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EA Play Live and Steam’s Summer Game Festival are being delayed

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We are at that weird point in our insane timeline where Electronic Arts ends up looking like the good guy and Valve doesn't. EA announced...

Crucible shelves two of its three game modes as part of planned refinements

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The devs of Crucible are looking to refine the team-based shooter, which has been roughly outlined in a dev post on Steam as well...

Destiny’s Sword offers up a new PvP demo, blames its radio silence on the pandemic

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Do you recall Destiny's Sword? It's a tactical MMO that plays like X-Com but has a metagame where players have to also consider their...
Oh, oh, oh.

Magic Legends’ progression includes account-wide unlockable traits

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Previously, Cryptic's been all about the deck building and actiony combat of Magic Legends but hasn't given much information about how progression will take...
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Neverwinter introduces its 19th module, Avernus, launching ‘soon’ for PC

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In a bit of a low-key announcement this morning, Perfect World and Cryptic have taken the lid off what's next for Neverwinter. If you...

Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s No Quarter

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After March’s relatively lightweight release, Steel and Fire, a lot of Guild Wars 2 players were expecting something big from this month’s release, entitled...

Valorant officially launches on June 2 with a season pass and a new game mode (that’s not deathmatch)

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It looks like Riot Games is ready to call beta testing for Valorant just about done. During a Summer Game Fest livestream, the studio...

Life Beyond adds construction, renames its planet, and temporarily ends PvP in its latest update

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In-development survival sandbox Life Beyond has made a couple of big strides in its latest update, not the least of which is the addition...

Legends of Aria’s Point Release 10 is bringing frosty environments, new items, and new systems

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Things are going to get chilly for Legends of Aria players. Point Release 10 is opening up the Frozen Tundra region, and with it...

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...

Ship of Heroes is enthusiastic about Unreal Engine 5 – but practical implementation is a long way off

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Last week, Epic dropped a bunch of news and a headline-grabbing video showcasing Unreal 5. While a lot of the ensuing discussion centered on...

Everland is a sprite-based social MMO about logging in and hanging out with friends

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If you're looking for a 16-bit-styled MMO that's less about being an adventuring murder hobo and more about just hanging out with others, then...

Path of Exile shares its most popular microtransaction items and looks at why they’re popular

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Path of Exile has a cash shop. We don't really bring it up much because its offerings are almost completely cosmetic and inconsequential to...
That's not good, no.

BioWare Austin’s studio director confirms Anthem reboot will be more transparent and ‘a longer process’

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It's been some time since we heard about the rumored and then confirmed reboot to Anthem -- since February, to be precise. As of...

New World deep-dives spriggan boss encounters and design in new dev blog

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Here's the thing about spriggans: They're scary as hell and you should stay away from them. That's the only logical takeaway from New World's...

Riot addresses diversity, Valorant toxicity, and Vanguard anti-cheat (again)

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It's been a year and a half since a Kotaku expose blew the lid off of flagrantly sexist and abusive behavior at Riot Games,...
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Elite Dangerous outlines more changes to fleet carriers coming in next week’s test

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Elite Dangerous' second round of Fleet Carriers beta is raring to go next week. You know this because you read MassivelyOP. But what does...

DayZ developer shuts down its Bratislava studio, affirms it won’t affect development

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Bohemia Interactive, the development studio behind DayZ, has officially announced on Twitter that its Bratislava, Slovakia, studio is being shut down. The decision is...

Legends of Runeterra officially releases with a new set and talks about randomness in CCGs

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Today is the day for Riot Games' League of Legends digital CCG to officially exit beta as Legends of Runeterra has officially released, bringing...

Elder Scrolls Online previews Greymoor’s world-spanning, largely non-combat antiquities system

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With Greymoor now scheduled to launch May 26th, we're less than a month away from Elder Scrolls Online's next big thing, and probably the...

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