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Star Citizen touches base with all of its teams’ progress

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You know those NASA-type movies where the flight director pings all the various departments looking for updates on whether or not to launch? Well,...
This is what happens when you give guns to plants.

Guild Wars 2 team streams ‘Building Online Spaces for a Massive Community’ panel from SXSW

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If you're not at GDC or SXSW this week, then you might be feeling a bit left out of the video game industry hoopla,...

ARK poop as planned suicide, and new dinos will add to the pile

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If you learn nothing else today, you'll have this: ARK: Survival Evolved's poop was designed as a suicide measure. Seriously. According to Studio Wildcard...

Landmark’s next big update arrives Monday, wipes claims and characters

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Daybreak has been amping up communication about Landmark this past week following the news that it's plotting a spring launch for the sandvox MMO...

Earthrise: First Impact rears up on Steam Greenlight

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Hands up if anyone here remembers Earthrise. The post-apocalyptic MMO had a disappointing run from 2011 to 2012, ending with its closing by Masthead Studios due...
It's a mess out there.

The Division promises that a new update is coming next week

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After many delays, The Division is out and in the hands of players everywhere. The development team has posted a quick state of the...

Pantheon hopes to ‘bring back the magic’ of classic MMOs ‘without the tedium’

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Gamers Nexus has a timely video interview with Pantheon's Brad McQuaid that might allay the fears of those watching the development of his old-school MMO. "The main...

See the new Warcraft movie trailer and poster

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Warcraft's June 10th movie premiere is coming a lot faster than you'd think, and the promotion machine for the fantasy film is well underway....
I expected blacker.

Black Desert is working on ghillie suit countermeasures

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Community Q&A sessions are pretty popular these days, but usually they involve developers selecting questions and parceling the answers out accordingly. This Black Desert...

World of Warcraft: Legion alpha patch revises class and artifact traits

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June 30th release or no, World of Warcraft: Legion continues on with its alpha test program. Today Blizzard patched in several adjustments to various...

Massively Overthinking: The future of Daybreak

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This week's Massively Overthinking topic revolves around the EverQuest Next cancellation, of course. MOP Patron Roger sent us 11 (!) questions to pick from....

SMITE brings in the winter goddess Skadi, starts selling 2016 season ticket

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Winter might be defrosting fast in the northern hemisphere, but in SMITE it's only getting going. The MOBA introduced the winter goddess Skadi this week...
Nothing can ever stay the same.

Heroes of the Storm’s Lost Cavern is a straight-up one-lane slugfest

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One of the big things that makes Heroes of the Storm distinct in its genre is the fact that every single map has a...

EVE Online player spends three years visiting every system

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Despite the common perception that EVE Online is nothing but corporate intrigue and scams, some players do actually eschew the cutthroat capitalist meta game...

Get Daredevil for free in Marvel Heroes this weekend

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To celebrate the second season of Daredevil coming out on Netflix this month, Marvel Heroes is giving away the hero this weekend to anyone...

Overwatch prepares expanded media universe

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As if there isn't already enough excitement over the fact that Overwatch will be launching in a little over two months, Blizzard revealed yesterday...

Superfight lets viewers judge ridiculous imaginary contests

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Anyone who's had friends has, at one time or another, gotten into arguments about silly hypothetical match-ups between various fictional and real figures. Who...

SWTOR announces KOTFE Chapter 12: Visions in the Dark, due April 7

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BioWare has just announced the next story chapter for Star Wars: The Old Republic's Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion: Visions in the Dark. "In Visions...

RIFT starts testing its multicore tech

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We're betting that there are some of you in the Massively OP audience that gets an involuntary shiver whenever someone uses a sexy technical...
The ice is thin, come on, dive in.

WildStar opens up the Hoverboard zPrix Invitational

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The iconic vehicle of WildStar is the hoverboard because it's like a skateboard but it's a hoverboard. So how would you like to take...