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Get the Gear You Want: SWTOR Details Upcoming Itemization Overhaul
In perhaps the most detailed livestream they’ve done in quite some time, Star Wars the Old Republic’s team came out swinging on their massive itemization overhaul due to go live with their next expansion in September. This overhaul, entitled Spoils of War, is not to be confused with Game Update 2.8 of the same name from 2014. The title is apt, as the BioWare Austin team laid out the basics of their plan to overhaul gear going forward, and also reaching into the past.
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Revelation Online Details New Dungeon in Heaven and Earth
Revelation Online has announced the release of the Heaven and Earth update on May 27th, which will bring with it a new Dungeon called the “Temple of the Twelve”.
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PlanetSide 2’s New Producer’s Letter Celebrates 16th Anniversary
The official site has shared a new dev blog that hails the recent release of The New Soldier Game Update as well as looking at server optimizations and the upcoming 16th Anniversary of the PlanetSide franchise.
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Mad World Announces Alpha Test on May 22nd
The team at Jandisoft has announced that they are holding a 2nd alpha test of their 2D isometric perspective MMORPG, Mad World, albeit under NDA.
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RuneScape Partnering with Twitch Prime for Rewards
The team at Jagex Studios has partnered with Twitch to offer four months of exclusive RuneScape and Old School RuneScape goodies for Twitch Prime Members.
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World of Warcraft Announces Classic Launch and Test Dates
The team at Blizzard has announced that WoW Classic will be going live worldwide on August 27th. In addition, details have been shared about stress/beta testing the new servers.
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Caravan Stories Announces NA Open Beta and Launch Dates
The team at Tokyo-based Aiming Inc has announced that Caravan Stories, their free-to-play, anime-inspired MMORPG (with more than 2 million players in Japan), will be launching on PlayStation 4 in North America.
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MapleStory Announces New Classes at Sold-Out Festival
The team at Nexon announced the introduction of two new classes (one to MapleStory and the other to MapleStory 2) last weekend when around 500 fans came together at the second annual MapleStory Fest in Downtown Los Angeles.
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Astellia Details Enhancement System in Dev Blog and Video
The team at STUDIO 8 has shared a new dev blog on the official Astellia website that details the process of enhancing your equipment as you advance through the game.
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Guild Wars 2 Shares New Trailer for Season 4’s War Eternal
The final episode of Guild Wars 2 Season 4, War Eternal, will be launching on Tuesday, May 14. The team at ArenaNet has shared some details of the update as well as a brand new trailer “that sets the stage for the finale”.
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SWTOR Announces Seventh Expansion: Onslaught
After the recap of this upcoming content, the team then did the big reveal. SWTOR’s 6.0 iteration is an expansion entitled Onslaught, and the basic story continues increasing the war between Republic and Empire, picking up where the Jedi Under Siege update left off. Players as the Alliance Commander built up during the Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion will get to choose which faction to help.
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[PAX East 2019] Here Be Dragons: Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr
We met with the folks at Bethesda’s subsidiary Zenimax at their unabashed wingding at PAX East in Boston at the tail end of March. Last year’s event merely took over the comedy club in the Westin hotel lobby. This year, they took that and the adjacent Irish pub and restaurant for an even bigger experience. We had a chance to sit down Creative Director Rich Lambert to discuss what was coming in Elsweyr and even have a go playing their upcoming class, the Necromancer.
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