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Overwatch open beta is live until May 9th

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Tired of just watching the people who get to shoot their way through Overwatch in its more selective test phases? You don't have to...
Same as it ever was.

Crowfall’s ‘universe’ plan could mean regionalized servers

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"PvP is the universal language of gaming," says Crowfall studio ArtCraft in a new blog post last night. "Killing other players is a transcendent...
To return where others have gone before, but not like this.

Star Trek Online announces its third expansion: Agents of Yesterday

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Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starships named Enterprise. Their continuing missions have been to explore strange new worlds, to...
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Star Wars: The Old Republic will add weapon tunings outside of the cash shop

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Cosmetic options are a very big part of Star Wars: The Old Republic, so adding a new cosmetic option to the game is going...

TERA teaches you how to fly above your dreams

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Yes, you may have heard that flying mounts are indeed on their way to TERA. But exactly how will you turn the sky into...

Chronicles of Elyria roars past $422,000 in its Kickstarter campaign

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Two days into its Kickstarter campaign, Chronicles of Elyria is hardly slowing from its sprint out of the gate. The fantasy MMO sandbox has...

China gets the Warcraft movie two days before everyone else

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Want to be among the first in the world to see the Warcraft feature film? Then you best be buying a ticket to China....
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The Daily Grind: What elements tend to endear classes to you in MMORPGs?

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It's not difficult to find a unifying theme through my main classes in various games. I mainline Enhancement Shaman and Retribution Paladin in World...

EVE Online player uses patch trick to dominate the PLEX market

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Among the patch notes for EVE Online's recent Citadel expansion release was a fairly innocuous increase in the fees for listing items on the in-game...
Can we start, start over.

World of Warcraft kicks off Children’s Week

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Are you just sitting around in your Garrison these days in World of Warcraft, waiting for the Burning Legion to stop farting about and...
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Saga of Lucimia shows off its dynamic weather systems

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Indie hardcore sandbox Saga of Lucimia has a brief video out today on its dynamic weather system. It's dark -- we're beginning to think...

Sacrament preps Patreon after failed Kickstarter, shows off the Thief

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Sacrament, the game billing itself as "the evolution of EverQuest," suffered a disappointing Kickstarter in April. After raising a little over $3K of a...
It's been quiet.

Elite: Dangerous is pushing the Engineers beta out on May 5th

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Eagerly awaiting the next update to Elite: Dangerous? It's been pushed back a fair bit, but it has been confirmed that the next update...

WildStar opens the doors to Vault of the Archon

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The heart of WildStar's Arcterra is now open for the plundering. Patch 1.5.1 came to the game today, bringing the promised debut of the Vault...

PSA: ArcheAge is retiring inactive names on May 10

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If you like your character name in ArcheAge and you haven't logged into the game for a while, you might want to put a...
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Albion Online plans beta II for later this summer

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In Albion Online's latest developer video, Sandbox Interactive Game Director Robin Henkys and Creative Director Jörg Friedrich outline the studio's activities since the March...
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EVE Online is free-to-play on Steam for the weekend

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It's been a long time since EVE Online launched (like, at least a week), and the game is still getting regular updates and improvements....

Black Desert’s second Mediah update brings new pirate events, cash shop buyables

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Mediah part two launches in Black Desert today, bringing with it several class fixes, monster adjustments, the temporary removal of specific North American channels,...

Blade and Soul makes improvements to its weapon upgrade system

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When it comes to Blade & Soul, the version that western players isn't exactly the same as the one in Korea. The developers have...

Dungeons and Dragons Online gives out three free quests for Update 31

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Free players and subscribers, let there be no division between you today, for Dungeons and Dragons Online is going to treat all the same with...