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But animated for real, like.

Crowfall shows off the Confessor in action

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We've been told quite a bit about Crowfall's Confessor, but words on a page don't really give a sense for what it will look...
The road is through those guys, so...

Albion Online puts forth its roadmap to closed beta

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Albion Online's development team isn't just sitting back and basking in the afterglow of a successful summer alpha test. There's a closed beta on...
Eff a robot.

Skyforge introduces Prestige scaling with its next major patch

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There's nothing worse than logging on to play a game with your friends to find that they're Level A Million Or Something whilst you're...
If at first you don't succeed, etc.

ArcheAge mobile game will use Unreal Engine 4

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Remember ArcheVille? No, probably not; it was an ArcheAge mobile game that was shut down rather quickly back in 2013. The important thing is...
Well, good hustle.

Camelot Unchained newsletter discusses combat philosophy and developer status

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The Camelot Unchained test phases had to be delayed, and that means that the latest newsletter for the game is in an odd place,...
At last, good stuff.

EverQuest II plans server ‘consolidation’ in August

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It's all well and good to prefer lower-population servers, but you can also reach a point when the population is so low that you can...

Not So Massively: Dota 2’s $18m main event, Hearthstone’s expansion

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This week, third-person MOBA SMITE revealed its new support character Khepri, the ancient Egyptian scarab god. League of Legends pushed its HUD overhaul to...
And in the distance, the call of payment.

DayZ associate producer talks cheaters and how to stop them

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DayZ associate producer Eugen Harton spoke to a GDC Europe crowd earlier today about how Bohemia Interactive handles cheaters in its open-world zombiepocalypse survival...

DC Universe’s Episode 15 content arrives this week for subscribers

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Daybreak has announced the official launch date for DC Universe Online's Episode 15 update. Members can take the new content for a spin on...

Hi-Rez is making Paladins, a team FPS with deckbuilding

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Hi-Rez has been hinting at its new project in recent weeks, and while we were expecting to get an eye full of it at...

Visionary Realms adds three Pantheon devs

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Brad McQuaid's dev team for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen just got a little bit bigger. A post on the game's forum welcomes senior...

These are the companies that are trying to build the metaverse

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Did you know that Linden Lab is hard at work on a sequel to its Second Life virtual world? Yep, it is, and Recode...

CCP announces Gunjack, a VR title for mobile

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Move over, EVE Valkyrie. Gunjack is CCP's newest virtual reality pet project. Gunjack is in development for the Samsung Gear VR platform, and yes,...

Children of Ur knocks out Alpha 1.1 update

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Children of Ur, one of two main Glitch revival spin-offs, hit another milestone recently with its alpha 1.1 update. With the new patch for the browser-based...
If you lived here, you'd be home by now.

Shroud of the Avatar pushes out Release 20 with 113 player-run towns

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Are you playing Shroud of the Avatar's latest release right now? Obviously not, you're reading this article, but you could be playing it right...

World of Warcraft’s Bashiok has defected to NCsoft [Updated]

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Former World of Warcraft Community Manager Micah "Bashiok" Whipple announced he was leaving Blizzard last week to take up a new job this week, leading...

LOTRO announces its 10 surviving servers

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Lord of the Rings Online has begun the process of closing down some of its servers and encouraging players to migrate to one of...
Mead mead mead mead mead mead.

EverQuest Next challenges players to design buildings for Halas

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One of the cooler parts of the EverQuest Next development process is that it's not happening behind closed doors; players have already had the...
Losing in a way that's incidentally the same as not in fact losing at all.

League of Legends does not in fact kill off Gangplank for real at all

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Just a few days ago, dear reader, we wrote to you about how League of Legends had done something novel by killing off the...

Ex-WoW lead Rob Pardo says industry devs are avoiding the ‘MMO’ label

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MMOs aren't going anywhere, but the label may be on the way out. This comes from former World of Warcraft lead Rob Pardo, who...