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WildStar: Reloaded beta now open to all

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There's no longer a bouncer at the doors of WildStar's free-to-play beta test, as Carbine has removed the need for a key to access...
How am I supposed to remember you if you won't let me forget?

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen gets a new website and new team members

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It would be fair to say that Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has had something a checkered development history, but it seems to be...

Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Devil’s Gambit update is live

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Dungeons and Dragons Online's Update 28: The Devil's Gambit heralds dark times for the game's setting, as a demonic horde invades Eberron's Stormreach. Today's Update 28 contains...

RIFT paves the way to the Planetouched Wilds

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RIFT's world is getting a little bigger with its upcoming patch 3.4. Trion Worlds posted a preview recently of the game's newest zone: Planetouched...

You can tame pets in Bless, but they won’t fight for you

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Bless appears to have a pretty cool creature companion system, assuming that you enjoy catching most of a title's monsters and then domesticating them for...

The H1Z1 Invitational’s prize purse is $173,320

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Did you know that the total prize pool for the H1Z1 Invitational is $173,320? I didn't either, but then again, I didn't even know...

Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns has a full TwitchCon schedule

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TwitchCon 2015 is cranking up this Friday and Saturday in San Francisco, and you'd better believe that Guild Wars 2 will be there in...

World of Warships readies Soviet tech tree

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The Soviet armada will debut in World of Warships on October 19th. Wargaming is adding a full destroyer line, including Izyaslav, Gnevny, and Tashken,...

Crowfall heads back to development and preps for November pre-alpha test

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Once the current Milestone 1.0 test concludes at the end of this month, Crowfall will return to full development mode as ArtCraft prepares the...

PSA: Marvel Heroes is taking votes for new characters

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Marvel Heroes is apparently throwing open the voting for new characters, according to a tweet earlier this afternoon. The choices are Angela, Gamora, Green...

Chronicles of Elyria dev blog: Aging, offline leveling, and the business model

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Announced earlier this year, Chronicles of Elyria is a startup sandbox in a sea of such sandboxes, but some of its features are rare even...

Wild Terra invites the public to play for free this weekend

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The Wild Terra team would like to extend to you and several billion of your best friends the invitation to check out the game...

League of Legends e-sports teams weather controversies

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Two separate real-world controversies are impacting League of Legends e-sports teams. First up is Team Immunity, an Oceanic organization that is now barred from participating...

WildStar plans quality-of-life improvements, midnight relaunch

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WildStar's massive free-to-play transition and patch is less than a week away, which means that Carbine is getting to the end of its revelations. Today...

Divergence Online adds consensual PvP server stretch goal

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Yesterday, we published a detailed interview with Ethan Casner, one of the devs behind Star Wars Galaxies-inspired Divergence Online. The response was more or...
No one said it would be friendly.

Shroud of the Avatar is getting at least one novel

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There's a Shroud of the Avatar novel in the works, and it's being credited to both developer Richard Garriott and author Tracy Hickman. Publisher Macmillan's...

TERA wants to put your artwork on its loading screens

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Listen up, artists and TERA fans. En Masse wants you to submit an original piece of autumn-themed TERA artwork by Tuesday, October 13th for...

EverQuest axes enforced raid rotations

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Daybreak is ending enforced raid rotations in EverQuest. The firm says that doing so serves the best interest of its Ragefire and Lockjaw progression...

Star Citizen’s main theme is pretty great

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What will Star Citizen sound like? Underneath all the pew pews and the rumbling rocket engines, there's a score composed by Pedro Camacho that...

EverQuest emulator Project 1999 drops new patch, prepares for 6th anniversary with permadeath

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EverQuest has evolved quite a bit over the years, but some folks prefer reliving the classic experience. Project 1999 -- recently given a written...