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Path of Exile apologizes for botched account update that took the game offline yesterday

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Earlier this week, Path of Exile studio Grinding Gear Games announced that it was planning a fresh patch with important changes to account management...

Nightingale promises a focus on deeper systems and has ‘zero intention’ to shut down

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Obviously no multiplayer game studio wants to shutter their game, but after two rounds of layoffs at Inflexion Games, it's obviously hard for Nightingale...

Monster Hunter is getting a new open world mobile game, Monster Hunter Now maps out its next seasons

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If you were looking to experience Monster Hunter on your mobile device, the only option you've really had is Niantic's mobile ARG Monster Hunter...
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Sea of Thieves is ‘fixing’ Safer Seas by making it… less usable for leveling

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Look out, Sea of Thieves has laid out a cunning trap for you! It's called a developer update for the week, and it's in...

G-Star 2024: Nexon teases Supervive, Project Overkill, and Arc Raiders as it celebrates its 30th birthday

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Nexon brought its A-game to G-Star 2024 in Busan, South Korea, and by A-game, we really mean its whole game because the company has...

Warcraft Direct: World of Warcraft Midnight has player housing, WoW Classic Pandaria in 2025, and WoW Classic Classic

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Friends, today is not-BlizzCon, which is to say that Blizzard decided not to hold a BlizzCon event in the year when World of Warcraft...

Destiny 2 brings new weapons, new game mode, and Street Fighter 6 collab November 19

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Yesterday brought the promised information livestream from Destiny 2 and its upcoming Act II update for the current Revenant episode, and sure enough, there...

Throne & Liberty’s first castle siege events kick off on November 17 – here’s how they work

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If you're one of the 4.5M people who passed through the doors of Throne & Liberty in its first month online, then you might...

Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds: Godspawn update arrives November 19 – plus we’ve got roadmap updates

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Don't let Guild Wars 2's performance in NCsoft's Q3 financials get you down: The next chunk of the Janthir Wilds expansion is just around...

Neverwinter’s 30th module – Return to Pirates’ Skyhold – launches November 19

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Given all the layoffs at Cryptic this fall as its MMORPGs transition to Deca Games, you might be wondering what's next for said MMORPGs....
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Here’s what may surface during tomorrow’s Warcraft Direct livestream showcase

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Tomorrow is a big shiny broadcast date for fans of World of Warcraft in specific and the Warcraft franchise in general as Blizzard readies...

Genshin Impact opens a new area, adds aerial traversal, and brings two new toons November 20

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It's almost time for another update to Genshin Impact, and much like others before it, this one has some new things like gacha characters,...

Marvel Rivals officially unveils Moon Knight’s arrival to the team shooter’s launch roster

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Readers might recall that Marvel Rivals teased the next character coming to the shooter's roster at the very end of its Psylocke trailer, but...

Lord of the Rings Online polls players about 2025’s dungeon visual overhaul update

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This year isn't even over yet, but Lord of the Rings Online's world design team is already looking ahead to the first update of...

EVE Online posts the patch notes for tomorrow’s Revenant expansion

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It's almost time for even more tools for corps to come to EVE Online, and that means that players are getting a deep-dive look...

MultiVersus takes a $100M bite out of WB Games’ profits as the fighter outlines Season 4

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You would be forgiven for believing that platform fighter MultiVersus was doing well enough from the outside looking in, as the game continued to...

WWII MMO Foxhole aims skyward with next summer’s Airborne expansion

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Massively multiplayer WWII fighting sim Foxhole is poised to add a new dimension to its warfare next summer with its Airborne expansion. When it...

Fractured hashes out its upcoming seasonal rewards format and announces alliance mechanics

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As we've been covering, indie MMORPG sandbox Fractured is heading down the free-to-play path come November 20th, and alongside that relaunch will be the...
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Classic MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot brings its next Caledonia event to players on December 4

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It's the week after Thanksgiving, and you feel like having something new to be thankful for. Would leveling up nice and quickly in Dark...

Indie MMOARPG Drakantos releases new open world gameplay footage and plans for pet taming

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The studio behind 2-D pixel art multiplayer ARPG Drakantos noted previously that it would be scaling back its dev blogs to every three months....