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Readers already know that Palworld developer Pocketpair is gearing up for a legal fight against Nintendo over three alleged patent infringements and $66K, and while legal experts continue to argue ways in which both sides can win, a unique new argument in favor of Pocketpair has emerged. The new insight comes from Ryo Arashida, a patent attorney from the Japan-based...

Last week we all got our first peek at Skygard Arena, an upcoming single-player and multiplayer turn-based strategy title from Gemelli Games that lets players control a team of three heroes to take on a campaign mode solo or enter a PvP arena against bots and other players. This week saw the game officially make its early access debut...

It's not an MMORPG, but it will certainly scratch any itch for a multiplayer open world game you've got: It's Towers of Aghasba, and it's officially launched into early access as of this afternoon. "Dreamlit Games just launched their debut title, Towers of Aghasba, into Early Access on Steam and PlayStation 5. Inspired by the art and fantasy worlds of...

Justin and Bree discuss Warcraft Direct, World of Warcraft's player housing and Undermine(d) patch, WoW Classic Classic, Guild Wars 2's Godspawn, SWTOR 7.6, and quarterly financials for a bunch of studios (Pearl Abyss, NCsoft, EG7/Daybreak, Embracer, and Nexon), plus adventures in WoW, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2.

Nightingale hasn't had the best fall: It's gone through two rounds of layoffs and a massive do-over, all as Inflexion Games has maintained that is has no intention of closing the game down and is indeed continuing to work on it, albeit with a presumably smaller team, given all those layoffs. And that does seem to be the case, as...

If you've been watching from the sidelines throughout CCP Games' testing of EVE Vanguard, then next weekend might be your moment, as the studio is opening up testing for more people in what it's calling "largest update yet" for the in-development shooter spinoff of classic MMORPG sandbox EVE Online. "The war is coming to EVE Vanguard from 28 November –...

The second act of Destiny 2's ongoing Revenant episode is coming today, and it invites players to head into a tomb to fight waves of enemies in an increasingly challenging gauntlet. That's the headline activity for Act II: Into the Tomb, which is starting later today. The referenced tomb in question is the Tomb of Elders, which readers will recall...

Get ready for a major change in how Pax Dei handles one of its key social features, as the early access MMO is changing over its chat system to a new one "powered by Discord" this Wednesday, November 20th. The studio said that while this new system will initially look familiar, the chat will boast additional features such as a...

This is not something I say very often or very lightly, but I'm glad that I was pressured into spending money on a game. I'll admit that I was resistant to buying gold in Red Dead Online purely from an ideological standpoint. Why would I spend cash on easing the grind in the game? You should ease the grind instead,...

As promised and foretold by publisher Arc Games, Neverwinter's 30th module ever is officially live on PC and console simultaneously today. The module, with its wonky "As Above, So Below - Return to Pirates' Skyhold" title, revives abandoned Neverwinter adventure zone content from way back in 2013 and revamps it for the modern playerbase. Arc (and Deca/Cryptic) call this...