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Albion Online makes Silver shrine buffs more powerful and kicks off the Rites of Spring event

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Albion Online is getting in to the spring spirit with the usual Easter-themed shenanigans, but that's not the only thing that's happening in the...
Let the crows fall, let them tumble.

Crowfall details adjustments incoming for a more player-shaped siege window system

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The whole point of having a PvP system with captured land and territories is to spark interesting PvP battles between players. If you can...

Ubisoft pledges half a million euros to Notre-Dame Cathedral reconstruction, gives away free games

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In the wake of the tragic fire that caused extensive damage to the historic Notre-Dame Cathedral earlier this week, Ubisoft is stepping forward to...

Pantheon’s newsletter teases Project Faerthale development progress and previews the North Tusk Orcs

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The folks at Visionary Realms are still chugging along on Pantheon's Project Faerthale, which aims to provide testers with their first glimpse at the...

Elder Scrolls Online dishes on Elsweyr’s zone inspiration and countering Khajiit stereotypes

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As Elsweyr is put through its test phases on Elder Scrolls Online's PTS, ZeniMax is offering up a preview of the zone itself -...

Torchlight Frontiers’ new Railmaster is the most creative class MMOs have seen in years

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CHOO CHOO all aboard the Torchlight Frontiers train. Yep, PWE this afternoon revealed a new class, the Railmaster. Now, I have no idea why...

Gamigo is sunsetting Atlas Reactor this summer

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It's not the Atlas in the news lately, but it's the one that MMO players knew first: Atlas Reactor is sunsetting this summer. Gamigo VP...
EVE Online

EVE Online’s CCP Games suggests the real-life politician it banned for insider trading might not be guilty after all

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Earlier this month, we covered an emerging scandal in EVE Online: CCP Games had announced that it had removed a member of the current...

Black Desert: The new mobile market, Spring Fever event, TOS tweaks, and that damn rock

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Lots of stuff going on in Black Desert this week! First up: Kakao is preparing to launch a mobile- and web-accessible version of the...

ArenaNet says Guild Wars 2 is ‘still going strong’ and here to stay

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ArenaNet's been pretty quiet, outside of Guild Wars 2 promotion, for the last two months since it was rocked by the layoffs of 143...
It's gone.

Into the Super-Verse: The death of the City of Heroes community

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Kingdom Come is a 1996 DC Comics miniseries by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. The central conceit of the story is that it takes...
hnn... colonel

Apex Legends patch hardens its large lads while making long-range gameplay more viable

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Poor Caustic, Pathfinder, and Gibraltar in Apex Legends. They were just trying to run around and not get shot, but they're dummy thicc, and the...

Lucasfilm is currently developing an Old Republic movie or TV series

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The Old Republic as a setting has tugged at fans' hearts since the early '90s. The interest in the ancient history of the Star...
Boldly gone.

Star Trek Online kicks off a new event with a free Tier 6 ship coupon as a reward

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It's hard to find a single player in Star Trek Online who would say no to a free Tier 6 ship with no strings attached;...
Swipe left.

World of Warcraft updates companion app with guild and community chat and calendars

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If you guys do, in fact, have phones, you are exactly the target audience for the latest update arriving for the companion app for World...

Sea of Thieves previews fishing and cooking in new Hunter’s Call update trailer

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Avast, mateys, what's that on the horizon? Could it be Sea of Thieves' anniversary update, The Hunter's Call, poised to hit the high seas...
This will probably be fine.

AdventureQuest 3D shares some notes on the design of New Battleon

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So... well, we don't technically know what's going to be happening that will make New Battleon a thing in AdventureQuest 3D. It's probably going...
When will the loot drop

Lineage II shows off plenty of buffs and promotions for its 15-year anniversary

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Going for a decade is a nice milestone for any MMO, but Lineage II passed that milestone a while ago. About five years ago, in...

World of Warcraft begins testing Patch 8.2: Rise of Azshara

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Ready, set, test! A week after Blizzard unveiled the full offerings for World of Warcraft's next major content update, the studio rolled the 7.1...
Everything old is... well, it's actually still old.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 216: Star Wars frenzy

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Justin and Bree discuss big SWTOR expansion news, plus news from WoW, Blizzard, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, TERA, Albion, Blade & Soul, and DDO, with a mailbag question on MMO expansion difficulty.

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