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Blizzard cracks down on Overwatch porn

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Surprising exactly no one familiar with Overwatch's art style, people are already making porn of it. Rule #34, guys. PCGamesN ran the numbers and...
If you buy all of this sight unseen, I believe there's an expression about fools and money that pertains.

Online games publishers Gamigo and Aeria are undergoing a ‘strategic merger’

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Gamigo and Aeria are swapping keys and moving in together, the companies announced today. The European online and mobile games publishers " have agreed ...

No Man’s Sky confirms August delay rumors, fields death threats

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Remember those rumors about No Man's Sky's delay? Yeah, they're true. Hello Games' Sean Murray has posted about the delay on the PlayStation blog, admitting...

Mark Kern says Blizzard took his vanilla WoW petition meeting ‘very seriously’

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Mark Kern, who this weekend went to Blizzard's campus armed with the printed vanilla World of Warcraft server petition, has returned from his meeting...
Darkfall

Darkfall has gone… dark

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Darkfall -- the official version, not its up-and-coming player-run spinoffs -- has gone offline indefinitely, according to a new post on the official forums. Dear friends,...

Make My MMO: Chronicles of Elyria has been Greenlit on Steam (May 28, 2016)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Chronicles of Elyria's bid for Steam Greenlight status was successful (though the team won't commit to launching on...
There's a thing with this game and redheads, huh?

Betawatch: Crowfall adjusts its testing patterns (May 27, 2016)

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The testing pattern for Crowfall is going to be just a little bit different moving forward, with an emphasis on having fewer phases over...

Trinium Wars has gone free-to-play today

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Trinium Wars has officially gone free-to-play today "due to many requests," says InselGames CEO Patrick Streppel. "We have thought long and hard about this major...

Chronicles of Elyria AMA on alpha, middleware, griefing, and B2P

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The Chronicles of Elyria team submitted itself to the wilds of an AMA on Reddit earlier this afternoon, allowing players to bombard the developers...

Black Desert delays planned June 1 Valencia launch

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Daum has just announced that it's delaying Black Desert's Valencia update, which was originally scheduled for June 1st. Technical issues and security goals are...
A bit of a message disconnect.

The Crew boasts five million players

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Would you believe that The Crew has five million players? Because apparently it has indeed just hit the five million mark, which is the...

Mark Kern says he’d buy Firefall back if it sunsets

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Mark Kern, most recently recalled to MMORPG audiences for volunteering himself as a spokesperson in the Nostalrius World of Warcraft vanilla server ordeal, told...
The Olympic committee looks really different now.

Analyst argues game devs are abandoning free-to-play in some genres

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Red Fox Insights analyst Jake Parmley has another piece on Gamasutra this week, this one arguing that video game developers are "backing away from...
We're still going.

Funcom secures major private investments

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If you're a fan of Funcom with a deep amount of concern for the company's long-term health, there's good news to be had today....

Rumor: No Man’s Sky delayed at least until late summer

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Kotaku is reporting that multiple unnamed sources have confirmed that No Man's Sky has been delayed "until at least July or August." The staggeringly ambitious,...

The Daily Grind: Do we have a right to play the games we actually buy?

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Yesterday's Extra Credits video sends the RC team diving into the Nostalrius issue, but don't start groaning yet: The video initially zips past the...

Bless will be down to two Korean servers after its next round of merges

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Back in February, Bless underwent a merge of its servers -- sorry, a "server integration" -- over in Korea. According to Steparu, June will...
Not the chess maneuver.

Crowfall says it’s retooling its ‘test cadence’

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ArtCraft says it's "shifting gears" and recalibrating Crowfall's "test cadence." "Over the next few months, we are going to adjust our test cadence and gauge...

Tree of Savior is temporarily blocking new players

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If you're planning on hopping into Tree of Savior and haven't done it yet, better get on it quickly. IMCGames has announced today that it's...
You're so cool you're chilly.

WildStar is apparently hitting Steam on June 1st (Update: Maybe not?)

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WildStar's Steam page has been updated with an apparent launch date: June 1st. The Steam page itself went live sans promises back in April, but...