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DC Universe Online is going live with its most Metal update today

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Yes, today is the day when DC Universe Online truly goes metal. Not because the update brings with it new headbanging mechanics and a surfeit...

Smuggler’s Fortune brings the cash shop and the Black Market to Sea of Thieves

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It's time to go shopping in Sea of Thieves! The Smuggler's Fortune update has gone live for the piratical sandbox, offering players a couple...
Lewt. LEWT!

The Division 2 is adding in targeted loot in its sixth major patch

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In any game with gear, we've always had the one piece of gear that just does not seem to show up no matter what....

Dauntless officially leaves early access and launches version 1.0 on September 26

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It's been a long, winding, and interesting road for Dauntless, from its bare-bones beginnings to its most complete update yet. Now, after five years...
Take with one hand and give with the other hand.

A player is leveling Priest in WoW Classic entirely by phone

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In 2004 when World of Warcraft initially launched, leveling your character by phone presumably meant calling someone up from a land line and sitting there...
It's a good plan, Bront.

Guild Wars: RPG Maker is currently available in demo form

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It's time to go back and play the original Guild Wars, but in far more single-player format than before! If you'd forgotten about the Guild Wars: RPG...

UK parliament committee calls for ban on selling lockboxes to kids, deems games industry ‘wilfully obtuse’

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As gamers will recall, the UK government's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee panel has been investigating addictive technologies for the better part...
Let's go.

Book of Travels sucks you into a gorgeous online fairytale world

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Every once in a long while, a game is announced that really makes us sit up and go "Oooh!" without any irony. Book of...

TonyV leaves City of Heroes NCsoft negotiations, resigns from Titan Network

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Over the course of the last few months, following the revelation of working City of Heroes server code out in the wild and the...

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...
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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...
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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...

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