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Skyforge dares you to beat its anomalies

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One thing is for certain: When it releases, Skyforge will not be lacking in its variety of content. Today, the dev team posted a...
Why do you build me up, Buttercup, baby, just to let me down and mess me around?

Project HON is cancelled by NCsoft

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Remember Project HON? It was a giant robot combat game in the Unreal 4 engine, and every trailer released for it looked stompy and...
You have to do something, you know.

Star Trek Online explains the big shift in event currencies

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Star Trek Online is doing something new with its summer event this year by shifting currencies in a big way. This has caused a...
Space Engineers

Space Engineers opens its code base to modders

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Hey space engineers, how would you like access to the source code of, um, Space Engineers? You can have it, since developer Keen Software...
Oh, look, it's this fun debate again.

The Elder Scrolls Online will not require a one-time code for play on consoles

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Good news for those of you looking to play The Elder Scrolls Online on consoles - if you want to sell your copy or...

Dofus overhauls creaky crafting system

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There are revamps and then there are revamps, if you know what we mean. Dofus is clearly not messing around when it announced that...

Survarium reverses its disastrous server merge

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Even though they may be feared, server merges are a fact of life in many MMOs. One such merge came this past April in...

Nexon revenues rise in early 2015

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After reading through Nexon's financial report for Q1 2015, one can imagine the company skipping along while whistling a merry tune. Yes, it's generally...
Dungeons? Check. Dragons? Check. What else could need changing?

Neverwinter outlines new and upcoming changes

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When lead designer Scott Shicoff took point on Neverwinter, his first dispatch to the community was a statement that he and the rest of...

Heroes of the Storm World Championship coming to BlizzCon

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With the well-fought Heroes of the Dorm tournament out of the way, Blizzard is preparing an even larger community event for Heroes of the...

World of Warcraft goes on the offensive against bots

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World of Warcraft botters, beware: Blizzard is coming after you hard. The studio said yesterday that it has leveled the banhammer against several accounts...

The Repopulation adds diplomacy minigame with new patch

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Wait, there are other ways to resolve conflict with in-game NPCs than to stab large holes in their torsos? The Repopulation seems to think...
You can go ahead and fear me, really.

Guild Wars 2 unveils the Necromancer elite spec, the Reaper

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Under normal circumstances, Guild Wars 2 Necromancers have a pretty decisive philosophy of not getting involved in melee. It makes sense, after all. These...
I repent.

Rumor: Blade & Soul might be in internal testing for US release

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Hey, you all remember the guy causing a whole kerfluffle about the fact that WildStar is supposedly going free-to-play? Good times! But the Redditor...

Raph Koster used MMO design to help revitalize a bar trivia game

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You might know Raph Koster from his MMO legacy as a designer on Ultima Online or Star Wars Galaxies, or perhaps from his current...

Rumor: WildStar coming to Steam as a free-to-play title in August [Updated]

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WildStar is coming to Steam, according to third-party scraper site SteamDB.info. When and for how much is less clear, given that Carbine and NCsoft...
Heroes & Generals

Heroes & Generals celebrates five million registered players

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Reto-Moto has announced that more than five million players have registered for its F2P World War II MMO shooter called Heroes & Generals. Since...

Rodinia War melds strategy and fantasy action

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What flavors go well together? Peanut butter and chocolate, obviously. Sarcasm and stand-up comedians. Mario and mushrooms. And now, apparently, builder games and MMORPGs. This...

Heroes of the Storm devs talk Kael’Thas and character design

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Wondering how Blizzard's developers choose from the studio's incredible roster of characters and then crafted those selections into Heroes of the Storm's champions? Then...
And now everything will be better forever!

Aventurine is exploring a Darkfall 1.0 reboot

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Remember a couple of weeks ago when Aventurine developer axilmar caused a bit of a stir with an informal poll regarding Darkfall's pre-Unholy Wars...