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EverQuest is moving into the 64-bit era finally as its servers and clients make the jump next week. Coming on February 15th, the move will allow Darkpaw’s devs to open the tap on the amount of memory your client and the server can utilize.
Microsoft in a blog post today outlined its vision on Open App Store Principles for both its Windows and Xbox marketplaces in an attempt to appease regulators looking at its massive investment to acquire Activision Blizzard. In the same post, Microsoft finally committed to releasing the popular Call of Duty franchise on PlayStation beyond the existing agreements in place.
Lost Ark’s paid early access is certainly proving popular as the servers today counted over 530K people playing the newly released ARPG MMO. While free-to-play, those who purchased founder’s packs were able to get a head start early ahead of the "official" February 11th launch.
Ahead of the upcoming release of Swords of Legends Online Update 2.0: The Firestone Legacy, Gameforge is showing off the second of its new character classes to come to the MMORPG. The Warrior is a tank and DPS class, able to turn its body as hard as stone itself.
We see emulated servers bring back old MMOs as they stood when they were active all the time. Yet these time capsules bringing old games to life may not necessarily attract new players to discover what made them so great. Is there an old, shuttered MMORPG that you’d love to see be brought back to life, but not as a revived version of the old, but a remade version anew?
Swords of Legends Online is gearing up for what is its largest update yet in The Firestone Legacy, which hits PC on February 24th. The update will bring with it the newest class to come to SOLO: The Fox Mage.
In the latest investor report by Activision Blizzard, monthly active users have continued to decline over the year, with Q4 2021’s results showing the company reporting a total of 371 million MAUs, down from 397 million just a year prior.
World of Warcraft is finally breaking down one of the walls that has helped define its gameplay for almost twenty years as the studio announced earlier this week it was going to be allowing cross-faction dungeons in the MMORPG. The long-standing separation that has stood in its player-base is being eroded: the segmenting of the playerbase along Alliance and Horde battlelines.
Gardens, a new game studio made up of some top-level AAA talent from across the gaming industry, has been revealed today. Gardens states that it is focused on collective growth and its employee’s health, happiness and wellbeing. The studio is hiring more talent to help build its first online game.
PvE MMORPG Embers Adrift is gearing up for its beta testing phase ahead of its planned 2022 release date, and one major way is finally pulling back the Alpha NDA later this year.