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WildStar ups Omnibit drops for subscribers

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If you're currently a WildStar subscriber, you're going to be getting a bit more with the price of your subscription. The development team announced...

Neverwinter promises June campaign, Icewind Dale stories

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Cryptic Studios has just released a positively massive state-of-the-game letter for MMORPG Neverwinter. Executive Producer Rob Overmeyer begins by recapping 2015, noting that last...
Oh, so gross.

Allods devs detail New Order’s new reforging system

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Allods Online's upcoming New Order update is pretty hefty, and the latest dev blog sets out to explain the new reforging system. First, there's...
You are dead. Did you even read?

Survarium deploys patch 0.40 to its live servers with UI changes and weapon modules

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Sure, you're in the middle of a pitched battle for survival with whatever you can find in Survarium, but that doesn't mean that you...

AdventureQuest 3D is launching cross-platform this October

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What began as a cute RPG parody in flash back in 2002 will soon become a true cross-platform MMORPG. Artix Entertainment announced today that...

PWE shooter Livelock reveals trailer for player Vanguard

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Perfect World's upcoming robot-vs.-robot co-op shooter Livelock has a new video today showcasing the player Vanguard. "Quiet, diligent and calculated, Vanguard joins the roster of...
Camelot Unchained

Camelot Unchained passes ‘send more programmers’ stretch goal

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Camelot Unchained just announced that it's passed its "$3,900,000 - Send more programmers" stretch goal, which enables City State Entertainment to hire "two additional...
THere's a big picture here that you may not be seeing.

Darkfall: Rise of Agon is now in development

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Are you interested in a Darkfall reboot? No, not the official one that rewrote the game's core structure, but something throwing the game back...

Star Citizen promises larger server capacity, talks about procedural tech

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Seventy-seven episodes in, you'd think that Chris Roberts and the Star Citizen community would run out of questions about the game. But it looks...
Robot rock.

Check out footage of the Figureheads Online pre-open beta testing

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There's still no official announcement about Figureheads being localized in English, but Square-Enix's upcoming third-person mech-based shooter does have English localization files in its...

Chronicles of Elyria eyes May for its Kickstarter campaign, posts new footage

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While it once started as a very small and inexpensive indie project, Chronicles of Elyria has grown over the past two years to the...
Black Desert

The Daily Grind: If an MMO has a cash shop, when should it launch?

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Massively OP reader Leiloni pointed out to us something unusual about Black Desert: Its much-talked-about cash shop wasn't originally going to open until March 10th,...
Well done, lads.

The Culling runs through its closed alpha test

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The Culling, that Hunger Games-inspired multiplayer deathmatch game, is currently in the thick of its closed alpha test. A "select number of participants" pulled...

Shroud of the Avatar brings in fast travel and new player towns

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More and more these days Shroud of the Avatar is looking like a whole game. It probably helps that the game seems to update...

RuneScape’s DarkScape will sunset in March

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Jagex is retiring RuneScape's DarkScape "experiment" at the end of March. "DarkScape offered an intriguing twist on the traditional RuneScape gameplay, and the experimental mode...

Marvel at The Division’s PC visual tech at work

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One element that's attracted some to The Division is its level of attention to detail and its visual mastery that's making this post-apocalyptic New...

PSA: Celebrate Leap Day in Marvel Heroes with a free pet and bonus XP

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Leap Day comes only once ever four years, and Marvel Heroes is celebrating by giving out free frogs and gratuitous amounts of XP. And...

Perfect World’s Arc platform now offers its own daily quests

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Perfect World's Arc platform is getting a big facelift, which is good news for anyone confused by the old layout and navigation, but the...
I can see I'm going blind.

MMORPGs celebrate The Revenant’s Oscars

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If your MMORPG has a Revenant class, you'd best not be missing the opportunity to plug it today, as the movie celebrates its three...

Elder Scrolls Online DLC adds loot NPC, reinstates RvR forward camps

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ZeniMax has a few last bits of PvP info to push out before The Elder Scrolls Online's Thieves Guild DLC goes live in March. Of...