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Bless Online stumbles in its open beta

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If you're not part of Bless Online's Korean open beta, you might want to count your... um, blessings right now. Instead offering a fun-filled...

Today’s Tribes: Ascend patch addresses votekicking and vehicles

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The Tribes: Ascend servers are offline right now for the game's impending 1.2 patch. Of note, Hi-Rez is implementing a new vehicle queueing system and reducing...
Who's dark now?

Elder Scrolls Online video previews the Thieves Guild DLC

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The Thieves Guild is pretty much my favorite part of the Elder Scrolls series, full-stop. Will it be equally epic in The Elder Scrolls Online?...

RIFT addresses paywall controversy, explains F2P finances

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The recent decision by Trion Worlds to set up what many see as a gear-related paywall in RIFT certainly has cause quite the discussion...

City of Titans pours effort into creating a ‘dynamic, thriving’ metropolis

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Metropolis. Gotham. Hell's Kitchen. Asgard. Sometimes the places that superheroes visit are just as iconic as the heroes themselves. The upcoming City of Titans...

Funcom announces Conan Exiles, a multiplayer open-world survival game

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Funcom has just announced that one of the Conan games it's working on is Conan Exiles, a multiplayer, open-world survival game. 'CONAN EXILES' is first...
When you're out in the club and you see a fly girl, do the creep!

WoW’s latest Legion alpha build revises talent loadouts, glyphs

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The alpha testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion is rolling along and getting just a little bit bigger. Another build has been deployed,...

Star Wars: Battlefront delivers huge nerfs, announces DLC plans

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If you've been playing Star Wars: Battlefront since the series was rebooted back in November, you've probably noticed that a few of the weapons and...
This is the world we live in, etc.

Path of Exile updates players on Ascendancy release dates and staffing changes

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In a development that will no doubt shock and confuse many of our readers, January is almost over. If you're a Path of Exile...
Gods.

Skyforge is making screenshots way easier with its new screen-pausing ‘photomode’

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Do you suffer from screenshot envy? Does it bother you that developers will produce screenshots that offer a perfect little slice of the action...
UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD

Albion Online patches in more convenience and more undead

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The January update for Albion Online really covers every conceivable base. It improves the quality of living for players adventuring through the world, and...
Still a better mountain story than Everest.

Tomorrow’s The Secret World patch adds new PvP scenario, new group finder

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Ready to quite literally fight to be king of the mountain? The Secret World's Shambala scenario tasks players with doing precisely that with a...
Losing in a way that's incidentally the same as not in fact losing at all.

Superdata says League of Legends makes more money than any other game you play

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Let's just get this out of the way: Superdata is a research firm that sells its data analysis. It doesn't disclose its methodology or...

SWTOR is putting lockboxes inside of other lockboxes

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Star Wars: The Old Republic apparently couldn't stand to see RIFT hogging the business model drama spotlight today and has issued a new proclamation...

Cabal 2’s huge Calamity of War update hit by tiny delay

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"Go big or go home, kid." Cabal 2 must have heard these words as an impressionable youth and taken them to heart, culminating in this week's release...

Get ready for The Division’s weekend closed beta test

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With little more than a month to go before its alleged March 8th release date, The Division needs to get some serious testing under...

Classic Korean MMORPG Knight Online lands on Steam

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As promised, Knight Online has officially landed on Steam this week. The classic Korean MMO originally launched in 2004, the same year that World...

The Underground becomes The World of Akria

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A while back we reported on a small indie sandbox called The Underground that placed a premium on allowing players to craft and be...

RIFT forces players to use cash shop for expansion gear upgrades

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Back when RIFT launched Nightmare Tide, it introduced earring slots and a new type of gear that required a "Planeswalker: Water" label. Both of...

NCsoft is porting its MOBA Master X Master to the West

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NCsoft has just announced that it's porting Master X Master, its MOBA, to western shores "later this year." https://twitter.com/PlayMXM/status/692347333556715520 The MOBA brings together characters from multiple...