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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now free-to-play with a new battle royale mode

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Gosh, the mighty have fallen when it comes to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The game isn't hemorrhaging players like certain other titles, but it does appear...

Digital Extremes’ retro OARPG Survived By has hit early access

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One of the nifty things on the way under Warframe developer Digital Extremes' publishing banner is Survived By, a retro permadeath bullet-hell MMO first...

BioWare touts Anthem’s story, drops Game Awards trailer

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During last night's Game Awards, while much of the news revolved around Red Dead Redemption 2 maybe winning a bit too much and WildCard's next...

World of Warcraft preps to unlock Battle for Dazar’alor and previews post-BFA content

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We're four days away from the release of World of Warcraft's Tides of Vengeance content update, and Blizzard has posted a new update giving...

ARK’s Studio Wildcard is launching a 40K-person-server pirate MMO called Atlas next week

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If you blinked during the Game Awards on Twitch, you might have missed the announcement of a new MMO launching next week from the...

WOTC announces new esports initiative for Magic: The Gathering Arena

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At tonight's Game Awards ceremony, Wizards of the Coast announced that it will be expanding the Magic: The Gathering competitive scene with a new...
And this fad can end any time now, I'm not going to lie.

Fortnite’s Season 7 brings new content for Battle Royale and Save the World, introduces Creative mode

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Fortnite has received an update of titanic proportions with the commencement of Season 7, bringing with it new content and features for both Battle...

Winter festivities descend on both classic EverQuest and EverQuest II

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Daybreak is rolling Christmas out to its classic MMORPGs this week - yes, we call EverQuest I a classic, but really, EverQuest II, which...

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse, the MMORPG’s battle royale mode, launches December 18

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Over the course of the fall, Ashes of Creation developer Intrepid Studios has been testing a battle royale mode component for the Kickstarted full-scale...
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H1Z1 retunes its AR and AK weaponry with the latest patch

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There's nothing festive about the latest Steam patch for H1Z1 (alias Z1 Battle Royale, alias Not Just Survive, alias Ricky "Player Pretty Well Known" Samberg) unless there's...
Roar and such.

Monster Hunter World gets its Final Fantasy XIV crossover on Steam on December 21

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Have you too long been denied the ability to hunt the Behemoth because you'd rather play Monster Hunter World on PC? Don't worry, that's ending...

Torchlight Frontiers’ Dusk Mage harnesses both dark and light

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Don't call it Twilight anything -- the Dusk Mage has her own non-vampire thing happening. The most recent of Torchlight Frontiers' classes to be...

Red Dead Online shores up its economy and offers compensation in today’s update

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If you're still beta testing Red Dead Online, or patiently watching from the sidelines while the console players get things sorted ahead of the...
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Planetside 2 is celebrating Christmas with an array of high-powered festive weapons

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It's time once more for Planetside 2 players to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas by engaging in an endless three-way factional war while wearing...

Legends of Aria AMA covers sandbox endgame, difficulty, balancing, and future content

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Yesterday, devs from Citadel Studios zipped over to Reddit for an AMA all about Legends of Aria, which MMO players will recall just recently hit early access off-steam. Studio boss Derek "Supreem" Brinkmann and lead game designer Jeffrey "Miphon" Edwards sat for questions from the MMORPG sub. While the AMA continues today, here are some of the notable answers posted yesterday:

Funcom will debut its next Conan game this Saturday

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A month ago during its last investor call, Funcom clarified that it was working on at least six new games in addition to its...

Dual Universe releases lengthy alpha video demoing its current sandbox content

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Dual Universe has been in alpha only a week, but the team is already celebrating with a new video designed to introduce future gamers...

Dauntless’s Frostfall content update introduces the Hunt Pass, a new behemoth, and new in-game events

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The seasonal celebration of Frostfall has arrived in Dauntless, bringing with it a new in-game event, a new behemoth, and the inaugural season of...
Stone city.

EverQuest previews the city of Mearatas in the upcoming Burning Lands expansion

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Let's get real here, the duende in The Burning Lands expansion for EverQuest are not happy to have mortals around. They certainly don't want...
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Rapper 2 Milly files lawsuit against Epic Games over Fortnite dance emote

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Epic Games is under fire from rapper 2 Milly, who has filed a lawsuit against the Fortnite developer that alleges that one of the...

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