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Frontier crowns its Race to Elite winners

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Appropriately, the winner of Frontier's Triple Elite competition is a Commander by the name of Onepercent. He played for 1,029 hours between December 18th...

Trove adding fishing, ships, and pirates

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Trove players are being called to don their galoshes and pack up their tackle box, as the game is preparing to unload a new...
Those who fear darkness alone have never seen what the light can do.

Skyforge previews the Lightbinder

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Skyforge enters its second phase of closed beta tomorrow, with more classes to explore and more regions open to players. If you've taken part...
Of course 400 million people can be wrong. it just means they have a wider range of collective error.

Dungeon Fighter Online kicks off open beta today

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Sometimes, it's very difficult to explain what's happening in the world of MMOs; other times it's incredibly simple. This is one of the latter...

The Secret World extends its multi-issue sale to veterans, throws week-long event

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Nobody likes getting cut out of a good deal. When The Secret World announced that it was selling a generously discounted "enhanced player experience"...

Crowfall passes $1.4 million in fundraising, eyes Minotaurs

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In the final hours of Crowfall's Kickstarter campaign, the community and studio are racing to see just how high they can push that final...

H1Z1 has sold a million copies on Steam

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I think you'll agree with me that Daybreak could really use some good news right about now, and today, it's got some. Daybreak President...

Elder Scrolls Online console preorders are now open

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Having relaunched The Elder Scrolls Online as a buy-to-play, sub-optional PC game last week, ZeniMax has now announced pre-orders for the console versions of...
You can't really go back again.

World of Warcraft gears up for WoW Tokens and arena championships

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Can you part with real money more easily than you can part with hours of time to farm up gold in World of Warcraft?...

Not So Massively: D3’s ladder reset, HOTS’ team league mode, and Starfall Tactics

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Diablo III is getting ready to close its second ladder only two months in on April 5th but will be providing a 100% gold...

RuneScape adds its 200th quest

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A new quest in RuneScape is something to be celebrated and enjoyed, as that MMO's quests often go far above and beyond menial tasks....

Final Fantasy XI welcomes spring with this week’s update

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It's terribly hard to believe that it's already spring, particularly if you're watching a glacier slowly envelop your neighborhood in the northern hemisphere. Fortunately,...

Players seek world record for longest Hearthstone turn

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By setting up a chain reaction of around 240,000 arcane missiles targeting a player who cannot be killed at the moment, two players have...
IT'S THE FINAL COUNT DOWN

Frontier turns Elite bug into community event

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Frontier has turned an Elite: Dangerous bug into a canonical community event that is still ongoing through March 26th. A player purportedly fired on...

Dave Georgeson talks all things MMOs

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Have you missed the enthusiastic Dave Georgeson since he got the boot from Daybreak last month? Well, he certainly hasn't gone into seclusion; Georgeson...

Dungeon Fighter Online returns tomorrow

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After a two-year absence from the NA gaming scene, Dungeon Fighter Online is roaring back for another chance. The title's first open beta test...
EVE Online

Big changes are in the works for EVE structures

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CCP has released a giant dev blog that covers EVE Online's new structure system. Much of it is "highly theoretical," and the company says...

Douglas Firs cripple City of Titans’ framerate

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File this under "amusing development moments:" The City of Titans team was struggling with low framerate performance for its pre-alpha test map, and only...

Crowfall hits stretch goals for mounts, caravans, and free pack pig

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With only a few days to go, Crowfall is hitting stretch goals left and right in its quest to be one of the best-funded...

Asteroids: Outpost tests out the ore buggy

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Classic video game-cum-MMO Asteroids: Outpost is making strides forward in its testing, according to updates on Steam. While the game is in pre-alpha testing...