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Blackwake brings an indie pirate experience to your computer screen

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Between last year's Sea of Thieves and this year's upcoming Skull and Bones, is there any room left in the pirate naval combat genre?...
Capital city.

EVE Online moves cynosural fields to a separate overview filter with its February update

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If you have never wanted to see a cynosural field in your overview in EVE Online, the game's February patch will take care of that....

More MMO Valentine’s Day events: Black Desert, EverQuest II, Destiny 2, MapleStory 2, Revelation Online, and Wizard101

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Hearts and chocolates and flowers continue to invade MMOs all around us. Bree here, reporting from the front lines of the invasion. Here are...
Cool times.

Paragon Chat hosts a winter formal in City of Heroes on February 9

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Hang out with your fellow heroes, dress up, and enjoy a celebration of winter in Paragon Chat this Saturday with the winter formal! Yes, the City...
Vengeance.

Final Fantasy XI’s February update brings substantial improvements to Red Mage

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It's been a long time since Final Fantasy XI made Red Mages happy. The job has languished for a long while with most of its...
Something got cast.

Check out these spectacular prize-winning player housing hideouts in Path of Exile

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Back in December, Grinding Gear Games launched a massive expansion for Path of Exile, Betrayal, and among its key features was an overhaul to...

Monster Hunter World’s Witcher 3 Wild Hunt crossover is live today for console players

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If crossovers don't just flat-out make your brain hurt trying to make the dissonance of the lore make sense, then you might love this...

Leaderboard: Are you concerned about the health of the games market right now?

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In the last couple of weeks, we've been posting what seems like an endless list of bad news from gaming companies insofar as their...

The Division 2’s private beta test is underway through next week

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You've heard of an open beta, you've heard of a closed beta, but what the heck is a "private beta?" Sounds a little iffy,...

Star Citizen players will be able to communicate using American Sign Language

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This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse kicks off not with development but with player footage of a 42-man dogfighter skirmish just above the...

Art curation MMO Occupy White Walls 2.0 adds collaborative art galleries

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The game we called the most bizarre MMO of 2018 (in a good way) has taken another big step this week. Occupy White Walls,...
Yo.

Anthem teases cataclysms and answers fan questions in latest AMAAAA

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Yesterday, Anthem unveiled the first piece of its post-launch roadmap, which highlighted some of the new content planned for release as part of act...

Interview: Black Desert’s Pearl Abyss on battle royale design, metrics, cron stones, and future content

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Black Desert has had a wild ride over the last year, as has its home studio, Pearl Abyss. Not only did PA pick up...
hnn... colonel

Apex Legends continues to grow, reaching 10 million players in 72 hours

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Newly released battle royale title Apex Legends announced the other day that it had amassed 2.5 million players and hit 600,000 concurrent players within...
This is... better?

EverQuest looks for player stories for its anniversary

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The memories that have been forged in EverQuest are numerous, due in no small part to just how long the game has been running. For...

Project Winter thwarts group survival with dastardly traitors

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Tell us if this sounds like a game you've played before: You and a handful of comrades are stranded far from civilization and must...

H1Z1’s PC team makes the game look more old-school than ever before

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While it will never be mistaken for the ultra-colorful and cartoony Fortnite, H1Z1 -- sorry, Z1 Battle Royale -- is doing what it can...

Dark Age of Camelot bribes players to stop switching sides

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It's time to head back to Camelot! No, not that one -- the original Mythic creation. Listen, if you arrive in the Middle Ages...
Attract mode.

Friends become foes in Closers season three, Rogue Agents

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Today marks one year since En Masse Entertainment launched Closers, and on the occasion of the game's first anniversary, the studio has unveiled the...

The first of Ultima Online’s planned 2019 high seas updates has hit the test server

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At the start of the new year, Ultima Online did its level best to disrupt my plans to take a break from subbing it...

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