The Lord of the Rings Online is going south after spending a few years in the northern reaches of Middle-earth. The latest letter on the LotRO website unveils that the Free Peoples will be heading south, into lands unseen in the MMO before: Umbar.
Microsoft To Lay Off 10K Employees Exactly One Year Since Activision Blizzard Purchase Announced
Microsoft announced today that it would be cutting up to 10,000 jobs at the tech giant across its workforce, with reports stating that the gaming divisions at both Xbox and Bethesda are affected by the layoffs. This was announced exactly one year to the day that Microsoft told the world they planned on acquiring Activision Blizzard for billions.
Can EVE Online Ride Its Uprising Momentum Into The Third Decade?
EVE Online has had a great end of 2022 thanks to the success of their recent Uprising expansion. But can CCP Games ride that momentum into the third decade as EVE celebrates 20 years this year?
Forspoken PC Requirements Show You’ll Need A Hefty Rig For 4K
Forspoken launches next week, and the upcoming RPG from Square Enix just revealed the hardware you’ll need on PC to get a good experience.
Wizards Reveals More Of Magic’s Phyrexia: All Will Be One Set, Including All The Compleated Planeswalkers
Wizards of the Coast revealed the full Phrexia: All Will Be One set today via a live stream on Twitch, highlighting more of the world, card treatments, new cards and more, including the full Compleated set of Planeswalkers in New Phyrexia.
Genshin Impact Reveals Two 3.5 Characters As Players Prep For Its 3.4 Update
While Genshin Impact’s 3.4 update is slated to release this week, Hoyoverse got a jump on revealing some of the characters you’ll be able to play as when Update 3.5 launches later this year.
NetEase Lays Off Staffers Who Worked On Blizzard Games In China As Part Of Partnership’s End
NetEase and Blizzard couldn’t come to an agreement on their existing licensing deal, which means the latter’s games will be pulled from China’s market. As a result, according to The South China Morning Post, NetEase has begun laying off or reassigning those team members who maintained Blizzard’s games.
Meet The New MMORPG.com Hardware Review Test Bench
As Nvidia and AMD both released their latest generation of their graphics hardware, we decided that it might be time to upgrade our existing test bench here at MMORPG.com. In order to ensure our test results are as accurate as they can be, it’s time to retire our old 10700K-powered bench in favor of a new generation of hardware.
Latest Chronicles Of Elyria Update States Kingdoms Of Elyria: Settlements Will Be Launched This Year
In the first update of 2023, Chronicles of Elyria’s developer Jeromy Walsh states that the work on Kingdoms of Elyria, and by extension Chronicles of Elyria, is still humming along, despite being the only dedicated developer on the project now. However, despite this, Walsh states that the Kingdoms of Elyria: Settlements project will be released by the end of this year.
World of Warcraft’s Patch 10.0.5 Releasing On January 24th
World of Warcraft’s next content update is coming later this month to retail WoW, bringing a new Primal Storm event, the trading post, and more.