the Rings Online to welcome River Hobbits on August 22nd

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The latest pint-sized population to enter Middle-earth is almost here. On last Friday's livestream, Lord of the Rings Online announced that River Hobbits are...
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Old School RuneScape outlines Sailing’s next step, return of Deadman and Trailblazer, and its next zone

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The Summer Summit broadcast from Old School RuneScape has just wrapped up, and if you happened to have missed out on any of the...

Star Wars The Old Republic delves deeper into the changes coming with Galactic Season 5

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When Star Wars: The Old Republic offered an initial preview of update 7.3.1, players likely noted how there were quite a few things different...

Profane’s August roadmap update heralds a focus on polishing existing features

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Sure, adding new stuff to a developing game like Profane isn't necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes you need to circle back to the...

The Division 2 delays its next season and elongates the length of all seasons

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So there's good news and bad news for The Division 2 players today. The good news is that Ubisoft isn't abandoning you! The bad...

Skull & Bones previews its crafting system ahead of next week’s closed beta test

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Had you forgotten about Skull and Bones? Ubisoft means to rectify that if so with a new dev blog on the long-delayed multiplayer pirate...

Loftia confirms a lack of romanceable NPCs and unlocks guild housing as crowdfunding crests the $600K mark

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The comfy solarpunk world of Loftia continues to take shape in its developer announcements even as the game itself is yet to enter any...

Megadeth headlines Wargaming’s multi-MMO Metal Fest later this month

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Is there an MMO more metal than World of Tanks? I mean, kinda by definition, right? Well, maybe that explains Wargaming's decision to run...

Camelot Unchained provides a closer look at its new character progression system

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You might be surprised to learn that City State Entertainment is working on a character progression system for Camelot Unchained after 10 years of...

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