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Bandai Namco has announced a new anime-styled action RPG called Blue Protocol for PC. The game is being developed by Project Blue Sky, a team made up of veterans from Bandai Namco Online and Bandai Namco Studio, and it is being built on Unreal Engine 4. There are few other details and only a single screenshot of the game in development, but we do have an English-language description of the game.

The World of Warcraft team has introduced another cash shop mount that can be purchased as part of a 6-month subscription plan or individually. The half-year subscription plus the Sylverian Dreamer mount is $77.94, the equivalent of $12.99 per month. The mount can be purchased separately for $25.00. Players who already have a running 6-month subscription will receive the mount for free sometime in early July.

The Torchlight Frontiers team is hard at work on the next major update to the game. Called "Beast Buddies", the patch will include pet companions. While they've always had helpful abilities to share with their player companion, pets in Torchlight Frontiers will be upping their game. Players will be able to collect a number of pets and swap them out as well as collect pet skills to assign to their companion.

The latest Starbase video is out and about, this time featuring both weapons and gunfights. Viewers will be treated to a visual of how combat will look, at least in this early stage, when the voxel-vertex-based space-themed MMO is released.

Dauntless has been updated to bring a number of big quality of life improvements to the game. Notably, players will find a new streaming install client, new weapon demo videos, the Terra elemental effect and, best of all, the Winterhorn Skraev behemoth. The Winterhorn Skraev comes with new abilities and an all-new look.

Respawn Entertainment has released a brand new trailer to introduce Apex Legends Season 2. Most notably, the main Apex Legends map is going to be packed full of new flora and fauna. "Kings Canyon will never be the same". Players can look forward to Leviathans that have invaded as well.

On July 2nd, Elder Scrolls Online players will be able to embark on a crime-filled journey as the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration Event makes its return. The event will run from July 2nd to July 15th and players will be able to earn a number of rewards and leverage boons to earn even more.

Sony TV and Hivemind have announced that Final Fantasy XIV is being primed for alive-action television series. Viewers will find a lot of familiar aspects from FFXIV including beastment, Cid, chocobos, and much more. While the story will be unique, it is inspired by the Eorzea seen in FFXIV though it will also have influences from the entire Final Fantasy series.

505 Games and Keen Games have announced that Portal Knights will be receiving its biggest update ever later today. The Elves, Rogues & Rifts DLC includes a new race and class as well as "rifts" that are randomly generated dungeons filled with traps and puzzles. The DLC runs $9.99 and is available starting today. In addition, all players will receive the Questing Update for free that includes the Mage's Guild quest hub, toggle-able public games, a new quest log & more.

Nexon's mobile MMO, AxE: Alliance vs Empire, has received a hefty update today that brings players a higher level cap (120), an additional weapon slot for Class Gear, and the brand new Annihilation PvP mode.

Battle royal is "the" thing these days and many games are including it as a secondary game mode. The latest to do so is World of Warships thanks to the addition of Rogue Wave: Sink Them All. Four teams set sail for a post-apocalyptic "desolation-themed port" with destroyers tailed specifically for this event. Captains take the fight to one another as an "enclosing Wall of Fire forces close-quarters brawls" in an effort to be the last ship...er...sailing.

During a recent press event, Final Fantasy XIV Executive Producer Naoki Yoshida spoke candidly about why the game is not yet on Xbox One. He does not equivocate as he explains that Microsoft has two conditions that prevent porting FFXIV to XB1 with full crossplay capabilities: First, without the ability to chat across platforms, playing an MMO is impossible. Second, players are not allowed to form a guild, link shell or free company, again making MMO play impossible.

Blade & Soul Senior Producer Nico Coutant has penned the game's mid-year update to provide the community with a peek at what's ahead for the second half of 2019. Most notably, Coutant admits that the big Unreal Engine 4 upgrade probably won't be released in 2019 as originally planned. However, a new video showing some of the development progress towards the goal has also been released.

The patch notes for the Echoes of Hiram update to ArcheAge have been published on the game's official site. Most notably, players will be taking off for the Eastern Hiram mountains and enjoy a new level 55 cap (up from 34). In addition, players can compete for a place on the leaderboard to "show the highest Ancestral level on a server". Those who are below the average level on the Top 20 leaderboard will get a spiffy hunting buff to help out when leveling.

PUBG Corp has announced the formation of a new studio called Striking Distance headed by former Call of Duty and Dead Space developer Glen Schofield. Striking Distance is working on an unnamed PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds game. Schofield, while providing few details, did state that he has "the freedom to explore the PUBG universe" and that he's excited about possibilities that that brings which he "views as beyond the battle royale genre".