Star Citizen deep-dives the art underpinning its ship design

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It's time once again for even more ship design porn from Star Citizen. If you're the sort that adores all of the attention CIG gives its ever-growing fleet of internet spaceships, then you're likely going to be a fan of the recent Star Citizen Live video, which features concept artist Gavin Rothery and a variety of the ships he...
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 still called the Heist, and we have to admit that it's a pretty big haul when the game makes off with every piece of the National Gallery in London. That's a lot of art, it'd...

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 or over $3.4 million USD. The investment is led by Serena, a European venture capital firm, as well as another venture capital company called Lakestar. Darewise has stated that it will be using the new...

Lost Ark kills the gender lock, adds the Scouter, and preps for global release

Momentum is picking up for the long-long-awaited Lost Ark, which just began its closed beta (in Japan). A Redditor reported that the beta patch included some significant changes, such as the removal of the controversial gender lock and the addition of player housing islands. "We are currently working hard to prepare for global release," said the studio. "We can't mark...
Over and over.

Players in WoW Classic have defeated Onyxia without wearing anything at all

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Who says you can't make your own fun in a themepark? That's just what one raid group did in WoW Classic, electing to take on Onyxia with a fully naked team. Obviously "naked" here means that nobody was wearing any gear, trinkets, rings, or weapons. As one would also likely expect, the raid group was made up primarily of casters...

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 terraforming itch like no other -- all in the most adorable way possible. And it's very hands-on: If you want something, you've got to make it yourself; very little is found lying around. Nonetheless, it could...

Former ArenaNet founder and former Riot Games dev get $5.7M for their startup studio One More Game

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What can you do with $5.7 million? Apparently, beef up your own game studio. Patrick Wyatt, a former founder of ArenaNet and En Masse Entertainment, and Jamie Winsor, a former veteran developer of Undead Labs and Riot Games, have come out of hiding to toot the horn of their new game studio startup One More Game, a company that...
Classy.

Wisdom of Nym: What to do in Final Fantasy XIV during the 5.3 patch delay

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Here we are in July, and we're not going to get our next patch for about a month. Normally, this isn't such a big deal, but this is an unusually long content gap for the game and we don't even have a new expansion on the horizon to look for. (All right, yes, Yoshida confirmed there is a new...

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 DLC, the game has shared yet another 360° peek at Stone Garden, the second dungeon included in the DLC pack. If you love Dwemer machinistry, you'll be a fan of this one, as it sets the...

Fight or Kite: Examining Crowfall’s newbie systems, from God’s Reach to Awakening

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Despite the current pandemic we are all living through, one thing you absolutely have to give the team at ArtCraft credit for is continually improving Crowfall and moving forward with development. If anything, it doesn’t appear that the team has slowed down at all. From the addition of the Dregs campaign to the latest update to the live server,...