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A Tale in the Desert preparing to restart with Tale 7

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A Tale in the Desert's current "telling" -- Tale 6 -- has been running a long time, ever since its debut in 2011. Since...

Crowfall backers can now gift a copy to a friend

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If you have too much money burning a hole in your pocket and a good friend who didn't get on board with the Crowfall...
At this point every free-to-play game is different from the others by not offering a gameplay advantage for paying money.

Dragon of Legends will be a cross-platform pixel MMO

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If you like pixel art and the promise of being able to play an MMO on both mobile and desktop clients, you should probably...
Into every life, a few game-destroying bugs must fall? Something like that.

Trove patches in the Golden Thread, now patches out the bugs

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The most recent Trove patch added in the Golden Thread, which is pretty great for everyone playing the game. For the new player, it...
NOW PUNCH! YOUR FRIEND! PUNCH, PUNCH YOUR FRIEND! GET OUT ON THE FLOOR AND PUNCH YOUR BEST FRIEND!

Lineage Eternal will hold a small beta test next month

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For a game that was hyped to heck and back with its announcement, you would think that Lineage Eternal would get more time in...

EVE Online’s Matt Woodward defects to Albion Online

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EVE Online is less one developer today and Albion Online is richer by one, as Matt Woodward has jumped ship to work on the...
It looks nice at a glance, all right.

Tree of Savior was greenlit on Steam in just 10 hours

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Yesterday, we let you fine readers know that Tree of Savior had gone the way of all indie games (or at least many of...
All right, the Lopp have some chops here too.

NCsoft Q1 2015: Growth for Guild Wars 2, further deflation for WildStar

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NCsoft's first quarter financial report is out, and... you know, let's start with the good news. Guild Wars 2 is making the company more...
FLY, YOU FOOLS!

CCP extends EVE PLEX drive for latest Nepal quake

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Nepal can't seem to catch a break, as a second major earthquake has devastated the region two weeks after a quake killed over 8,000...

Sea-based sandbox Windward launches

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Unfurl the sails, cut the jib, and swab the poop deck -- Windward launch, ho! The sea-based sandbox officially rolls out of drydock today on...
SMITE

Today’s SMITE patch tweaks tagging range, bounty cap limit

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Today's SMITE patch features a couple of noteworthy changes. First up is the Anubis visual revamp and the addition of a few new god skins....

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 13

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW's sub decline, EQ Next, GW2's Dragonhunter, EQ progression servers, SWTOR harassment, and adventures in Marvel Heroes, Secret World, and Guild Wars, plus mailbag questions on SWG's PvP and pay-to-win.
Oh, so it's a Warcraft 3 mod, but it's only online and it's relentlessly competitive? No thank you. Good night.

League of Legends offers up an Ekko trailer

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In a pitched match of League of Legends, every second counts. So what if you could get a few more of them? Because that's...
It's a mess out there.

Ubisoft delays The Division until Q1 2016

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A couple of months ago, we reported that The Division was on track for a 2015 release. Not so fast, according to Ubisoft, which...
What a shock.

Star Wars: The Old Republic brings back the Relics of the Gree

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Greetings, black bisector! Or blue acute or yellow nonagon or argyle sinewave; we're not actually very good at the whole Gree dialogue thing. What...

Tree of Savior lands on Steam Greenlight

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Will Tree of Savior get the thumbs-up from the gaming community? That's the big question now that the Korean title has landed on Steam...

WildStar subreddit mod bans F2P and B2P discussions

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Hope you didn't have plans to talk about WildStar's possible conversion to a new business model on Reddit because one of the game's subreddit...

ARK: Survival Evolved strands you on an island of dinosaurs

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Do you have a weirdly shaped hole in your life that can be filled only by killing and riding dinosaurs (not necessarily in that...
It's not really a new ship without slow pans around it and swelling orchestral music.

How Star Trek Online constructs its new pilot ships

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The newest ships in Star Trek Online are all based around making players feel like that piloting specialization was a good expenditure of time...
It's coming down.

Final Fantasy XIV nerfs the Steps of Faith in 2.57 patch

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Are you stuck on the last part of Final Fantasy XIV's main scenario quest? The last trial introduced, Steps of Faith, is a pretty...