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Black Desert’s most common hacking tool appears to be bundled with a keylogger

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Vigilante justice rarely works out in the long run. Delivering pain to match pain just creates an unceasing, spiraling cycle. But with all of...
This is not a safe working environment.

Diablo III adds its five-year sword as a transmog reward

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How long do you have to work at your current job before you get a sword? If you worked for Blizzard Entertainment, the answer...

Conan Exiles gets an official wiki

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You still have a while to wait before Conan Exiles releases later this year, but it's not too early to start cramming for the...
Also, more cats in general, please.

Battle Bards Episode 74: Black Desert Online

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This eastern sandbox import has many people playing and talking about it, but are they listening to Black Desert Online? The Battle Bards are,...
Well-told, but not well-planned.

Final Fantasy XI welcomes back lapsed players for its anniversary

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There have been a lot of changes in Final Fantasy XI over the last month or so. Heck, even if you played at the...

Path of Exile patch adds nine new divination cards

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While bug fixes are always a welcome part of patches, a little extra content is always appreciated! Path of Exile's patch 2.2.2c deployed today,...

Oodles of cash up for grabs in ARK’s two tourneys (and a peek at the Dragon arena)

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Making money and ARK: Survival Evolved are two terms that just seem to fit together, and not just for developers. ARK: Survival of the...

Here’s the Black Desert commercial that’s sweeping the airwaves

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It's not every day that an MMO gets enough popularity and promotion to warrant a TV spot, so you'd be forgiven if you did...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 63: Leisure suit Larry

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Justin and Larry discuss pristine WoW servers, TSW, Trove, Champs Online, SWTOR, lockboxes, and birthdays in CoH, LOTRO, and Guild Wars.

Chronicles of Elyria’s Kickstarter is now live

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The Kickstarter for Chronicles of Elyria has just gone live. Soulbound Studios' goal won't surprise anyone as the company told followers in March that it would...
Lo!

Check out a video preview of TERA’s flying mounts

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Dear readers, if you have a delicate constitution, the video below the cut may prove too shocking for you. You see, as the video...
It's the ride.

Funcom launches The Park on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

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In the mood for a bit of horror in May? If you passed on The Park (the single-player narrative spin-off from The Secret World)...

Daybreak scrambles new servers after DC Universe Online’s huge Xbox One launch

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Here's a sentence I never thought I'd be typing: DC Universe Online might actually be too successful for its own good. Since the game's launch on...

Civil War breaks out in Marvel Heroes

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When the war breaks out, whose side will you be on? With Captain America: Civil War hitting theaters this month, Marvel Heroes will be right there...
Nice shot.

Crowfall’s castle siege video is appropriately brutal

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Crowfall's latest Siege Perilous footage is brief, but it digs into the flashier parts of castle sieges, with catapults loosing their missiles, explosions knocking...
The Forgotten Realms is still boring and generic as heck, though.

Neverwinter launches The Maze Engine on Xbox One today

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You probably should not taunt anyone who has access to something called a "Maze Engine." At a quick glance at the name, it sounds...
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Elite: Dangerous features in a new Oculus Rift trailer

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A new Oculus trailer this week is intent on reminding everyone that Elite: Dangerous is indeed available on the Oculus Rift VR platform. "Frontier was...
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Ryzom finally lands on Steam this week

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Ryzom is really truly on the way to Steam -- this week, in fact. May 6th is the big day. The 2004 sci-fantasy sandbox MMORPG...

Trove players protest the expansion’s new gem system

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One of the selling features of Trove's first expansion, Mantle of Power, is its gem system. This new way of increasing your character's stats...

Why Brad McQuaid chose Pantheon over reviving Vanguard

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Brad McQuaid's name is linked to many things, most recently Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen and most infamously with Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. In...