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After a year of Early Access exclusivity on the Epic Games Store and Xbox/PC Game Pass, 33 Immortals is set to land on Steam this summer. Its wider release appears to be far from the end of the road for the massively multiplayer roguelike raid simulator, too, with another content-heavy update set for the same time. But is it too little too late for the game that blends the action of Hades with the boss battles of a modern MMO? That depends. From Thunder Lotus Games, the fine folks behind Sundered, Jotun, and Spiritfarer, 33 Immortals launched to a solid…
Marvel Rivals developer NetEase says it’s planning to crack down on players exploiting the newly retooled proficiency system with punishments as severe as permanent account bans.In a tweet, NetEase warned players against using an exploit that’s been around for a long while now, but which has seen an uptick in frequency since last week’s update. It’s often called “lord farming,” and in the simplest of terms, it involves hanging out in spawn and spamming skills to farm proficiency, a process that’s been mistakenly expedited due to recent changes to the proficiency system. (In case you’re wondering, it’s called lord farming…
The winter abates, the days begin to lengthen, the snowdrops creep forth from their burrows, and the raiders of ARC Raiders carry on raiding Arcs. Developers Embark have also done another round of interviews, in which they discuss plans for ARC Raiders updates in 2026, and in particular, address the question of whether to implement a player-trading menu and/or some kind of auction house feature. Right now, you can only officially barter with NPC merchants. Briefly, the developers are concerned that such features would sabotage how players themselves organically assign value and significance to particular items. They worry it…
What’s in the Hytale roadmap? After an incredibly rocky development period spanning over a decade, marked by a company buyout, subsequent cancellation, and now an early access release, Hytale’s launch signals the start of a brand-new era for Hypixel Studios. With Hytale players already starting to ask for features like controller support and a working mana system, the community wants to see a Hytale roadmap to help make the wait for upgrades and improvements more bearable. The developers have stressed that the early access launch is a four-year-old build of the game and that there’s still plenty of work to…
A large batch of concept art said to be from the upcoming Fable game has been shared online.According to MP1st, the images – which it claims are from the portfolio of an unnamed artist who worked on the upcoming Playground Games title – show various locations and gameplay elements.Some of the roughly 30 images show the protagonist looking out over the horizon at a large city. One of the images includes a sign which says ‘Bloodstone’, a location from Fable 2.Other images show the protagonist travelling through a sewer area, shots of a swamp village, the same village following a…
We just got our first major update for the year on Riot’s long (long, long) awaited League of Legends MMO, as former World of Warcraft producer Raymond Bartos has announced that he’s joined the project. Bartos’s announcement highlights his reuniting with engineer Orlando Salvatore, after the two worked together on some of the better-received features of modern WoW, including Plunderstorm and the gear update.”From my very first conversation with Riot,” Bartos says on Twitter, “I immediately gravitated toward their values—and I was genuinely impressed by how clearly those values showed up throughout the interview process. It made it obvious that…
Butchering “Butchering Pathologic” is a series of articles on Pathologic 3, inspired by Quintin Smith’s peerless retrospective for the original game. The following contains abstracted discussion of my own experiences of disease.
When can you download Arknights Endfield? Right now, in fact! While we’ve still got a little while to go until we can start our industrious journey on Talos-II, developer Hypergryph has given eager players the ability to pre-download Arknights Endfield ahead of launch. If you’ve been counting down the hours until release in your time zone, this is all the preparation you need. No matter the strength of your internet connection, there’s still plenty of time to install Arknights Endfield so you can get into the gacha game at the exact time of release. This pre-download requires a little more…
A new podcast, ‘Good Game Club’ was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, aiming to promote positive conversations around play and the video games industry.Good Game Club is hosted by Playmob CEO, Jude Ower MBE, and SYBO CEO, Mathias Gredal Nørvig, who wrote the book ‘Gaming for Good’ in 2024, which set out to demystify gaming and how the medium can be a force for good. A cut of sales went to climate projects.The podcast is supported by a “a strategic partnership” with Tencent, according to the WEF announcement, which says the two share “ambitions to…
Baldur’s Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon, who plays Astarion in the hit 2023 RPG, is once again making it very clear he doesn’t want generative AI anywhere near his video games.Of course, Newbon has never been shy to share his feelings on AI, having previously said it “sucks,” “doesn’t work very well,” and “sounds crap” alongside other more expletive-laden repudiations.During the finale of his 126-part YouTube video series in which he played through the entire game, Newbon once again ripped into the prospect of generative AI being used in video game development, specifically because when amazing games like Baldur’s Gate…