The August 18 maintenance removes the Wyvern Fragment exchange and closes the Tower of Reincarnation. In its place comes Darkstorm Training Grounds, a solo dungeon from the Ruler of the Land collaboration.
Patch 1.5.1.0 is live on the Public Test Client with a single-player mode, character management from the main menu and reworked dungeon scaling. It hits the live game on September 22, alongside the console launch.
Sandbox Interactive devoted a Dev Talk to Dragonfire's new region: portals split solo players from parties of up to 20, the routes between islands are opened by players themselves, and a Fire Drake waits at the center.
Kazeros Raid: Act 2 Extreme runs until September 16, with three difficulties starting at item level 1720 and a single weekly entry per roster. Nightmare pays no more gold than Hard; what it hands over is a legendary title.
The second Summer Sweep Up batch lowers Hallowed Sepulchre floor requirements, lets you boost your way in, and makes prayer scrolls almost 20% rarer in Chambers of Xeric. It also adds eight new Agility shortcuts and publishes the Wyrmscraig drop rates.
Thursday's maintenance pushes the level cap to 70, opens Inner Edania's five zones and four weekly bosses, and ends support for Windows 7 and DirectX 9.
ArenaNet has dated the expansion's finale: September 15 brings the Leyspring Hollows map, the Rift Amplification mastery, a fractal, a raid and the Wages of Stars legendary sword.
Helldivers 2's 7.0.0 update is out on PC, PS5 and Xbox: new missions on the road to the Void, two mutated Illuminate enemies and SEAF troopers dropping in to fight alongside your squad. The level 300 cap ships with it.
The August 12 maintenance adds Ereb and kicks off Land of Judgment Season 2, with three-week seasons, a reworked Harkion, the new Chaser Pass and progression buffs through the end of the month.
Genshin Impact's version 7.0 opens Teyvat's seventh nation on August 12, and HoYoverse is pairing the launch with a Crunchyroll promo handing out Primogems and a gadget exclusive to the America server.