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Guild Wars 2 begins return-to-Tyria initiative with free episode and big Path of Fire sale

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At the end of last week, ArenaNet announced its plans for a new five-week Guild Wars 2 initiative that's intended to bring players back...

These are some of the shinies waiting in Neverwinter’s Undermountain

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When you delve in to a dungeon with the scale of Undermountain, you'd expect more than a few new rewards waiting for you. Neverwinter...
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Check out some of the female character creation options planned for Star Citizen’s 3.5 alpha

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As you are all aware by now, women play video games, too. And it's about time that Star Citizen had its female models ready...

Celebrate The Elder Scrolls’s 25th anniversary by playing ESO’s Elsweyr Prologue today (for free!)

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Twenty-five years ago today, a relatively unknown game-development studio by the name of Bethesda Softworks released a little game called The Elder Scrolls: Arena,...

Warframe recounts Mainline updates, adds new Tennogen in time for sixth birthday and approach to 50M players

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Warframe's Remote Observer has provided its usual rundown of updates for players of the action shooter MMO, offering a few words on quality-of-life updates...

Camelot Unchained seeks to blow up a castle built with 9 million blocks

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Show of hands: Who here played one of the Sim City games? And of those players, whose first impulse when firing up said game...
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Heroes of the Storm yanks the cash option for lockboxes in its latest test patch

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You can buy lockboxes right now in Heroes of the Storm, but with the current patch in testing on the game's test server, you will...
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MMO Week in Review: Albion free-to-play, WoW Classic, EVEsterdam, and FFXIV Tokyo

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'Twas another huge week for the MMO industry: Albion Online announced it's going free-to-play, Blizzard teased news for WoW Classic, Daybreak's Columbus Nova ties...

Wurm Online introduces new capture points in Hunt of the Ancients zones

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As I understand the way Hunt of the Ancients (HotA) zones work in Wurm Online, the whole point is to capture four points. If...

The MOP Up: Ring of Elysium gives out free adventure passes

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Ever eye an adventurer or season pass in a shooter but feel too cheap to buy it? Reader Pasha tipped us off that the...

Old School RuneScape talks player behavior, improving PvP, and fixing old content in a Q&A

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A beefy Q&A video from the devs of Old School RuneScape offered up an opportunity to discuss a variety of matters relevant to the...

Here’s a quick glimpse of Star Wars The Old Republic’s new guild heraldry and character preview tools

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When 5.10.2: Heralds of Victory launches in Star Wars: The Old Republic next month, it'll drop some quality-of-life tweaks that were originally promised in...

EVEsterdam 2019: EVE players intercept Triglavian war plans

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The EVE Online community was surprised recently when billboards across the game were hacked and displayed a threatening video from the Triglavian Collective, a...

Make My MMO: Project Gorgon’s cash shop isn’t horsing around, Star Citizen’s playable female characters are finally here

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, beloved indie MMO Project Gorgon raised a few eyebrows this week by announcing a microtransaction cash shop that...

Legends of Aria launches its experimental server with a new death system

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One of my favorite mental images when I see the word "experiment" is some mad goblinoid scientist poking at things they have no right...

Bless Online previews the changes and additions of its upcoming balance update

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It's been about five months since the release of Bless Online, and aside from some fairly minor adjustments here and there, class balance hasn't...

Guild Wars 2 wants to bring former players back to Tyria with new initiative

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Every MMO player in existence has almost certainly, at one point or another, taken a break from a game and come back to it...
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FFXIV Fan Festival Tokyo 2019: Travel to the First with Hrothgar and Dancers

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The third and final Final Fantasy XIV fan festival for Shadowbringers kicked off on Friday evening in by North American time schedules. We even...

EVEsterdam 2019: EVE Online explorer visits every star system without being killed

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When people say that EVE Online is a game that lets you make your own path, they aren't kidding. While CCP Games builds gameplay...
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FFXIV Fan Festival Tokyo 2019: Liveblog of the opening keynote

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Here we are at long last. If you're anything like me, you've been looking forward to this event since Final Fantasy XIV first delivered...

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