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Warcraft

Here’s a look at Orgrim from the Warcraft movie

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Wired has our first look at Orgrim from Duncan Jones' forthcoming Warcraft film. Who's Orgrim? Well, he's an orc warchief and the creation of...
MXMO

Master X Master Online is an NCsoft MOBA with a twist

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Are you curious about NCsoft's Master X Master Online? Steparu's put the game through its paces and has nice things to say about it, concluding...
Ex Machina

NCsoft hopes its AI tech will lead to less predictable game environments

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NCsoft is spending time and money on artificial intelligence, according to a report in the Korea IT Times. "Controlling games mobile environment is...

Albion Online’s newest dev answers community queries, snaps at EVE trolls

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Albion Online is surely milking its acquisition of Game Designer Matt Woodward for all its worth. After Albion heralded his arrival with a level...

Valiance Online plots its strategy going forward

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What's going on in the super-powered world of Valiance Online? Quite a lot, actually. The spiritual successor to City of Heroes posted a list...

Mortal Online opens the doors to Sarducaa

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If you are a Mortal Online player, you were probably in heaven this past weekend, as the game patched in a whole new continent...

Ex-City of Heroes devs answer insane number of lore questions

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The now-annual City of Heroes "Loregasm" is complete, with ex-developers Matt Miller and Sean McCann delivering another wealth of insights into the late, great...

CCP Games buys back $20m in bonds, drops Legion trademark

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News is circulating in the EVE Online blogs and forum that developer CCP Games has just bought back $20 million in publicly traded bonds....

Blizzard ordered to pay costs in stymied lawsuit against gold seller

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It's not always a foregone conclusion that Blizzard will emerge triumphant from its many court cases. Recently, it chalked one up in the "loss"...

Elder Scrolls Online’s new trailer spotlights multiplayer content

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The Elder Scrolls Online is inching closer and closer to its console launch just three weeks from now, and that means... trailers! The last video...

ArcheAge spawns fresh Reddit drama over pay-to-win

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Third time's a charm with Reddit! Remember back in March when a Skyforge moderator threatened to ban anyone using the term pay-to-win and was...

Voxelnauts Kickstarter melds VR, voxels, and sandbox gameplay

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What do you get when you stick a sandbox, voxels, and VR into a blender? You get Voxelnauts, a new voxelbox -- actually, they're calling...

Week in Review: NCsoft’s wild week (May 17, 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! NCsoft...
Elite Dangerous

Elite’s Mac client benefits the PC; Powerplay update delayed

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Hey Elite fans, did you miss Friday's newsletter #75? If so, it's worth reading for the news about the Mac client and the Powerplay beta. Originally...

Shroud of the Avatar gets slammed by DDoS attack

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If you're having trouble accessing Shroud of the Avatar's website or game, don't worry -- it's not you. The devs posted a notice on...

Guild Wars 2’s ‘movie monster’ Necromancer spec outlined

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Did you miss Guild Wars 2's Points of Interest stream on Friday? Me too. Every game seems to stream on Friday, and it's hard...

How Crowfall deals with changes to player purchases

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What do you do when you've already sold something that hasn't been fully built yet -- and might need to be changed from its...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: May 16, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Gloria Victis developer Black Eye Games let us know that it's in "the home stretch" in terms of...
Star Citizen

Test fly Star Citizen’s Aurora and Mustang for free this week

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If you're like me, you bought into Star Citizen way back in 2012 and you haven't dropped a dime since. Don't get me wrong...
AND NOW - I DIE!

Betawatch: May 15th, 2015

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I'm not going to lie to you, dear readers: I don't care much about Star Citizen. I am aware, though, that the actual big news...