Previews

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Guild Wars 2 Necromancers are finally getting swords, Anet kicks off experience boost event

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Guild Wars 2's ninth and final weapon reveal - the sword for the Necromancer - rolled out amidst a bunch of other announcements last...

Kickstarted superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes’ power augments borrow all the right bits from City of Heroes

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How about news on two crowdfunded superhero MMORPGs in one day? We'll take it: Not only did City of Titans drop a new build...

Diablo Immortal ushers in Season 20 and teases ‘something familiar’ coming to the MMO

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How are we already at Season 20 for Diablo Immortal? Maybe we entered a time anomaly and skipped ahead a bit. Look at the...
Eye.

New World’s PTR is testing crafting features and the Legacy of Crassus event

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Do you miss whaling away on big angry cyclopes in New World? Then you probably will want to be in the game's PTR, as...

Black Desert PC announces Thanksgiving event this week, Ulutika update next week

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Black Desert has dropped a tantalizing teaser for after Thanksgiving: Pearl Abyss is launching its Ulutika update for PC players on November 29th, preceded...

Ilysia shares a roadmap of updates for the next few months and a Quest 3 visual upgrade video

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The VR MMORPG Ilysia is planning a road trip through the world of Updatesville, with lots of stops including Content City, the Upgrade Mall,...

Throne & Liberty offers about an hour worth of gameplay footage at G-Star

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NCsoft was back in show-and-tell mode at this year's G-Star event as the studio hit the stage to showcase about an hour of gameplay...

Mortal Online 2 calls latest UE5 test ‘a huge success’ and readies another PTR this week

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Last week the FFA PvP sandbox Mortal Online 2 ran its third Unreal Engine 5 upgrade test, with a focus on debugging its server...

As of tomorrow, World of Warcraft will gate buying WoW Tokens with gold behind a formal purchase history

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This Tuesday, November 21st, is going to see a change to the World of Warcraft WoW Token. That's when Blizzard will impose a restriction...

First Impressions: Tarisland has some rickety bones but some solid muscle

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I admit that it can be kind of hard to process Tarisland without immediately comparing it to a certain title. I've had no emotional...

Loftia checks in with progress on crafting, gathering, infrastructure, and dev tools

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The cozy solarpunk "medium-ly multiplayer" Loftia might have been quiet, but it's most definitely not been idle if the November progress report from developer...

Guild Wars 2 unveils the Guardian’s ‘bullets of justice’ and delays some WvW restructuring plans

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It's not every day that you see a tanky MMO class run around with pistols, but that's the sort of fun lunacy that's coming...
Yay, a thing we didn't want.

Overwatch 2 digests its PvP-focused BlizzCon reveals, promises more ‘surprise and delight’ events for all

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Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller is using his usual Director's Take blog post to take a breath and process the reveals made by the...

Destiny 2 details Season of the Wish’s weapon, reward adjustments, and next dungeon launch date

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Destiny 2's community team is continuing to try to make its players focus on November 28th's Season of the Wish arrival and less on...

Path of Exile announces Affliction expansion arriving December 8, promises more details November 30

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Yes, Path of Exile is doing the "announcement of an announcement" thing, but at least this announcement has a bit more information to it...
Cool story, bro.

New World previews Eternal Frost’s Glacial Tarn expedition, celebrates big win for its musical score

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Whether you're ready to say that it's ice to meet this boss or just want to drop a clever bon mot about how clearly...

Lord of the Rings Online vows to beef up Corsairs of Umbar’s endgame

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One of the criticisms that arrived in the wake of the latest Lord of the Rings Online expansion is that it has very little...
I had to.

Final Fantasy XIV will run a cloud server stress test on November 20

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Server hardware has been an ongoing thing for Final Fantasy XIV, so it's probably not a huge shock that the developers are seeing how...

Star Citizen introduces the Gatac Syulen, Crusader Spirit C1, and Tumbril Storm as IAE free-fly event begins

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Today is a big day for fans of Star Citizen's internet spaceships as the Intergalactic Aerospace Expo (IAE) is kicking off today, November 17th,...

First Impressions: Perfect New World is an unbalanced mess right now with its ‘equilibrious’ test

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This past week has been a mighty full one for our genre in terms of the number of beta tests that landed on our...