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NCsoft’s picked a date for WildStar’s sunset: November 28

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When NCsoft announced earlier this month that WildStar would be sunsetting, most MMO players were upset, but not surprised, except about one little detail:...

ArenaNet confirms Belgian Guild Wars 2 gem-purchasing blockade

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Remember how players raised the alarm in Guild Wars 2 that Belgian players were being blocked from purchases in Guild Wars 2? Like most...
Because this was the part that was personally resonant for you.

A laid-off Telltale employee is suing the company for violating state and federal labor laws

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Though we've streamed some Telltale games with interactive/multiplayer elements, we seldom cover the studio, but we figure you'll forgive us today: At the tail...
MONEY

MapleStory 2 updates exchange rates for NX currency in Europe

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Money! You need it, you like it, you use it to buy NX in MapleStory 2 for all sorts of fun microtransaction stuff. But...
Dead in the water.

World of Warcraft made more money than League of Legends last month, SuperData reports

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"League of Legends heads towards its worst performing year since 2014." So begins SuperData's August 2018 global revenue report today for the entire video...
Nopekh.

ROKH’s developers outline the finances of the game and how little money it made

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The survival sandbox ROKH suspended development back in July, and fans have questions about why. It's easy to look at the early access title...

The Daily Grind: What if World of Warcraft had never happened?

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Yesterday, in the comments of our Daily Grind about nice things we can say about games we don't like, MOP commenter Squid posted a...

Guild Wars 2: Belgian players report gem-buying block, plus more on the bubble tea bans

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If you're a Belgian gamer, you should probably take a peek at your Guild Wars 2 account. Multiple Redditors and forumgoers from the country...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained works on Mages, the WoW Diary is about to Kickstart

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained has been working on everything from earrings to pathfinding, though the effort on Mages is probably going...

Former BioWare GM joins SpatialOS creator Improbable

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According to a recent article published by Gamasutra, British tech company Improbable has hired former BioWare General Manager Aaryn Flynn to help expand its...
Drift-slidin' away.

Betawatch: Worlds Adrift gets a new experience for PvE and tutorials

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Are you a fan of Worlds Adrift but hate having any PvP in your mixture? Good news, then, you can go check out the...
Sure, great, whatever.

Fortnite counts almost 80M players per month as the Fall Skirmish boots up

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Still snubbing Fortnite as a kids game? You're not alone, but you're definitely in the minority. It turns out that Epic Games has roped...
No video games out there.

Here’s what’s going on with China’s video game approval process in simple terms

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We all know that China is a big and expanding market for video games, and you probably know that this year has seen a...
things are going great

WildStar is probably not sunsetting until at least the end of the year

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When NCsoft announced it was closing Carbine and sunsetting WildStar, it didn't include one key detail: when that sunset will occur. In fact, it...
Because the franchise is being brought back from the dead, you see.

A now-deleted tweet states that a Diablo animated series is in the works

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It's honestly difficult to imagine a world wherein Blizzard's promise of multiple new Diablo projects includes an animated series, but that appears to be...

Old School RuneScape boots employee for in-game cheating, police are involved

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Jagex has apparently fired a member of the Old School RuneScape mod team for "gross misuse of moderator privileges." "During our rigorous routine system checks,...
Boom.

EVE Online revises its online harassment policy, loses another staffer

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CCP Games says it's updated EVE Online's policies governing harassment. The changes came after the player-elected Council of Stellar Management called for a session...
Pssssssst

France fines Valve and Ubisoft over consumer protection laws

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Valve's been fined in yet another consumer protection case, this time in France, and this time with Ubisoft in tow. Gamers will recall that Valve...

Interview: Bless Online on early access, pay-to-win, and its western refuge on Steam

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Last night's bombshell that Bless Online is closing down its final Korean servers, leaving the game's Steam version in the west as the only...
No, you can't be quite this evil.

Valve has finally decided to start moderating its Steam forums cesspool

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Steam's forums are notorious throughout the gaming industry for being truly awful. Journalists across the industry have been pestering Valve for almost a year...

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