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[PAX East 2020] Marvel and Netmarble Announce Marvel Future Revolution
The resulting experience is the open-world RPG Marvel Future Revolution. The basic premise is a sort of mash-up of worlds called the Convergence where the heroes from each reality will be teaming up to save them all in conjunction with Omega Flight. The panel revealed expansive landscapes pasted onto our world that featured Sakaar from World War Hulk and Xandar from the Nova books, as well as mentioning a New Stark City where the heroes had Iron Man-ized costumes.
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Holly Longdale to Depart Darkpaw Games
In a heartfelt March Producer’s Letter on both the EverQuest and EverQuest 2 sites, Executive Producer Holly ‘The Windstalker’ Longdale announced her departure from both games’ leadership for a ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’. She named Franchise Technical Director Jennifer Chan as her replacement and stated she would remain involved in the games as a player going forward.
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[PAX East 2020] Big News at the Standing Stone PAX East Meetup
Standing Stone Games and their players raided the Adventure Pub in Arlington, MA on Friday night at PAX East 2020. It coincided with the 14th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons Online, and the big news was the announcements from DDO and Lord of the Rings Online’s Executive Producer Rob ‘Severlin’ Ciccolini, including an explanation why the LotRO Producer’s Letter is still pending.
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Perfect World Entertainment Announces Star Trek Online: Legacy
This time, the update includes an homage to Original Series episode ‘The Savage Curtain’, returning players to the planet Excalbia in a two-part episode to pit them against villains from previous game content updates. They will have the benefit of some of Starfleet’s finest at their side, such as Seven (voiced by Jeri Ryan of Voyager and Picard) and Michael Burnham (voiced by Sonequa Martin-Green from Discovery).
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Tencent Seeks to Fully Acquire Funcom
In a press release on Funcom’s website, the Norwegian-based company running Conan Exiles and working on the upcoming Dune survival MMO announced that the tech investment company Tencent was in the market to acquire full controlling interest via purchasing all other stockholders’ shares.
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Daybreak Spins Off Game Franchises
Daybreak Games announced on Tuesday that they were spinning off three of their four game franchises into separate studios. Last year, eagle-eyed Twitter user MSandersonD had scoped out some new trademarks being registered by Daybreak, setting off speculation of this very action coming.
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DDO Publishes 2020 Producer’s Letter
Standing Stone Games made the news twice today. Firstly with the not-really-news reassurance from publisher Daybreak Games that Daybreak’s announcement that it’s spinning off its three franchises off into separate but connected studios will not affect SSG, and secondly by publishing their 2020 Producer’s Letter for Dungeons and Dragons Online.
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Bethesda Invites You to the Dark Heart of Skyrim
Recently, Bethesda Softworks announced the next Chapter in their Elder Scrolls Online saga, entitled Greymoor. In it, Zenimax Online invites players to venture to the land of the Nords in a year-long adventure centering around three DLCs and the main Chapter.
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Astellia Launches as an MMO on Steam January 30th
Brunson E&A has announced that their MMO Astellia is set to launch on Steam on January 30th. Promising no pay to win mechanics, the game features a civilization of heroes who can call upon Astells to help protect their land
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Elite Dangerous Releases Its January Update
Earlier this week, the folks at Frontier Developments have released their January update for players of Elite Dangerous. Commanders both new and veteran will be able to take advantage of this primarily bug-fixing patch that launched on January 14th.
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DDO Previews Alchemist Class, Balance Changes
Today, Dungeons and Dragons Online opened up their Lamannia test server to give players their first hands-on look at the new alchemist class, class changes, and other iterations on current content. First publicly discussed at GenCon last August, this complex class is set to be a support role, using various chemical mixtures to harry its foes or assist its allies in the form of thrown vials.
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World of Warcraft to Launch Patch 8.3 on January 14th
In 8.3, WoW players will have to wrestle with the usual class changes as they gear up to tackle more content. This expansion unlike the previous 8.2 doesn’t really add any new landscape to visit, but rather does a sweeping set of changes to existing areas in time with the story of players heading to Ny’alotha, the Waking City, for a new 12-boss raid.
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