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The Stream Team: Angling for ARK’s anglerfish

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MassivelyOP's MJ has been coveting ARK's anglerfish for a long time; it's pretty cool-looking and a decent aquatic mount to boot. Who wouldn't want...
What we do

Camelot Unchained squishes bugs and improves performance in crunch time

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The Camelot Unchained team is hard at work bringing the game into a beta state, and that means killing bugs. The good news is...
Mead mead mead mead mead mead.

The Daily Grind: Does EverQuest Next’s cancellation change your MMO outlook?

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By now you've surely read the news that Daybreak has canceled EverQuest Next. To many of you, it was likely not a surprise, but...
You were never real after all.

Betawatch: EverQuest Next is gone, Landmark is launching (March 11, 2016)

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We cannot wave farewell to EverQuest Next in this column because it's never actually been in testing. We will be able to wave farewell...
Let's go into a room with danger.

Marvel Heroes 1.05 patch brings Archangel team-up, Cosmic Hightown tweaks

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Marvel Heroes' latest patch, 1.05, has arrived, bringing with it Archangel as a team-up character who'll be exclusive to team-up advance pack 2 owners...

World of Warcraft CM Zarhym leaves Blizzard

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Long-time World of Warcraft Community Manager Jonathan Brown has left Blizzard, according to a brief notice on his Twitter account. There was no explanation...
We were the kings and queens of promise.

Colin Johanson says farewell to the Guild Wars 2 community

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Last week's big surprise on Friday was the departure of longtime Guild Wars 2 game director Colin Johanson from ArenaNet. Rumors and surprise swirled...

The Secret World’s Issue 14 will be in Egypt, releases in March

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Today's Streaming Ones dev livestream announced that The Secret World's Issue #14 will take place in the familiar sands of Egypt -- and that...

The Stream Team: Friday frolicking in HEX

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When you find you have a few spare moments in your Friday, what do you do? MassivelyOP's MJ hops into HEX! She's got a...
But robots.

WildStar suffers major round of layoffs

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Update: WildStar has allegedly suffered a massive round of layoffs as part of a "reorganization"; some sources suggest as many as 60 70 people...

Shards Online gets ready for a big hype push in April

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Next month Shards Online will stir from its deep development slumber and lurch out into the sunlight, either to terrorize neighboring villages or to...
MAD, I TELL YOU!

Hearthstone’s next expansion is Whispers of the Old Gods

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The next Hearthstone expansion will drive you mad. It's all about madness. It turns out that all of the rumors whispered in dark places...
It is a world with nothing nice to say about Jay-Z.

Mortal Online explains the Etherworld in depth

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The latest patch for Mortal Online allows players to hide objects inside of the ether world, pick up and leave objects inside of the...

SWTOR posts storyline trailer for KOTFE: Disavowed

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Star Wars: The Old Republic's latest Knights of the Fallen Empire chapter, Disavowed, went live for regular players this week, and now BioWare has...
Yes, yes it is.

Daybreak has canceled EverQuest Next, Landmark is launching ‘this spring’

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Daybreak has officially canceled EverQuest Next. President Russell Shanks just broke the news on the official site this afternoon: To Our Daybreak Community, I’m writing today...

CCP’s VR mobile shooter EVE: Gunjack is launching on the Rift and Vive too

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Late last year, CCP launched its VR-oriented mobile arcade shooter EVE: Gunjack on the Samsung Gear as just one of several EVE universe-based VR games...
Well, all right, then.

Sea of Thieves starts a fan contest to play the game before anyone else

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If you've managed to forget what happened at E3 last year, recall that Rare announced that it was making a shared-world pirate game titled...
Darn it, if you had just kept her hair brown...

Crowfall shows off the Ranger in action

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The Ranger of Crowfall has been making the rounds lately as the resident orange-haired green-clad lady shooting arrows at targets. That part is... yeah,...
Unseen.

WoW Factor: Levels and legends in the Legion alpha

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The alpha testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion rolls on, with the vague hope that we might actually have a beta tag by...

EVE Online’s Project Discovery netted almost half a million classifications in its first day

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First announced back in 2015, EVE Online's Project Discovery got underway this week. It's a science collaboration that rewards EVE players in-game for playing a...