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Elder Scrolls Online’s Imperial City is kinda like Oblivion’s

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Elder Scrolls Online's Imperial City DLC is a few weeks away, but you can whet your appetite via a new dev diary that looks...

Bungie blows up Destiny’s progression system and Peter Dinklage

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Big things are afoot with Destiny, and by big things we mean that Bungie is basically changing how the whole game works while trading Tyrion...

WildStar starts testing free-to-play patch

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WildStar's free-to-play transition is just around the corner, as testing commenced today on the fall patch. The public test realm update includes the new...
If at first you don't succeed, etc.

ArcheAge mobile game will use Unreal Engine 4

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Remember ArcheVille? No, probably not; it was an ArcheAge mobile game that was shut down rather quickly back in 2013. The important thing is...
And in the distance, the call of payment.

DayZ associate producer talks cheaters and how to stop them

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DayZ associate producer Eugen Harton spoke to a GDC Europe crowd earlier today about how Bohemia Interactive handles cheaters in its open-world zombiepocalypse survival...

DC Universe’s Episode 15 content arrives this week for subscribers

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Daybreak has announced the official launch date for DC Universe Online's Episode 15 update. Members can take the new content for a spin on...

Hi-Rez is making Paladins, a team FPS with deckbuilding

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Hi-Rez has been hinting at its new project in recent weeks, and while we were expecting to get an eye full of it at...

Visionary Realms adds three Pantheon devs

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Brad McQuaid's dev team for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen just got a little bit bigger. A post on the game's forum welcomes senior...

These are the companies that are trying to build the metaverse

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Did you know that Linden Lab is hard at work on a sequel to its Second Life virtual world? Yep, it is, and Recode...

CCP announces Gunjack, a VR title for mobile

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Move over, EVE Valkyrie. Gunjack is CCP's newest virtual reality pet project. Gunjack is in development for the Samsung Gear VR platform, and yes,...

World of Warcraft’s Bashiok has defected to NCsoft [Updated]

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Former World of Warcraft Community Manager Micah "Bashiok" Whipple announced he was leaving Blizzard last week to take up a new job this week, leading...

Ex-WoW lead Rob Pardo says industry devs are avoiding the ‘MMO’ label

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MMOs aren't going anywhere, but the label may be on the way out. This comes from former World of Warcraft lead Rob Pardo, who...
The boogie, for instance.

RIFT community manager: ‘RIFT is in zero danger’

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The health of a game is always important to the players; no one wants to make a home that's going to be shut down...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: August 1, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Project Gorgon met its Kickstarter goal with over 23 days to spare. The fantasy sandpark benefited from some...

Worlds Adrift team shows off gliders, cameras, and more

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Bossa Studios has published a new Worlds Adrift video focused on some additional gameplay features cooked up during a recent jam session. The new stuff...
I'm sure someone cares.

Betawatch: July 31st, 2015

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I'm not going to pretend to fully understand why people are super excited about Tree of Savior, but I'm still very happy that the...

Camelot Unchained wants stealth but not the sucky kind

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Today's Camelot Unchained update is a long one, and that's because Mark Jacobs has a lot to cover. He talks about everything from backer...

Bashiok bids Blizzard adieu

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Blizzard's long-time community manager, Bashiok (known in the earlier days as Drysc), is leaving the studio after more than a decade of wrangling the...

NCsoft Q2 2015: Guild Wars 2 is up, WildStar is down

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NCsoft has published its second quarter 2015 financial report, and it's basically a repeat of quarter one. The company attributes its quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year boosts primarily...

EverQuest II’s prog server isn’t as fun as the real thing

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I've been playing the crap out of EverQuest II for the past week. Funnily enough, the vast majority of said playtime hasn't been on...