This month’s Lost Ark update might not be as heavy on content as previous releases, but it does offer a few new challenges for players to take on while most of the community is still struggling to clear one of its toughest encounters to date, the Thaemine Legion Raid. May’s Chaos Rising update drops later today featuring the Thaemine epilogue quests and setting the stage for the new Hanumatan Trial Guardian Raid which will officially be opening its doors at 12 p.m. PST on May 25. “500 years ago, Guardian Hanumatan crushed enemies in battle for the side of Light. When the war ended, Hanumatan ..read more

It’s nearly been a month since V Rising officially shed its early access tag with the release of its Version 1.0: Ruins of Consortium update on PC. Now that the vampire survival game has formally launched, developer Stunlock Studios will soon be welcoming new vampires into its fold when it launches on the PlayStation 5 on June 11. “PlayStation 5 owners can finally sink their teeth into V Rising in its final form,” the studio announced. “Step into the shoes of a newly awakened vampire, construct your gothic castle, and explore an open world teeming with danger with seven regions to explore and ..read more

The solution to all of Nightingale’s latency and connectivity woes is finally at hand as Inflexion Games finally rolls out Update 0.3 and its promised offline mode. As you can probably guess, the much-requested feature allows Realmwalkers to play the survival crafting game without an internet connection and even while the servers are down for maintenance. Inflexion notes that the current release is only “Version 1” and that they plan to expand and improve it over time with the addition of cloud saves and the ability to transfer characters from the online servers alongside continuous performan ..read more

Myth of Empires is looking to expand its playerbase and its reach with new global season servers that will be open to anyone, anywhere in the world, assuming that they purchased the game of course. The catch is that the new limited-time servers will all be PvP-enabled, which means that you’ll have to bring your A-game and maybe even a few friends along to help. The new PvP servers will also feature a different ruleset with boosted progression and rebalanced weapons and siege engines. Structures will also be more durable and siege engine damage will be lower compared to the normal servers but ..read more

When it comes to crossover events, you can count on Fortnite to be at the forefront of whatever franchise is currently making waves. Case in point is the battle royale shooter’s upcoming Fallout-themed season which will be kicking off on Friday, May 24th. Epic Games teases the crossover with an image of the post-apocalyptic game’s iconic power armor on Twitter and an official in-game announcement. It’s unclear whether the event will be based on the recently released TV series or the franchise itself or whether it will be limited to cosmetic items or will include the map itself, but dataminers ..read more

While most developers would want nothing more than to buy their early access games despite persistent issues, Old World Labs is actually warning players away from Abyss Online after its rocky early access launch last week. Not that there’s anyone playing right now since the studio also took the free-to-play playtest servers offline while they sort out the mess. “We warn all to not purchase our game until these game breaking bugs are behind us,” the studio said. “As many of you know, our journey into Early Access with Abyss Online has encountered absolute chaos. Our team is working tirelessly ..read more

Star Vault is showing new Mortal Online 2 players some love with a revamp of its starting zone and tutorial system. The revamp promises a long list of changes and updates to the sandbox MMORPG’s new-player experience alongside plenty of other quality-of-life improvements, a new task system, the new Lykiator mount, balance tweaks, and a long list of bug fixes. The said changes will go live on the public test realm when it reopens on May 22 and will be available for testing for just a few days. Testers are encouraged (but not required) to create new characters so they can get a feel for the rev ..read more

Despite Microsoft’s insistence that it won’t be abandoning Redfall in the aftermath of its disappointing launch, it appears as if soldiering on is no longer a viable option. Unfortunately, the studio will not only be pulling the plug on the vampire co-op shooter but will also be shutting down its developer Arkane Austin along with it, but not without one final update. Game Update 4 promises an offline mode that will allow everyone who purchased the game to continue playing indefinitely. The update will also add a pause feature for single-player mode and will revamp Nest encounters and the Nei ..read more

Lord of the Rings Online will be getting a new quest every week for two months starting today as part of Update 40’s Tales of the Kindred quest series. The new quests will take place in the city of Umbar Baharbêl and beneath the surface in the underground passages of Umbar-môkh and will be given out by a different Kindred of the Coins member every Wednesday at 6 a.m. PDT. “It is a new dawn for Umbar. At the request of Hármelak, the Golden Queen, the Kindred of the Coins has reopened the great meeting-hall of Dâr Laja so they can better hear the voices of their people. And yet, beneath the ci ..read more

Azeroth has been reborn again in fire and brimstone as the Cataclysm expansion officially launches on the World of Warcraft Classic servers. “Following Deathwing the Destroyer's cataclysmic entrance, which left a festering wound across Azeroth, heroes are called to once again experience a dramatically reforged Azeroth and defend it from utter devastation.” In addition to the world-shattering changes and new race/class options that arrived with the pre-patch, the expansion also opened up seven new zones, bumped up the level cap to 85, and significantly increased the weekly and seasonal caps ..read more