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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...
Let it all out.

Warframe adds a new Platinum pack for Twitch Prime subscribers

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Have you taken advantage of Warframe's free giveaways for Twitch Prime subscribers yet? No? Then what are you even doing with your time? Do...

Zeal tosses out patches like there’s no tomorrow

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Did our reporting on Zeal get you interested about the possibilities for this upcoming action RPG? Then you might want to be tracking the...

Broke Protocol is currently free on Steam to celebrate its first birthday

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Remember Broke Protocol, the funky sandbox that's basically a mash-up of Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto, with voxel graphics bolstering cops-and-robbers gameplay? It's apparently...
You don't need to look at other things, right?

Fans deploy a mod to fix Monster Hunter World’s alt-tab errors on PC

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There are some bugs in Monster Hunter World on PC, if you haven't noticed. A lot of them have been addressed, but one of...
I don't know what's going on.

Trion’s compensation for Trove’s exploit-driven downtime is absurdly generous

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Last week, Trion Worlds was forced to take MMORPG Trove offline for more than a day on PC thanks to what was clearly a massive...

Functional music boxes are coming in Elder Scrolls Online’s Murkmire

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One of my most beloved possessions in Ultima Online is my music box: I spent months, probably years, collecting each "track" to insert into...
Dead in the water.

First impressions of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, part 1: Mechanics

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Part one covers chiefly the expansion's mechanics: the basics of leveling, the Heart of Azeroth, level scaling, Azerite powers, combat, spec changes, War Mode, and the campaign.

Black Desert revamps and shortens Savage Rift, implements offline leveling

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Black Desert players are being treated to a big update this week featuring the revamp of Savage Rift that basically makes the PvE co-op...
Of course, you can argue that the lack of BfA is actually a positive.

WoW’s Battle for Azeroth: Secret quests, island rewards, bug fixes, and cinematic tomfoolery

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Done everything already in Battle for Azeroth? Oh, you lie, but when you are done, you might want to keep your eye out for...

Orake’s devs ask someone, anyone, else to take over this 2-D MMO

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No, you've probably never heard of Orake before -- and chances are that you never will again, either. The crude-looking indie MMORPG has been slowly...

A judge has mostly denied Star Citizen studio’s motion to dismiss the Crytek copyright lawsuit

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MMO-watchers will recall that just before the turn of the new year, Crytek filed to sue Cloud Imperium, the company behind the sprawling and...
THE HEAD

MapleStory 2 is getting really close to launch, you guys

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With its second closed beta run and done, MapleStory 2 is turning its sights to something bigger. Something grander. Something... launch-ier. Nexon said that it's...
We have a bank!

Jagex gets into games publishing while RuneScape crosses $1 billion earned

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Jagex isn't content to be "just the RuneScape studio" these days. The company announced today that it is preparing to move into the publishing...
Smell bads.

Sea of Thieves players push back against the ruthless PvP culture

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If there's anything that Sea of Thieves is known for months after its spring launch, it's for the culture of cutthroat PvP that wages...
Oh, this again.

Wild Buster is back as Champions of Titan under a new publisher

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Remember Wild Buster? Back in February, Valve booted its publisher, Insel Games, off Steam, accusing it of review manipulation after a dev leaked a...

The Walking Dead: Our World designed its AR game with MMOs in mind

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Are we, as a culture, at full Walking Dead saturation yet? Probably been there for years, honestly, but it is astounding how many video...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 182: Follow the Torchlight

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Justin and Bree discuss World of Warcraft, Star Wars Galaxies, LOTRO, Torchlight Frontiers, Diablo, RuneScape Classic, Trove, and No Man's Sky. And also haiku!
Air Quest & Fight

TERA takes to the air with the Guardians of the Sky update

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Being on the ground is boring when you could instead be in the air, so it's a good thing that TERA's latest update lets...

Blade & Soul patches in the Frozen Firing Range event dungeon, new cosmetics, and PvP matchmaking tweak

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Live this week in Blade & Soul is... swimsuits. But seriously, what's the obsession with bathing suits in MMORPGs? We cannot fight in bikinis...