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The Turbine Story – An Interview with Turbine Founder Johnny Monsarrat

Thanks to an anonymous tip, we’ve had our attention drawn to a recent interview conducted by “Andang”, a prolific LOTRO content creator, with Turbine founder Johnny Monsarrat. The hour long interview covers everything from the ins and outs of starting a gaming company to the early days of the MMO genre. According to our tipster, “the interview ends with Johnny sharing his recent project which aims to be the next Pokemon Go”. Check it out!

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ArenaNet Teases Guild Wars 2: Living World Season 4 – War Eternal

During last weekend’s EGX Rezzed, ArenaNet put out a brief video to tease Living World Season 4 – War Eternal. This will be the sixth and final chapter of Living World Season 4. At one point in the very short teaser video, viewers can see at least two dragons soaring in the air. Devs didn’t mention any release date, but it’s a fun forward look at what’s to come in Guild Wars 2 in the near future.

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World of Warcraft Classic Devs Finally Reveal PvP Content Plan

The latest World of Warcraft Classic developer diary has been posted that reveals how PvP will roll out once Classic is out the gate later this summer. When Classic launches, it will not come with a formal PvP system similar to how it was in 2004 on the game’s original launch. “You’ll still be able to PvP, of course, and there will be no Dishonorable Kills, so you’ll be free to repeatedly hunt down every player and NPC,” the post reads.

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The RPG Files: Operencia: The Stolen Sun Review

Operencia: The Stolen Sun by Zen Studios is a throwback first-person turn-based dungeon crawler that seeks to add some modern polish to an older, underutilized formula of trying to put the player into a dungeon themselves, rather than controlling a character in the third person. While retro-styled games are definitely a popular design choice, this one doesn’t see much in the way of use. Does it still hold up? Let’s find out in our review of Operencia: The Stolen Sun.

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Black Desert Online Devs Sending the Shadow Arena Battle Royale Mode Into the Void

The Black Desert Online site has been updated with a note from the developers to let players know that the Shadow Arena, BDO’s take on Battle Royale, will be going the way of the world later this week. The post indicates that the development needs of that particular modeh were taking away from the development of the larger MMO alongside “the rise of 3rd party software” causing issues with hacking.

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Neverwinter’s Latest Undermountain Blog Goes Into Expeditions Environments

The latest Neverwinter blog devoted to the upcoming Undermountain content expansion has been published, this time penned by Environment Artist Patrick Poage. In it, Poage talks about creating the perfect environments for Expeditions and the goals the team had setting out into Undermountain. “We want it to feel like you’re traveling far and wide across Undermountain and we want to give it as much variety as we can”.

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World of Warcraft: Looking for a Reason to Play

One of my biggest struggles with World of Warcraft currently is finding stuff to do outside of raiding. I’m pretty much wholly unmotivated when it comes to everything outside the realm of raiding; which is depressing when you consider I was fully engaged throughout Legion. I never felt the grind of leveling my artifact weapons, I was pretty much always enjoying doing what I wanted to get that done. As I’m sitting here waiting for 8.2 I’m wondering, why does everything feel so difficult this time

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It Seems the Next Overwatch Archives Event Will Take Place in Cuba

Blizzard is teasing out what appears to be the next Overwatch “Archive” event. These events are designed to give players a peek into the past lore of the game. This time, devs have posted a Spanish language “newspaper article” called the Havana Sun, indicating that, if this is an Archive event, it will take place in Cuba. Archive events have been running in April and May for the past couple of years, so this seems to fit the timeline.