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NetEase financials Q1 2020: A revenue boost ahead of EVE Echoes and Diablo Immortal

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NetEase joins NCsoft in having a big first quarter financial report for investors, and it didn't have to bluster about merely surpassing low expectations...

Star Wars Galaxies Legends celebrates 40 years of Empire Strikes Back with new PvE and PvP content

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It's patch week over in the Star Wars Galaxies rogue server known as SWG Legends, and if you're a PvP player or endgame PvE...

Crowfall outlines the 11 classes of its current alpha

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The classes of Crowfall might certainly sound fantastical -- Champion, Confessor, Duelist -- but at the brass tacks level, they're really just the classic...

The Elder Scrolls Online previews its 12-player Kyne’s Aegis trial

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The Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor will be offering up plenty of things for players to do as we've been covering over the past several...

ArcheAge Unchained issues free trial ahead of Garden of the Gods

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With ArcheAge's Garden of the Gods update on the way in June, Gamigo is looking to pique interest and boost the playerbase with a...
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Fallout 76 clarifies that seasons will be free, with some potential Fallout 1st bonuses in the future

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If there's one thing that Fallout 76 does remarkably well, it's making people angry about the way the game is monetized, all the way back...

Black Desert just patched in a full-fledged music composition system for the Shai

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Remember when the Shai launched in Black Desert's PC version last year, and everyone was enthralled with her instrument-wielding bard-like skills? Well, this week...

Age of Conan’s 12th birthday is splattered with prizes and challenges

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Twelve years ago in 2008, Age of Conan launched to great acclaim, bringing a mature-themed fantasy MMORPG to market. Now in 2020, the title...

Overwatch’s anniversary theme goes into the woods to grandmother’s house

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Hope you weren't planning on sleeping much over the next few weeks, because you are going to need those extra hours to milk every...
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Blizzard continues to roll out improvements to Warcraft III: Reforged’s matchmaking

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Are you one of the many, many people who doesn't really care much about proving your mettle in competitive matches of Warcraft III: Reforged...

Amazon is hosting a game tech event for game devs tomorrow

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Amazon Games' John Smedley appears to be pretty fired up about an event that Amazon Web Services is hosting. It's called The Digital Download,...
You may recognize this design from your own tabletop history. Or something like it.

Fractured will have another open playtest starting on May 26

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If you missed your previous chance to check out the world of Fractured, you've got yourself another shot. The devs are once more having...

RuneScape starts Mental Health Awareness Week and recaps the past 12 months of content in a video

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This week in RuneScape is a very special one. It's Mental Health Awareness Week, and the world of Gielinor has some of Jagex's mental...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 272: Death of dragons

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Justin and Bree discuss Fallout 76, WoW China, MMO financials, Dragon's Prophet, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, with adventures in SWG Legends and Elder Scrolls online, plus mailbag topics on character select screens and new classes for expansions.
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The Crew 2 previews the joy of collections with the upcoming Hobbies update

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Do you like to have a fine collection of valuable automobiles in The Crew 2? The game's next major updates is all about hobbies, hence...

Here are the candidates for EVE Online’s 15th Council of Stellar Management

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It's important to know whom you're voting for and where they stand on issues, particularly in the case of EVE Online and its next...
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Neverwinter is planning a patch to address issues with the Rage of Bel meter on PC

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Bel is very angry in Neverwinter. How angry? Well... that's kind of the problem. It turns out that the whole thing has had some cascading...

Corepunk talks about monster camps and delays its next gameplay video debut

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The more I think about it, the more I realize that the heroes of MMOs can be the rudest people imaginable. Consider the poor...

Guild Wars 2 on the storytelling philosophy of next week’s No Quarter episode

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ArenaNet's Novera King has emerged to pen Guild Wars 2's latest dev blog - no surprise since it's about storytelling and she's one of...

Project Gorgon’s next update, ‘a couple weeks away,’ will let you breed your pets

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Leave it to Project Gorgon not to stop at merely allowing players to own pets but to breed them as well. The indie MMORPG...

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