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New World’s 1.0.4 patch begins reenabling Outpost Rush and server transfers
After just a day of delay, New World's weekly patch - 1.0.4 - rolled out to the live servers early this morning.
"Update 1.0.4 is...
Everything people are grumpy about in New World, one month in
A timely email from a reader this morning reminded me to poke my head into the New World subreddit to see what's on fire...
New World halts transfers, warns gold dupe exploiters as players call for a rollback
Turns out the gold duping bug in New World wasn't just a rumor: Amazon confirmed that the transfers enabled yesterday were allowing some folks...
New World players found a way to make themselves invincible in PvP by using windowed mode
When it comes to PvP in any game, squashing an exploit that makes you literally invincible is pretty important, all things considered. Such an...
Dual Universe focuses in on removing stacked construct elements and shares more Lua changes
Apparently, players of Dual Universe have been stacking construct elements on top of each other - ie a shield generator overlapped by a space...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the most painful or memorable bug you ever experienced in an MMO?
Witnessing all the folks upset over losing gear and trades to rollbacks over and over in Diablo II Resurrected made me reflect on some...
Neverwinter is shoring up Echoes of Prophecy, teases new module in January 2022
Echoes of Prophecy rolled out to Neverwinter players last week, bringing the first third of its fall campaign and the launch of its new...
The MOP Up: Ashes of Creation won’t date Alpha 2 testing – at least, not yet
Ashes of Creation has yet another chunky batch of question-absent answers to the community that it posted on the forums. Intrepid said that it...
SWG Legends caught exploiters mass-deleting ‘thousands’ of game objects
If you got booted out of Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends yesterday, know that a malicious exploit was the reason, and while...
Dual Universe outlines changes to warping and docking coming in the Ares update
Earlier this week Dual Universe started writing up details about adjustments planned for the Ares update, with the first post discussing stress a stress...
Conan Exiles is cracking down on toxicity and sploits on official servers
Funcom appears to be cleaning up the Conan Exiles official servers, as this week it announced a change to its terms of conduct. It specifically...
Dual Universe outlines core combat stress, shield changes, and PvP fixes coming in the Ares update
When Dual Universe kicked out a tease to its Ares update on the game's roadmap, it had plenty to list but not a whole...
Twitch unleashes a lawsuit against two alleged hate raid organizers
In August we reported on efforts by streamers to call attention to hate raiding and other forms of harassment targeting Black, POC, and LGBT+...
Elder Scrolls Online players killed 2 billion monsters in two months this summer
To cap off its "World Plays ESO" promotion, ZeniMax Online Studios has released an infographic covering all the stuff players did in The Elder...
Albion Online cracks down on PvP exploits and exploiters
Sandbox Interactive is cracking down on PvP exploiters in Albion Online, according to a thread on the official forums this morning. Specifically, it's an...
Bless Unleashed suggests Xbox players who duplicated cash shop currency may be ‘required’ to buy it back
Evidently there was some dirty pool going down in the Xbox version of Bless Unleashed. The game's official Twitter account noted that there were...
Opinion: Free Guy is a great watch – particularly for MMO fans
I don't wind up writing a whole lot of movie reviews. This isn't because I don't watch a lot of movies or don't think...
Lost Ark reveals all of its ‘normalized’ founder packs and perks
Amazon and Smilegate have released a detailed blog post this afternoon focused on the upcoming Lost Ark's founder packs. And cats. The cats are...
Amazon addresses New World crashes, stability, and approach to exploits post-launch
Amazon Games has penned a letter for New World testers addressing the state of the game and its impending fixes.
"e created several test builds...
Lost Ark introduces new founder’s pack with normalized pricing to combat black market sellers
It would appear that key resellers are making a mess of Lost Ark's economy before the game even gets out of technical alpha, if...