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Lost Ark, the Korean MMO coming West next year, is now in closed beta The beta is set to run until November 11. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Our first glimpse ofLost Arkcame in 2014, when we described it as “an exceptionally good looking ARPG.” It finally launched four years later, but only in Korea—it wasn’t until earlier this year that a Western release was confirmed, with localization being handled byAmazon Games....

New World patch cracks down on gold sellers and slashes respec costs Hopefully, less RMT spam in your chat. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. New World has put outan updatetoday, slashing the amount it costs to respec your character and adding new restrictions to clamp down on real money trading. Amazon is attempting to cull the wave of gold sellers, who’ve been regularly spamming chat advertising their business....

Oh god, has New World turned me into an MMO fan? I hate MMOs, but I don’t hate New World. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Have you ever felt insecure about not liking a popular videogame genre? For me, that’s MMOs. There are plenty of genres that I generally don’t play but can at least see the appeal of, but until recently I never understood why anyone would want to play an MMO....

Push a button to make it rain missiles in the new Rust update Visit a desert military base, load and arm the launcher vehicle, and send up to a dozen rockets to any spot on the map. Boom. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Rust’s November update will give players a new reason to watch the skies, because after today those skies might be filled with up to a dozen rockets screaming toward your base and/or face....

Rise of the squidlike? Investigating the proliferation of Squid Game games What the world’s newfound fascination with kids' playground games has brought to PC gaming. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Unless another show rallies shockingly hard in the fourth quarter,Squid Gameis the megahit that will define 2021 in popular culture. The Korean Netflix drama portrays the poor and downtrodden of a contemporary to near-future society, conscripted as participants in a reality show where they must compete in lethal variants of children’s games, with the last person standing winning a multi-million dollar cash prize....

Should you pay the fine in Guardians of the Galaxy? Here is the outcome of each decision. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Wondering whether you should pay the fine in Guardians of the Galaxy? There are plenty of choices to make throughout the gang’s intergalactic adventure, and it’s not always easy to predict the consequences of your decisions. TheNikki or Ko-Rel choiceis another such dilemma, but luckily, this guide will point you in the right direction when it comes to a financial quandary in chapter 9....

Take-Two boss says ‘digital collectible goods’ don’t have value just because they’re NFTs Strauss Zelnick is a “big believer” in digital collectibles, but says that NFTs aren’t a can’t-lose proposition. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has held a few contrarian opinions over the years. In 2019 he declared that Fortnite “never affected the [videogame] industry,” and a year later he said he was “highly skeptical” that subscription services like Xbox Game Pass would become a primary distribution method for games....