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The third of four anniversary stories for Final Fantasy XIV has gone up today, and it covers an old friend. And an old enemy. An old everything, as it turns out. The latest story puts the reader in the shoes of Emet-Selch, he of the sassiest backhanded wave ever, and it covers a few memories of a time that should prove...

The interviews just keep on coming from the devs of New World. This time around we've got one from GamesIndustry speaking with game director Scot Lane about things that make the upcoming MMO stand out as well as plans for the game's future. Lane's own love for a variety of games including WoW, Black Desert, and Dark Souls as well...

ArcheAge 2 is more than a rumor now - it's a sure thing. The news comes according to Korean website Ruliweb, which reports that Jake Song has put together a team of 50 devs to work on the Unreal Engine 5 sequel under the XLGAMES and Kakao banners. The gist is that the game is expected to "creatively inherit Archeage's...

With less than two months to go until World of Warcraft: Shadowlands releases, it's not a great time to be making major adjustments to the expansion's (arguably) tentpole feature. But that's just what Blizzard seems to be doing with the controversial Covenant system. In response to a lot of heated debates and rants (or as Blizzard calls it, "passion") from...

Back when vanilla World of Warcraft was a new thing, I soloed Hogger on my Paladin. This did not strike me as all that weird. After all, it was just another gnoll. Sure, he had a fancy frame around his portrait and it took a little while longer than I expected, but it wasn't all that unusual as a...

Back in January, Conan Exiles players were wary when Funcom told its investors about "continuing to develop the game with a paid map DLC"; after all, players were promised free content and only cosmetics in regular DLC. In February, we postulated that Funcom would do better by fans making a real expansion instead of a DLC. As it turns...

So this one's fun. The results of a study performed in the UK between November and December of 2019 have just been released. The study's goal? Surveying children to find out the effects that video games have on their lives. And the findings? It turns out that video games are a net positive, as 85% of the subjects surveyed...

We're only in the early vestiges of autumn in our part of the hemisphere, but in the co-op roguelike world of Minecraft Dungeons, it's already Creeping Winter. Or at least it is with the launch of the latest DLC. Creeping Winter, as the title suggests, adds some frosty new mobs, some new ice-related items, and some new missions. There's also...

It looks like the surprising RTS title Iron Harvest 1920 is going to be doing a whole lot of growing over the course of September. A roadmap shared by developer King Art has provided confirmation that there will be new content updates every week this month. Week two is adding a new 3v3 map and the ability to play the...

Yesterday saw the devs of RuneScape offer up another weekly livestream about a rework to Penguin Hide and Seek, but before it launched in to that, it circled back around to an update regarding the punishment of a few hundred accounts due to what was thought to be an exploit of oddment pricing but was just simply bad math....