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Kritika Online’s last day up in the west is April 30, but TERA and Closers are offering incentives to refugees

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Next week, the lights go down on Kritika Online. As announced back in March, En Masse is shuttering the game on April 30th after...
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MapleStory 2 sums up Project New Leaf and promises a summer expansion

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The entire overarching Project New Leaf update involved a whole lot of changes for MapleStory 2, changes aimed at almost every aspect of the game....

Shroud of the Avatar’s R65 is live with upgrades for performance, pets, and item weight

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And it's live: Shroud of the Avatar's 65th release rolled out to players yesterday, meaning you'll have all weekend to break play it. Notably,...
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World of Warcraft Classic will be using up-to-date items, but not all items at once

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Itemization is more of an issue than you might think of in World of Warcraft: Classic. Sure, there's a pretty clear progression of gear in...

Monster Hunter: World’s Spring Blossom Festival is in full bloom today

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Spring has sprung in the untamed lands of Monster Hunter: World, and that can only mean one thing: It's time once again for the...
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The Crew 2 is open for a free test drive this weekend

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Do you remember The Crew 2? Are you currently playing The Crew 2? Because Ubisoft would like you to do so, and to that end the...

Chronicles of Elyria digs into the game’s farming profession

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Sure, adventuring through uncharted lands and doing glorious battle with the sinister forces that dwell within is all well and good, but not everyone...

Apex Legends devs discuss season 2, content cadence, and avoiding development crunch

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Although the frankly obscene amount of hype that surrounded Apex Legends in the weeks following its launch earlier this year has subsided to more...

Mini-dungeons, desert dehydration, and werewolf improvements come to Project Gorgon

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The next time that you venture into a dungeon in Project Gorgon, you may be going in alone. Or not. Actually, the game's new...

Star Citizen swaps Around the Verse for Inside Star Citizen as it deep dives its own Cloud City

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Around the Verse is back this week for Star Citizen fans, although it's gotten a bit of an overhaul: It's now called Inside Star...
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Cox Communications is rolling out a new Elite Gamer ‘fast lane’ internet connection

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Who wants to pay more for your internet connection to make sure you can play games on it? Because that's what Cox Communications is...

Amid crunch allegations and another dance lawsuit, Epic Games challenges Steam to buff developer payouts

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The conflict between Steam and its newest challenger, the Epic Games Store, has thus far been a Cold War of sorts, but the other...

PUBG Corp. is suing over the Chinese term for Chicken Dinner as Update 28 goes live

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PUBG Corp. is back in court, and this time it's suing not another game company or clone but the Chinese bureaucracy itself. As MMO Culture...

Build and battle steampunk machines in new multiplayer shooter Steamcraft

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If you're into steam-powered machines and the construction -- and subsequent explosive destruction -- thereof, then you might be interested to know that steampunky...
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Final Fantasy XI prepares for the Feast of Swords and White Mage adjustments

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It's the end of an era in Japan. That's not figurative; the transition to a new emperor means that it's the end of the...
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Albion Online changes land auctions and hellgate rewards with its latest patch

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From this point on, you'll be going in blind to land auctions in Albion Online. The newest patch has changed the way bidding for land...

Join Fallout 76’s Pioneer Scouts and get a cool backpack

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If you don't feel that venturing out into an irradiated wasteland and going on a months-long camping trip is enough of an outdoors experience...

Warframe tweaks Arbitrations, releases conclusion of Nightwave: The Wolf of Saturn Six in latest PC update

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It's been six months since Warframe introduced Arbitrations, special endgame alert variants that throw players into a variety of particularly challenging scenarios with accordingly...

SWTOR’s James Ohlen is heading up a new Wizards of the Coast game studio working on a new IP

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I guess James Ohlen isn't totally out of game dev quite yet. After announcing his retirement in July of 2018 and then going on...

Following Elite Dangerous’ messy April update, Frontier rolled back drag munitions changes

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So the big Elite Dangerous update for April didn't exactly go to plan. Following the rollout earlier this week, Redditors put up a bug...

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