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The player endorsement system in Overwatch has actually cut down on toxic behavior

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It turns out that when you reward players for being decent human beings in Overwatch, there's incentive for people to continue being decent human beings....

Steam plans game library and events revamp as Discord begins monetizing ‘insights’ for game devs

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The battle for your game dollars and storefront participation is on, and we're not sad to see the competition heating up, finally. At GDC this...

Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box event returns next week

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It's finally happening! Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box mode will return next week on March 28th through April 18th, bringing 8bit jumping puzzles...
Balance that mine.

Path of Exile is already mapping out big buffs and changes for Synthesis League

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Path of Exile is patch city right about now. This week, Grinding Gear Games rolled out 3.6.2, with dozens of bug fixes, of course,...

Project SU is an Epic Games-backed mobile sandbox MMO coming in 2019

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File this one under weird new games: Project SU. In the press release from GDC today, the game is never directly called an MMORPG,...
At least it's not political, right?

The Division 2 reflects on launch, looks toward the coming weeks in state-of-the-game address

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Now that Division agents have been roaming the post-apocalyptic Washington, D.C. of The Division 2 for about a week, the folks at Ubisoft have...
We're fine.

World of Warcraft considers level squish, confirms RP realms for WoW Classic

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Following last week's Patch 8.1.5 and prior to today's free play weekend, World of Warcraft's game director emerged for another semi-informational question and answer...

Star Citizen releases new Drake Interplanetary Corsair for sale along with ship name reservations

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The folks at Star Citizen are back with another Around the Verse video, and this week, LA Studio Director Eric Kieron Davis and Narrative...
Just play along.

Guild Wars 2 details next week’s adjustments to unidentified gear loot drops

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Some major changes are coming to the way Guild Wars 2's loot drops function for level-80 characters, which the devs hope "will provide both...

Aion launches Ereshkigal’s Rage on March 27 with Veilenthrone raid

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What does Ereshkigal have to be angry about in Aion? Lots of things, really. There's nothing good on TV, there were no more muffins in...

RuneScape delays Firemaking updates and previews its Freedom camera mode

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Bit of bad news, good news out of the RuneScape camp: The bad news is that the improvements to the Firemaking skill are being...

Warframe staggers Operation: Buried Debts content for consoles due to bugs

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An explanation provided by the folks at Warframe described bugs in Operation: Buried Debts as "fun-breaking," which is probably the best reason to hold...

Population Zero fields questions about factions, breast sizes, and snoring

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Whenever you open up a Q&A session for your developing game, you never really know what you're going to get. Case in point: The...

Age of Conan adds semi-permadeath mode, badges, and new race/class combos

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It's time to pull Age of Conan out of "maintenance mode" status and back into active development, because Funcom just dropped an update that...
This is wholly appropriate

PlanetSide 2 celebrates 20 years of EverQuest with a new objective line

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Just because the big milestone anniversary this year is for EverQuest and not PlanetSide 2 doesn't mean that the latter title needs to be left out...
All right, then.

Albion Online lays out its future roadmap with hideouts, hotspots, and customization

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The Oberon update landed in Albion Online yesterday, along with news that the game is going free-to-play in just a few short weeks, but...
Hooray, no shouting LFG for hours, that's enticing.

Anthem promises more loot changes and no more Forge loading screen in next week’s update

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If you missed Anthem's developer livestream yesterday, you'll be forgiven; it's hard to find in between every dang site's constant barrage of Stadia news....

Superdata February 2019: EA’s Apex Legends and Anthem crushed it as Blizzard fumbled

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If you were wondering exactly how Apex Legends stacks up against Fortnite since the former's debut earlier this year, SuperData's February 2019 global revenue...

RIFT’s eighth birthday celebrations are live today with Carnival of the Ascended

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RIFT players are having a bit of a wild ride the last few weeks. First, Gamigo announced it was nuking the game's progression server,...

GDC 2019: Here’s how CCP’s 10,000 player battle tech demo went down

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Developer CCP Games currently holds the world record for the largest PvP battle in gaming history, which was awarded in recognition of January 2018’s...

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