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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...

PSA: Skyforge’s downloader defaults to leeching your bandwidth

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If you've downloaded Skyforge and then noticed your internet connection slowing to a crawl, you might want to read a Reddit thread posted yesterday...
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Betawatch: July 17th, 2015

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If you were excited for Camelot Unchained opening its doors for the first time next month, we've got some bad news for you. The...

Crossout is some sort of post-apoc vehicular MMO from Gaijin

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Have you heard of Crossout? Me neither. Well, actually of course I've heard of it now, but I hadn't heard of it prior to...

Das Tal showing off small events with this weekend’s playtest

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Das Tal is still a ways off from operating an ongoing alpha program, but the team is throwing a one-day test for this Sunday...