Thor’s hammer! Fortnite crosses over with Marvel this week!

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Selling Batman and Harley Quinn outfits in Fortnite is so last month. This August, it's all about Marvel. This week, the popular game is crossing over with the blockbuster Marvel franchise. August 27th's Chapter 2 Season 4 won't be bringing the first Marvel skins to the game, but it certainly will greatly add to the roster. On top of that,...
Wow.

Rumor: A new version of the Nintendo Switch is due out some time next year

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Everyone likes the Nintendo Switch. It's a solid console that's portable and fun and useful. About the only thing it's lacking is some hardware power because... well, that's never been Nintendo's primary goal, after all. But there's a rumor going around once more that you will be able to pick up a turbo-powered Switch next year, with 4k resolution...
CHICKEN ARISE!

The Rising returns to Final Fantasy XIV on Thursday

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It's nearly time to celebrate seven years of Final Fantasy XIV since its relaunch with the annual return of the Rising event, starting on Thursday, August 27th. This has been a pretty strange year for FFXIV (and, you know... the rest of the world), but that doesn't mean an end to the festivities. It does mean they're a bit...

Choose My Adventure: Determining the strengths and weaknesses of AdventureQuest 3D

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So it’s my final week here in AdventureQuest 3D and things ended with not a bang nor a whimper so much as with a gentle shrug and a soft sigh, I guess. I pressed on with using the Guardian as was decreed by the voting public, which was a reasonable if unremarkable choice. I got through the zone I...

Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons expansion takes us to Cantha in 2021

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There's gobs of addenda to this post as the stream rolled along today, so scroll down to the bottom for the big news! There's a lot going on this week, what with New World's test event and Elder Scrolls Online's DLC, but this day truly belongs to Guild Wars 2 as it's turning eight and dropping some epic new content...
Bad plans.

New World’s open preview event has just begun

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Amazon's New World has just kicked off its don't-call-it-a-beta beta preview event. The event is a follow-on to last month's density stress test (seriously, is there a reason we keep inventing new terms for tests), but unlike that event, this one requires the new client and doesn't come under an NDA, meaning you're about to be inundated with streams...

Warframe releases the Heart of Deimos for PC, Xbox, and PS4, delays Switch version to later this week

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It's time for another romp around an open world region in Warframe, and while an infested moon doesn't really elicit visions of playful romping, there is certainly lots to do in the Heart of Deimos update and the new Cambion Drift area as outlined at the update's hub page. That same page, by the way, has lots of details...

Neverwinter is dramatically overhauling mounts and reducing cash-shop mount prices

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Neverwinter is due for a mount overhaul, and as it turns out, PWE is game to give it one. "Mounts in Neverwinter are very much the same as they have been for years," the studio admitted in a blog post yesterday. "While that is a good thing in many areas, there have been some aspects of mounts that you,...
Let's set up shop.

Hands-on with New World’s war mode: All the fun you can have blowing up a fortress of lumber

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It's really hard to look at the general progress of New World and not get the sense of a game that's struggling to sort out its place in the MMO hierarchy even before it launches. Release dates keep getting moved back, principles of design keep changing, sometimes dramatically, and so on. Whether or not it is struggling, the MMO...
Roast somebody.

World of Warcraft announces more low-population realm connections

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Just like the next expansion is bringing players together with the dead in Shadowlands, the current server plans for World of Warcraft seem to involve linking the dead (low-population servers) with the living (higher-population servers that are already connected). A fresh batch of connections is planned for August 27th, with numerous realms linking up with one another; check out...