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Black Desert is heavily adjusting its battle royale mode based on player feedback in today’s patch

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Black Desert's had a wild winter already, with an expansion, new class, and battle royale mode rolling out in just the last few months....
Slash heal.

Crowfall takes inventory in its latest dev diary

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Ahh, the humble inventory. It's a feature often taken for granted in MMOs; after all, you've gotta have somewhere to keep all of that...
In we go.

Anthem is just under a month away from official launch, but weekend VIP demo downloading has begun

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If you've been looking forward to Anthem, you have about a month to go until it has launched for everyone. The game's full launch is...

Improbable and Crytek team up for SpatialOS CryEngine integration and new AAA game

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Improbable made headlines over the last couple of weeks thanks to its tussle with Unity over SpatialOS's integration and licensing. That tussle's since ended,...
Same old story, same old song and dance.

Long before Diablo Immortal, the franchise nearly had… Diablo Junior

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We hear that if you look into a mirror with the lights off and say "Diablo Immortal" three times, the Prime Evil himself will...
apolitical

The Division 2 encourages players to get greedy with new Dark Zone mechanics

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We're only a couple of months out from the release of Ubisoft's MMO third-person-shooter The Division 2, which will be bringing with it a...

Guardians of Ember looks for a second chance as it starts closed beta testing

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Will the second time around prove more successful than the first? That's what Gameforge is hoping with Guardians of Ember. You may recall this action-RPG...
Oh, boo-hoo.

EVE Online cracks down on cheaters, again, and contemplates more free-to-play gates

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You'd think that people might think twice about cheating in EVE Online, given that in 2018 alone, the company banned tens of thousands of...

Guild Wars 2 rings in the year of the boar with its Lunar New Year festival

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The Lunar New Year is just around the corner, and for the peoples of Tyria, that means it's time for Guild Wars 2's annual...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 205: Dragons and other MMO rarities

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Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online's Elsweyr, Breach, Nexon, ArcheAge, Pantheon, FFXIV, SWG Legends, CrossCode, and the harms of early access.
Expectations.

Star Wars: The Old Republic fan petition asks for more funding for the game to give it new life

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The state of Star Wars: The Old Republic is an odd one. It would seem odd to contend that the game is dying, but as...
Somebody loves you, and that's good.

RuneScape boots player who streamed himself bullying a suicidal gamer

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A game as large and old and multifaceted as RuneScape is bound to collect some bad seeds over time, and as we've seen repeatedly...
doggo

Gamigo is reversing last week’s ArcheAge unicorn mount stealth-normalization

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Last week, we covered the mess over ArcheAge's unicorn mounts, which had been patched and speed-normalized without notice, leaving players angry over what they...

Leaderboard: Do you think Bethsoft is going to take Fallout 76 free-to-play?

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One of the claims floating around Reddit and YouTube is the claim that stores across the globe, from the UK to Australia to even...
Stormy weather.

World of Warcraft patches in its new raid and its new season of items for Tides of Vengeance

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It's time to head into the Battle of Dazar'alor in World of Warcraft, so long as you've got a regular group to head into a...
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Guild Wars 2 developers discuss the big dramatic ending of the latest Living World episode

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Who likes big surprises in video game stories? All right, now who likes having those big dramatic moments spoiled ahead of time? If the...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Wrathstone DLC has hit the PTS – here’s what to expect

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Boom! Elder Scrolls Online players have known about the Wrathstone DLC for only a week, and now here we are welcoming its arrival on...
Caw! Polly is no longer the apex predator!

Atlas hackers strike again with the return of the dreaded air whale

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It's raining whales! What the heck, it's now raining whales?! Hoist sails! That's the ancient sea shanty players of Atlas were learning to sing when...

Astellia confirms it’ll be buy-to-play in the west, won’t be a ‘smash-and-grab’

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At PAX South this weekend, Astellia reps did indeed sit for a panel on the game as promised - a panel hosted, apparently "at...

Ashes of Creation yoinks another ex-Daybreaker, this one a community manager

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Ashes of Creation's Intrepid Studios has been grabbing up Daybreak devs left and right, and now it's hired a new one: Sarah "Lt. Toast"...

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