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Smed nukes his own Twitter account

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The Smed Twitter spigot is no longer dispensing tweets. Daybreak President John Smedley is famous for his stready stream of Twitter dialogue with MMO gamers,...
I'm still wondering why a game that's confident about its future would be engaged in a slapfight with Derek Smart.

The war of words between Derek Smart and Star Citizen continues

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If you're busy today, don't worry, we understand. We can assure you that this post does not contain a direct link to another 11,000...

Trove gets even more servers

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Another day, another hardware rollout for Trove. Trion's voxelbox is a pretty hot ticket, if login queues are an accurate measure of demand. The...

Face of Mankind is shutting down in August

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Sci-fi sandbox MMO Face of Mankind is calling it a career. A Nexeon spokesperson confirmed the news on the game's official forum, saying that...

New Civilization Online vids show character customization and gameplay

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A pair of Civilization Online videos were spotted in the wild this week, and by wild I mean on YouTube. Don't feel bad if you...

You can’t see the new Warcraft trailer, but you can read about it

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Last week's San Diego Comic Con was of great interest to World of Warcraft fans, as Director Duncan Jones led a panel of the...

Derek Smart calls for FTC investigation of Star Citizen’s finances, presents Chris Roberts with list of demands

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Game developer Derek Smart continues to be terribly concerned over the future fate of Star Citizen. After an epic-sized rant last week, Smart posted...

Revival’s Gonzalez: ‘This is a passion project and not a money grab’

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Gothic horror sandbox Revival cuts a bit of a polarizing figure, at least early on in its development process and at least here in...

Runic will show a new game at PAX Prime

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Torchlight developer Runic will be revealing its new project at this year's PAX Prime, according to a post on the company's forums. The firm...

Trove is adding servers to keep up with demand

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Trion seems pretty happy with the response to Trove thus far, calling it "unbelievable" in a post on the game's forum over the weekend. The...
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Make My MMO: July 11, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Derek Smart reminded everyone that he exists. Not that he's crowdfunding an MMO or anything, but he did...

DCUO celebrates The Flash’s 75th birthday

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Did you know that The Flash turns 75 this year? Yep, he does. And there's probably a joke about being a spry septuagenarian in there somewhere,...

Revival recaps its June dev blogs, talks physical coin storage

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Fantasy sandbox virtual world Revival has released its latest newsletter, which takes a look back at the various dev blogs penned by the Illfonic...

Here’s a bit of info on Guild Wars 2’s veteran character slots

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Guild Wars 2 forum user Linfang posted a blurb about veteran character slots yesterday that's probably worth a read if you're a fan of...

The Game Archaeologist: The Sims Online

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The Sims Online was one of the odder entrants into the MMO genre, an online iteration of an immensely popular game franchise that promised...
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Betawatch: July 10th, 2015

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Star Citizen managed to seize everyone's attention this week. Was it the opening of a new office for the game's development studio? The latest...

Guns of Icarus overhauls its UI, adds new deathmatch

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The latest Guns of Icarus newsletter says that steampunk airship multiplayer title's new and improved UI is the result of 23,124 words worth of...

World of Tanks’ Xbox One beta event starts July 11

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World of Tanks is coming to Xbox One for a two-day beta event beginning on July 11. Testers will receive login bonuses that include...

Camelot Unchained crammed a bunch of people into a zone and it went pretty well

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Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs returns with the game's latest Friday update. He says that it's a short one on account of a monster update...

The Daily Grind: Is the age of mobile over before mobile MMOs even got started?

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In analyzing survey responses returned from more than 250 developers this year, the organizers of GDC Europe did everything but declare mobile dead. "PC...