Events

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Skyforge is celebrating its ninth anniversary with the return of Aelion Day

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Here's some happy news for your Thursday: Skyforge has made it to nine years of life here in North America, or close enough as...

EVE Online kicks off its Capsuleer Day anniversary event and wraps up the next phase of Vanguard testing

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Happy 21st birthday, EVE Online! You're old enough to drink now! But before players head to their local package store, perhaps they'll will want...

MapleStory adds a new class and a 19th anniversary zone, maps out future May and June updates

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It's time for MapleStory to mark 19 years of operation by opening Mayple Island. And no, that misspelling isn't a twisting of the MMO's...

Destiny 2 opens the Pantheon boss rush mode for players in latest update

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This week is opening the opportunity for Destiny 2 players to become Godslayers. That's the rather dramatic hook for the game's latest update, which...

World of Tanks beams into Star Trek’s dimension with a new event mode

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Naturally, when you think about historical armored and most definitely land-based tanks, your mind will free-associate right to Star Trek. Wargaming was wise, therefore,...

Massively on the Go: April showers didn’t bring Pokemon GO May event flowers

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April was a rough month for Pokemon Go, as the game failed to deliver on Earth Day - an event Niantic used to champion...

The MOP Up: Tarisland’s Mr. D fixes the world

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Over on Discord, Tarisland continues to walk fans through the history of its world, including the war between powerful beings, including a guy named......

Elder Scrolls Online restores accounts following its PTS bungle, hands out a Mountain Dew wolf

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Normally a public test of a much-anticipated update for Elder Scrolls Online is a happier occasion, but as readers know that's not been the...

Multiplayer medieval brawler Mordhau marks fifth anniversary with April 29 demon attack

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The multiplayer PvP-focused medieval brawler Mordhau doesn't often hit our news desk except when it's promising to fight toxicity or when modders transform the...

IGN Live joins a long list of games industry events filling the June E3 hype void

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The death of E3 has left quite a spring and summer hype vacuum for the games industry to try to fill - and Geoff...

Roblox game Piñata Smashlings announces collab event with Care Bears in September

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We assure you, that headline wasn't generated by some LLM plagiarism dispenser; this was written by an actual human who is here to inform...

MapleStory gears up for its 19th anniversary, launches MapleStory Worlds in Korea

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While MapleStory 2 has become a distant memory for many of us, the MapleStory franchise is still going strong in 2024. In fact, Nexon...

Star Citizen brings new race tracks and a first look at engineering to alpha 3.23’s Arena Commander

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While many of the reveals shared by Star Citizen for alpha 3.23 have been focused on the persistent universe portion of the game, the...
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WoW Factor: Exit BlizzCon, for good this time?

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Back in 2021, we learned that there was not going to be a BlizzCon 2022. This did not surprise me, and I penned a...

Lost Ark disqualified and punished Thaemine The First race cheaters

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File this one under "this is why we can't have nice things": Apparently, some Lost Ark players thought they'd faff around with cheating the...
See, not all things are the same.

As Warcraft turns 30, Blizzard has preemptively canceled BlizzCon for 2024

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Well, you can read the headline: There's no BlizzCon this year after all, in spite of the fact that this is Warcraft's 30th anniversary...

Homecoming celebrates City of Heroes’ 20th anniversary with a Paragon Studios dev Q&A

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Believe it or not, this week marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the original City of Heroes - and naturally, the officially...

Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis marks three years with Halpha’s Super Origin Festival

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Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis is kicking off a celebration of its third anniversary this week with a big event that has a...

The Stream Team: A whole new World 3 in Guild Wars 2’s SAB

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It's a whole new world 3 in Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box. OK, maybe a whole new world is a slight exaggeration (how...

Mad World adds new dungeons and refines gear enhancement to mark its first anniversary April 25

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Mad World's upcoming April 25th patch is bringing a lot to its table, not the least of which being a first anniversary celebration along...