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Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff promises housing, mod support, world events, dungeons, and more in roadmap

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There's plenty of things to come for the cutesy cubic multiplayer RPG Swords 'n Magic and Stuff, at least according to a roadmap update...

EverQuest II’s ongoing server hardware upgrades should produce results by September

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EverQuest II has suffered some legendary outages in the last year - one even kept players offline for over a week, and there were...

PlanetSide 2’s NSO faction revamp arrives to PlayStation 4 on August 25

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If you've been following along with the news coming out of PlanetSide 2, you know that it's been mostly about the Nanite System Operatives...

PSA: Star Citizen is holding another free fly event until August 27

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You want to hop into the 'Verse of Star Citizen but you also don't feel like investing in a starting package for a game...

Roblox sees net losses for Q2 2021, struggles with toxic player-generated content

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We've got a bunch of Roblox news on deck today. First, there's the Q2 2021 investor report. Readers will remember that in Q1, the...
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Fallout 76 doubles its experience ahead of this weekend’s QuakeCon

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It's just about time for QuakeCon, an event wherein every Bethesda game gets a seat at the table. Yes, even Fallout 76 is getting...

Starbase plans to amend its stance on stream sniping citing language that is ‘too encouraging’

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We're not sure exactly what Starbase developer Frozenbyte thought would happen when the game's griefing policies outright read "stream sniping is allowed," but apparently...

LOTRO producer interview talks more about legendary item and monetization revamps

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You'd barely even know that there's an expansion on the way for Lord of the Rings Online if you only took in the current...
Zoomies.

Final Fantasy XIV plans a stress test for the Japanese data centers… but not North America or Europe

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Ahead of the release of the Endwalker expansion, Final Fantasy XIV's staff wants to make sure that the game's servers are up for the...

Pokemon Go’s New Zealand rollbacks show Niantic is more concerned with local law than actual safety

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Good news: New Zealanders have had their Pokemon Go PokeStop and Gym radius restored to 80 meters, exactly what the community has been asking...
Keanu, why.

Cyberpunk 2077 patches in further improvements, balance changes, and free cosmetics

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If it's been some time since you fired up the single-player RPG Cyberpunk 2077 or you've been on the fence about buying in owing...

Elyon deep-dives its rune attributes system as CBT2 progresses

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If there's one thing that seems to be a major feature of Elyon, it's the variety of systems that let players customize their character....

NCsoft says Lineage W will launch this year for PC, mobile, PS5, and the Switch

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Last week, we covered NCsoft's initial reveal of Lineage W, yet another entry in the long-running Lineage franchise. Lineage W, however, was initially pitched...

Guild Wars 2 brings back its fourth season of living world play next week

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We're sure you're all pretty busy playing Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons first beta right about now - and if you're not, then...

EverQuest designer’s throwback MMO rebrands as Monsters & Memories

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You may recall that earlier this year we reported that former EverQuest and DCUO developer Shawn Lord was working on a "throwback" MMO, which...

The Repopulation says it’s been ‘quite the adventure’ as it gives a fall development roadmap

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Many people may have written off sandbox MMO The Repopulation a long time ago (especially when it changed hands), but perhaps decision was a...

ARK Survival Evolved shares new critters, wipes beginner servers, dates Genesis Part II server transfers

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It's been a fair bit of time since we caught up with the latest goings-on for dinosaur-ish survival sandbox ARK: Survival Evolved, so allow...

Pokemon Unite gets mobile release date, Sword and Shield to remain competitive center

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Today's Pokemon Presents wasn't the most exciting for fans of multiplayer online gaming, but there were a few kernels of information for us nonetheless....
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Continent of the Ninth Seal is moving over to Valofe from Webzen for publishing

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If you had some deep attachment to Webzen because the company was behind the publishing of Continent of the Ninth Seal, today's news will...
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Bless Unleashed brings around a summer event of tracking down salamanders

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Swimsuits! Weapon skins! The satisfaction of scooping up adorable lizards that happen to be blue and on fire! All this and more can be...