Updates

We’re not even going to try to sort out the patches from the updates from the iterations from the campaigns and expansions and expanshalones. If it’s something going into an MMO that’s already out, it lands in this category! [Follow this category’s RSS feed]

Magic-slinging battle royale Spellbreak will go free-to-play on all platforms, allow cross-platform play at launch

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Remember Spellbreak? It's a battle royale title that we first highlighted when it was in pre-alpha testing in October 2018. Its whole shtick is...
The fanboy mines are harder to work all the time.

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is trying to move away from ‘anything that feels like it might be a grind’

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You've heard it from the World of Warcraft development team over and over: Anima for your covenants in Shadowlands will not be a grind....

Hearthstone’s Scholomance Academy is open for students new and old

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Ah, Scholomance: It might just be the dungeon I've run the most times in all of MMOs. And now Blizzard is asking you to...

Astellia Online heads to Avalon with its latest update

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The future has been revealed for Astellia Online, and that future is contained in one word: Avalon. The next big content update will take players...

RuneScape introduces Player Advocacy Group-led changes, OSRS adds new Slayer content

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Ah, yes, another week of RuneScape updates via the usual newsletter. Time to open it up and -- what's this? a totally new format?...
Last cast.

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is adding new Statute of Secrecy training to the game

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Need a little more pep in your step while playing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite? The new Statute of Secrecy training is there to deliver...

PUBG breaks 70M sales ahead of 8.1 update as Steam concurrency continues to drop

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It's not every day that a video game sells 70 million copies, but PUBG is celebrating just that this week. In honor of that...

Path of Exile elaborates on changes to storage tanks and Harvest crafting descriptions coming in the next patch

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This week's patch for Path of Exile will be making a number of adjustments, but in a separate post made to the game's forums,...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Stonethorn DLC launches August 24 for PC, September 1 for console

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Elder Scrolls Online is apparently not wasting any time when it comes to its Stonethorn cadence. After announcing the new DLC last Thursday, it's...
Safe!

Elite: Dangerous fixes an installation issues for fleet carriers that may result in a new crew member

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Fleet carriers have some bugs in Elite: Dangerous, and the newest patch for the game arriving tomorrow is fixing one of the major bugs...

Multiplayer survival RPG Frozen Flame enters closed beta on September 15

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The self-described "action survival MMORPG" Frozen Flame is soon entering its next stage of metamorphosis. Following its initial reveal in June and its backers-only...
Are you, like... doing all right?

Guild Wars 2’s next episode, Jormag Rising, launches July 28 – here’s the new trailer

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As promised, ArenaNet has pushed out the trailer for Guild Wars 2's next episode, titled Jormag Rising and launching in just two weeks. "Chapter four...

EVE Online’s Zenith update begins the apex to the Triglavian invasion, adds new items and features

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Today marks the rising crescendo of the Triglavian invasion in EVE Online. The Zenith update kicks off the beginning of the sandbox's third quadrant...
Happiness is a warm car.

APB Reloaded clears out the anniversary area and event items, tunes its anti-cheat software

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Parties are fun, but when everyone has left, the unhappy job of cleaning up the mess remains. That's just what APB Reloaded has done...

Vendetta Online adds prediction monitoring to combat PvP lag and make space debris physics smoother

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Vendetta Online can predict the future. A very specific future, anyway. A future involving where dynamic debris will go and where players are going...
No Ryan Lewis on this one.

Occupy White Walls proudly announces a big art lift with its latest update, the Heist

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The team behind Occupy White Walls is pretty proud of this art heist. It's not a real heist, of course, but the update is...

Life Beyond studio Darewise rakes in over $3 million in new seed investment funding

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Darewise, the development studio behind co-operative survival MMO Life Beyond, has gotten itself a fresh infusion of funds to the tune of €3 million...

The Survivalist: Astroneer adds automation (and it’s awesome)

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Astroneer is already an awesome game. Even as a survival game, it is my go-to for chill fun. It scratches the mega harvesting or...

The Elder Scrolls Online shares another 360° preview of a Stonethorn dungeon and adds it to PTS

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It's time for not-really virtual reality with The Elder Scrolls Online once again! Following up on a similar dungeon preview for the upcoming Stonethorn...
When everything looks like this it tends to run together.

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands will have no heirloom experience bonus and no swappable conduits

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There have been a few more droplets of information heading into the beta for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. For one thing, you know those...

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