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Torchlight II’s console preorders begin today – check out the goofy new trailer

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There are few games that break my "no preorders" rule, but the Torchlight franchise is one of them. So it's lucky for me that...

Cheating cheaters and the online video game companies that fight them

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I'm so tired of cheaters in video games. Well, I mean, also cheaters at life, but we're on a video game website, so today,...

Villagers & Heroes’ massive A Tale of Earth and Sea expansion launches Shamans and much more today

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Indie MMORPG Villagers & Heroes has officially launched its summer expansion, and if you're a fan of underrated and under-the-radar MMOs, this is one...

Choose My Adventure: The ‘hard mode’ of City of Heroes in Going Rogue

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Disaster! Our plucky Praetorian has plunged into a pit of perilous despair! The challenges of this bold new world are mounting, and the pint-sized...
Have some power.

Final Fantasy XIV starts the Eden raid with patch 5.01

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If you're eager to take on the biggest challenges the world of the First has to offer, today brings you something new to handle....

Anthem players get excited for Cataclysm precursor event that turns out to be a bug

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Following its delay back in April and a month-long stint in testing, Anthem's long-awaited Cataclysm event finally appeared to be ramping up in the...

Star Wars The Old Republic’s gives love to non-subbers in today’s update

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It's a big day for Star Wars The Old Republic - well, maybe a medium day. Though today's patch comes emblazoned with the forgettable...

Torchlight Frontiers’ huge Beast Buddies patch is delayed to next week

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When we look at how Echtra Games creates and celebrates huge patches for Torchlight Frontiers while that MMO is still in alpha testing, we...
Everybody's a friend.

Star Trek Online’s newest batch of ships include Romulan and Dominion offerings

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If you ever feel like stirring the pot over in the Star Trek Online community, just point out that one of the game's playable...
Why fix issues when we could double down?

The Lahn arrives in Black Desert Mobile’s Korean edition

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The mobile version of Black Desert Online, appropriately dubbed Black Desert Mobile so you know exactly what you're getting, is not quite up to...

RuneScape patches holes in Land Out of Time, promotes summer special sub sale

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With RuneScape's Land Out of Time fresh on the live servers as of last week, Jagex is already looking ahead to post-launch fixes and...

Kickstarter canceled the campaign for MMORPG RAW just a day before it funded

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Tomorrow was supposed to be a big day for Killerwhale Games' MMO RAW as it concluded its Kickstarter campaign - in fact, we had...

Caravan Stories delays its PlayStation 4 launch

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You know what? We spoke too soon. What looked like an imminent launch for the cute-looking but largely overlooked Caravan Stories is going to turn...

No, Ship of Heroes is not officially launching on July 4, 2020

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Our inbox lit up this morning over a redname post on the Ship of Heroes forum that appeared to tell a player that Heroic...

Atlas unveils work on Wild Pirate Encampments and a non-dedicated multiplayer mode

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Judging by the sound of the most recent Captain's Log update from the folks at Atlas, the idea behind Wild Pirate Encampments sounds a...

Would you try a single-player spinoff of The Division 2, or are you happy with it as it is?

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Over the weekend, multiple game devs, including The Division 2's creative director, floated the idea of a "single player narrative driven spin off" of...

For Science: New longitudinal study demonstrates no link between video games and aggression

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It seems we have another one of these papers every few months, and each time we cover them we get comments and tweets that...
Da-boo-di.

Blue Protocol shows off character creation for two new character types

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More and more about Blue Protocol keeps trickling out to the point that it's almost a bummer we haven't actually yet received a confirmation...
Hello and goodbye.

Fan-built Fallout Online projects are happening in the classic game style

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So, are you of the mind that Fallout 76 didn't really capture what you wanted from an online game in the franchise's universe? Perhaps...

Camelot Unchained players will get to design their own heraldry in-game

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The regular weekly update from Camelot Unchained isn't exactly loaded with what one would call sexy, big ticket items, but the developers of the...

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