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Today’s Repopulation patch makes ‘massive changes’ to combat

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If you're looking to test The Repopulation this morning, well, it's going to be down for four to eight hours. That's the bad news....
Camelot Unchained

Camelot Unchained teases ability crafting system

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What's new with Camelot Unchained? Well, let's see: City State has knocked a bunch of items off the fourth iteration of its pre-alpha checklist,...

Crowfund: Crowfall easily passes its fundrasing goal

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Call it Crowfund. In only a few short days, Crowfall has passed its $800,000 crowdfunding goal -- and there looks to be no end...

Heavy Gear Assault brings robot battling to a wider world

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Mech fighters now have another option for their online gaming pleasure, as a title called Heavy Gear Assault has been making its way through...

Warhammer 40k gets a MOBA of its own

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The popular dark universe of Warhammer 40,000 is heading not only to MMOs but to MOBAs as well. Whitebox Interactive is working on a new...

Rumor: Hearthstone may be prepping a Blackrock Mountain adventure

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What's next for the ever-hot Hearthstone? Hearthhead reported that a data mining expedition has uncovered references to Blackrock Mountain dungeon cards, meaning that card...

Shadowrun Online lands physical distributor, adds February patch

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Shadowrun Online's future prospects as a sustainable title have gone up sharply now that the game has found a physical distributor. Cliffhanger Productions signed...

Guild Wars 2 rethinks the defiance system for Heart of Thorns

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Just when you thought it was safe to enter an expansion jungle, think again. The Guild Wars 2 dev team is hard at work...

Skyforge announces closed beta start and sells Founder’s Packs

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Skyforge wannabe deities, you may want to clear your calendar for early next month because closed beta is coming! The team announced today that...
Shroud of the Avatar

Shroud of the Avatar upgrades to Unity 5 for Release 15

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Shroud of the Avatar's Release 15 begins today. In fact, it begins this morning at 11:30 a.m. EST. The new build features Unity 5,...

Guild Wars 2 will implement first-person POV in March

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File this one under things we didn't see coming: ArenaNet has just announced that it will fulfill a long-running fan request by adding a first-person point-of-view...
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Final Fantasy XIV has over 4 million registered accounts

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"Fledgling adventurers continue to arrive in Eorzea in droves," says Square, "and we are pleased to announce that the realm is now home to...
War Thunder

War Thunder’s ‘Big Guns’ patch adds IL-2, B-29, and more

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Gaijin announced a "major update" for War Thunder this week. The 1.47 Big Guns patch adds the game's largest tank (the Pz.Kpfw.VIII Maus) and...

SMITE adds the warrior Bellona to the fray

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SMITE has taken another giant step forward as the MOBA has introduced its first true female warrior to the champion pantheon. Bellona is a take-no-prisoners...
Call of Champions

Spacetime making ‘bite-sized’ MOBA Call of Champions

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Does the world need another MOBA? We're going to find out, as Spacetime Studios is the latest game developer to hop on the bandwagon....
SWTOR

BioWare prepping SWTOR ‘Operation Victory’ tourney

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BioWare has partnered with e-sports company ESL Gaming to host a competition dubbed Operation Victory. It involves speed-running eight-player story mode operations from Star...

City of Titans shows old test environment before scrapping it

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New games don't spring into being overnight; they take lots of work and incremental steps to a finished product. That goes double for a...

Champions Online is fiddling with costume prices

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Champions Online is still alive! How do we know? It's fiddling with its cash shop prices come March 5th. A forum post explains the...

League of Legends adds Bard, the Wandering Caretaker

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Do you like roaming around and picking up random junk on the ground? Then you might be the perfect player type to handle League...

DCUO cracks down on Hades raid exploit

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Players who took advantage of an exploit in the new DC Universe Online Hades raid faced the ire of the Daybreak Game Company this...