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Crowfall studio ArtCraft just raised another $6M from investors to launch the game

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Lest you be dispirited by the fact that Crowfall's soft launch isn't going to make 2017 as promised (after also not making 2016), ArtCraft...
Oh look.

Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017

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As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds teases its desert map, eyes post-launch cosmetics

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Still find yourself dizzy with disbelief about how the most awkwardly titled video game ever became 2017's biggest hit? Check out Polygon's rundown of...
Just fight the thing.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 147: Daybreak but not that one

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Justin and Bree discuss Secret World Legends, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Star Citizen, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, and the cost of making games, with a lengthy mailbag-inspired discussion on minimaps.
Expectations.

Star Wars: The Old Republic is holding a Thursday livestream with author Timothy Zahn

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Timothy Zahn is kind of a big deal for Star Wars fiction. Yes, he helped develop the most recent bit of Star Wars: The...

EA patches Star Wars Battlefront 2 as petition asking Lucasfilm to drop EA reaches 120K sigs

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How hard is EA trying to salvage its rep hit from the Star Wars Battlefront 2 drama? It's hard to judge right now. This...
A win, sort of.

Fortnite settles one of its anti-cheater lawsuits out of court

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If you'd forgotten, Fortnite wound up bringing a lawsuit against two people for cheating software being used in the game. One such suit hit...

Shadow’s Kiss ends Kickstarter with 300% funding and several stretch goals

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Expect some vampires to be popping bottles of the red bubbly today. The team behind Shadow's Kiss is celebrating the conclusion a modestly successful Kickstarter...

Warframe on how studios should ‘learn to fight superficial microtransaction integration’

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Warframe has become aggressively popular according to Digital Extremes' own metrics, and our own readers back that up. Part of the reason is the...

Funcom is raising the price of Conan Exiles on console to $49.99

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Funcom has just announced to Conan Exiles players anxiously awaiting the game on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 that they'll be paying more than...

Riot’s new promo video argues e-sports are indeed sports

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No one will be surprised by Riot Games' latest e-sports video. Riot Games really likes e-sports. Indeed, Riot Games believes e-sports are real sports. "Not...
Kick it down the road.

Hawaii state representative calls on game industry to self-regulate on lockboxes

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With the rhetoric and discussion around video game lockboxes at a fever pitch, it has drawn the attention of at least one US congressperson...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained inches closer to beta one (December 2, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained's weekly progress report is on the shorter side (for CSE) given that the game's monthly newsletter just went...
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Betawatch: Star Citizen sells land… in space! (December 1, 2017)

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Selling spaceships that don't exist yet? That is so 2016. The new thing for Star Citizen is selling land that doesn't exist yet, which...
Pokemon gone?

Milwaukee settles lawsuit over Pokemon Go-inspired park ordinance

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The Milwaukee lawsuit sparked by Pokemon Go is finally over. Back in February, Milwaukee County in Wisconsin issued an ordinance requiring video game developers like...

The Soapbox: Evaluating gaming monetization through the lens of Nintendo’s mobile history

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Bloggers and journalists throughout the online gaming industry have been talking about monetization a lot lately. It's not just lockbox/gachapon scandals, or their relationship...

DayZ finally makes hard plans to leave early access and launch (beta) next year

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Remember like 50 million years ago when DayZ was young, Dean Hall was at the top of everybody's interview list, and nobody realized the...

EA caught in lie over Star Wars Battlefront II customization, brings lootbox madness to UFC 3

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Among the controversy of EA's pay-to-win lockboxes in Star Wars Battlefront II emerges a rather reasonable question: Why didn't the studio create and use...

Trion ‘still in active discussions’ with Bluehole over Devilian

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With the explosive success of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in 2017, Bluehole Studio is rolling in media coverage, money, and popularity. But some of the studio's...

The Daily Grind: Did Marvel Heroes just get the worst-managed MMORPG sunset of all time?

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If you happened to catch the Massively OP Podcast this week, you heard my positively livid rant about the whole Marvel Heroes situation. Now,...

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