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The Division gets a short customization vid

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Being a fan of Tom Clancy's The Division will test your patience. The game was announced years ago, then it waffled as to whether...

Gnome Hunters will be a thing in WoW’s Legion

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World of Warcraft's forthcoming Legion expansion will turn gnome Hunters into a thing. And by a thing, I meant gnomes who are Hunters rather than...
BEARS BEARS BEARS

Check out the new Druid bear forms from World of Warcraft’s Legion alpha

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What is the number one threat to Azeroth? Bears. That's why Druids can turn into bears, after all. The new World of Warcraft expansion...
whatevs

Black Desert answers questions on localization and release

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There is no way in the world to know when the second closed beta for a localized Black Desert will take place, although the...

Daybreak gifts two weeks of All-Access membership to EverQuest II returnees

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Almost everyone knows that EverQuest II's newest expansion launched last week, but what you might not realize is that the very same day, Daybreak launched...
Marathon, by Rush.

Crowfall: Milestones from eight months of development

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Crowfall has been in development for eight months now. That sounds like a substantial amount of time until you think about how long games...

Trove throws a ‘block’ Friday patch

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Hey, we don't make the puns; we just report on them. Trove has indeed released its Block Friday patch in time for Thanksgiving here...

You can grind some event tokens in TERA from now through January 12

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TERA's new Brawler class debuts on December 8th. Starting today, the fantasy MMO is running an event called Brace for Impact that celebrates the...
LET ME GO HOME

MapleStory goes back to basics with its Reboot world

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The Reboot world is a new way to experience MapleStory, or perhaps an old way to experience it in a new way. It's a...
We all began with good intents.

WildStar is running a double XP ‘X-plosion’ starting November 27

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What will you be doing on November 27th? If you're me, you'll be scarfing up leftovers, playing Star Wars: Battlefront, and looping that Finn...

Free EverQuest II server transfers available in December

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With the big EverQuest II server merges all wrapped up, Daybreak is delivering on its promise of offering players free transfers between the Halls of...
Nope.

Elite Lord of Alliance launches today with promotional giveaway

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How elite are your alliance lords? If you answer that question with a bewildered stare and a phrase that rhymes with "cut the truck,"...

That Ghost in the Shell shooter is coming to Steam

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The nominees for this year's most ridiculously long game title are as follows: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - First Assault Online....

Massively OP Podcast Episode 39: Giving thanks

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Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert, Blade & Soul, SWTOR nerfs, Funcom, and gratitude, plus mailbag questions on other podcasts, the quest for sandboxes, F2P restrictions, and custom races.

Devilian begins open beta next week, launches on December 10

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Trion Worlds' action-RPG import Devilian will be out in time for the holiday season this year. The studio announced today that the game will be going...

Marvel Heroes invites you over for some Thanksgiving and Magik

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Just because it's a holiday week doesn't mean that Marvel Heroes is going to call it a day and go eat a ton of...
Oh no, son.

Dogma: Eternal Night launches on Kickstarter

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Still feeling sad about the loss of that MMO about vampires stalking the streets? Dogma: Eternal Night is a game about a world where...

EverQuest’s multibox-free progression server is coming December 9th

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We first heard about the possibility of a bot-free EverQuest progression server back at E3. Now on December 9th, that server will become a...

Stash successfully completes its second Kickstarter campaign

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Stash is proving that there might be no limits to how many crowdfunding campaigns a studio can run, as the tabletop-themed MMO successfully completed...

Cabal 2’s challenge mode is live today

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Forget gratitude; Cabal 2 wants you to spend Thanksgiving fighting each other in its new Challenge Mode. You won't even have to mention politics...