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Zorp? Your beam makes a sound like zorp?

Warframe reverts beam weapons to their older state with extensive rebalancing

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Once, beam weapons in Warframe were hitscan weapons that dealt appreciable damage and were accurate to a pinpoint. They had a balance problem, though,...
Hiss?

Neverwinter offers a tour of the Fane of the Night Serpent

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Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? Well, because Neverwinter is currently lousy with snakes, that's why. Specifically, the Yuan-ti have a center...
Tiptoe through the something-or-other.

Crowfall’s concept art attempts to capture the spirit of conquest, building, and exploration

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Crowfall just spat out a 3,000-word essay in full technicolor. The art team behind this...

Destiny 2 team revises its update roadmap

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No development plan survives first contact with the community, and Bungie freely admits that its previous Destiny 2 roadmap was subject to change at...

Closers posts development roadmap for the first half of 2018

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The flashy and colorful action MMO Closers is going to work hard to keep its players interested in the months following the game's release....

Shroud of the Avatar’s R51 is now live with updated vendors and the skill spec system

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It may be the shortest month of the year, but Portalarium has pushed out Release 51 to Shroud of the Avatar on schedule all...
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds very slightly changes its paid and free lootbox system

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A new patch for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds means new loot crates, and that also means that you have an option for one that you can...
SELFIE

Just Survive patches in construction improvements and looks forward to account-wide progression

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Construction has gotten better in Just Survive with the game's most recent patch. For one thing, you can more quickly repair base damage with...

Ashes of Creation cranks out a new website, has two secret in-universe projects in the works

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Out with the old and in with the new... website, that is. Intrepid Studios wasn't content with the previous version of Ashes of Creation's studio...

Pre-teen Fortnite YouTuber gets swatted after achieving a high profile

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In one story here we have the best and worst of humanity on display. It all begins with 12-year-old YouTuber Peter Varady, who goes by...
We're dragons!

TERA’s Xbox One and PS4 open beta lands March 9

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If you can put that poor panda from yesterday out of your mind, TERA has some fantastic news coming at you today: After several...
Flying nowhere.

Check out voice recording from behind the scenes of Bless

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You are probably aware that when you play an MMO, all of the voice samples you here are not produced in real-time by actors...

Perpetuum Online developer: MMO felt like a ‘no-win scenario’

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At the end of the game's life, when the lights are going out and the developers drifting off to different positions, the most interesting...
Knowledge!

Old School RuneScape turns five, kicks off $20000 prize pool tourney

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It's time for parties and cake in Old School RuneScape. That's because the throwback version of the game is turning five years old today....
Actually no more or less mastered.

Warcraft 3 announces… a new patch!

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It seems like just yesterday we were reporting on speculation about a Warcraft 3 remaster, due to the fact that it was in fact...

Players throw a party for this week’s Shroud of the Avatar update

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Any excuse for a large-scale shindig is a good one by us. For the players over at Shroud of the Avatar, the title's consistent...

Age of Conan’s saga server shares class distribution chart

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If you've rolled up a Dark Templar on Age of Conan's newish saga server, then just know that you're not alone. At level 80,...

Neverwinter AMA gets into the specifics of system design

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The Neverwinter system designers were on hand this week for an Ask Me Anything on Reddit about the title. Naturally, it drew a crowd...

Conan Exiles on the new teleportation system and de-MMORPG-ifying combat

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May 8th seems pretty far away to me, but I bet Funcom is feeling Conan Exiles' impending launch is rushing up to meet it. In...

Colony sim Seed aims to simulate life whether you’re logged in or not

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What do you get when you mash up Rimworld, The Sims, and EVE Online? Probably a big mess, but adjacent to that mess somewhere...