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Cats are cats all over.

RuneScape offers new cat companions to highlight the World Wildlife Fund

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Are big cats important to you while but not quite important enough to make you log out of RuneScape? Then the game's latest charity...
GOLD

No Man’s Sky shows off an infinity of worlds

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If you sit down and play No Man's Sky, you'll never see exactly what you see in this trailer. That's the big draw of...
Really, this game should specify its non-neon parts to save time.

Trove rolls out the neon dragons today

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Trove has gone down for maintenance and isn't expected to be back up until 1:00 p.m. EDT. That's the bad news. The good news...

Trion Worlds purges Glyph of third-party games

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Trion Worlds is apparently getting out of the game distribution service, as least when it comes to games made by other studios. Scott Hartsman has...

PSA: Grab The Elder Scrolls Online for $12 on Green Man Gaming [Updated]

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See, Reddit is good for something: It's going to save you 75% on a copy of The Elder Scrolls Online today. In conjunction with its...
Lizard laugh.

Final Fantasy XIV adds in progression endgame content and more PvP options

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Final Fantasy XIV has been rolling out its Heavensward endgame in a series of stages, and the last stage has finally arrived. Patch 3.05...

Not So Massively: RUST assigns random genders; US Senator facilitates e-sports visas

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Star Citizen rebalanced thrusters, hitpoints and weapons in its latest alpha release to the public test server, and the upcoming Star Marine FPS module...
Don't be a dick, be a dude.

Sword Coast Legends shows off an hour of campaign creation

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One of the big draws of Sword Coast Legends is that you aren't just limited to playing through the game that other people come...

BioWare delays SWTOR’s 3.3 update

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Those of you wanting to roll one of Ahsoka Tano's ancestors in Star Wars: The Old Republic will have to a wait a little...
Well, unfortunately...

Trove is hosting a player-run soccer tourney

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What do you get when you unleash unfettered player creativity upon a game? Well, in the case of Trove, you apparently get player-run soccer...

Guild Wars 2 teases the Tempest

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ArenaNet teased a concept art image on its Guild Wars 2 Twitter feed this morning. The pic appears to be the Tempest for the...
This was not actually complex.

Elite: Dangerous looks ahead to 1.4 ‘CQC Championship’ patch

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Elite: Dangerous has held its first dedicated convention and is already racing ahead to its next major update. "We’re looking at weeks, rather than...
Blinded by the X.

Guild Wars 2 adjusts the Revenant based on test feedback

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You can't be playing a Revenant full-time in Guild Wars 2 at this point, but the test weekends with the profession highlighted some balance...
Either die or don't.

Phantasy Star Online 2’s SE Asian version drops region-blocking

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You can't play Phantasy Star Online 2 on US servers because they don't exist. But you could, in theory, play the Southeast Asian version,...

Devilian shows off Shadowhunter class and devil form

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Action-RPG Devilian is cranking up its hype machine, with a pair of informative dev blogs posted this past week about the game's features. The first...

MMO Week in Review: Summer MMO launches (July 19, 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! July...

Shroud of the Avatar’s Long talks building narrative on top of a sandbox

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Shroud of the Avatar's latest Update of the Avatar has been released. As per usual, it sums up the major happenings for Portalarium's crowdfunded...

Trion races to fix Trove server issues, offers compensation

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Ever since launching earlier this month, Trove has become somewhat of a sleeper hit in the MMO community and enjoyed crowds flocking to its...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: July 18, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Derek Sm... ah, you know what? Never mind. This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Shroud of the Avatar's...

Star Citizen’s FPS elements to feature ‘slow-paced tactical gameplay’ and consequences for death

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Cloud Imperium has published another one of its weekly Star Marine status updates for Star Citizen. The post covers everything from engineering and coding...