Star Wars Galaxies Emu stress tests all things Jedi – today
There's a curious air of Star Wars fandom going around this weekend -- for no discernible reason that we can identify -- and that...
Betawatch: The Cycle kicks off a weekly playtest cadence
Technical alpha testing for The Cycle has reached a conclusion, and that means that the developers are moving into the next phase of development...
Brave the Sunken City to confront a Great Old One in Conan Exiles’s latest update
Eldritch horror appears to be the flavor du jour in the latest test server update to Conan Exiles, which has opened up the gates...
Old School RuneScape hopes to improve player input polling by hiding results
Classically, the development focus of Old School RuneScape has been steered by polls, and those poll results have always been visible. That will be...
City of Titans wraps up its landmark previews with some new buildings and a zone map
The City of Titans folks have been spending some time showing off several landmark locations in their developing superhero MMO, and today marks the...
Champions Online kicks off a leveling challenge and ushers in some gigantic monsters
How quickly do you think you can get a character to level 40 in Champions Online? The developers are challenging you to hit that...
Nepal has outright banned PUBG over addiction concerns
With Fortnite and then Apex Legends eclipsing PUBG here in the west and its own original lead designer departing for greener pastures, it might...
Adorable retro sandbox Staxel has officially launched today with a huge update too
We've been covering the supercute voxelbox Staxel for the last year of early access, so what a joy to get to say that it's...
Blizzard says negative fan feedback won’t divert the course of its storytelling in World of Warcraft
Sometimes a statement can be both the right and wrong thing to say at the same time, and if you're thinking that sounds like...
After two months, Shroud of the Avatar has removed its controversial cash-shop buff bonuses
Back in February, Portalarium raised eyebrows when with Shroud of the Avatar's release 62 it added a controversial cash shop item: a buff for...
Albion Online’s free-to-play relaunch is going well in spite of lag, queues, and duping
We don't get a lot of buy-to-play or subscription-based MMOs going free-to-play anymore, chiefly because most of the ones likely to make the jump...
PWE officially bids farewell to the Star Trek Online and Neverwinter Foundry
While we all knew it was coming, it still doesn't make saying goodbye very easy. The Foundry -- a repository and creation tool for...
Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Pinkertons have settled their legal feud, no shootout required
One of the stranger lawsuits we've seen - not just this year, but ever - involved The Pinkertons. Yes, the real Pinkertons, the modern-day...
The Division 2 spots and patches out a homophobic slur hidden in in-game graffiti
The thing about making a large game with lots of moving parts is, well, sometimes you wind up signing off on something you don't...
Ashes of Creation has finally brought its forums back online
After four months in the dark, Ashes of Creation's forums are finally back in the light.
The bizarre ongoing saga of Ashes' website and forum...
Dofus’ Eliocalypse updates plan to play havoc with space-time
The presser we received from the folks at Dofus promises that mucking about with the game world's timestream is "only the beginning," so it...
Otherland is working on finishing its current storyline after its latest patch
It's been a few months since we checked in on Otherland - in fact, the last detailed post we did was last November, when...
World of Warcraft details the new zones and new Heart of Azeroth upgrades for patch 8.2, Rise of Azshara
It's almost time for players to start testing World of Warcraft's patch 8.2, the Rise of Azshara. But you won't be going into testing...
Closers adds the Divine Battle ladder, Bai pre-registration, and sweeping character balance changes
This week, Closers has kicked out a pretty extensive update that brings events and adjustments to the side-scrolling anime beat-em-up. While pre-registration for the...
Black Desert says it’s finished its Shadow Arena-related ‘false bans’ investigation
Since March, we've been covering a hacking wave and the ensuing fallout in Black Desert, as cheaters swarmed the now-defunct Shadow Arena battle royale...
