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Darkfall: Rise of Agon doubles Tasks in the game with its latest patch

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It's good to stay busy, especially in MMORPGs. How often have we fallen in to a slow-blinking stupor after plowing through our dailies and...

Activision-Blizzard Q2 2019: Revenues dip again, WoW subs rise, expanded teams en route for Blizz

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Remember in February when Activision-Blizzard posted record high financials but followed it up with a devastating round of layoffs? And then remember when the...

Project Torque’s resurrection crowdfunding meets its goal with two days left

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You all should be thanking me. I was going to make this headline say that Project Torque had crossed the finish line. But I...

The Enclave Interstellar Initiative wraps up in Elite: Dangerous

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The latest Elite: Dangerous Interstellar Initiative, which are those strings of in-game events that end up with some sort of promised galaxy-affecting change, has...
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Albion Online changes its land auctions to collect more from winning bids

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There's a notable change arriving to Albion Online's land auctions, and while it might seem like a little thing it has far-reaching implications for...

Studio Wildcard announces Genesis DLC and season pass for ARK Survival Evolved

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The Sony leaks earlier today have now been proven true: ARK Survival Evolved is getting new DLC called Genesis, bundled up in a season...

Q2 2019 financials: Nexon revenues dip as Netease sees international growth

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Nexon's business has been under close scrutiny this year as its owners attempted a sale and then reorganized instead, prompting layoffs earlier this week and...
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Fallout 76’s next patch adds display cases, capitol changes, and balance tweaks

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So what's next on the agenda for Fallout 76? Display cases. Yes, that's one of the big elements of this month's upcoming patch, the...

One Hour One Life’s latest patches craft the sandbox on a ‘grander scale’

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Remember indie sandbox MMO One Hour One Life? We covered it last year when it finally popped up on Steam. As pitched, it was...
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World of Warcraft: Classic will have an RP-PVP server

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There's not really such a thing in modern World of Warcraft as an RP-PvP server, since the current expansion basically did away with PvP...
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No Man’s Sky Beyond gets a full launch trailer showing off its multiplayer environment

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There's a lot of multiplayer support going on in No Man's Sky Beyond, the game's update arriving on August 14th. The latest trailer for...
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Aion spins out Mark of the Vandal on August 21 with a new class, zone, and dungeon for the US version

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Over there, in Aion! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... actually, it's the Vandal, the new class being added with the appropriately dubbed...

EverQuest II is launching a new fabled zone in August’s GU111

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EverQuest II would surely like you to stop fretting about the future of the franchise and focus on the immediate future of the game,...

Star Trek Online’s nerf to Advanced Beam Arrays causes a community uproar

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All right, so this one is going to take some explanation. The latest update to Star Trek Online has arrived along with the patch...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr soundtrack and dragon dungeon walkthrough

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Just how exceedingly foolish -- or monumentally brave -- do you have to be to willingly venture into the lair of a fussy dragon?...

City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers have joined the Titan Network/NCsoft negotiations

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Exactly one month ago, tangent to our interview with the Homecoming server team that's part now-flourishing City of Heroes rogue server community, we also...

MMO Business Roundup: Riot’s diversity ‘progress’, NetEase’s esports arena, DayZ down under, and Twitch threats

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Welcome back to another roundup of what's going on in the business of making online games! Let's start with the most controversial of the...

Closers introduces Seth, a new melee character arriving on September 10

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What happens when you combine a bright young woman with the power of a demon? Evidently, you get someone who can create massive clawed...

Broke Protocol outlines work done to its backend and lays out rules for player-created content

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The devs of the online city RPG Broke Protocol are very much hard at work on the game's arrival to its 1.0 update, and...

A stunning reveal! Witness footage of the Dragon Ball Z MMORPG from closed beta!

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The last time I played a multiplayer-minded game based on the Dragon Ball Z franchise was Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, which was... OK. It...

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