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Recapping Black Desert’s massive E3 and Heidel Ball announcements

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I said this morning that I thought Black Desert stole the show for E3 players - apart from the Phantasy Star Online 2 announcement,...

City of Titans drapes buildings with banners and players with capes

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In a superhero MMO, what's more important to dress: characters or buildings? The answer is, obviously, both, which is why City of Titans' art...

Star Citizen is putting an awful lot of effort into creating an epic space bar experience

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If you're quite over joking about space caves and how the economy team is using ships' popularity to decide how to price them, Star...

No Man’s Sky players raised so much money for a gratitude billboard that they’re giving extra to charity

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It doesn't seem like all that long ago that No Man's Sky was in the headlines for all the bad reasons: toxicity, hacking, meltdowns,...

Here’s how Crowfall is rewriting its hunger and food system to be more fun

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Hi my name is Bree, and I like to cook in video games and not in real life. The most recent Crowfall dev blog...

Dauntless recaps E3 with roadmap update, mobile teaser, and new Switch trailer

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Dauntless has a flurry of news to cap off what was a big week, given that it announced a Switch port and ding-up to...

Ship of Heroes says it plans ‘to top the City of Heroes character creator’

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This week, Heroic Games' Casey McGeever hit the Ship of Heroes forums to discuss some of the content already in the game - and...
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A recent World of Warcraft player survey apparently confirms an incoming level squish

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The nature of World of Warcraft's expansion releases and design philosophy means that every expansion adds another stack of levels on top of the...

MapleStory’s new Pathfinder class headlines the game’s summer update

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Firing arrows, let's be honest, is pretty boring. If you're going to shoot pointy sticks at things, you need to do it with style...
Breaking rocks in the hot sun.

RuneScape reveals Big Game Hunting, details Completionist Cape and weapon diversity changes

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Step over Turok; there are some new dinosaur hunters in town -- or at least there will be when RuneScape's upcoming Land Out of...

APB Reloaded’s new battle royale mode is now online after a week’s delay

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Last week, APB Reloaded was gearing up for a new patch, the biggest the game had seen since Little Orbit took over last year....
Well, it's happening.

Square-Enix wants to make its entire back library available digitally

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The announcement of Trials of Mana - the upgrading and localization of Seiken Densetsu 3, a game that was long held as a lost...
but your acronym

Guild Wars 2 reverses decision on raid craft mats, kicks off new mystery event

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ArenaNet has updated Guild Wars 2 players on two points of contention relating most recent patch. For starters, the new update apparently reversed a...

The Division 2: Freebie weekend and lessons learned from running a live game

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The whole "games as a service" thing is a pretty hot-button topic in gaming circles, but there often isn't a lot of discussion about...

Crowfall devs discuss solving MMO multiway warfare imbalance, reacquisition of EU publishing from Travian

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ArtCraft Creative Director J. Todd Coleman and Design Director Thomas Blair are back on YouTube answering Crowfall questions from high-end backers and players this...

Fallout 76 announces double XP event following its week-long free trial

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In case you'd forgotten, you can currently jump into the Appalachian wastelands of Fallout 76 and play for free until June 17th, and if...

Blade & Soul explores the Blade Master and Kung Fu Master’s upcoming third specs

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When Blade & Soul's Empyrean Shadows update arrives on June 19th, Blade Masters and Kung Fu Masters will become even more, er, masterful with...
Oh, that's the path.

Path of Exile fixes Legion bugs and adds a visual guide for incubators

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The next patch to Legion for Path of Exile is due out by the end of the week, and that's good news. Further good...
Hey plague, you're an all-star.

Warframe delays Operation: Plague Star over unexpected bugs

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Is there anything worse than being all psyched up for a big in-game event, only to find out at the last minute that the...

Destiny 2 won’t be exclusive to Steam: Bungie reveals new details about the game’s future

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Following Bungie's bombshell E3 announcement that Destiny 2 will be departing Blizzard's Battle.net client for the greener pastures of Steam -- and going free-to-play...

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