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Survived By is moving forward and tackling bugs, starting with items and economy
The development team is listening to player feedback in Survived By, and there are issues to be addressed. First and foremost are the issues with...
Dauntless corrects the height of its CE statue and apologizes for the error
Bad news, Dauntless fans; if you're getting the game's Collector's Edition, your Pangar statue will not be as expected. By which we mean it will...
Destiny 2 rings in the holidays with the Dawning event
After all the trials and tragedies that have befallen them over the course of Forsaken, Destiny 2's Guardians could use a bit of holiday...
Closers Online’s Luna is live today for shield-bashing fun
Years of shields as a tanking tool in MMOs tend to make us think of shields as being purely defensive, but when you think...
EverQuest: The Burning Lands has launched
Well, it's time for another EverQuest expansion, go have fun. Yes, perhaps we don't sound very excited here, but that's not because of lack of...
EVE Online’s December patch brings in wardec changes and continual login rewards
It's time for the last big update of the year for EVE Online, but it's a big one. The previously discussed changes to war declarations...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now being review-bombed on Steam
We all know how Valve (owner of Steam) hates moderating things, right? Especially down to more or less fighting review bombing simply by telling...
China’s Online Games Ethics Committee lifts year-long ‘freeze’ on game licenses but bars multiple games
As MMO players will recall, in March of this year, the Chinese government put a freeze on reviewing and approving video games for domestic...
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Jedi Under Siege update goes live today
You'll never guess what's happening to whom in Star Wars: The Old Republic's newest update, Jedi Under Siege. Believe it or not, the Jedi...
Path of Exile calls its Betrayal launch its smoothest launch ever
It feels like the vast majority of the expansion launches for Path of Exile are the smoothest launch ever for the game, which makes sense...
Fortnite streamer arrested after alleged domestic abuse is caught on camera
Australian police have arrested Twitch streamer MrDeadMoth for allegedly abusing his girlfriend during a Fortnite livestream Sunday night. Video clips of the incident, which...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Starlight Celebration kicks off on December 17
Most Final Fantasy XIV holidays have certain unifying characteristics. Not just the fact that the holiday events are always new stories and minigames mirroring...
South Korea now has a law criminalizing the act of boosting in online games
Let's say you really care about your competitive rank in a video game, but you don't have the time to actually practice and get...
Former Square Enix America CEO advises Bethesda and Blizzard to learn from Final Fantasy XIV
If you somehow managed to miss the news (perhaps due to extended undersea exploration missions or an archaeological adventure in the jungles of South...
Monster Hunter World announces Iceborne, a full-fledged expansion for autumn 2019, and Witcher crossover
It seemed like a given that Monster Hunter World would get more in the way of updates, given the game's overall success. If you predicted...
Ship of Heroes opens registration for its first login test
It's uncommon for a development team to describe an upcoming test phase as "boring," since the goal is usually to get fans excited and...
Population Zero is an upcoming crafting-survival MMO inspired by classic sci-fi
Survival crafting games are all the rage these days, it seems, and the genre's about to get just a little bit bigger with the...
Latest Sea of Thieves developer update video addresses Shrouded Spoils feedback and achievement rebalance
It's been a little over a week since Sea of Thieves launched its Shrouded Spoils update, and while Executive Producer Joe Neate says that...
Warframe garners over a million downloads on Switch, previews second wave of Fortuna content
The folks at Digital Extremes are sending 2018 out with a bang, it seems, as they've just announced that Warframe has received over a...
Anthem doesn’t need whales to succeed, says BioWare’s Mike Gamble
It's fairly common knowledge that many games with microtransactions tend to rely heavily on big-spending "whales" to keep their finances in the black and...