Lost Ark's team has released the 2024 roadmap's second part. It outlines significant updates that will enhance Arkesia in the upcoming months. Below is a concise rundown of the anticipated updates: May Updates: Thaemine Epilogue: Players defeating Thaemine in Hard Mode can access "Shadow of the Moon," a new story quest starting at Luterra Castle. Trial Guardian Raid - Hanumatan: Challenge Hanumatan, a guardian awakened by chaotic energies, in this raid designed for speed and high rewards. Required item levels: 1600 for Normal and 1630 for Hard Mode. Music Box of Memories II: Six new storie ..read more

The highest level MapleStory player in the world, Niru, who was level 299 and 99.993% to 300 paused his grinding to air his grievences about the game for a couple hours. He had over 20,000 concurrent viewers watching and waiting for him to level 300 (max level). He paused his grind at 99.993% to rant about the state of MapleStory and his complaints about the game. In an impassionate hour long speech, Niru criticized Nexon for their failures surrounding cubing, lack of playerbase in non reboot worlds, and several progression systems. You can see the full rant here below: After the rant finis ..read more

Valve is giving Steam users another reason to stay away from early access games as it expands its refund policy to include early access titles. Prior to the policy changes, Steam users could request a refund no questions asked two weeks after purchasing a fully launched title, provided that they haven’t reached the two-hour playtime limit. They could also sink as many hours as they want into an early access game as long and still get a refund before the game transitioned to full release. With the new policy, the two-week, two-hour rule now applies to early access games. “When you purchase a t ..read more

Over the past few years, we’ve seen the video game industry shift from one-off buy-to-play titles into live service games which now make up a good chunk of the market. If done right, live service games have the potential to generate continuous revenue for developers and publishers. The drawback is that they also require constant upkeep to roll out regular updates and keep the servers running 24/7. Unfortunately, only a bare handful of games have managed to keep players engaged enough to make them worth the time and resources. Others have simply fizzled out of existence as their playerbases dw ..read more

Bohemia Interactive’s free-to-play extraction shooter Vigor is finally coming to PC after it first launched as an Xbox One-exclusive title. The game was ported over to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch in 2020 and will soon be making its way to Steam Early Access in May. Vigor is set in a post-apocalyptic version of Norway in the 90s and offers a good mix between extraction, battle royale, and team-based shooter gameplay. The main game mode, Encounters, sends you off into unforgiving environments to scrounge for supplies and safely bring them back with you before a deadly radiation cloud covers ..read more

Snail Games and Donkey Crew’s new multiplayer survival game Bellwright has launched into Steam Early Access even. Surprisingly, it’s received a lot of praise from the Steam community in stark contrast to the lukewarm reviews that’s been thrown at its predecessor, Last Oasis. The game thrusts you into the role of a medieval warrior forced to rebel against the Crown after being framed for the murder of the Prince and sentenced to death. You can’t exactly mount a rebellion on your own, so you’ll need to establish and expand your settlement, recruit followers to your cause, and train them up into ..read more

Big changes are coming to World of Warcraft when The War Within expansion arrives later this year. The expansion will not only kick off a brand-new storyline, but it will also introduce new gameplay features to the long-running MMORPG which will unfortunately also require some unpopular changes to be made. One of these changes is the removal of the Diplomacy trait for Humans which has been granting Human players a 10% boost to reputation gains from all factions since WoW first came out in 2014. The racial passive, however, will need to be removed in line with The War Within’s new Warband syst ..read more

Niru is the highest level MapleStory player in the world at level 299 and is 99.28% to level 300. He's on pace to hit level 300 later today on Thursday April 25, 2024. The next highest player is currently level 295. It's been a long slog to level 300 and Niru has shown unbelievable preserverence and dedication on his quest to reach max level. I can't emphasize enough just how slow leveling is in MapleStory at later levels. In a vod from a couple days ago Niru grinded for 10 hours straight and went from 97.249% to 98.005%. Anyone with even a passing interest in MapleStory should keep an eye on ..read more

Albion Online’s new European server is officially open for business as Sandbox Interactive starts letting founder’s pack owners in. Crystal and Gold pack owners can now begin their adventures in the new fresh start regional server, with Silver pack owners set to follow on April 26, Bronze pack owners on April 28, and everyone else on April 29. All progress from here on end will no longer be wiped and will carry over to Albion Europe’s free-to-play launch. To ensure healthy player density, maps will be smaller compared to those in the Albion Americas and Asia servers. Some zones, particularly ..read more

Pearl Abyss continues to make life better in Black Desert Online with another quality-of-life update, this time focusing on life skills. Character-based life skills are now family-based with the total XP gained for each life skill added up instead of being based on the highest levels for every character in the family. “With this update, every character in a Family can enjoy the effects and benefits provided by each Life Skill, which will also make certain quests a lot more convenient to complete,” says the devs. Those who reached the maximum level of Guru 50 won’t have wasted their efforts th ..read more