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EverQuest’s new Aradune server struggles with nasty queues

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Not to be left out of the launch fiascos of last week, EverQuest is struggling in getting its two new progression servers operating the...

Frozen Flame is a multiplayer survival RPG in a world constantly teetering towards a cataclysm

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Surviving in a magical world with spells against monsters? No, it's not Citadel: Forged with Fire, it's Frozen Flame, an in-development multiplayer survival RPG...

Population Zero adds the option to play with friends as the survival sandbox’s player count dwindles

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Do you have friends that you want to play Population Zero with? Then you're probably in rare company, but more on that later. With...

Life Beyond talks about changes to its tutorial area and brings back its compass in the latest update

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Starting out a new life in the survival sandbox Life Beyond is hoping to get a little easier if a preview of the game's...

Star Citizen discusses the steps needed to add salvage gameplay

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Miner. Delivery driver. Bounty hunter. Criminal. There are several sorts of loose professions in Star Citizen's alpha right now, but one sort of profession...

Gaming companies from Blizzard to Daybreak stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter

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Update: We've been updating the end of this piece with all the online gaming studio statements we can find this week. Sony has apparently decided...

Valorant unveils a new character ahead of its launch on June 2

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While Riot Games' online team shooter Valorant still isn't quite out the door just yet, it apparently still has a few new things to...

Temtem delays part of its spring patch to mid-summer, including chat

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"Spring is the new summer," Temtem declares, and who are we to argue? Heck, we don't even know what day of the week it...

PlanetSide 2 player passes one million kills and becomes a ‘killionaire’

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PlanetSide 2 recently welcomed its first "killionaire," as player Mentis2k6 reached one million kills on a single character. In honor of the occasion, Daybreak...

Darklands creator Arnold Hendrick passes away at age 69 due to cancer

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Game dev lost another of its luminaries recently with the news that Arnold Hendrick has passed away at age 69, succumbing to terminal cancer...

Project Gorgon changes its UI, tweaks Fairies, and revises beehive encounters

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The most recent update for Project Gorgon has made a pretty broad swath of adjustments overall. One of the first series of changes are...

Ship of Heroes preps June test run with new animations and better performance

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It's June, folks, and you know what that means: Ship of Heroes' promised next test. "Today is June 1st and we said we are targeting...
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Wisdom of Nym: So, if there is a Final Fantasy XVI…

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It's been about a year since I wrote about Naoki Yoshida's mystery project, which still has not actually been announced in any way and...

Camelot Unchained works on bug squashing in preparation for its RvR scenario test

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The month of May has seen the shoes of Camelot Unchained's developers coated in bug guts. The weekly Top Tenish report details a variety...

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen showcases animation syncing and how certain stats can affect storylines

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has a couple of things to show you. Video things. Two video things. Two video things about combat animation...

Desert Oasis: Recapping Black Desert’s Heidel Ball, from backstage to balancing

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One of the complications of playing playing Black Desert is that it operates on UTC. Since I live in California, aka the center of...

Star Wars Galaxies Legends shows off Bespin, paves the way for Empire Day 2020

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Things are still being updated in the rogue server known as Star Wars Galaxies Legends in 2020, and the latest community transmission newsletter has...

Guild Wars 2 players have a wedding in-game after their real-life one is postponed

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We all know that the pandemic put the kibosh on a whole lot of larger events, but we also have seen lots of smaller...

MMO Week in Review: Elder Scrolls Online’s Greymoor, Guild Wars 2’s living story, and the PSO2 clowncar

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This week - along with the rest of 2020 - is not being kind to the world, but for MMOs, it's not been wholly...

Indie MMO One Hour One Life’s latest update annihilates nearly all of its reported issues

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The indie sandbox MMO One Hour One Life has made a lot of strides recently, with the game continuing to crank out new updates...

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