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EverQuest II brings Tinkerfest around once more until August 5
Do you love tinkering with the gnomes in EverQuest II? Alternately, do you absolutely hate doing that but love taking part in seasonal events with rewards? If you fall into either category, you’ll be…
StarCraft II begins testing patch 5.0 with major co-op shake-up and new achievements
StarCraft II is preparing to celebrate its tenth anniversary, with patch 5.0 hitting the PTR with a wealth of new features. The biggest news here is a new prestige system for co-op mode. Players can…
SuperData June 2020: Valorant had the ‘biggest launch ever for a free-to-play PC title’
It’s time for our monthly check-in on how the games industry is doing according to SuperData’s numbers, and don’t worry – they’re all still making bank thanks to the global pandemic. “Digital games…
Sea of Thieves offers apologies and compensation for last weekend’s dataloss
So let me tell you a story. It’s a story about an online gaming company that had major problems with its servers last weekend. Players lost currency, rep, and other rewards. And just a few days later,…
SEGA announces Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis for 2021
If Phantasy Star Online 2’s long-awaited arrival on western devices this past spring didn’t light your world on fire, then maybe you’ll be happier with Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, revealed at…
Desert Oasis: Black Desert’s outlook in the lead-up to Crimson Desert
I’ve played nothing but the Black Desert season servers in the last month. It’s such a fresh breath of air, and it’s something I didn’t even know I wanted. There’s so much good stuff going with for it…
Wizard101 drops a massive summer update with character facelifts
You hear that delighted squealing? It’s just the Wizard101 community as they unpack a Christmas’ worth of presents in this week’s summer content update. KingsIsle’s magical MMO dropped all sorts of…
Vague Patch Notes: No Man’s Sky is the real reboot success story
Whenever an MMO of any type has a launch that resembles the Nedelin catastrophe, people start talking about what the studio should do to get things back on track. Inevitably, this discussion circles…
Torchlight III’s endgame-focused Dun-Djinn content update officially launches
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…
PlanetSide 2 is finally nerfing the Firestorm implant in today’s update
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…
Final Fantasy XIV updates its Reflections in Crystal site as it passes 20 million registered players
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…
Black Desert offers free play event ahead of transmedia synergy collab with Netflix’s Cursed
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…
Nexon’s UE4 crossplatform MMO V4 is officially live for PC, Android, and iOS players
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…