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Descent is in early access, but at least it ditched microtransactions

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Descent: Underground, an officially licensed prequel to 1994's Descent vehicular shooter, is now available to the general public as well as all of its crowdfunding...

GTA Online’s lowrider weekend events start tomorrow

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Have you tricked out your lowrider after this week's Grand Theft Auto Online patch? Either way, Rockstar is hyping a lowrider event weekend that...

Skyforge invites players to the Evil Pumpkin Festival

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Dark and goofy times are upon the population of Skyforge, as the season of the Evil Pumpkin Festival is now live. The Halloween celebration, which...

Get ready for Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns with checklist, interactive trailer

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So Guild Wars 2 players, we hear that there's something going down in your neck of the woods tomorrow. Some sort of expansion where blindfolded...

Star Trek Online gives away free hoverboards

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WildStar and The Secret World aren't the only MMOs getting into the Back to the Future spirit this month. Star Trek Online has its...

Devilian kicks off its first closed beta test

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Devilian's first closed beta test is now live, according to Trion Worlds, but there may be a crush to get in the doors. "Given the...

The Secret World’s Samhain Halloween event stalks in next week

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Halloween is just around the corner, and so is The Secret World's Samhain event: festivities kick off next Tuesday, October 27th.  Every year the...

EverQuest II: Terrors of Thalumbra scoots into beta testing

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EverQuest II's underground expansion has gone into beta testing in preparation for its launch next month. Daybreak said that any player who pre-orders Terrors of...

Guild Wars 2 rebounds dramatically in Raptr’s September rankings

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MMORPGs are looking up in Raptr's latest most-played report. World of Warcraft held onto the #3 spot (in spite of a 20+% play-time drop), with...
Just whenever you get around to us, it's cool.

World of Warcraft won’t have a hard Valor cap in 6.2.3

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The return of Valor as a currency in World of Warcraft's patch 6.2.3 brings a lot of questions with it. Once you get past...
Into the dock!

Wurm Unlimited is on Steam, and at a discount

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Are your wurms on Steam feeling distinctly limited? Then you should be happy to know that Wurm Unlimited is now available on Steam, giving...

LOTRO bribes players to test new datacenter

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Lord of the Rings Online is calling its playerbase to jump on the Bullroarer server this Saturday to help test out a new datacenter...
I'm just a friendly reminder.

Final Fantasy XIV previews the new dungeons of patch 3.1

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It's all right if you're tired of running Neverreap in Final Fantasy XIV; everyone is at this point. So it's a good thing that...
Walk Around In Clothing Still Inappropriate For Walking Online

TERA welcomes new players with a video guide

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Every MMO has its own quirks that other games simply don't possess, and TERA is no exception. Sure, you're familiar with the basics of...
I'm looking at you through the glass.

Check out some footage of planetary landing in Elite: Dangerous

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Space may very well be the final frontier, but it's the planets within space that get your imagination going. Elite: Dangerous is letting players...

At last, Infinity: Battlescape is on Kickstarter

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Old school Massively readers might recall us writing about Infinity, a long-in-development space sim MMO with a truly massive procedurally generated universe and the ability...

Otherland has added 120 new quests

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Early access action MMO Otherland has added 120 new quests. Developer DRAGO Entertainment says that it has been hard at work expanding the storyline of...

Blade daywalks into Marvel Heroes this month

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Blade is Marvel Heroes' 52nd playable character.  He's not quite in the game, yet, though, so put away your sharp stakes and fake vampire teeth....

Devilian unveils the Cannoneer, starts beta tomorrow

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Devilian's first closed beta starts tomorrow. As such, Trion has released a new video focused on the Cannoneer, which is a "petite yet powerful"...

ArcheAge bans blockades, griefers cry about it

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Those crazy ArcheAge kids, always mucking up the works! The latest bit of fantasy sandpark drama comes to us courtesy of the game's official...