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H1Z1’s PC ‘Z1 Battle Royale’ gets its first big update under its new joint studio today

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When Daybreak announced its new investment and development partnership with NantWorks and Jace Hall set up shop inside the company, H1Z1 fans expected big...
Yep.

World of Warcraft, Dungeons & Dragons Online, and other MMOs celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day

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It's time for everyone to once again pretend that saying "arr" after every sentence makes you sound like a nautical criminal, and internet culture...

Secret World Legends has launched its new Occult Defense scenario

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Secret World Legends' latest content drop is here and live, Funcom tweeted this morning. We're talking, of course, about the new scenario, Occult Defence,...

Fortnite player arrested for threatening to kill an 11-year-old opponent

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This week in why we can't have nice things, a grown man apparently threatened to kill a little kid who beat him in Fortnite. Yesterday,...

Earn a pony, a horse, and a house in The Elder Scrolls Online’s Summerfall event

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The folks at ZeniMax are giving Elder Scrolls Online players the opportunity to earn themselves a glowing pony, a glowing horse, and an absolutely...

The latest build of Lord of the Rings Online’s Where Dragons Dwell hits the PTS

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The Bullroarer public test server for Lord of the Rings Online has been updated with the latest build of Update 23, Where Dragons Dwell,...

Age of Conan formally announces Saga of Blood PvP server and event

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Things are about to get bloody (or bloodier than usual, I suppose) in Funcom's Age of Conan with the release of a brand-new Saga...
Well this is something else.

Aion has retired its Prestige Pack recurring subscription

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As of this week, Aion has retired its Prestige Pack recurring subscription system. Prestige Pack subscriptions are no longer available for purchase, and on...

Chronicles of Elyria’s Searing Plague event concludes

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Early last month, Chronicles of Elyria kicked off the first of its live community events, The Searing Plague, in which players were able to...

Hearthstone’s first In The Works update unveils new Classic cards, details new-player experience improvements

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Today Blizzard released the first In The Works update for its perennially popular online CCG Hearthstone, in which the studio gives players a peek...

Fortnite patches in port-a-fortresses and spiky stadiums

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Fortnite's latest patch is out today with a brand-new playground perk for the battle royale king, dubbed Spiky Stadium. This is inarguably a terrible...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 187: The raid in our stars

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's new living world episode, Boundless, EverQuest II, Blizzard, Warframe, EVE Online, SWTOR, the petition to save WildStar, and our big site revamp.

World of Warcraft announces Tides of Vengeance with new content and account-wide rep tweaks

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If you're enjoying World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth, you're probably OK with more of the same, as long as it's shiny and new....

Grim Dawn previews the Oathkeeper’s abilities in new dev post

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The devs over at Crate Entertainment are back with another installment of Grim Misadventures, and this time they're focusing on the upcoming Oathkeeper mastery,...
money money money &c

EVE Online dev blog delves into the October balance pass

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The latest EVE Online dev blog is all about the upcoming October balance pass, which will focus on reworking the Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) mechanics,...

Grab a War Thunder Naval Battles closed beta key from Gaijin and Massively OP!

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For the last couple of months, War Thunder studio Gaijin Entertainment has been hard at work running a closed beta for its Naval Battles...

ArtCraft devs discuss Crowfall’s development process, community involvement, and future plans in new interview

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The folks at Expansive have posted a new interview from Gamescom 2018 in which they sit down with Crowfall's Creative Director J. Todd Coleman,...
Oh my gosh, did they try.

LawBreakers has formally shut down

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It doesn't come as a surprise, but LawBreakers has officially gone dark now with the shutdown of its servers. This follows the timeline originally...
Everyone wants to feel like a hero. Sometimes there's not a hero moment.

World of Warcraft kicks off its yearly harvest festival (which is not a harvest festival)

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It's time for the annual harvest festival in World of Warcraft. Harvest festivals, of course, are a time when everyone comes together as a...
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Grinding Gear Games now has 120 staff members working on Path of Exile

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Let's not mince words: Path of Exile is a success story in the industry, and nowhere is that clearer in its road from inception...

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