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Blizzard lays out World of Warcraft’s esports 2019 plans, will crowdfund part of prize pools

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Although Blizzard may have cut back on esports support for Heroes of the Storm, World of Warcraft's esports scene is back and bigger than...

Star Citizen: Hoverbikes, female character models, and item insurance

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Who do you love now? HOVERBIKES. Yes, one of the key bits from this week's Star Citizen Around the Verse episode focuses on the...

Elder Scrolls Online is not launching a swag-stuffed physical collector’s edition of Elsweyr

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One of the announcements oddly missing from the Elder Scrolls Online's Elsweyr hoopla earlier this week was one about physical swag for the collector's...

Stewart Chisam will replace Erez Goren as CEO of SMITE company Hi-Rez Studios

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Multiplayer online game company Hi-Rez Studios is seeing a leadership shuffle this week, as the man who's been CEO for 14 years is stepping...

Dauntless introduces new dire behemoth, more character customization options, and bug fixes

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The latest update to indie monster-hunting MMO Dauntless went live recently, and it brought with it a handful of new content -- including a...

Ascent: Infinite Realm introduces the flying city Inventus, shows off new combat footage

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Information continues to slowly trickle out of Bluehole Studios as it toils away on its upcoming sci-fantasy MMO Ascent: Infinite Realm, and the latest...

Bethsoft is banning more Fallout 76 exploiters and teasing its free-for-all PvP mode

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Even before Fallout 76 launched last year, the game was becoming well known for bugs of the exploitable sort. The most recent to make...

Bungie reiterates its commitment to Destiny 2 long-term as it previews short-term goals

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Since last week's revelation that Activision and Bungie were parting ways and sending Destiny home to live with its real dad - oh yeah,...

Breach hits early access with a blend of action combat and MMO dungeon crawling

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Snowbound or bored this weekend and looking for something new to do? Breach arrived on Steam early access yesterday, bringing with it an interesting...
enchantment!

Aion outlines the changes to make the Enchanting system a bit easier

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Do you like melting lots of good but unnecessary items to get your best item to have slightly better stats? If so, you are...

14-year-old golf MMO Shot Online is coming to Steam next week

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Were you bummed out last year when Webzen's gold MMO Winning Putt closed down? Don't laugh - I was surprised at how much traction...
We have your son in custody. We also have your older, fatter, balder son.

Final Fantasy XIV’s Korean community welcomes the Grandpa of Light

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Longtime players of Final Fantasy XIV may well remember Isildaure, the elderly Elezen whose granddaughter Alianne accompanies him into joining the Scions and then remains...
Spoiling!

Sea of Thieves shrinks its install size, bans a ‘small number’ of cheaters

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With many months' worth of updates and patches, Sea of Thieves has seen bloat happen in one undesirable locale: its game installer. Ergo, Rare...
See? No bear.

Ashes of Creation: Apocalypse plans open beta 2 for the end of January

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Didn't get your fill of Ashes of Creation's Apocalypse battle royale last round? Here comes another beta event to cap off the month, running...
Yo.

Check out another 10 minutes of gameplay footage from Anthem

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Everything has hidden depths. Anthem definitely does. Literally, it's got a mission named Hidden Depths, and today's latest burst of gameplay footage from IGN covers...
Build a little dark-house in your soul.

ArtCraft outlines Crowfall’s (surprisingly short) road to alpha 6.0

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Even as a Crowfall backer, I've been occasionally confused about the game's test status, especially after it missed two of its original planned soft-launch...

Atlas just rolled back the North American servers five hours after an admin account was ‘compromised’

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In case you needed your daily reminder not to buy early access games that are still neck-deep in testing and problem children, here's your...
YOUR MONEY IS NOW OUR MONEY, AND WE WILL USE IT TO BUY DRUGS

2018 was the year of Fortnite and free-to-play games, according to Superdata research

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"2018 was the biggest year for digital games and interactive entertainment. Ever." So sayeth gaming-trend research company Superdata, which recently published its year-in-review data...
On the other hand, it's possible that this is the price you pay for playing Fortnite

Fortnite fixes a bug that left all of the game’s players vulnerable

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Let's start with the good news for this one, shall we? There's no firm evidence about how often Fortnite's newly fixed login bug was actually...

Gamigo is expanding ArcheAge’s team, reducing lockboxes, and evaluating the Gazillion assets

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MMOBomb has an interview up with Gamigo's top brass today that has some interesting nuggets for MMO players wondering about the current state of...

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