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Parents & Kids Can Try the New Adventure Academy Learning MMO for Free for 30 Days

Parents who want to provide their kids with an innovative and fun learning experience are invited to try out Adventure Academy for free for 30-days. Eligibility is simple. Enter a valid email address and the monthlong adventure begins. Adventure Academy provides research-based learning activities across a number of core objectives including Reading, Math and Science, each of which is broken into smaller subjects. But there are also robust MMO features in place as well.

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Tips for Starting Out in City of Heroes

While many of you are returning to City of Heroes on certain private servers, I’m sure there are some of you out there who are playing the game for the first time. As a game that came out before World of Warcraft took over the genre, CoH does a ton of things differently and that can be overwhelming, so here’s a couple of tips to get you started out on the right foot.

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New Fallout 76 Inside the Vault Introduces The Purveyor

A new vendor will be heading into Fallout 76 on May 16th who is ready to exchange players’ Legendary Scrip for some pretty amazing items. The Purveyor is a mysterious hooded figure representing the Mole Miners. She is the first of her kind to venture to the surface and is ready to sell weapons and armor “to Dwellers from her vast stockpile of legendary items”. Her presence allows players a way to target specific Legendaries.

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Lornsword Winter Chronicle Sets Its Sights on ARPG & Action-Strategy Fans

When Lornsword Winter Chronicles lands in Steam Early Access on May 30th, it will do so with eyes firmly set on wooing both ARPG and action-strategy fans. It comes with a unique blend of features including resource management, base building and maintenance, exploration and dynamic combat. Lornsword is a story-driven fantasy action strategy game presented in a “three-dimensional top down perspective” where players will see the consequences of their decisions.

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Inside Star Citizen: Riders of the Range | 3.5 Ep. 3

The latest edition of Inside Star Citizen is out and about with Associate Creative Producer Jared Huckaby where he spends ten minutes or so going over the latest development milestones in the game. “This week’s update looks at the latest wheeled warrior from Tumbril Land Systems, listens in on the sounds of space, and gets the scoop on improvements to some of our favorite PU locations.”

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Crowfall Team Describes the Power of Visual Storytelling

In a lengthy new blog on the Crowfall site, the team discusses how powerful the art of visual storytelling is to its game. Visual storytelling, in a sense, “brings worlds to life” with the goal to “visually give you a sense of a story without needing words or an explanation behind it”. Each player can then take those visual cues and insert themselves into the history and lore of the game world to make it a more personal story and “give context to the greater narrative threads in the world”.