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Old School RuneScape’s mobile version launches October 30

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Just in time for Halloween, Old School RuneScape will be formally launching for mobile. Jagex announced this morning that OSRS will land on both...
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Crowfall’s September ACE Q&A video tackles siege warfare, ranged combat adjustments, and more

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Crowfall Design Lead Thomas Blair and Creative Director J. Todd Coleman are back again for the monthly ACE Q&A video, where they field questions...

The Cycle plans September closed alpha, offers new gameplay trailer

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We've been following YAGER's upcoming online shooter The Cycle all summer; as we put it in July, it looks like a survival sandbox with...

Life Is Feudal: Your Own celebrates latest update with franchise-wide half-price sale

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Life is Feudal: Your Own, everyone's favorite medieval survival game/serfdom simulator, has just released its latest major update, and to celebrate the occasion, developer...
No, this isn't quite the right place.

Final Fantasy XI plans for weapon improvements with its next patch

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Want to further augment some of the best weapons in Final Fantasy XI? The September version update is bringing along new improvements for things...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 185: PAX West crud

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Larry, Justin, and Bree talk PAX West, Elder Scrolls Online, Rend, Dauntless, Torchlight Frontiers, Blades, Neverwinter, Anthem, Star Citizen, Runes of Magic, Wizard101, FFXIV, PlanetSide 2, SWTOR, WoW, and Star Wars Galaxies, with a mailbag email on how MMOs can facilitate roleplaying.

PUBG for Xbox One enters version 1.0, introducing Sanhok map, new weapons, and more

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Today's a big day for the Xbox One version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, as the latest patch officially brings it into version 1.0. In addition...

Hardcore ‘MMOPEG’ sandbox Codename Reality has failed to fund on Kickstarter, vows to continue

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Just about a month ago, we covered a brand-new Kickstarter from a brand-new MMORPG called Codename Reality. Actually, European developer Orode Productions called it...
Light it up.

Path of Exile shares improvements being worked on for Delve upgrades

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If the world takes only one lesson from Path of Exile, it should be the virtue of improving things steadily based on feedback. Players...

Elite: Dangerous brings new engineers to the remote Colonia system

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The latest update to Elite Dangerous sees the arrival of valuable engineers in the remote system of Colonia, giving players on the fringes of...

Destiny 2’s Forsaken DLC is officially live today – are you going back?

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It's happening! Destiny 2's Forsaken expansion is rolling out today - right as this post goes live, in fact, at 1 p.m. EDT and...

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth’s Uldir raid opens today

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World of Warcraft raiders, start your proverbial engines: Uldir, the first of Battle for Azeroth's raids, officially opens its gates today. The eight-boss raid...

EverQuest II merges one of its last remaining time-locked expansion servers into Antonia Bayle today

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Today might be an odd one for some EverQuest II players as the Stormhold server will soon cease to be (if it hasn't already,...

PAX West 2018: Survival MMO Rend’s surprising art, Dorito map, faction PvP, and inbound PvE

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If this PAX West 2018 was about one thing, it was about proving me wrong. I jumped into the Rend interview expecting a specific type...

Star Citizen’s latest Reverse the Verse video focuses on persistent universe design

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Roberts Space Industries recently released its latest Reverse the Verse video dev-blog, and it's a doozy. The full video, which is chock-full of information...
Teamwork!

Esports in the Olympics isn’t happening any time soon thanks to ‘killer games’

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Over the last year or so, the idea of bringing esports to the Olympics has begun to sound more plausible. In 2017, the co-president...

Pirates of the Burning Sea is closing down, but the community might be able to save it

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Bad news, but maybe also a tiny bit of good news too, for Pirates of the Burning Sea: Over the weekend, Portalus Games announced...

Frodo lives: A new Lord of the Rings MMORPG is apparently in the works

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If you've been one of the folks begging for a new Lord of the Rings MMO, well, then today's your lucky day. Online sports game...
Splash, ah-ah

Sea of Thieves rolling out bug-fixes for Athena Voyages and banana-eating pigs

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The salty dogs at Rare took to Twitter today to announce that the dev team is still hard at work implementing fixes for various...
Isolationist.

Worlds Adrift’s 26th update is due to launch tomorrow with the alliance system

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Worlds Adrift players should prepare for incoming... an incoming patch, that is. Last week, Boss brought a functioning build for Update 26 to the...