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On November 6th, Neverwinter players will be invited to join the totally legit and not-at-all questionable company of Acquisitions Inc. on a delightfully absurd romp through Faerun in the new Heart of Fire adventure, which has been penned in collaboration with Penny Arcade's own Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik, and Amy Falcone. To get players hyped for the update,...

It's been nothing but a whirlwind for Neowiz's Bless Online these last few years. After an aborted attempt to get the gorgeous Korean MMORPG in western hands through Aeria/Gamigo, Neowiz took the title back in-house last year and retuned combat for the western audience, with intent to bring it to early access this May, which it then did. To...

With all of the expansions and zones added to Lord of the Rings Online over the last 11 years, it's hard to remember a time when the MMO entire consisted only of a pocket of the world in Eriador. Now you'll have the chance to refresh your memory with the new Legendary Worlds coming to the MMO...

As a fan of video game music, I get ridiculously excited when it comes time for World of Warcraft to release a new expansion. I know this means we are about to be gifted a wealth of soundtrack goodness, both in quality and quantity. However, I was a little nervous about Battle for Azeroth, because Blizzard almost had...

Yesterday's surprise news that MMO company Trion Worlds had been sold to Gamigo was then all but confirmed by Trion's Linda "Brasse" Carlson, who announced her departure on the RIFT forums, and by Scott Hartsman himself, who asked Twitter for help placing victims of the Trion layoffs in other companies. While the anonymous claim that as many as...

I gotta say, I've ordered some extra popcorn for this week, just in anticipation of watching Fallout 76 and Red Dead Redemption 2 clobber each other. But here we are, with F76's beta beginning today - and RDR2 putting down roots on Thursday when the launch kicks off. Rockstar has a big "what to expect when you're expecting...

Indie developer Phoenix Labs, creator of cooperative action MMO Dauntless, announced this week that it has secured substantial funding thanks to "a Series C financing led by Sapphire Ventures, with continued support from Everblue Management and other current investors." This news comes in the wake of Dauntless's open beta phase, which the studio says "surpassed two million...

If there's something strange in the neighborhood, who you gonna call? Absolutely no one, because you're playing Ghostbusters World on your phone, hopefully. It is also hoped that the "something strange" is more along the lines of hypothetical ghosts than, say, a truck full of corrosive chemicals flipping over. Then you should probably call someone, like emergency services. Where...

Hope you've got a good pair of galoshes handy, 'cause things just got real swampy in The Elder Scrolls Online, where the Murkmire DLC content and the free Update 20 are live and playable on PC (console players will be waiting until November 6th). ESO subbers and purchasers of the DLC players can now delve deep into the treacherous bogs...

To commemorate Fallout 76's momentous transition into beta testing, the folks at Bethesda Game Studios have published an open letter to their community, in which they ruminate on the doubts, challenges, and ambitions of taking the beloved post-apocalyptic franchise into the uncharted territory of the online gaming space. "As a development studio, we've taken a lot of...