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BlizzCon starts Friday, here’s a roundup

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BlizzCon 2015 starts in a couple of days -- Friday, November 6th, to be exact -- so Blizzard has published an event roundup to...

Wild Terra outlines its dominium decay

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Survival sandbox Wild Terra has a new dev blog focused on dominium dilapidation and marauding. What the heck does that mean? Well, it's basically...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 36: Team Sparkles

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Justin and Bree discuss the World of Darkness sale, Star Trek Online, LOTRO's Minas Tirith, and Marvel Heroes, with mailbag questions on minimum viable products and social ecosystems.

Guns of Icarus turns three, gives you gifts

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Guns of Icarus turns three this week, and to celebrate, Muse is giving away hats with sparklers and causing all of your enemy kills...
Taking care of business

Let the NPCs handle your busy work with Albion Online’s laborers

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There are certain tedious tasks that are just better left up to automation sometimes. Sure, you need a steady flow of incoming wood and...
Catte

Asta kicks off its first beta test in the West

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Will Asta be a success here after its poor fate in its native land? It's too early to say, but you can start making...
Parallax has arrived.

EVE Online launches its Parallax update

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The latest update for EVE Online isn't quite the show-stopping update that some players might wish for, but it's still substantial. Parallax contains a...
That's a nice throne. Mind if I war over it?

Crowfall takes on the fine degrees of separation between bow users

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You are not your weapon in Crowfall. Just because two archetypes use a bow in the game doesn't mean that they play the same....
You guys are still here?

Destiny has 25 million registered users

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The news from the most recent Activision financial report was not rosy for all online gaming fans, but it looks quite positive for Destiny...

War is coming: Check out the Warcraft movie trailer teaser

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What's 45% of your MMO playerbase lost in less than a year when you have a blockbuster movie on the way? https://twitter.com/warcraftmovie/status/661573910094155776 Eh, the clip is a...

Dogma: Eternal Night brings MMO vampires to Kickstarter

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Do you need a game that's so dark that if it were any darker it'd be a pure black rectangle on your monitor? Are...
And all of the art design is still done on lined notebook paper.

EverQuest II anniversary celebrations kick off on Friday

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Players have been adventuring in EverQuest II for more than a decade now, and that's a good reason to celebrate. Even as the developers...

Blizzard secures rights to Overwatch’s name

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Overwatch's tagline is, "The world needs heroes." If we might amend that motto in light of a recent story, it should add "...but no more...

Arabic-language MMO Areeb World releases on Steam

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It's not common at all to see Arabic-language MMOs release in the west, which is why the recently released Areeb World might merit some attention. The...

Activision-Blizzard Q3 2015: World of Warcraft drops 100K subs, Actibliz buys Candy Crush dev for $5.9B

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Strange things are afoot at Blizzard Activision. Even while the studio is preparing for BlizzCon and the trailer reveal for the Warcraft movie, it announced...

Not So Massively: LoL pro Doublelift kicked from e-sports team (November 2, 2015)

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Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
That's a moray.

Exploring EverQuest II’s Terrors of Thalumbra raids

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The next expansion for EverQuest II will include not one raid, not two raids, but four raids for players to take apart. If you...

Warframe breaks out virtual mustaches for men’s health

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Digital Extremes is once again participating in Movember, a month-long "celebration of the mustache" that aims to raise awareness of men's health issues including...

Here’s how to use a factory in the Divergence alpha

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Divergence Online creator Ethan Casner published a new YouTube video yesterday that focuses on the sci-fi sandbox's factory implementation. Much like in the classic...

STO is giving away stuff to celebrate the new Star Trek show

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The Star Trek franchise is getting a new television show, according to an announcement on the brand's official website. Details are scarce, other than...