Legends of Aria has a big reveal today: It’s completely revamped its graphics ahead of its second closed beta. The word Citadel uses is “drastic,” but, you know, the good kind of drastic. “On July 12, we will be starting a new phase of testing called Closed Beta 2. It will have hundreds of bug fixes, new features, and…an entirely...
The next deep dungeon in Final Fantasy XIV is really the opposite of “deep.” You’re not going down in Heaven-on-High; you’re going up. But it’s still the latest installment of the content, and it provides a different set of requirements right from the start because it’s open to players at level 61 and above who have first cleared part of...
Just when you thought that you could handle anything Sea of Thieves’ rascally skeletons could throw at you, now they have barrels of gunpowder and are perpared to blow you up along with themselves. After all, what does a bunch of reanimated bones have to live for in this crazy pirate world? Gunpowder skeletons are keeping the game fresh with...
Conan Exiles just released its first paid DLC, and the content is all cosmetic. And you know Massively OP’s MJ can’t pass up good cosmetics! This pack is Khitan-themed, a style MJ is pretty fond of, so she’s excited to check out the new armors and building materials. Tune in live at 2:00 p.m. to see what’s in store from...
Last summer the co-president of the Paris Olympic bid committee told the AP that it was considering bringing video gaming on board for the 2024 program in France. The International Olympic Committee followed that up with a statement saying that “competitive e-sports could be considered as a sporting activity, and the players involved prepare and train with an intensity which...
The Hunger is going to destroy everything in Crowfall. That’s how the story ends. You can stave it off for a time, and the latest development post is all about how you can do that. But the point is that as the seasons change, you will lose the fight. Only a few hunger crystals might appear at night during the...
Did you think that the Oculus vs. ZeniMax lawsuit was over when ZeniMax was awarded $500 million in its legal battle with the VR manufacturer? That’s silly; this lawsuit and associated wrangling will outlast the stars themselves. The judge in the case has cut the award from $500 million to $250 million while also denying an injunction against the sale...
Do you like fighting games? I don’t. Let’s talk about fighting games. But bear with me because you’ll get where this is going. While I might not personally care much about fighting games, I still wind up spending a lot of time reading about them because that’s just the sort of thing I read for fun. And balancing a fighting...
Portalarium is shaking off its layoffs and plunging onward with the release of Shroud of the Avatar’s 55th update. Release 55 should be live just as this post goes out, and it’s set to include an elaborate brewing system, the UI overhaul, new minizones, and new enemies. But the best news of the update is the fact that SOTA now...
To say that the development of Neowiz’s high-fantasy MMO Bless has been somewhat beleaguered would be an understatement. Since the Korean import’s Western release was announced in 2011, it has weathered numerous delays; the loss of its would-be publisher, Aeria Games, which dropped out of the project in 2017 citing concerns about “quality standards”, and an ambitious “rebuild project” wherein...