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Life is Feudal MMO starts early access on January 11

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Have plans for next week? Life is Feudal MMO would kindly request that you make alterations to your schedule to accommodate the launch of its...

Leaderboard: What was the best new NSM game in 2017?

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A few weeks ago, we posted our pick for best not-so-Massively game of 2017. Warframe narrowly won our award, firmly validated by the reader...

League of Legends unbans ‘reformed’ toxic player called a ‘humunculus’ by fired employee

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Among last year's toxicity-in-gaming stories was the one that taught the internet an important lesson: how to spell homunculus. No, that wasn't it. It...
Catching up!

Catch up on the revelations from The Elder Scrolls Online’s most recent patch preview

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Curious about the next DLC for The Elder Scrolls Online? We can hardly blame you; it brings with it much-desired features like home storage,...
Oh, look, it's gotten worse.

Elite: Dangerous players are already rebuilding following the Thargoid attack

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For a long time, Elite: Dangerous players felt... well, not exactly safe around the Thargoids, but at least safe enough to poke or ignore...

PWE is sunsetting both Battle of the Immortals and War of the Immortals next week

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Add two more to the sunset list: Perfect World announced last month that it will sunset the international versions of six-year-old War of the...

Cult TV series Black Mirror examines online toxicity

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Toxic behavior and attitudes is one of the more shameful elements of online gaming that drag down the experience. As developers struggle to address...

Blizzard has dispatched free Hearthstone packs as Kobolds and Catacombs dailies bug compensation

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Stretch your mind back into last year just a few weeks and you'll recall that Hearthstone suffered an irritating or blessed bug, depending on...

Monster Hunter World schedules another PS4 beta, talks post-launch plans

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Capcom is keeping those Monster Hunter World deets coming! The studio says it's planning on a third beta round for North American PlayStation 4...

Path of Exile on the unstoppable monsters that almost made it into the game

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Here's an interesting peek into game development from the pens of Grinding Gear Games. The studio shared a story about one of Path of...
Throw wide the gates to let us pass once more.

Food and video games, two great tastes together at last!

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If you thought that the World of Warcraft official cookbook was a stupid idea, then you may not be the target audience for the...
Weird dog.

Final Fantasy XI starts off 2018 with dog enemies and associated controversy

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The first update for Final Fantasy XI is scheduled for later this month, and it's hitting the ground running with controversy. See, it's the...

Aion’s Heart of Frost update is coming next week

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If you're sitting in a deep winter chill this week, you can be warmed by the news that Aion is bringing out its first...

Asheron’s Call exiles take root in Project Gorgon

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It has already been a year since one of the oldest graphical MMOs, Asheron's Call, was shut down unceremoniously following Turbine's decision to jettison...

Dark and Light cleans up its slums for its next update

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Dark and Light has a slum problem that needs fixing. No, it's not the existence of slums, which apparently lend some atmosphere and authenticity...
Race!

Check out the starting cutscenes for the first four Allied Races in World of Warcraft

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When are the first four Allied Races arriving in World of Warcraft? They're a big feature of Battle for Azeroth, but evidence increasingly points...
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DC Universe Online brings back its anniversary event with a Krypto base pet

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As one year passes into the next, DC Universe Online gets to celebrate another anniversary, and this time around it's bringing in a beloved...
Hooray, we still exist!

Blade & Soul celebrates its second anniversary with a new costume

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Congratulations are in order for Blade & Soul as it celebrates its second year of operation, and as is most often the case with...

A look back at the MMO industry’s law dramas of 2017

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In all our many roundups at the turn of the year, we've never done one on the legal dramas that have affected the MMO...

Superhero indie MMOs City of Titans, Valiance Online, and Ship of Heroes say they’re not in a race

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Whenever we write about the current crop of City of Heroes-inspired indie superhero MMORPGs, some of our commenters nearly always ponder whether it would...