Previews

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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...

Guild Wars 2 teases shortbow Engineers and their ‘essence-infused arrows’

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I have to say, as someone who counts a Holosmith in her top handful of Guild Wars 2 toons, that I couldn't initially see...
Bork.

World of Warcraft previews its next patch update, Seeds of Renewal

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It's been like half an hour since the last World of Warcraft update and we still haven't heard about the plans for the next...

Nightingale offers up a cloud monster, sleepy wolves, and a functioning second hand in November report

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What do a giant monster made of venomous clouds, wolves taking a nap, and a newly functional off-hand have in common? They're all part...

Tarisland takes a closer look at its inscribed stone system and inscribed stone skills as closed beta rolls on

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Despite the second closed beta test of Tarisland continuing to march forth, Tencent's Level Infinite is still keen to outline features that are in...

Krafton confirms PvPvE extraction RPG Dark and Darker Mobile is releasing next year

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Remember back in August when Krafton inked a licensing partnership with Dark and Darker developer Ironmace for a mobile edition of the extraction RPG,...
Stuff!

Guild Wars 2 introduces the pistol-totin’ Elementalist for testing November 28

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Elementalists, your time to pew pew in Guild Wars 2 is finally here, or will be when the weapon proliferation beta goes live on...

PlanetSide 2 celebrates 11 years as Daybreak teases conduit capture base changes

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PlanetSide 2 is officially turning 11 years old next week, and naturally Daybreak is on full alert. "To celebrate, this year's anniversary update brings...

Destiny 2’s Season of the Wish gets a new trailer as The Final Shape release date still hangs in limbo

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The next season for Destiny 2 is waiting in the wings with a launch date of November 28th, but now that release timing is...
is that a monkey?

Guild Wars 2 shows off the support options of Mesmers with rifles

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You probably do not think of rifles as a supportive option most of the time, and if someone claims that she will heal you...

Project Gorgon, buffered by player donations, has been spared from maintenance mode – for now

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The fate of quirky indie MMORPG Project Gorgon has hung in the balance over the last few days following the news that the soft-launched...

Kickstarted MMORPG Pantheon cancels 247 extraction mode: ‘We have damaged your trust’

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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen's brief community nightmare is over: Visionary Realms announced this morning that it's putting the brakes on development of the...

Soulframe talks about animation and hints at a ‘very very closed’ pre-alpha in December

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This year's TennoCon event offered a lot of insight into Digital Extremes' upcoming multiplayer title Soulframe, so now appears to be the right time...
Running in the shadows.

Guild Wars 2 previews the Revenant’s upcoming tether-focused Scepter weaponry

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If you don't love Revenants in Guild Wars 2 now, you will never love them again; you can hear the Scepter saying you should...

Mabinogi continues to improve the MMO’s quality-of-life with its November 16 Beyond update

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You'd be forgiven for believing that an update called Beyond would be bringing transformational updates to Mabinogi. That's not quite the case, but the...

PvP MMO Abyss plans ‘semi-closed’ alpha testing in November and December

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Abyss, the PvP sandbox MMORPG originally revealed as the "satire" NFT MMO Metagates and then pivoted to promise no blockchain integration or crypto, is...

ARPG Grim Dawn preps its ‘most comprehensive free update ever’

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Now that the new ARPG smell has faded from Diablo IV, it's entirely possible that fans of the genre are looking to branch out...

Tarisland unveils Phantom Necromancer class, engages pre-downloads for November 15 beta

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Remember when we supposed that the new class for Tarisland was a druid? Well, not exactly, unless of course you subscribe to the D&D...
Yesterday~

World of Warcraft will see three more updates after 10.2 in the lead-up to The War Within

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The fallout from BlizzCon's reveal of World of Warcraft: The War Within isn't complete without a post-show Q&A of curated questions for some of...

V Rising hints at new enemies and a new endgame activity arriving in its next content patch

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Stunlock Studios is once again using its latest dev blog to vaguely hint at what's coming next for V Rising, which means we're going...