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Former UK Star Citizen player outlines the steps he took to get a refund from CIG

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If you're dissatisfied with how Star Citizen is being managed to the point that you want a refund and you happen to live in...

Starbase adds expandable easy build areas for stations and blueprint shopping lists for the auction house

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"Honey, would you go to the auction house of Starbase and get me some blueprints? Make sure to use the shopping list." This is...

Lost Ark takes you to a Honey, I Shrunk the Kids zone

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There are few MMOs that we have waited for as long as Lost Ark, and at this point we will take any balm to...

Albion Online’s latest patch updates various weapon lines and adds new header information for black zone maps

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The Call to Arms update of Albion Online has gotten yet another patching in Call to Arms 11, with particular focus on combat balance...
Yeah, that makes sense.

Old School RuneScape announces plans to combat gold selling and duel arena scamming

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Real-world trading of gold and duel arena scamming have been constant thorns in the side of Old School RuneScape, so much so that the...
Point.

World of Warcraft tweaks another NPC name and more dialogue to reduce transphobia, racism, and sexism

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Not every movie or reference ages particularly well. Case in point: World of Warcraft had an NPC named Finkle Einhorn as a reference to the...

Hearthstone’s PvE-leaning Mercenaries expansion has arrived

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If you're the kind of Hearthstone player that prefers to play more single-player content, then the game's newest expansion, Mercenaries, could be right up...

Guild Wars 2 dates livestream previews of End of Dragons zones, expansion features, and siege turtles

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Hold up, the End of Dragons expansion of Guild Wars 2 is getting siege turtles? Like... giant tortoises mounted with siege weaponry stomping onto...
These cores require additional punks.

Corepunk shows off 15 minutes of PvE gameplay

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When I saw that Corepunk's Artificial Core had put up a 15-minute video of the game's PvE experience, my immediate reaction was, "About dang...

New World’s update adjusts faction influence, but we still have no transfers

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We've made it past the two-week mark since the launch of Amazon's New World, and this week, MOP's even kicked off a new column...

Former ArenaNet boss Jeff Strain’s new gaming company is called Possibility Space

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There's a new games studio in town: Possibility Space, led by veteran game executive Jeff Strain. Strain, of course, is best known to MMORPG...

LOTRO expansion pre-patch adds Halloween, Brawlers, LI revamp, and housing hook consolidation

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While Standing Stone Games might not be calling today's Lord of the Rings Online update the expansion pre-patch, but... it's the Fate of Gundabad...
The promise fulfilled

Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: An interview with Naoki Yoshida

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One of the things that I've always respected about Naoki Yoshida as a director and producer is that the man is clearly deeply involved...
Sagacious!

Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing three of the new zones

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Zones! They're kind of important. And we got to preview a couple of the Endwalker zones during the Final Fantasy XIV media tour, so...
Into the unknown.

Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing the Tower of Zot

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So this is an interesting deviation from the usual set of dungeons that we see in the media tours. Normally, the dungeon that media...
Saw.

Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing the ranged physical DPS jobs

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Out of all the different roles in Endwalker, I'd argue that ranged physical DPS is the easiest one to understand. Not in the sense...
Tnak

Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing the tank jobs

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So I'm not going to lie to you here: If you're happy with your tank job of choice in Shadowbringers, you're going to be...
Exploding time.

Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing the magical DPS jobs

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Looking at the magical DPS jobs in the Endwalker expansion is kind of a trip. Two of them are, if I'm being honest, largely...
And the rest.

Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing the healing jobs

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Let's be real about something: The Endwalker expansion for Final Fantasy XIV was always going to make healers feel a bit like "Sage and...
Slice.

Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing the melee DPS jobs

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I'm going to start this particular part of the Final Fantasy XIV media tour by just reassuring everyone who's reading that if you were...