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Boundless officially launches on Steam, releases new trailer

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Interplanetary survival-crafting game Boundless, formerly known as Oort Online, has been in Early Access for quite some time, but today it celebrates its official...
Doooo not care

Overwatch is headlining this month’s Humble Monthly Bundle

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All right, where's the one person on the planet who does not yet have Overwatch? Who is it? Is it you, the person reading...
Spooky?

Survival MMO Rend patches in reputation tweaks, smarter mobs, and jump nerfs

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Patch 4.1 descends on Rend today when the servers return from maintenance, and it's a bit of a hodge-podge of tweaks and fixes. Notably: ...
Opposition.

World of Warcraft’s latest hotfix adjusts all the balance

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The latest patch for World of Warcraft has judged the damage of many specs and found it to be either too high or too...

Belgium begins criminal investigation into EA’s noncompliance with gambling laws as lockboxes remain in FIFA

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Activision-Blizzard and Valve may have cooperated with European nations' lockbox demands, but apparently EA won't be playing ball. You'll recall that at the end of...
Money talks, but what it says isn't engaging sometimes.

EVE Online posts its September patch, econ report, and fundraiser for CCP Mankiller

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Whether you think the Pearl Abyss buyout of CCP Games is certain doom or financial security, it's still business as usual in the world...
But it worked all of the time before!

Destiny 2 addresses known issues in wake of Forsaken launch

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The launch of Destiny 2's latest expansion, Forsaken, seems to have been a fairly smooth one, but as with any major update, a few...

Lord of the Rings Online announces new endgame reward and lootbox system for Update 23

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Lord of the Rings Online's upcoming Update 23: Where Dragons Dwell will be increasing the game's level cap to 120, and with it, the...
You're not good enough for here.

Path of Exile fixes a solo Delve bug and kicks some players off the ladder

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Little bugs can have big ripple effects. Case in point, Path of Exile is knowingly kicking people off of its Delve league leaderboards who...

Pokemon Go concludes Global Research Challenge with Ultra Bonus Event

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Over the past few months, Pokemon Go players have been hard at work assisting Professor Willow with his Global Research Challenge, which is now...

Worlds Adrift’s latest update adds Alliances, tunes netcode, and fixes bugs

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Worlds Adrift has had quite the week, releasing a new update as well as the latest dev podcast. The latest update, Update 26, added...

The Black Death update adds Kings and Queens, squashes bugs

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Grim medieval survival sandbox The Black Death has released a new update that brings with it a number of bug fixes as well as...

Pirate101 teases quest finder and expanded inventory as Wizard101 gears up for Empyrea part two

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Wizard101 has been getting all the attention lately, what with its 10th birthday party festivities and all, but its younger sibling Pirate101 has plenty...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has had at least a million concurrent players for a year

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For all the jokes about another game eating its chicken dinner, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is still doing quite well for itself on Steam. The title...

Ultima Online’s 21st anniversary patch introduces astronomy to Britannia

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Ultima Online's 21st birthday is creeping up on us here, which means the game is older than some of our readers and will soon...
Oh, all right.

RuneScape hits highest sub peak in seven years as Jagex pulls in record financial performance

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If you're not paying attention, you might never realize that RuneScape is still kicking ass and taking names. But the money doesn't lie, and...
This was once controversial!

Former Cryptic employee reveals story of how City of Heroes assets and source code accidentally ended up on players’ computers

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Hey, you guys remember that time that City of Heroes accidentally pushed all of the game's assets and source code into a patch, then...

Gamevil is launching autobattle mobile MMO Talion this week

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Here's one we almost forgot about: Talion. We covered it last spring when Gamevil first announced its closed beta, which apparently ran all summer....

League of Legends announces Odyssey PvE event

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Riot is bringing PvE back to League of Legends with a new event, Odyssey, which will see players boarding Jinx's spaceship, the Morning Star,...

Zombie MMO Dead Frontier 2 is in early access to scratch the H1Z1 Just Survive itch

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I'm not quite sure how we missed Dead Frontier 2, but there it is on Steam, happily calling itself an MMO and an MMORPG...