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Sony is going to let you access PlayStation 4 games through your PC

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Don't let the lack of a PlayStation 4 in your house stop you from, y'know, playing the console's games. On Monday, Sony announced that...
We won't be beating you up any longer.

Final Fantasy XIV discontinues 90-day subscription option for PS3 players on March 18

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If you're playing Final Fantasy XIV on a PlayStation 3, your days are numbered. Support for the platform is being discontinued with the launch...
She's being added, but most of her clothing isn't.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 108: PAX East power-up

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Justin and Eliot discuss PAX East, Shards Online aka Legends of Aria, TERA and Trove on console, Final Fantasy XIV, Dauntless, Kritika Online, and Conan Exiles, plus mailbag questions on Eastern MMOs and permadeath.
oh no not again

BlizzCon 2017 to be held on November 3-4

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There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and another BlizzCon every year even if Blizzard has absolutely nothing new to announce. Then again,...

Raph Koster explains why griefing in virtual reality isn’t going away

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Even if you can overlook the expense, the current lack of games, the potential for nausea, and the annoyance of wearing a clamshell on...
Won't this be the opposite of fun.

Researchers study ArcheAge’s beta wipe for real-world apocalypse behavior

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If the world was to end this week, how would people react? That's an interesting question to ponder in the abstract, but researchers took...

Japan and the US led mobile app sales in 2016

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We're number one! No, actually, we're number two. And it's in mobile sales. Dammit. That's according to AppAnnie, which on Friday released its 2016 rankings...

Why gacha is the ‘gotcha’ tactic of MMO sales

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Making money in free-to-play games isn't as simple as pursuing a single revenue stream. Often studios are looking at multiple approaches to coax players...

Ship of Heroes will seek $400,000 in Kickstarter funding

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Indie superhero MMO Ship of Heroes has just announced the details of its planned Kickstarter campaign, which was previously noted to begin on April...

OrbusVR has fully funded on Kickstarter

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OrbusVR, the blocky indie VR sandbox from Ad Alternum, has finished out its Kickstarter successfully this morning. The studio had originally promised a brief, one-week...
It's mine!

Hearthstone jacks up prices around the world

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If you're deep into Hearthstone and you live outside of North America, you might find yourself more broke than usual. This is due to...
ahhhhh tentacles ahhhhh

PAX East 2017: Talking Conan Exiles on the show floor with Funcom

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If you're a fan of Funcom and the games it makes, Conan Exiles probably has you breathing a bit easier than you have in a...

Make My MMO: Shards becomes Legends of Aria, The Repopulation revivifies (March 11, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Shards Online surprised the gamer community by announcing a namechange -- to Legends of Aria -- and a scope-change, the...

Betawatch: The soft launch of Revelation Online (March 10, 2017)

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Revelation Online departs the hallowed halls of Betawatch this week, having emerged from closed beta into open beta. No more wipes are planned, and...
This is not that lightsaber, but I care so little I'm not hunting down a picture.

The Soapbox: Everyone’s being dumb about Star Wars: The Old Republic’s lightsaber

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A couple of years ago, The Force Awakens introduced us to (among other things) a lightsaber that looks poorly made, like a little kid...
No, you can't be quite this evil.

Valve is trying to make it harder to review bomb Steam games

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Hate how Steam reviews work? Maybe you'll hate them a little less now. Valve says it's changing how review scores are calculated, so it's...

Wargaming on World of Tanks, Warships, and Planes development, plus the Dolph Lundgren commercial

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Even successful online games like World of Tanks can be subject to critical mistakes and community backlash. Talking to Polygon, Wargaming CEO Victor Kislyi admitted...
So, probably not.

John Carmack is suing ZeniMax for breach of contract as the Oculus drama lingers on

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One round of the Oculus lawsuit may be over, but the saga isn't going away. Oculus CTO John Carmack is now suing ZeniMax Media for...
birb are the wirb

The Daily Grind: What MMO news are you hoping for from PAX East?

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It's that time of year again when I go shipping up to Boston, because I live the closest and thus must continue to cover...

Elder Scrolls Legends plans PvE update, major expansion, and multiple platform rollouts

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Elder Scrolls Legends, the online TCG spawned from the ever-popular Elder Scrolls franchise, has a massive infodump and launch today. For starters, the game formally...

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