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.
Amazon Game Studios is stepping away from both MMOs in the West: Throne and Liberty moves to FirstSpark Games / NC in Q4 2026 and Lost Ark goes back to Smilegate in early 2027. Characters and balances transfer automatically, and there is a window to opt out.
Square Enix's quarterly report shows 12.7 billion yen in MMO segment sales on the back of higher player activity after the Evercold reveal, with operating income nearly flat because the company is already booking the expansion's costs.
The patch landed on schedule in World of Warcraft: Midnight with Coiled Isle, three new delves, the Altar of Fangs dungeon at Mythic 0 and housing blueprints. The raid, Mythic+ and the Prey season wait until August 18.
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.
God Mode Games' latest update gives four abilities custom animations, adds element-matched particles to caster autoattacks and lets weapons light up mid-cast. It also cuts memory cost per extra character by 97%.
RuneScape's limited-time mode is live and runs until September 21. A fresh Ironman character, region locking that starts in Misthalin and Havenhythe, and a new combat track split between Order, Chaos and Balance.
Metashift Labs has opened the Dominus Automa multiplayer playtest on Steam, an MMORPG where your character trains, fights and crafts on the server even while you are offline.
Visionary Realms says the tropical zone Badia de Cara is on its final polish pass before public testing, though no date was given. Still pending: the ferry, pilotable boats, and a server overhaul that will take months.