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Massively Overthinking: Massively OP’s E3 2018 awards
We've finished rolling out all of our E3 2018 content this year, save a few last stragglers coming this weekend, so now we've chosen...
Blizzard appears to be reactivating old WoW accounts – go check yours [Confirmed!]
If you have a dormant World of Warcraft account, best give it a check: Redditors are reporting that their accounts are currently activated without...
Trion throws open Defiance 2050’s gates for another beta round this weekend
Trion is running yet another beta round for Defiance 2050 as the reboot heads to open testing on PC this weekend, starting tomorrow afternoon...
The MMOs of the Steam Summer 2018 Sale
Valve's summer Steam sale is here, complete with a space theme. Here's what's notable in the pile this year and a bit beyond Steam...
Champions Online slashes prices on freeform characters, three for 60 bucks
At the beginning of June, PWE announced big changes for Champions Online: It was planning to drop the game's optional monthly subscription in favor...
Neverwinter counts 18M players as it celebrates its fifth birthday
Eighteen million! No, that's not how many dollars you've dumped into your Steam account; that's just about how many people have played Neverwinter in...
Bless Online patches in a 3v3 arena and class buffs as players call for server merges
Bless Online is trucking out a brand-new patch today. The highlight is the Certanon Arena, essentially a 3v3 best-of-five PvP minigame for level 45...
The Daily Grind: How much dough have you dropped on Steam in its lifetime?
VentureBeat noticed this week that it's possible to figure out just how much money you've blown on video games, at least through Steam, by...
Worlds Adrift teaches you to git gud, promises instruments someday
Still having a rough time in Worlds Adrift? Bossa Studios has a new humorous guide out to help players "git gud." Among the tips...
Black Desert’s weekly update introduces soccer-themed event, guild crafting overhaul, and summer sales
Gooooaaaalllll! Yes, Black Desert is getting into the soccer hype season with its Golden Goal event starting tomorrow. Slay monsters, fish, and harvest to...
Star Citizen alpha 3.2 hits the PTU as backers play with mining, grouping, and pixel ships
The Star Citizen Reddit is abuzz today - and no, not just about EVE Online's "Venture Capitalist" skin bundle joke, although they're doing that...
Elder Scrolls Online offers Steam downtime compensation as review-bombing hits ‘mostly negative’
Earlier this week, we covered the messy business between Elder Scrolls Online and Steam - specifically, that Steam logins for the game have been toast...
Shroud of the Avatar suffers layoffs, saying ‘right-sizing’ is needed ahead of episode 2
It appears as if Portalarium is suffering some layoffs and downsizing in the wake of the launch of Shroud of the Avatar: The studio's...
ARK Survival Evolved promises Extinction expansion for November 6
Exctinction is coming! Wait, that's a bad thing... unless you're a player of ARK Survival Evolved, where Extinction is just the name of the...
Closers launches Violet character, nukes the fatigue system on July 3
En Masse has big plans for its action MMO Closers, the studio announced in a press release today. Not only will Closers launch new...
Video game industry groups across the globe reject WHO’s ‘gaming disorder’ classification
As we noted yesterday, the World Health Organization has gone ahead with the inclusion of "gaming disorder" in the publication of its most recent...
Smed weighs in on Sony’s historical PlayStation crossplay hangups
Sony's managed to piss off a whole lotta gamers over its unwillingness to play ball on Fortnite. As we covered last week, the PlayStation...
More MMOs pledge to fully remove Red Shell spyware, including Secret World Legends
At the beginning of June, we covered The Elder Scrolls Online's implementation of spyware program Red Shell, which is designed to track specific information...
Guild Wars 2’s next episode, Long Live the Lich, launches June 26 – here’s the trailer (finally!)
Who had June 26th for Guild Wars 2's next big thing? Oh, everyone? Because we had gobs of time to speculate in the delay...
The Daily Grind: Do you prefer ‘work’ simulation MMOs to more fantastic game worlds?
In the comments of my piece on Raph Koster's book last week, a commenter brought up the idea that mimicking the real world in...