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Today, Zenith: The Last City got its 1.1.8 update after a slight delay for additional fixes. New cosmetics, currency, full body haptics support, and a number of fixes are live.
Next month, ArcheAge will open its Fresh Start servers, offering players a chance to start on even ground to level and gear up with progression bonuses and lots of rewards.
Star Stable Online is overhauling its character creation options and will hold a closed beta next month to help the team polish up the new options and get player feedback.
It looks like Richard Garriott’s upcoming MMO project has an official name (and has for a while). The upcoming Web 3.0 MMORPG will be named Iron & Magic.
Season 27, Light’s Calling, for Diablo 3 is coming on August 26th. The new season brings a brand new consumable, Angelic Crucibles,� and the ability to sanctify items and gain a brand new class-based Sanctified power.�
Another Lord of the Rings-based game is in the works per a new partnership between Private Division, a publishing label within Take-Two Interactive and Weta Workshop. The new game, which will be set in Tolkien’s Middle-earth, doesn’t have any hard details as of yet.
A Hunter’s Cry, the latest Adventure for Sea of Thieves, is out this week. Meanwhile, there are some adjustments to the recently-introduced Milestones system.
Starting in September, RuneScape will get a four-month fresh start worlds event, with a level playing field, new economy, XP boosts, and an accelerated experience. OSRS will follow in October with no XP boost.
Square Enix is hosting a special livestream all week from a real farm�to celebrate the new FFXIV Island Sanctuary feature. There’s also a preview of the new raid and a peek at the upcoming Variant Dungeon.�
If you haven’t heard of Ashen Empires it wouldn’t be too surprising as the old-school MMORPG originally released back in 2002. Recently, Iron Will Games LLC has taken up the task of releasing the game on Steam, but the best laid plans went astray at the last minute.