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World of Warcraft: Classic is planning to allow free character transfers off low-population servers

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The direction of free server transfers can tell you a lot about what's coming next for a game's servers. If WoW Classic were offering players...

SWTOR’s character creation screen gets a makeover for Legacy of the Sith

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All those Star Wars: The Old Republic players who will be flocking to make new characters with the flexible combat styles system next month...

Lord of the Rings Online launches its eighth expansion, Fate of Gundabad

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Who's ready to get funky with Dwarves underground and Brawlers over the landscape? Lord of the Rings Online players, that's who. Today marks the...

Guild Wars 2 teases End of Dragons’ Echovald Wilds biome

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One of the best-loved locations in Classic Guild Wars was Echovald Forest, the overgrown, gothic home of the Kurzick faction. Just based on concept art...

New World’s test server opens today with void gauntlet, new quests, and trading post unification

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It's another big day for New World: Amazon is opening up a public test realm to let players test out its coming content update. The...

Villagers and Heroes looks at a level cap increase and home decoration

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This past year, we've been a little concerned about Villagers and Heroes. The cross-platform MMO, which boasts a lot of fun features, has gone...

Daybreak’s Jack Emmert is geeking out over DC Universe Online’s December Legion of Doom

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Jack Emmert, CEO of Daybreak sub-studio Dimensional Ink, is geeking out over DC Universe Online's upcoming Legion of Doom episode in December. His excitement...

Blade and Soul breaks down the Demonsbane system arriving with tomorrow’s update

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Tomorrow, NCSoft is adding some new content to Blade and Soul, including the Aerodrome dungeon, the centerpiece of the game's Demonsbane system that promises...

Dauntless brings the Ramsgiving seasonal event and an island event featuring angry pigs on November 23

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With all of the deadly creatures roaming the world of Dauntless, few are as devastating and powerful as the ram and the gruk-gruk, which...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 346: Endwalker, ArcheAge, Lost Ark, and New World

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Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's Endwalker delay, WoW's financials and player council, ArcheAge's new publisher, Gamigo's new MMORPG, Lost Ark's beta, New World's state, DDO update 51, Elder Scrolls Online's Deadlands, Harry Potter Wizard Unite's sunset, and Crowfall's freemium update, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallen Earth, City of Heroes, and Star Wars Galaxies, plus a mailbag topic on worry about the future of the genre.

Riot Games teases Legends of Runeterra’s Path of Champions and new LoL spinoff Hextech Mayhem

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Riot Games is continuing its cavalcade of announcements and reveals this week. First, the company's Riot Forge division revealed another League of Legends spinoff,...
Zorp? Phasers don't go zorp.

Star Trek Online patches in a new warship event as Reflections is live for console players

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Who doesn't like a free warship? It is suspected that Star Trek Online console players like free warships. Presumably non-console players also like free warships,...
BURNS

Neverwinter comes under siege starting on November 11

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So... hey, Neverwinter players, quick round of questions. Who exactly was it that told the Cult of the Dragon that they needed to siege...

Wakfu’s next big update features a level cap increase and five new adventure islands

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It's not every day when the bizarrest MMORPG in town gets a preview for a major update, but that day arrived this week as...
Chop chop.

Final Fantasy XIV clarifies the timetable for events in the wake of the Endwalker delay

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The events taking place in Final Fantasy XIV right now were kind of predicated on the belief that the game's next expansion would be released...

EVE Online’s New Dawn quadrant promises mining updates, more resources, and new exploration sites

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Today marks a New Dawn for EVE Online, which is the title of the game's newest quadrant of updates as well as the herald...

Guild Wars 2 adds the ability to hide visual effects for certain legendary trinkets in today’s patch

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I don't know about you, but when I get a powerful piece of equipment, nothing cools down my excitement at the new shiny faster...

EverQuest II celebrates its 17th anniversary, hires a new tradeskill designer

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Where were you back in November 2004 when EverQuest II first came on the scene? A lot of expectations were placed on this follow-up...

WoW Classic defends Season of Mastery choices, preps name reservations

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As the beta for WoW Classic's fresh start "Season of Mastery" servers has come to a close, players looking to go through the classic...
I'm purely decorative!

New World addresses combat changes, mass reports, world transfers, and more

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Amazon has made good on its promise to improve its communication with the New World fanbase, as it's made a rash of comments on...