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Dungeons and Dragons Online celebrates 12 years with giveaways and bonuses

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Twelve years on, and Dungeons and Dragons Online continues to tick along with its loyal fanbase and regular features. To celebrate the MMO's anniversary,...

Star Citizen deep-dives Squadron 42 living AI, opens up Aegis Vulcan sales

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This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse episode is actually more about Squadron 42 than Star Citizen. To illustrate how the game is coming...
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Guild Wars 2 previews upcoming PvP/WvW skill splits

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A skill is going to have the same general effect in all arenas of Guild Wars 2, but there are a lot of things...

Paladins begins testing its battle royale mode and removes controversial lootboxes

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While it's not as cool of a name as "Thunderdome," Paladins' Battlegrounds is still likely to attract plenty of bloodthirsty savages looking for a...

Funcom is working on a mystery game, to be announced February 28th

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Funcom is announcing something big next week. And it's not the Secret World Legends update you're still waiting on, nor is it another Conan...
Money?

TERA introduces new lootboxes for purchase, and they’re full of money

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A lot of games have found ways to play with the idea of buying gold, usually with some form of currency exchange regulated by...
It would be more interesting if there were some actual ghosts involved.

Armored Warfare has launched for the PlayStation 4

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Lock and load: Armored Warfare is now out on the PlayStation 4, giving console fans the option to try out a more contemporary tank...
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...