Events

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The MOP Up: Grab your Harry Potter nickname now!

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When Harry Potter: Wizards Unite arrives later this year, by which name will you be known and feared? Lord Scooby? Mr. Cheddar? Fluffybutticus? The...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: TERA Origin, Astaria, NosTale, and Veloren

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Welcome back to another brief roundup of MMOs and other online games you’ve (probably) never heard of! Let's kick off our roundup with something for Japan...

Old School RuneScape hopes to improve player input polling by hiding results

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Classically, the development focus of Old School RuneScape has been steered by polls, and those poll results have always been visible. That will be...
Here we go.

Champions Online kicks off a leveling challenge and ushers in some gigantic monsters

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How quickly do you think you can get a character to level 40 in Champions Online? The developers are challenging you to hit that...
Up to date.

Final Fantasy XIV updates the Shadowbringers and Final Fantasy XV crossover sites

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Darkness is approaching swiftly in Final Fantasy XIV, as is a sweet new car. The car is approaching more swiftly. Yes, the special sites...

The Stream Team: Concluding Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr prologue

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When you are listening to Khajiiti legends in Elder Scrolls Online, you never get the whole story at once! And Massively OP's MJ needs...
We're legends! Maybe.

Blade & Soul’s Legends Reborn is live today as NCsoft merges western servers down to two

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It's time to be legendary in Blade and Soul, or at least adjacent to the rebirth of legends. Or something like that, as the...
It's in the right spirit.

Black Desert deletes Shadow Arena, compensates players, and opens the Egg Hunt

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The day has come, folks: Shadow Arena is officially patched out of Black Desert today, after hackers and banwaves and what had to be...

PAX East 2019: Elder Scrolls Online Elsweyr makes playing the bad guy feel very good

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During this year's PAX East, freelance games journalist Sam Prell - you might remember him from his time at Joystiq and GamesRadar - took...

Overwatch announces its upcoming Archives event, Storm Rising, with new lore teasers

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(We've updated the end of this piece with the formal announcement.) The folks at Blizzard have dropped a pair of mysterious Overwatch lore teasers, serving...

Week three of Guild Wars 2’s welcome back campaign unlocks Long Live the Lich

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Over the past few weeks, Guild Wars 2 has been enticing lapsed players with its return to Tyria program, which has offered up free...
Whee or something.

World of Warcraft welcomes the Darkmoon Faire and its new rollercoaster

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The faction war is supposedly more urgent than it's ever been in World of Warcraft. We say "supposedly" because, well, it's hard to believe...
Have a little empire. As a treat.

Final Fantasy XIV kicks off a free login campaign today

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If you've avoided getting back into the loop for Final Fantasy XIV but want a snapshot of the game ahead of its third expansion,...

Roblox grows to 90 million players, does a crossover with WWE for some reason

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Sporting a player population that Fortnite and League of Legends could only dream of attaining, global game platform Roblox announced that it has reached...

The MOP Up: Hearthstone’s pre-Rise of Shadows patch arrives

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The next major expansion for Hearthstone is almost upon us (and will, in fact, be here Tuesday), but for now you can get ready...

Niantic’s summer plans include three Pokemon Go Fests plus ‘a number of Safari Zone events’

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Summer is just around the corner, and you know what that means: sunny skies, sandy beaches, and of course, Pokemon Go safaris. Hot on...
Zorch

PAX East 2019: Destiny’s Sword aims to take the ludonarrative into actual gameplay

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They were called Failure Force, and they were the team that could never make a roll. My roommate, my wife, and myself were playing a...
Next up, turtles!

Blade & Soul brings in two new dungeons for the Legends Reborn event

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Do you have a deep desire to fight a turtle with sharp weapons? If so, you are a monster for that fact. However, Blade & Soul...

Old School RuneScape’s Deadman Spring Final PvP tourney gets ganked by bugs

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The Deadman Spring Finals -- Old School RuneScape's regularly held PvP tournament which pits 2,000 players against one another for a $20k cash prize...

Elder Scrolls Online celebrates five years with events and Indriks

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Every year, Elder Scrolls Online celebrates its birthday with a Jubilee Cake and events. This year those events will include giving players outfits that...

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