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What a dump.

Stardew Valley multiplayer beta is due out for the spring

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If you've long looked forward to farming with and marrying your friends in Stardew Valley, the day is inching ever closer. While the game's...
Guns hurt more when you're shot in the back, I can only use this gun for that, sorry, don't make the rules.

Rumor: Disney eyes Ubisoft and Activision to take over Star Wars video game IP

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Raise your hand if you're a little tired of Electronic Arts' handling of the Star Wars video game franchise since its acquisition in 2013....
Fresh-faced losers again.

Allods Online outlines the upcoming Spark Talents system

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Why should you stop advancing your character in Allods Online just because you've hit the level cap? The game's next major update is going...

AdventureQuest 3D comes to a head with the Dragons of Ashfall

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The third and final chapter of AdventureQuest 3D's epic Dragons of Ashfall is now live. After months of battling up and through a volcano,...
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Black Desert’s Kakao Games enjoys $131.6 million in investment

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It's all coming up Kakao Games these days. The Korean studio received a large investment package recently that totals $131.6 million. The bundle comes from...
ride eternal shiny and chrome

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has a roadmap for 2018 coming soon

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So what's actually going on for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds? Most of the news we've heard about the game this year has been focused around jumping...

Path of Exile: Gotta catch ’em all in the new Bestiary League and update 3.2.0, coming March 2

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With a new Path of Exile challenge league every three months, you might wonder whether Grinding Gear Games can keep coming up with new themes...
The issues for the game have to do with depth, viability, and being locked in place, not with the business model.

Overwatch’s Kaplan discusses upcoming hero changes and the subsequent plans

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The next round of hero changes for Overwatch is currently on the test server, so you can feel free to try them out if...
Cool, great, grand.

Lineage 2 players are upset over Circlets of Power

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So let's do our best to break down how the latest kerfuffle in Lineage 2 started up. First, the game introduces a new set...
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MMO devs discuss the painful process of shutting down online games

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Have you ever thought about what it is like for developers and community managers who handle online games that are being shut down? It's...
Jump in any time.

World of Warcraft restores mobile auction house functionality

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It was a quiet night last night for World of Warcraft datamining, but there was still some news to be had with the latest...

New Hampshire senator Maggie Hassan has picked up the lootbox and gaming addiction cause

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Up until now, the political grumblings about video game gambleboxes has been mostly limited to state governments, specifically Hawaii's Chris Lee, who submitted four...
Cool.

Elder Scrolls Online has been nonfunctional through Steam since yesterday

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Elder Scrolls Online players on Steam woke up this morning to find that the game is still down for them. Apparently, the client through...
Three-point landing! Sort of.

Bless Online looks ahead to new races, housing, and a possible console edition

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Six months. Six months is the countdown timer from the start of Bless Online's early access to the game's official launch, according to developer...

Secret World Legends posts a quick teaser of the agent system

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One of the first new Secret World Legends systems is coming soon, and Funcom posted a quick video of it this week to whet...

Black Desert players protest lag, bugs, pay-to-win, and lack of account security

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Agitators on the Black Desert subreddit are attempting to whip up press and players over a range of grievances players have with Kakao, the...

Dauntless argues ‘bespoke purchases’ are replacing the lockbox model

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It might be tempting to think that the industry is doomed and that no studio will ever be able to ignore the siren song...

The Stream Team: SMITE’s new adventure is adorable anime

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When you think of raging gods battling it out, do you think adorable? Well, now you do. SMITE's new adventure ups the cuteness meter...
Tricks and trade.

Pantheon’s State of the Game touts pre-alpha and Elves

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"Pre-alpha." By far, this is the focus of Pantheon's February state of the game post by Creative Director Chris Perkins, who reports that the testing has...
Or don't.

Just Survive tests a patch for weapon tiers

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If you were lucky enough to get a particularly high-tier weapon in Just Survive, you probably like the game's various weapon tiers, because it...