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PUBG’s new scooters are freakin’ adorable and I want one

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The FIX PUBG campaign, or the start of it, is materializing today, as the latest update to hit the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds test servers tackles some...

Behaviour’s DEATHGARDEN survival shooter hits early access, is free-to-play right now

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What's Behaviour Interactive been up to since taking Eternal Crusade free-to-play, pondering a battle royale mode, and being sued by Bethsoft? Getting its caps...
That horn is now +7

Aion details all of its upcoming gear exchange rates for a big equipment overhaul

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The progression of equipment and power level in Aion may be a bit overly ornate at the moment, which is why the game's next...
Baby were born to run from the other side.

Rend’s Jeremy Wood on how Frostkeep borrows from Blizzard, Dark Age of Camelot, and PlanetSide

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GameDaily has an interview with Rend's Jeremy Wood this week that covers a bunch of meta topics of interest to MMO players and watchers...

Sea of Thieves extends the Cursed Sails campaign another week, teases open-world skeleton ships

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This week's Sea of Thieves patch is... well, it's kinda more of the same, as Rare has extended the Cursed Sails run another week,...

Elite Dangerous’ Beyond Chapter Three launches on August 28, players take on massive effort to salute community helpers

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The next phase of Elite Dangerous is en route - specifically, that's chapter three of the Beyond rollout. In a brief tweet this afternoon,...

Hi-Rez’s Realm Royale playerbase and reviews are way down on Steam

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Yikes - Realm Royale is apparently struggling, proving once again just how hard it is to break into one of these new runaway subgenres. GitHyp...

Pre-alpha colony sim MMO Seed will grant players the tools to fight toxicity

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Seed resurfaced this summer after intensive work by studio Klang Games building out the colony simulation MMO (plus a big influx of investor money),...
At last, good stuff.

EverQuest II is merging one of its progression servers into a regular server

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The residents of two of EverQuest II's servers are about to get really chummy with each other. Daybreak announced this week that on September 4th,...
What a dump.

Stardew Valley mod sends a multiplayer farm owner into a coma for true MMO action

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The multiplayer mode in Stardew Valley is a pretty standard multiplayer arrangement with one player serving as the host and everyone else serving as...
Going nowhere, going nowhere.

First impressions of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, part 2: Content

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Part two covers expansion content: the storyline, the new zones, the War Campaign, questing, rewards, Inscription, professions, dungeons, and environments.

Check out some of the new dwarven zones coming in Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 23

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At GenCon earlier this month, Lord of the Rings Online studio Standing Stone dished on some of the goodies coming to the game in...
March out of the light.

Rumor: Players are losing their houses in Final Fantasy XIV in error

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Housing in Final Fantasy XIV has some issues with limited space, so almost no one who has a home in the game wants to...
HOORAY

Fallout 76 won’t allow crossplay but is talking up mods and multiplayer

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Bethesda isn't really that keen on allowing crossplay with its games these days. The studio recently confirmed that Fallout 76 isn't going to feature...

Torchlight Frontiers is being built by an ‘all-star team’ of former Torchlight and Diablo II devs

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"So now I am very, very pleased to announce to everybody that we are taking the next step with Torchlight and making an MMO." By...

MMO Skyforge is getting a battle royale mode, but it won’t utilize your MMO character

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So this is happening. Skyforge is getting a battle royale mode of its very own, following in the footsteps of other MMOs that have...
You know, it can really be your jong.

Diablo III is heading to the Nintendo Switch this fall

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We may now know at least one of the several Diablo projects that Blizzard was teasing last week. Blizzard Watch reports that Diablo III...

In Conan Exiles’ upcoming pet patch, thralls ‘don’t poop, somehow’

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Conan Exiles' parity patch has finally hit the Xbox One servers after a week's delay. Funcom says it ought to mop up crash problems,...
THIS WEIGHS KILOGRAMS

Albion Online makes trade mission bundles much heavier

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A little change can make a big difference in terms of balance. It's what Albion Online did with its latest patch; all that's really...

The Black Death starts you in your underpants. Deal with it.

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Thanks to the latest patch for the medieval survival sandbox The Black Death, all players will start their lives in the game in their...