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Star Trek Online is bringing its Borg multiverse event to Xbox and PlayStation next week

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It's not Star Trek if you're not milking the popularity of the Borg for all its worth -- a lesson that Star Trek Online...

Star Citizen marks progress on alpha 4.0’s AI, server meshing, and backend tech in October report

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This week is when Star Citizen looks back at the work of last October and condenses it into a developer progress report. Regular followers...

Soulframe is opening up its ‘preludes’ test phases for up to 10,000 more people a week

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If you've been watching Digital Extremes talk up Soulframe's preludes testing phases over the last few months, then this might be your moment, as...

World of Warcraft’s newest map, Siren Isle, will eventually allow some flight with tons of rep and token farming

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Update: Fresh datamining of the latest PTR build released just after we published this renders it all moot, so flight folks can rejoice: Apparently,...

Albion Online is overhauling dynamic encampments and mists camps already

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Albion Online's first real patch since the launch of its quarterly Horizons update landed today, and as you might expect, it's primarily a clean-up...

Trove is already preparing its Thanksgiving event as Gamigo puts its whole catalogue on sale

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With Halloween behind us, blocky sandbox Trove is already gearing up for a holiday that most MMORPGs don't do at all: Thanksgiving. Trove's version...

Age of Water’s ‘launch’ today was a technical glitch – the seafaring survival MMO is still in early access

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We were mighty shocked this morning when Steam issued a news blast announcing that Age of Water was moving from early access to launch,...

EverQuest II’s Scars of Destruction expansion now has a hard date of November 20

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The fact that EverQuest II is getting an expansion toward the end of the year is not any sort of revelation, given that Daybreak...

PlanetSide 2, fresh off an EU server merge, kicks off its 12th anniversary celebrations today

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Somehow, the news that PlanetSide 2 is turning 12 years old this month strikes me as both way too high a number and way...

New World’s weekly patch cleans up some bugs and buffs visual quality as the devs talk hippos

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All right, a New World update, let's goooooo! Oh, it's a really tiny patch? And it turns off Halloween? Well, dangit. Yes, New World's Aeternum...

More leaks confirm that Blizzard is working on a Warcraft II: Remastered edition

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While Blizzard fans spend the next week wondering what the studio will say or reveal of its plans for the Warcraft franchise, one leak...

Kakao Q3 2024: ArcheAge 2 aka ArcheAge Chronicles has been delayed yet again

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Kakao Games dropped its third quarter financials this past week, and it's a bit of a mixed bag - especially if you were anxiously...

Throne & Liberty boasts 4.5M unique players in its first month

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If you're in the arguably right guild in Throne and Liberty, you've already got quite a few things to do (and most of them...

Daybreak’s MMO Extra Life teams combine to raise over $150K for children’s hospitals

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We would venture to say that a story to restore a little faith in humanity is probably necessary for a lot of folks right...

The Crew Motorfest launches season 5 with the Made in Japan Volume 2 and Chase Squad playlists

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The Crew franchise has been through a bizarre year, from provoking a whole game preservation movement after the callous sunsetting of a beloved MMO...

Lord of the Rings Online releases its 10th expansion, Legacy of Morgoth, this afternoon

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Fasten your cloak and pack a fresh batch of lembas bread, for Lord of the Rings Online is calling all of its high-level adventurers...

Brighter Shores officially launches into early access today, hoping to court RuneScape players

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It's early access launch day for Fen Research's MMORPG Brighter Shores, a game so new to our radar that it wasn't even a known...

Towers of Aghasba is a co-op survival RPG about restoring a tribe’s homeland from ruin

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There are a few general reasons for a survival title forcing players to survive. Sometimes its just raw instinct, sometimes it's to withstand the...

Hybrid hero shooter Supervive moves up its open beta to November 20

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When last we checked in with hybrid hero shooter Supervive at last month's Steam Next Fest, we noted that Theorycraft Games was hoping to...

Path of Exile 2 shares 30 minutes of gameplay footage from this year’s Tokyo Game Show

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How will Path of Exile 2 players salve themselves knowing that the OARPG's early access is being delayed into December thanks to demons in...