The Recap – 07/24/13 ‘RuneScape 3 goes live & sing Sea Shanties with 13 minutes of ACIV’

Welcome to another Recap episode where we go over the day's biggest headlines, making sure that you're caught up in all things video games.

RuneScape enters its third age with over 220 million players to date

Jagex Games Studios relaunched the popular fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game today, which is free to play. The browser-based MMORPG has come a long way since its debut in 2001, gaining over 220 million accounts in those 12 years, with players clocking over 1 million hours of playtime.

The Sims 3 is going 'Into the Future' with its next expansion

Technically, the future of The Sims franchise is The Sims 4, but along the way we'll be making a pit stop into the world of tomorrow with the upcoming expansion for The Sims 3, titled Into the Future. Just announced today, the new expansion — due out this fall — will transport your Sims hundreds of years into the future, where you can "explore the world of tomorrow, meet their descendants, and master the technology of the future.

Assassinate, plunder and sing sea shanties in this 13 minute Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag trailer

Man, Assassin's Creed 4 looks pretty freaking amazing. These gameplay videos showcasing many different aspects of AC4 have really hyped me up to play the game. This 13 minute video shows off a bunch of sweet elements that you'll be experiencing in the game.

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