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TERA’s Male Brawler slams his way into the game

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Feel like punching a wall sometimes? That's probably a bad idea, what with walls' general reluctance to give way and your brittle hand bones...

Conan Exiles on The Purge, the combat overhaul, and the content lock countdown

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The Purge is coming to Conan Exiles. And that's not even the scariest thing in this week's newsletter! "The Purge mechanic will spawn in creatures...

Check out 25 minutes of State of Decay 2’s co-op

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It may not be as massively as some might have liked, but State of Decay 2's co-op mode opens up the franchise to multiplayer...
PETS

Kritika Online’s latest update is all about the power of pets

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You are going to give your pets away in the newest Kritika Online. Sure, you can take your pets to Tokina in any hub...

OARG Jurassic World Alive brings dinosaur dicing and splicing to mobile

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You may have thought the multiplayer online dinosaur genre is already tapped out, what with the likes of ARK Survival Evolved and ARK Park...

Closers asks fans to vote on its next playable character

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Are you Team Tina or Team Harpy? By the blank stares that you are giving us, we are guessing that you're not playing Closers...
Just us.

DC Universe Online’s GU80 is a big boon for hoarders

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The grandly named but modestly sized Game Update 80 has rolled out for DC Universe Online players this week. Daybreak says it's tweaked inventory...

Sci-fi MMORPG Project C announced with Thief and Half-Life 2 devs at the helm

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Let us make an already interesting MMO news day a bit more so, shall we? How about the introduction of a brand-new, full-fledged MMORPG...

The fiddle brings a new sound to Lord of the Rings Online

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Now that the fiddle is a playable instrument in Lord of the Rings Online, the only question left is who will be cast to...

Ubisoft and Massive are building The Division 2

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Did you see this one coming? Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment are apparently working on a sequel to The Division. The news comes via what appears...
Very dynamic.

Star Wars: The Old Republic delays its next two patches slightly

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The next patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic brings with it a new boss and some pretty significant changes to the game's Conquest...
I HAVE COME AFLAME

H1Z1 is finally going free-to-play

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Remember way back in the long, long ago, before H1Z1 hit early access, split, reconstituted, renamed, didn't launch, aborted a console port, and all...

Revelation Online announces PvP-centric First Contact expansion

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Just as it turns a year old here in the west, Revelation Online is announcing a new expansion called First Contact. PvP players of...
We were so certain we had this.

MMO business roundup: Steam, toxicity, Kartridge, contracts, dopamine, and guns

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What's going on in the online video games business this week? Let's dig in. Steam, toxicity, and Kartridge The Center for Investigative Reporting (via Motherboard) has a...
Pretty me up.

Skyforge offers better previews, better symbols, and better trophies

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The latest Skyforge patch is out in the wild, and it makes a lot of little things in the game better. Case in point,...

Fortnite ups the ante with ‘teams of 20’ mode

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Ladies and germs, we are now in the final days of this seemingly unstoppable arms race between battle royale titles. Please spend some extra...

Otherland will add 15 new quest hubs and 130 quests in May

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Drago Entertainment continues to pepper players with plans for Otherland. Today, it's told Facebook followers that more than 130 new quests are inbound in...

EverQuest II toasts a new Brewday and moves its Fallen Gate server forward

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What does the color green, beer, and garish carousels have in common? EverQuest II's Brewday, of course! It must be from one of those Elf...
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Absolver has spent 2018 so far testing and tweaking combat

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We haven't talked much about multiplayer combat title Absolver since the new year, so let's get caught up, shall we? At the tail end of...

DDO cracks down on exploiters, players cry… ‘honeypot’?

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Better not be a cheater in Dungeon and Dragons Online. Last week, Standing Stone Games announced that it was cracking down on players who...