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Star Wars Galaxies’ Legends rogue server plans PvP flashpoints and fresh ground/space content

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Star Wars Galaxies fans know that the rogue server SWG Legends has been teasing new locales, Bespin and Felucia, for a few months now,...

Guild Wars 2 hypes Bound by Blood, loses a pair of devs, and sees Pink Day return

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Time to bundle together some Guild Wars 2 headlines! Also I get to play with a bulleted list some more. Yay formatting! Let's tuck...
Becky.

City of Heroes: Homecoming plays with Rage crashes, PvP stuns, and Tanker powers on the test server

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The PTS for the City of Heroes Homecoming servers is looking to tweak the knobs of the rogue MMO a bit. Yesterday's patch offered...

Red Dead Online now lets you be a trader, collector, or bounty hunter with the latest update

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It's always good to expand your horizons. You might be all about the rootin', tootin', shootin', and lootin' in Red Dead Online, but sometimes...

Star Wars The Old Republic’s Charles Boyd talks up Onslaught’s first planet, Onderon

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The planet of Onderon has a much more vast story history than I was aware of, with the location used in comic book form,...

PSA: Lord of the Rings Online is slashing prices for the Helm’s Deep expansion

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Lord of the Rings Online is notoriously reluctant to give any sort of price reductions for its expansions, so it's a good week indeed...

Fallout 76 creates player ire by selling a food-saving refrigerator for $7

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Have you ever gotten mad at a refrigerator? I know I have: The one in the apartment I'm in right now has a dripping...
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Blade & Soul is splitting damage types and adding new bracelets with the Storm of Arrows update

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The next update for Blade & Soul is dubbed Storm of Arrows and that sounds absolutely horrifying. You might say "it's just a little rain" if...

PAX West 2019: Examining mental health and community in upcoming MMO Destiny’s Sword

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Eager players packed the Washington State Convention Center at this year's PAX West, each greeted with games ranging from high-profile triple-A titles to more...
The vista

World of Warcraft’s private servers are emptying in the wake of WoW Classic, but they aren’t empty yet

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So, who figured that the people playing World of Warcraft emulators would all jump ship in order to play on the official version of WoW Classic?...
Thanks, I hate it.

Fortnite adds in the unfortunately named Moisty Palms with its perfect prop disguises

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You there! Do you want to shoot people in an area dubbed "Moisty Palms?" No, probably not, but that is the exact level that Fortnite's...

Black Desert patches in PC Altar of Blood events, Xbox One s’mores promo

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It's patch day once again for Black Desert, as Kakao is pushing out both new additions to last week's life skill master update and...
Cargo cult.

World of Warcraft outlines its improved recruit-a-friend program

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Do you have a friend you want to drag with you back into Azeroth? Soon you will be handsomely compensated for the gesture, thanks...

Path of Exile cancels new lockboxes-within-lockboxes after ‘intensely negative’ feedback

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So let's play a little round of bad news, good news with Path of Exile. Yesterday, with the Blight expansion not even a week...

MMORTS Million Lords launches tomorrow – check out this exclusive trailer

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Here's an MMO new to me and to the site: Million Lords. It's an MMORTS that rolls out of beta tomorrow and into final...
AITA?

Final Fantasy XI brings new Ambuscade challenges and a new high-level fight for the future

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The end of Final Fantasy XI's fourth expansion is back. In high-tier battlefield form. Yes, the latest version update has arrived and brought with it...

League of Legends promises improvements to events and game modes in a quick Q&A

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It's not exactly an AMA or a Q&A of substantial length, considering Riot cherry-picked questions that tied to an overall topic, but League of...
Diverse!

RuneScape has cancelled the Weapon Diversity project, but not its goals

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There was a noble goal at the heart of RuneScape's Weapon Diversity project: making every individual weapon type feel like a distinct choice beyond raw...

Sea of Thieves offers a preview of the wares for sale in the Pirate Emporium cash shop

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So, Sea of Thieves is getting a cash shop with the release of the Smuggler's Fortune update on September 11th. Before you get possibly...
Oh, please be all right.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 237: Fallen Earth’s final glorious sunset

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Justin and Bree tackle Fallen Earth's sunset, WoW Classic, going back to Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Astellia Online's monetization, CCP's new MMO, City of Heroes, and a mailbag question on swatting.

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