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Embracer Group has announced a deal to acquire Crystal Dynamics, Eidos, and Square Enix Montreal for $300 million, a deal which includes over 50 IPs.
Elder Scrolls Online is one of the most popular MMORPGs on the market today, but despite their high popularity, it may surprise many players to find out that their backend hardware isn’t exactly the greatest. The developers have been planning a server hardware refresh for over a year, and recently, ESO Game Director Matt Firor took to the forums to let players know how the migration has been going.
Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem has come a long way from its official Steam release back in 2020. After introducing the Aegis of Stormfall update earlier this year, the team at WOLCEN Studio has continued to implement changes and fixes to make the game more enjoyable for their fans.
The team at Heroic Games Corporation are progressing their development of City of Heroes unofficial successor, Ship of Heroes with a new beta test. The Housing Beta Test will focus on base building, where players will get to place some furniture and feng shui their hero lairs in an effort to help the team test the new feature.
Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore is an indie game that has graced our Indie MMO Spotlight through the insistence of our community. Swedish developer Gellyberry Studios is determined to make this fantasy MMORPG completely subscription-based, but in order to do that, they’ll need plenty of funding to continue development. To that end, they have started a Kickstarter campaign, where they are asking for a funding goal of a mere 63,000 dollars (60,000 euros).
The latest addition to the GEForce NOW service is Lost Ark. The game joins the cloud-based service. Meanwhile, there could be shorter, more frequent roadmaps coming.
Elite Dangerous will get its next Frameshift Live stream next week. On the agenda are a 2022 roadmap, and console account transfers.
In new leaked footage of Ubisoft’s long-maligned pirating sim, Skull & Bones, players eagerly awaiting anything on this game were treated to some combat, exploration and more. Additionally, Kotaku is reporting that, according to sources, we could be seeing the game ship as early as Fall 2022.
The Profane team ahs a roadmap update for April, and a recent preview of forest music gives a behind the scenes peek at audio design.
As more and more news pours out from interviews about World of Warcraft’s upcoming expansion, Dragonflight, Blizzard themselves had some news of their own. Holly Longdale has announced that she is taking over the role of Executive Producer on the World of Warcraft franchise.