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Drizzt joins Neverwinter in this fall’s Underdark expansion

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A few familiar faces are coming to Neverwinter in the upcoming Underdark expansion, including a fairly famous Drow. If you'd happily fight the two-headed Prince of...

RIFT dives into the Rhaza’de Canyons dungeon

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With a patch name like Into the Wilds, you know that RIFT won't be introducing safe, tame content in which players can vacation. On...
this is duuuuuuuumb

Valve developer claims that VR motion sickness isn’t the fault of the hardware

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Are you worried about getting hit by a sense of motion sickness whilst using a VR headset? Valve's Chet Faliszek states that you don't...
DAGRON

Guild Wars 2’s former lead designer now develops for Amazon

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Amazon has been trying to work its way into game development for a while, but the retailer has a new weapon in its arsenal....

WildStar: Reloaded launches free-to-play

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WildStar's long-awaited free-to-play patch is finally upon us, as Carbine re-launched the game at midnight with a new business model and scads of changes. WildStar: Reloaded...

Not So Massively: Martin Shkreli slammed in e-sports; Star Citizen legal letter revealed

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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...

Black Desert’s Russian beta starts October 12

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Can you read Russian? Me neither, but I can read Reddit as well as the big date on the top of Black Desert's Russian...

ARK gets a swamp, snow, dire wolves, and more

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ARK: Survival Evolved got two new biomes in today's 216 patch. A swamp and snow-covered region are now available, along with new critters like...
doge, wow

Project Gorgon on the difference between testing and launch balancing

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Can we get a quick show of hands indicating who likes logging into a familiar MMO and finding out that every one of his...
Indarth Invader.

Skyforge offers more details on Invasions and Operations

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Invasions are a big deal in Skyforge, but not every hero standing against the invaders is at the front lines of the main invasion...
Boss of the road.

Here’s a look at the Ranger in Bless’ beta

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The final Korean beta test for Bless is officially over, and Steparu has published his final look at the game. He takes the Ranger...

Guild Wars 2 kicks off Guild Week tomorrow

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Guild Wars 2 has plenty in store for player organizations when Heart of Thorns launches later next month, and because of that, ArenaNet is...

Project Copernicus was in trouble long before its $75M loan

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The lengthy post-mortem of Project Copernicus and 38 Studios never seems to end, does it? While the answer to "What went wrong?" is multi-faceted at the very...
Work it over.

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen gets investors, development is continuing

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen missed out on its Kickstarter goals, but that wasn't the end of the road. Visionary Realms, after an extended...

ArcheAge addresses castle construction bug

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A quest bug connected to the construction of castles on ArcheAge's Diamond Shores has resulted in Trion Worlds issuing a hotfix over the weekend...
This poor woman may now be able to wear a shirt.

That Wizards of the Coast vs. HEX lawsuit has finally been settled

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Good news, virtual card game fans! That long-running lawsuit between Hex Entertainment, Cryptozooic, and Wizards of the Coast is finally out of the way....

Ever, Jane holds off on its beta launch

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The austere Ever, Jane updated to Release 1.9 over this past weekend while keeping the title in alpha testing for a while longer. "We...
Sure you are, home slice.

Star Citizen studio ‘grows’ dev team, claims layoffs are ‘streamlin[ing]’

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It's never exactly calming to hear that a large project is laying people off before release, and that's the rumor swirling around Cloud Imperium...
MOOOOOOOOON

Guild Wars 2 details the Druid, raiding, and final expansion test weekend

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Guild Wars 2 players will be able to get their collective hands on Heart of Thorns very soon, and that's a good thing. The...

MMO Week in Review: WildStar’s second chance (September 27, 2015)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! WildStar's...