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Sea of Thieves technical alpha update: small ships, brigs, and text chat

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There's never enough grog when you're trying to wrap your head around the fast-changing events of the world. Fortunately, Sea of Thieves has a...
Sometimes we're all on the same side... sort of.

Star Wars: The Old Republic responds to fan concerns about the unexpected server move

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Earlier this week, Star Wars: The Old Republic moved all of its game servers to the same location on the east coast. This made...

Watch Star Citizen’s CitizenCon 2017 here, plus check out alpha progress in Around the Verse

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In this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, the team says it's gotten its must-fix bug list down from 20 to 16...
Here's Mei! You like mei, right?

Overwatch reveals its plans to improve its e-sports viewing experience

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Are you a lurker, a spectator, a lookie-loo when it comes to Overwatch? For fans of the game who love to watch matches yet...
Broken

Amazon confirms that Breakaway is on hiatus

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Is Breakaway dead? We don't know for sure, but the rumors started flying yesterday, and the latest official word certainly reads like a death...

Writer Drew Karpyshyn reminisces about SWTOR’s Revan

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Legendary BioWare writer Drew Karpyshyn is joining the celebration for this month's release of the classic Knights of the Old Republic on Xbox One. In...

Star Trek Online’s secret weapon may be in its episode design

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One Gamasutra writer's return to Star Trek Online created a (ahem) discovery that this MMO contains a great wealth of storytelling thanks to its...

Survival sandbox ROKH got bogged down in a ‘legal dispute,’ but it’s been resolved

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It's been a few weeks since ROKH's last developer update, but there's a reason for that: a legal dispute. "Two teams were investigating the source...
Undead tanks. Cool.

World of Tanks pits players against the lord of the tank underworld for Halloween

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However you feel about World of Tanks on a whole, it's hard not to appreciate the game's Halloween event this year. After all, you...
My wooden fort.

Rend is changing up its base system to offer more personal ownership

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Your home base in Rend is important; defending it is one of the central parts of the game, after all. However, the structure of...

Final Fantasy XIV announces fan celebration in Denmark

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Final Fantasy XIV players in Europe have a great excuse to head over to Denmark next month, as the game is hosting its "first...

Sea of Thieves’ crew meets for a raucous parley

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For the most part, Sea of Thieves has delivered a stream of short, bite-sized videos to show off various aspects of the pirate game...

World of Warcraft emulator leaders attempt to soothe a skittish community

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Following a nasty bout of corruption and scandal, the Elysium Project -- a World of Warcraft vanilla emulator -- has officially disbanded. In its...

Spacetime Studios’ Pocket Legends Adventures has soft launched into open beta

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Earlier this fall, we learned that Spacetime Studios was working on a new mobile MMO: It's called Pocket Legends Adventures, an "homage" to what Spacetime says...

Shroud of the Avatar’s Release 47 focuses on launch priorities

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Like clockwork, Shroud of the Avatar continues its long string of monthly updates with today's Release 47. It's a pretty notable release in that...
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World of Warcraft has a Tortollan pet in its data files

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Because World of Warcraft and Hearthstone ostensibly take place in the same world, the latter frequently gets to fill out the lore of the...

MMO lockboxes: Market impact, regulation, and the letter of the law

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GIbiz posted an article earlier this week peppered with quotes from Mat Piscatella, an NPD US games market analyst who suggests that the recent...
See, this is why no one likes you. It's because of this.

Cliffy B on LawBreakers: ‘As far as I’m concerned, [the press] can fuck off’

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Here at Massively Overpowered, we generally try to avoid cursing, but there really are no two ways to put the Cliff Bleszinski quote from...

ARK Survival Evolved will soon let you sleep on a bed – or handcuff someone to one

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Late last night a couple of interesting announcements came through the Twitter pipeline about ARK: Survival Evolved -- namely, the ability to sleep on...

Amazon may have already canceled Breakaway

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Kotaku is reporting that Amazon has "basically canceled" Breakaway, with two sources confirming that the game is over - on "indefinite hiatus," one said,...

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