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EVE Online will end the nullsec Blackout tomorrow

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The first taste of chaos for EVE Online has been the Blackout: a shutdown of chat within nullsec space that has certainly made life...

The MOP Up: Plants vs. Zombies goes multiplayer

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Do you remember that quirky personality-filled Plants vs. Zombies lane defense game from way back when? Popcap has been expanding that series franchise ever...

Crowfall’s ongoing Trials of the Gods moves on to Yaga, goddess of magic

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Crowfall players have fought in the name of Gaea the Earth Mother, and now it's time to fight in the name of the goddess...

LOTRO promises that Riders of Rohan won’t hit progression servers before next year

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So back when Lord of the Rings Online originally launched the progression servers last November, Standing Stone Games said that it would unlock subsequent...

Sandbox MMO Boundless celebrates a year since launch – and 30 total updates

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Hey, happy birthday, Boundless! It's been a couple of months since we checked in with this adorable Square-Enix backed voxel interplanetary survival-crafting MMO. Back...

Torchlight Frontiers brings back its fame and contract system

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Early Torchlight Frontiers testers might recall a previous version of the fame and contract system that experimented with a daily quest-and-reward format. Echtra Games...

EverQuest community server Project 1999 is launching a new shard next month

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Tired of WoW Classic already? Feeling ready to take off the training wheels from your MMO bike and pedal with the hardcore kiddies? Then...

Guild Wars 2 talks up 2v2 PvP, Swiss tourneys, and the future of ‘expansion-tier features’

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Guild Wars 2 PvP. It seems that you either like it, or you think it's missing a whole lot. But what does ArenaNet think...
It's a real laugh.

Betawatch: Chronicles of Elyria shows off its pre-alpha gameplay

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It's easy to be a bit on the cynical side with Chronicles of Elyria as the game continues to... well, not be a game, but...

Ingress Prime’s upcoming Hexathlon will kick off a new series of events for the AR mobile title

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There's a new series of events coming to the AR mobile game Ingress Prime, the first of which is a lineup of tasks that...
Cool, we'll meet the meat.

Fallout 76 offers up another Meat Week for cleaning up Appalachia

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Appalachia is kind of a mess in Fallout 76. To be fair, so is the world as a whole since nuclear conflicts tend to end...

Destiny 2 shares its Season of the Undying release calendar and plans to buff every weapon type in the game

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Bungie's weekly report is once again all about Shadowkeep's looming arrival to Destiny 2, though this update has lots of details that may make...
Break on through to the other side.

Champions Online’s third anniversary week brings back Dr. Destroyer and his Destroid robots

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It's been some time since Champions Online launched, but we've finally learned a great truth about the game's major villain: Despite his grammatically ambiguous name,...
Uh... huh. Is that what this game is about?

Aion celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a plethora of in-game events

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It's Aion's birthday! The game has been running for a decade now, which means that various proclamations that the title was dead over the course...

Star Trek Online is bringing back the horror-themed Hearts and Minds mission for Friday the 13th

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At the time of this story's writing, it is Friday the 13th, which either brings to mind goofy horror monsters, bad luck traditions, or...

City of Titans offers a look at the landmarks of Alexandria from inside the game’s world

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While we've gotten a look at landmark locations a couple of times in City of Titans before, the latest preview post would be the...

Here’s what we learned from PlanetSide Arena’s brief demo event yesterday

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Yesterday's invite-only PlanetSide Arena demo event was a quickie - it was over in two hours. But already the hype is building for the...

Inside Star Citizen goes spelunking with a full episode all about patch 3.7’s cave systems

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The weekly Inside Star Citizen is once again an episode focusing all on one aspect of the developing game: caves. Covering everything from lighting...
Dragon Age: Colonialism is Bad

MMO Burnout: Greedfall is a pretty interesting swing for the fences, even when it misses

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It's been said by me many times before now, but here it is again: I really appreciate a game that swings for the fences....

Predictably, the ESA rebuffs UK call to ban lockboxes, citing nebulous transparent lockbox plan

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Yesterday, we covered the UK government’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee panel report on addictive technologies: Readers will recall that the lengthy...

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