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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...
Theft.

Artifact continues to lose players at an aggressive rate

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We're just about two months into the life cycle of Valve's aggressively non-free-to-play card game Artifact, and the game continues to lose players with a focus...

ArcheAge rolls out update 5.1 as players call ‘bait-and-switch’ over normalized mounts

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As promised, Gamigo pushed out update 5.1 for ArcheAge yesterday, complete with its hero system revamp, tweaks for pirates, the Abyssal Library do-over, and...
Grotesque.

Elder Scrolls Online’s racial abilities are getting revamped in update 21

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One of the things that the folks at Zenimax are focusing on in The Elder Scrolls Online's upcoming update 21 is balancing the passive...
leave my dagron alone

Legends of Aria’s Steam early access launch is now slated for spring

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The testing through early access continues for Legends of Aria, and that includes figuring out the schedule for the game's patches and ultimate release. The...
Please be a spell, then.

Path of Exile details the caster-heavy class breakdown in the Betrayal league

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With every Path of Exile league, the designers take the time to dissect the overall balance of classes found throughout the game in various permutations,...
Just relax.

Blade & Soul’s third anniversary event is live now

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Yes, it's time for Blade & Soul players to enjoy the game's anniversary event, as it is live right now. That means players can pick...

Atlas teases dev livestream and the guillotine, announces imminent devkit release

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Avast, ahoy, and all that jazz, Atlas players: It's time for another entry of the Captain's Log, in which the folks at Studio Wildcard...
Pretty, still.

TERA update is live on PC with the PvP Shore Hold battleground and PvE dungeon

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When TERA players get tired of whaling on giant monsters, they turn to whaling on each other with giant weapons. Hey, they have a...

The Bethsoft-Behavior lawsuit is over, and now so is Westworld mobile

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One of the big gaming legal disputes of 2018 was the lawsuit Bethsoft lodged against Behaviour Interactive over the release of the Westworld mobile game,...

Project Horseshoe’s design papers confirm decades of MMORPG lessons

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Not everyone involved in game design is trying to squeeze every last penny out of you. Yes, a lot of them are, but many...

Modern-fantasy dungeon-crawler Breach enters early access tomorrow

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After spending the last few months in alpha testing, multiplayer dungeon-crawler Breach is almost ready to make the leap to early access, allowing players...
lol

Riot tackles toxic corporate culture with updated company values

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In the wake of the gender-discrimination and sexual-harassment scandal that has plagued Riot Games for the past year -- which last month resulted in...
Put this in a thing to store it.

Lost Ark updates with more storage while outlining future content plans

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The update train for Lost Ark keeps rolling on in the game's beta. The most recent patch (which has translated notes here, if for some...

With the Improbable/Unity dispute lingering on, MMOs like Worlds Adrift are literally adrift

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Last week, Improbable and Unity stunned the gaming industry with their ugly spat over SpatialOS integration and licensing, as both companies issued statements about their...
I TRUSTED YOU

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2019

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Working in this field has given me something of a sense of how a lot of the industry is going to play out. Take...

Closers will merge its NA and EU servers into a single world server on January 29

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This month, anime-action MMO Closers will be bringing continents together as it merges its NA and EU servers into a single worldwide server in...

Pantheon maps out 2019, promising new website, Faerthale development, and more

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Brad McQuaid's Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is kicking off 2019 with a new edition of its newsletter that recaps 2018 - including our...
Mean elf.

After telling Blizzard to cut spending, Activision pays $15 million bonus to new CFO

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Hey, do y'all remember a little bit back when Activision told Blizzard that it had to start cutting back on its spending? Oh, and...

Black Desert’s battle royale mode, Shadow Arena, hits early access for current players today

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Black Desert is formally hopping on the battle royale bandwagon this week with the "early access" release of Shadow Arena today. How does a...

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