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I asked Bree if we could have Night Elves and she said we have Night Elves at home.

Tarisland looks at the Misty Forest in its latest map preview

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Full marks to the Elves of Tarisland, they live in a place called the Misty Forest. That's it. Most Elves, they'd be calling the...
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World of Warcraft’s Holly Longdale reassures players that further PvE-based experiments are coming

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If you're a World of Warcraft player looking at Plunderstorm with some combination of bafflement and trepidation about the possibility that every further "experimental"...
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Final Fantasy XIV confirms the most important element of its Final Fantasy XVI crossover

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From the moment that Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida revealed that he had finally made peace with Final Fantasy XVI producer...

Dungeons and Dragons Online has a date with Fred the Mindflayer, LOTRO updates delving rewards

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Depending on how your romantic life is these days, a date with a very nice mindflayer may be the swoony highlight of your spring....

Embers Adrift plots more solo content, additional bosses, new areas, and more in latest roadmap

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What's the state of Embers Adrift? One with lots and lots of plans, according to an address from executive producer John Gust, which features...

Black Desert offers a first look at new areas and features of Land of the Morning Light’s Seoul

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The Land of the Morning Light in Black Desert will soon throw its... uh, morning light across a new area, as Pearl Abyss has...

New Hellgate game for PC and console, codenamed Hellgate Redemption, is in the works

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Hellgate: London is mostly known nowadays as the IP that just won't die despite resurrections continuing to prove to be increasingly shambolic - a...

Cozy MMO Palia handwaves its bizarre beta obfuscation on the grounds that it’s free-to-play

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Yesterday, we recapped the ongoing drama with Singularity 6's cozy mini-MMO, Palia. The short version is that the game hit beta last summer and...

Microsoft’s Phil Spencer admits massive layoffs were due in part to gaming’s ‘lack of growth’

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Ever since Microsoft announced a wave of layoffs that would affect 1,900 people - over 800 of whom work for Activision-Blizzard - the officially...

Dune Awakening discusses MMO size, PvP and PvE, the deep desert, and getting rid of Funcom ‘jank’

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Funcom's Joel Bylos was among those in attendance at this year's GDC, which is the stage where he answered questions about the upcoming Dune:...

RIFT hosts a server load test party this evening with free level-ups

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Have we said how utterly bizarre it is to see RIFT pop up in our feeds this much recently? Not that we're complaining, mind...

Hostile NCsoft shareholder meeting reveals ArenaNet is working on Guild Wars 3

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The topic of Guild Wars 3 has been a common one over the last few years; when I dredged our articles, the first one...

Trove’s spring update adds a gearcrafting skill and overhauls endgame drops

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Gamigo's Trove is continuing to get love regardless of what's going on with the rest of the company's MMORPG catalogue, and for the blocky...

‘Realtime action-based MMORPG’ Quest Master’s Realm confirms early access launch March 29

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Over the past year or so we've been keeping eyes on Quest Master's Realm, an indie "realtime action-based MMORPG aboard the shell of...

Enshrouded opens the reward-filled Hollow Halls dungeons in its latest patch

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The survival sandbox world of early access title Enshrouded has gotten that much bigger this week with the launch of the Hollow Halls update,...

New World’s buffed cross-world expeditions LFG helped players suck less at Empyrean Forge (nice)

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If you're recovered from this week's Forged in Aeternum video, in which New World's devs explained that they still can't tell you what exactly...

LEGO Fortnite lets players build their own vehicles in the Mechanical Mayhem update

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While walking the hills and dales of LEGO Fortnite's world is probably fine and dandy for some, there are those times when you just...

Wizard101 opens the Portal of Peril that brings a new dungeon delving event in latest update

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Usually opening something known as the Portal of Peril would be ill-advised at least or very bad news at worst, but in the case...

Overwatch 2 announces nonbinary geotech hero Venture, trialing this weekend

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It surely goes without saying that Blizzard did not see Riot Games announce a non-binary character this past weekend and then decide to announce...

No Man’s Sky launches Orbital update with major upgrades for space stations

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Whenever Hello Games starts sticking little cutesy icons in its tweets, you know a No Man's Sky launch is imminent, so Monday's little start...

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