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Camelot Unchained

Camelot Unchained’s Friday update talks alpha progress, stretch goals, and more

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This afternoon's Camelot Unchained update is a lengthy one, as head honcho Mark Jacobs has a lot to say about topics ranging from stretch...
Star Citizen

Here’s a look inside Star Citizen’s newest dev studio

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Cloud Imperium recently opened a new studio to work on Star Citizen. It's located in Frankfurt, and it's called Foundry 42 Germany. Chris Roberts...

Report: Whales make up majority of mobile F2P sales

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Whether or not developers like the term "whales," the truth is that big spenders are still very big business for free-to-play games. Gamasutra points...
Descent

Descent Underground wants your help to meet its Kickstarter goal

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Are you a fan of Descent? If so, and if you'd like to see a new franchise entry, you'd best be heading to Kickstarter...
Out in the great wide open.

Elite’s producer talks mission revamp, Steam sales

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Elite: Dangerous producer Michael Brookes posted a new update letter on the game's forums today. He thanks the community for making E:D the "number...
ncsoft

NCsoft West lays off Austin support staff

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NCsoft West has laid off a number of support staff and is moving its customer service operation to a third-party provider, according to Polygon. Today's...

Anarchy Online and Lineage II to be inducted into the MMO Hall of Fame

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Say hello to the newest members of the MMO Hall of Fame: Anarchy Online and Lineage II. The nominating committee for the organization voted to...
What you are chasing and will not get.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you turn real money into MMO money

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Two days ago, World of Warcraft launched the WoW Token service, which will kill the game forever. It thus joins the list of every...

Fantasy city-builder Elvenar launches

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Sometimes you reach a moment in your life where you have to take a side. With the launch of the fantasy city-builder Elvenar today,...
Something to (shadow) crow about.

WoW Token prices fall on the first day of operation

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Have you been holding on to your hat during the first day of WoW Token sales? Did you think that 30,000 gold was a...
Come back! Wait, not yet. Let us fix our collective hair first. It's super messy.

Beta players are welcomed back to a freebie Elder Scrolls Online weekend

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The Elder Scrolls Online would like beta players who never bought the game to come back and see the game in its new buy-to-play...

Sanctions force World of Warcraft, Diablo III ban in Crimea

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When gamers are caught in the crossfire of international politics, bad things can happen. Due to US sanctions against Russia, World of Warcraft and Diablo...

EVE Online fan calculates an 18% drop in subscriptions

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There used to be a time when CCP would eagerly release every new subscriber milestone that EVE Online hit, but that era has passed....
We've got data. Lots of data. So much data. Information high.

Skyforge developers explain monetization and power

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You can argue all you want over the definition of pay-to-win, but no one really likes the idea of a free-to-play game in which...

Read the confession of an MMO duper

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Dupers -- players who take advantage of exploits to duplicate rare items in-game in order to sell them -- can be a type of...
Vendetta Online

Vendetta updates with 1.8.331 build

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Long-running indie sci-fi sandbox Vendetta Online published a new build last weekend. Version 1.8.331 improved high drain power cells, it buffed extreme drain power cells,...
No more gates.

World of Warcraft tokens go on sale April 7th

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Looking forward to paying for your World of Warcraft subscription with in-game gold? You don't have long to wait at all; the WoW Token...

Now Greed Monger’s project lead has bowed out

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The crumbling of the once-promising crowdfunded sandbox Greed Monger continues, as project lead Jason Appleton announced that he's abandoning the project and giving control...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: April 4, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we said goodbye (apparently) to Greed Monger. We also said hello to Pathfinder's early access head start and,...
Darn it, if you had just kept her hair brown...

Crowfall teases female Ranger archetype

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ArtCraft has posted a Crowfall week-at-a-glance update that contains plenty of interesting nuggets. Chief among them is the reveal of the female Ranger archetype....