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Ashes of Creation recaps August progress, promises more details about nodes soon

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The month of August was certainly a busy one for Intrepid Studios and Ashes of Creation, so if you happened to have missed any...

World of Warships celebrates five years and details planned changes to commander skills

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Happy birthday to World of Warships! It's been five years since the naval multiplayer battler kicked off, and the folks at Wargaming are marking...
This was a thing.

The Soapbox: Feeling the loss of an MMO community

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Back in 2012, I was almost a year deep into Lord of the Rings Online and enjoying my time both in the game and...
Sometimes it just makes sense.

World of Warcraft is taking several ‘burst cooldowns’ off the global cooldown

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Ah, the noble burst cooldown in World of Warcraft! What the heck is that? Well, in short, it's a cooldown you press to boost a...

Black Desert rolls out Hashashin to PC and mobile, teases O’dyllita for October 7

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It's Hashashin day across much of the Black Desert universe, as the new toon is out and playable on both PC and mobile today. "Hashashin...
Are you, like... doing all right?

Guild Wars 2 offers free promotional items as part of Suicide Prevention Month

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September is Suicide Prevention Month, which is not really an event that you celebrate in the conventional sense. It's an event worthy of note, however,...

Lord of the Rings Online sees more login issues, gives update on race change tokens

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With all of the issues causing game disruption over the past month, Lord of the Rings Online players are understandably sensitive toward any further...

World of Warcraft increases reputation gains all September – time to rep grind!

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The ticker on World of Warcraft's site is counting down to Shadowlands' October release -- 54 days and counting at this point. With the...

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen unveils its shiny new website

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Are you ready for some internet eye candy? Then feast upon the visual splendor that is the new Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen website,...

Multiplayer survival shooter Vigor announces launch dates for PS4 and PS5, free-to-play arrival on Nintendo Switch

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Apparently there's a demand from fans of the multiplayer shooter Vigor to arrive to more consoles, and developer Bohemia Interactive is meeting that demand...

Wizarding battle royale Spellbreak launches September 3 – here’s the latest trailer

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Yep, it's another battle royale game launch. This one, however, is all about flinging spells angrily at other wizards, which might be enough of...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 286: Cantha, Shadowlands, and New World

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons, WoW Shadowlands, New World, Elder Scrolls Online, and Final Fantasy XIV, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, SWTOR, Wurm Online, SWG Legends, and Guild Wars 2, plus reader mail on reviving old zones, recovering from burnout, and Mo himself.

Jagex backpedals slightly on a RuneScape ban wave related to Treasure Hunter keys and oddments

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Last Monday, RuneScape developer Jagex issued an announcement regarding actions taken against player accounts who were found to be cashing out items to receive...
There aren't good pictures of this.

The panther statue in Fortnite has become a player memorial for Chadwick Boseman

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The unexpected passing of actor Chadwick Boseman at age 43 has left many people struggling to find the words to express what has been...

Grab a promo pack key for RTS Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming from Massively OP

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R2 Games has this week released Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming globally across its platform. It's a browser-based multiplayer RTS, and though it's...

Star Wars Galaxies Legends teases Bespin, previews new Days of the Aned-Kla festival

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It's a weird year when rogue servers are getting more love than some live MMOs, but we're not sorry to see it. One of...
The fanboy mines are harder to work all the time.

Blizzard plans a book of World of Warcraft fairy tales… but no more scrolls in Shadowlands

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So remember how people still blame World of Warcraft's current class design on the old statement of "bring the player, not the class"? That...

Japanese survivalbox Craftopia is set to launch early access on Friday

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All summer, we've been keeping watch over Craftopia, a Japanese multiplayer "open world survival crafting game," and I think it would be fair to...
GTA Online

Rockstar wipes out characters caught using a money exploit, sending cheaters in to a rage

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You would think that the instruction -- either direct or inherent -- to not cheat in a game would be common sense, but as...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Breaking down Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons expansion teaser trailer

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Last, after a lot of build-up, during a stream dedicated to the 8th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet finally released...

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