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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...

Bless Online’s last remaining Korean servers are shutting down

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Bad news for players of Bless Online in Korea: Neowiz announced today that the game is shutting down in that region as its last...
Yep.

World of Warcraft, Dungeons & Dragons Online, and other MMOs celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day

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It's time for everyone to once again pretend that saying "arr" after every sentence makes you sound like a nautical criminal, and internet culture...
Oh my gosh, did they try.

LawBreakers has formally shut down

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It doesn't come as a surprise, but LawBreakers has officially gone dark now with the shutdown of its servers. This follows the timeline originally...
It works!

Grinding Gear Games now has 120 staff members working on Path of Exile

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Let's not mince words: Path of Exile is a success story in the industry, and nowhere is that clearer in its road from inception...

Guild Wars 2 narrative: ‘It’s like working on a television show’

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Just ahead of the launch of Guild Wars 2's next living story episode, GIbiz has a fun interview with multiple members of the current...
We never like these things.

International regulators co-sign declaration to investigate lockboxes and skin gambling

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If you thought Belgium and The Netherlands were going to keep on standing alone in the fight against lootboxes, you were very much mistaken,...
Trot along.

Middle-earth Enterprises reassures Lord of the Rings Online fans that the original MMO will be fine

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The announcement of a new title set in Middle-earth made Lord of the Rings Online players anxious, and while Standing Stone Games was quick...

EVE Evolved: Two ways that EVE Online’s monetisation could be expanded under Pearl Abyss

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When Pearl Abyss bought out CCP Games last week, the overwhelming message to EVE Online players was that it would be business as usual...

UK divorce firm says Fortnite and other online games contributed to 5% of this year’s divorces

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Are people getting divorced over Fortnite? Or does a UK divorce website deserve a medal for SEO trick of the year? Why not both? A...

South Korean legislation would make online sexual harassment a criminal offense

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According to a recent report from PCGamesN, South Korean legislators are considering a bill that would make sexual harassment in online games a crime...

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