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Kotaku’s Anthem exposé unmasks a studio in ‘crisis’ – and BioWare’s response is alarming

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Kotaku has another lengthy expose up today, this one homing in on Anthem. Author Jason Schreier interviewed 19 Anthem (and Anthem-adjacent) developers to paint...
Hope springs something

Ashes of Creation gets into the nitty-gritty of node operations

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It's been "node this" and "node that" with Ashes of Creation these past couple of weeks, but with an in-depth Q&A session with the...

Check out this 4K version of the original Diablo II intro cinematic made with AI

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We're seeing quite a number of HD remasters in video games and retellings of classic movies, so perhaps it was only a matter of...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 214: No fools we

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Justin and Bree discus MMO April Fools' Day, Jumpgate's sequel, Funcom's new Secret World project, EverQuest 3, Rend's abrupt launch, Star Citizen's ladies, and Neverwinter and DDO's expansion dates, with adventures in Guild Wars 2, DDO, and Blade & Soul, and a mailbag question on MMO emulators.

Destiny 2 outlines quality of life adjustments coming in Update 2.2.1

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The weekly Destiny 2 report from Bungie is once again full of details for what's coming down the pipeline for the multiplayer shooter. Most...

The Alliance War is coming to The Elder Scrolls Legends trading card game

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The Ruby Throne is up for grabs in this new look at the Alliance War in Elder Scrolls Legends. The trading card game is...
All right!

Dragon Quest X will shutter in China on May 30

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And now, we announce the closure of a Square-Enix MMO. No, not Final Fantasy XIV and not Final Fantasy XI; those are both going strong, obviously. It's Dragon...

Old School RuneScape’s Deadman Spring Final PvP tourney gets ganked by bugs

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The Deadman Spring Finals -- Old School RuneScape's regularly held PvP tournament which pits 2,000 players against one another for a $20k cash prize...

Elder Scrolls Online celebrates five years with events and Indriks

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Every year, Elder Scrolls Online celebrates its birthday with a Jubilee Cake and events. This year those events will include giving players outfits that...

Guild Wars 2 staff are reorganizing into ‘fully staffed content teams’ as ArenaNet outlines future content

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Guild Wars 2 has been in a bit of limbo this winter. Following mass layoffs at ArenaNet, the cancellation of two additional games, and...
And this fad can end any time now, I'm not going to lie.

Fortnite updates with limited-time sniper shootout while players grumble over patch revert

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It's not going to surprise you that there's a new batch of stuff out now for Fortnite. That's largely to be expected; if you've...
It's a jumping-off point.

Final Fantasy XIV brings back Hatching-tide on April 9

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The war at the Ala Mhigan border has spun into a stalemate, there's the promise of having to travel to the First, and there...
Finding a handful of daunts.

PAX East 2019: Dauntless talks launching, version 1.0, and the Epic Store

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The fine folks at Phoenix Labs aren't bringing Dauntless to Steam; instead, they're heading to the Epic Store as planned. We can all speculate about...
Take with one hand and give with the other hand.

World of Warcraft Classic is all about old-school spell batching

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In the quest to bring back as close to an authentic vanilla era experience as possible, Blizzard is returning a system that players probably...

Torchlight Frontiers introduces Contracts in today’s alpha update

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Today, Torchlight Frontiers is turning over a new leaf with its New Beginnings alpha update, which introduces the much-touted Contracts system and adds some...

Star Wars Galaxies Legends emulator put out a huge March update trying to fix player cities

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The April Fools' Day event isn't the only thing that's recently gone live in the fan-favorite Star Wars Galaxies emulator known as Legends. While...
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Diablo III kicks off testing for patch 2.6.5 on April 5

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It's time for a little testing in Diablo III starting on April 5th (that's how you know it's not a joke) when patch 2.6.5 arrives...
Hang on, what were we doing here again?

World of Warcraft continues to speed up Heart of Azeroth level acquisition

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Are you still struggling to get your Heart of Azeroth leveled to catch up with the World of Warcraft crowd? The good news is...

SpatialOS interview suggests tech can handle 20K MMO players in a ‘relatively low-fidelity but seamless world’

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Even SpatialOS seems grim about the outlook for western MMOs. MMO players will recall that Improbable's SpatialOS is a "distributed computing platform for building...

Guild Wars 2 is giving away another season four episode, A Bug in the System, starting tomorrow

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Week two of ArenaNet's return to Tyria push in Guild Wars 2 begins tomorrow, and it's coming with another freebie: the second episode of...

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