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Into the Super-Verse: The death of the City of Heroes community

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Kingdom Come is a 1996 DC Comics miniseries by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. The central conceit of the story is that it takes...
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Apex Legends patch hardens its large lads while making long-range gameplay more viable

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Poor Caustic, Pathfinder, and Gibraltar in Apex Legends. They were just trying to run around and not get shot, but they're dummy thicc, and the...

Lucasfilm is currently developing an Old Republic movie or TV series

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The Old Republic as a setting has tugged at fans' hearts since the early '90s. The interest in the ancient history of the Star...
Boldly gone.

Star Trek Online kicks off a new event with a free Tier 6 ship coupon as a reward

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It's hard to find a single player in Star Trek Online who would say no to a free Tier 6 ship with no strings attached;...
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World of Warcraft updates companion app with guild and community chat and calendars

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If you guys do, in fact, have phones, you are exactly the target audience for the latest update arriving for the companion app for World...

Sea of Thieves previews fishing and cooking in new Hunter’s Call update trailer

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Avast, mateys, what's that on the horizon? Could it be Sea of Thieves' anniversary update, The Hunter's Call, poised to hit the high seas...
This will probably be fine.

AdventureQuest 3D shares some notes on the design of New Battleon

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So... well, we don't technically know what's going to be happening that will make New Battleon a thing in AdventureQuest 3D. It's probably going...
When will the loot drop

Lineage II shows off plenty of buffs and promotions for its 15-year anniversary

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Going for a decade is a nice milestone for any MMO, but Lineage II passed that milestone a while ago. About five years ago, in...

World of Warcraft begins testing Patch 8.2: Rise of Azshara

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Ready, set, test! A week after Blizzard unveiled the full offerings for World of Warcraft's next major content update, the studio rolled the 7.1...
Everything old is... well, it's actually still old.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 216: Star Wars frenzy

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Justin and Bree discuss big SWTOR expansion news, plus news from WoW, Blizzard, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, TERA, Albion, Blade & Soul, and DDO, with a mailbag question on MMO expansion difficulty.

LOTRO hosts a Yule festival encore before its anniversary

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An interesting -- and somewhat strange -- thing that Lord of the Rings Online routinely does is bring back seasonal festivals for short-term "encore."...

Villagers & Heroes announces A Tale of Earth and Sea expansion and new Shaman class

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Indie MMO sandbox Villagers & Heroes did not have the best winter, what with the game being hacked and all back in February. But...

Snag a MU Online, MU Legend, C9, Flyff, or Rappelz gift bundle in Webzen’s 10th anniversary giveaway

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Webzen is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week with a big round of bonus events across its whole catalogue of MMOs, including including MU...
Boom.

CCP Games thinks EVE Online is about to make it big in China and Korea

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We've previously covered CCP Games' Hilmar Petersson's comments on not giving up after all EVE Online's unsuccessful spinoffs, including most recently Project Nova. But...
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Shroud of the Avatar opens up a player decoration contest with a player-owned town as the top prize

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Who likes playing interior decorator in Shroud of the Avatar? A new contest for the game's community is asking you to do just that, with...

Gamigo is offering 100,000 loyalty to RIFT players who join this afternoon’s PTS test

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Pssst. Hey you. Want some free stuff? There's a catch: It's in RIFT. Maybe I should've led with that, yeah. Anyway, Gamigo is asking for...
Good car, bad game.

Hop behind the wheel of Prince Noctis’s Regalia in Final Fantasy XIV’s latest crossover event

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The latest Final Fantasy XIV collaboration event, A Nocturne for Heroes, is revving up to go live tomorrow. Final Fantasy XV's heroic and totes...

Be one of the first to visit Elsweyr on the Elder Scrolls Online PTS right meow

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Elder Scrolls Online fans were hoping this came sooner rather than later: Elsweyr launched on the Public Test Server! ZeniMax Online Studios has teased...

Overwatch assigns a new co-op mission today, code-named Storm Rising

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Despite what you may think, Overwatch's heroes aren't always at each other's throats while endangering the populace around them. Not always. Once in a...

City of Heroes spiritual successor Ship of Heroes confirms beta by the end of 2019

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One of City of Heroes' multiple spiritual successors, Ship of Heroes, has come out with a statement of its own following yesterday's confirmation that...

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