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Torchums -- er, sorry, Torchlight III has made good on Tuesday's plan to release its new endgame content the following Wednesday. Which means it's out now, in other words. That would have been easier to point out from the off, wouldn't it? Oh well. As reported previously, the update opens up Fazeer Shah’s Dun-Djinn, a new encounter that promises big...

Daybreak's Rogue Planet Games is rolling out an update for PlanetSide 2 this morning, focused on tweaks to the Firestorm implant that effectively nerf recoil and cone of fire bloom for the overall health of the game. "Community feedback on this implant has been somewhat contentious," Daybreak admits. "The activation and opportunity cost of Firestorm doesn't regulate the effectiveness of...

It was easy to miss amidst all of the other news contained in yesterday's live letter from producer and director Naoki Yoshida, but Final Fantasy XIV's staff was happy to announce yesterday that the game had passed a grand total of 20 million registered players worldwide. That's not quite the same as subscribers, but it's still a notably large...

So here's one I did not expect to see in my inbox this morning: Pearl Abyss has apparently teamed up with Netflix for a Black Desert collab with Cursed, which itself is spin on the King Arthur legends that centers on Nimue, the Lady of the Lake. "Pearl Abyss and Kakao Games announced today that they are developing in-game content...

We've had an eye on the hard-to-search-for V4 since August 2019, when news of Nexon's next Korean MMO first reached our shores. And the game hasn't delayed on its journey westward, as it's officially launched globally as of today with all the hoopla and features you expect out of a flashy UE4 MMO that's expected to perform on both...

The server crisis that has been plaguing both Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online for over a week now may have some hope of resolution. The terse and largely uncommunicative Standing Stone Games posted a notice last night that while LOTRO's servers were taken offline, the studio said its tech team is "making progress" toward...

If you've ever read Bannable Offenses, a Final Fantasy XI comedy blog, you may remember when the blog's supposed writer took control of the rest of his party. (The conceit of the comedy was that the writer was a GM who took a dim view of the game's playerbase.) The whole joke relied around the idea that the other...

As I wrote in an op-ed before, I miss the heck out of Gigantic, the so-called "shooter MOBA" developed by Motiga and released by Perfect World Entertainment that was shuttered in July 2018 shortly after Motiga itself closed up shop in November 2017. In spite of its late arrival to the MOBA scene, my experiences with Gigantic were net...

Remember how we pointed out the 16-bit-styled MMO DarkStory? Kind of looked like fun, right? If you're looking for a similarly-styled MMO package on mobile, then you might be interested in Curse of Aros, a PvE-heavy MMO that's out in early access. And if you clicked on that game's link and were simply met by XP leaderboards, then might...

Hey, whatever happened to Snail Games' Dark and Light? The last time we checked in with this game was back in October 2019, so let's do a bit of a recap of everything that's happened since then. ... Well, that was a quick recap, wasn't it? In all seriousness, Dark and Light has been all but silent since last fall except...