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Coming off the recent media preview alpha, Gameforge announced today the dates for Swords of Legends Online's upcoming beta tests. Preoder players will get access to these tests, with two periods planned in the coming weeks, the first starting on May 21st.

Hood Outlaws & Legends can be a fun game. Can be is the operative phrase here, as the "fun factor" is heavily dependent on a number of variables, most important being simply who you are playing with. A fantastic concept on paper, Hood stumbles a bit with its execution. Couple this with a subpar PC port and Hood feels just a little half baked in the end.

Blizzard's upcoming Burning Crusade expansion for WoW Classic will be here on June 1st, though that hasn't stopped the company from taking in feedback about the packages and costs surrounding the upcoming launch. One such area has been the cost of cloning your character on both Classic and Burning Crusade servers. Blizzard today announced they would be lowering the cost of the cloning service, thanking players for their feedback and passion.

This week saw the launch of Destiny 2's latest season, Season of the Splicer. While many were expecting the grind that comes with Destiny content, many didn't expect another feature being turned on by Bungie on accident: cross play.

In a new rumored leak from the under-NDA portion of Amazon's New World, it's being reported that there will be testing on the premium currency which will be in the upcoming MMORPG. The note mentions cosmetics as being purchaseable, but makes mention too of convenience boosts, raising the question of whether New World will be pay to win.

Elder Scrolls Online's next chapter release, Blackwood, is right around the corner, and the dev team is taking the chance to set the stage for players eager to jump into the world of south-eastern Cyrodiil. Today, the team at ZeniMax Online Studios talked about their world events in this year's Chapter, Oblivion Portals.

Cryptic Studios' Neverwinter is celebrating the release of its Sharandar module's Epide 2: The Soul Keeper on console. To celebrate, the team announced its upcoming Episode 3: The Odious Court will be out in June on PC.

Hood: Outlaws & Legends have brought their PvEvP brand of heist gameplay to console and PC, and since releasing fully yesterday, the team at Sumo Digital have already started to lay out some of the updates coming to the game. Today, an update was pushed to PC which saw the team help out our left-handed friends by allowing support to map movement to the arrow keys.

Rome: Total War is one of Bradford's favorite Total War games of all time, so jumping back in with its remastered version brought back a lot of memories. However, how does the experience, built originally in 2004 hold up here in 2021, even with the new improvements brough by Feral? Surprisingly well, actually.

In a forums post ahead of next week's Odyssey launch, Frontier talked about the PC playerbase and how the Odyseey and Horizons versions of Elite Dangerous will be, in effect, separated from each other.

As we approach the June 1st launch of The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood, the team at ZeniMax has released a new trailer breaking down more of the story in this year's Gates of Oblivion storyline.

New World is in a transition phase, as the team at Amazon Game Studios is getting ready to start prepping for its upcoming closed beta. May's Alpha Update brings with it some more of the vision that the team has wanted since they set out to create New World as the team gets ready for polish and finish on the MMO heading into the July closed beta test.

In his first update as game director of Overwatch, Aaron Keller confirmed that players will get a glimpse at Overwatch 2 later this month. Coming on May 20th, the team will be focusing on the PVP elements of the upcoming sequel to their 2016 hit.

This is fast approaching, but if you're still running a PC using Windows XP, and are also a Lord of the Rings Online or Dungeons & Dragons Online player, you'll need to look into upgrading your OS in the near future to continue adventuring in either MMO.

It looks like Skull & Bones, the upcoming pirate game from Ubisoft, has been delayed yet again. In a recent earnings report, Ubisoft updated the timing for Skull & Bones, this time slating to release in the next fiscal year, which starts on April 1st, 2022.