The MMORPG's 0.2.0 update adds a continent you only reach by pledging to a faction, a second class per character, and world bosses that hurt again no matter how much Defence you stack.
Playable Worlds closes years of Stars Reach testing and moves to paid early access on August 18. On Steam the studio commits to staying in that stage for at least six months and going free-to-play at 1.0.
Discovery & Ancestry, Aloft's last Early Access content update, lands on August 26 with an engine change, a rebuilt world and a companion that bends the wind. After that the studio turns to 1.0, still undated.
Playable Worlds recapped the final playtest weekend of Stars Reach: a load test with no published numbers, a homesteading event caught on video, and the creator program, which restarts with early access on August 18.
Playable Worlds has closed the Stars Reach playtest servers for good to prepare the August 18 early access launch, warning that the debut build is only a first step.
Zemi Interactive says 4Story: The Original is shutting down because the IP was sold to Gameforge, and that Iverian Wars was never part of the deal and keeps running.
Update 0.7.0 adds the Spirit Mastery, with 10 active skills and 26 passives, plus a crafting system to rework item affixes. It also raises base movement speed and improves drop rates.
NC listened: all three Aion 2 Founders Pack tiers now include 30 days of Membership, applied retroactively to everyone who already bought one. The same stream confirmed five server regions, one of them in South America.
Chief Rebel said in an off-the-cuff livestream that it is stepping back from seasonal content to work on bugs, tech and the game's core on the way to 1.0. There is no formal announcement or timeline yet.
Early access update 0.46 swaps the old skill progression for a Progression Point system with per-class paths, adds sixteen tutorial quests, and fills Yggdra Forest with goblins.