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New Star Wars Galaxies rogue server Sunrunner 2 blends pre-NGE and post-NGE content

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So here's the thing about Star Wars Galaxies: The people who tell you NGE stunk are right. When it launched in 2005, it was...

Elder Scrolls Online soars to 13.5M lifetime players

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That's a whole lot of cats rolled, urns broken, and pockets picked. Elder Scrolls Online has pushed past 13.5 million accumulated players since its launch...

E3 2019: Black Desert announces Great Expedition expansion and adorable Shai class

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Black Desert brought the good stuff to fan con Heidel Ball this weekend thanks to a slew of announcements about new content inbound for...
World again.

Betawatch: ReWorld beta is due in two months

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Look, over that way! Is it a beta announcement? No, it's an announcement of a beta announcement, as the ReWorld Online Twitter has announced that there...

Sea of Thieves talks next update plans, Battle for LA event, and commendation rebalance

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Sea of Thieves' Joe Neate is back to cap off the week with another quick run-down of what Rare has been up to. According...
In a pretty how town.

OrbusVR previews its raid and overworld content for its June 11th patch

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Fans of OrbusVR have to wait a little bit longer for the game's next patch to arrive on June 11th, but at least the sheer...

Warframe hosts a Nightwave event, posts TennoCon schedule

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"As we count the days until TennoCon 2019, it’s evident that our ambitious goals for this year are needing all hands on deck, literally....
Hello, peoples.

Final Fantasy XIV details the quality-of-life improvements on the way for Shadowbringers

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A lot of big improvements have arrived in Final Fantasy XIV to make Shadowbringers more fun to play. But there are also a lot of little improvements...
For a given definition of drift.

Worlds Adrift is launching one last patch and character wipe before it sunsets in July

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Among the sadder bits of news we've covered in the last few weeks - maybe even the whole spring season - was the news...

Leaderboard: Are you all-in for Google Stadia?

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When Google first announced Stadia this past spring, promising it would "revolutionize" the industry, our readers were skeptical. And now that we know much...

Bless Online’s western version will sunset on September 9

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Yesterday, we covered the news that Bless Online was sunsetting in Japan, leading many of us to wonder whether the Steam version live in...

Path of Exile’s Legion league is now live and launched – and hitting record concurrency

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Here's the bad news: Path of Exile is offline for the next three hours. But there's good news too, and that's that when the...

Star Citizen’s alpha 3.5.1 is live as CIG seeks feedback on ship customization pricing

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Ship customization rolled out to PTU testers this week as part of Star Citizen's alpha 3.5.1, but CIG didn't waste much time pushing it...

H1Z1 launches season 4 as Daybreak says it’s ‘not ready to call it quits’ on Z1 Battle Royale

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Z1 Battle Royale - the PC game once known as H1Z1 - has had a rough year or two, losing most of its playerbase,...
Engizzage.

Star Trek Online promises next year’s story arc will ‘change the face of the game’

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What will next year bring for Star Trek Online? We don't know just yet, but according to a recent interview with lead designer Al Rivera...

The ArcheAge consumer lawsuit against Trion Worlds is still inching onward

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It seems weird to be writing about Trion Worlds again, but here we are. MMO players will recall that back in 2015, three gamers...

Mad World’s alpha footage features hungry frogs and players freaking out over cheese

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Even as Diablo-clone Mad World debates whether or not to dip its toes into crowdfunding, the action MMORPG is chugging along in its alpha...
aw hell

WildStar’s Nexus Forever emulator shares a slice of progress

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Could a WildStar emulator be closer to reality than we previously thought? Back in May, we reported that a community project known as "Nexus...
Bad taste?

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds unveils plans for improving Erangel’s visuals

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As more maps are added to a game like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, the older maps inevitably start looking a bit... well... old. Erangel was the first map...
Oh, hello there!

BlueStacks Inside launches on Steam to bring mobile gaming direct to your desktop

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Let's say that there's a mobile game you really want to play, but you don't like playing on your phone and said phone is...

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