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Guild Wars 2’s first beta event for End of Dragons’ elite specs is live today

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If you're anxious to get your hands on the first three Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons elite specs, then today is your day...
Boredom sets in.

Elyon gives a look at its six different classes in latest video

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The video content continues to pour out of Elyon, with the game's latest video showcasing its six different classes. The video provides a general...

MUD creator Richard Bartle’s seminal book on designing MMOs is now free

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When MMORPG players encounter the name "Bartle," they think less malt liquor and more a man who helped to pioneer the massively multiplayer online...
It lurks.

California DFEH moves to protect Riot workers from retaliation for cooperating in state investigation

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Blizzard isn't the only gaming studio under fire by regulators in California: We've been covering a similar situation within League of Legends company Riot...

Cloud Imperium says ‘there’s NO place for racism in the Star Citizen community’

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Several members of the Star Citizen community messed around and found out. The story begins with a plea to CIG to introduce a profanity...

Aika Online announces a September 15 sunset date

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In this latest episode of "I didn't even realize that game was still running," Aika Online is finally closing its doors after over a...

World of Warships studio Wargaming addresses row that led to influencer exodus

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Yesterday, MOP's Ben Griggs deep-dived a shocking development in the World of Warships community: As many as 22 content creators had abruptly quit Wargaming's...

Moonlight Sculptor merges servers tomorrow, previews content update

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The future of mobile MMO Moonlight Sculptor is one of merging servers and extra layers of existing content according to the game's most recent...

War Thunder’s Summer Landing event offers rare vehicles for completing achievements

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What War Thunder player doesn't like getting free vehicles? The game is all about military vehicles blowing one another up, so presumably having more...

Profane shares another alpha roadmap update, plans to test character creation soon

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PvP MMO Profane is back on its Twitter trip, this time offering another update to its alpha roadmap and a quick rundown of the...

RuneScape opens the Senntisten mini dig site and hands out free action bar presents in latest update

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Last week RuneScape talked up the small scale Senntisten Archaeology dig site that was coming today, so it stands to reason that this week's...

How to make 18-year-old Star Wars Galaxies look pretty on one rogue server

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If you read my trip through Star Wars Galaxies Legends for Choose My Adventure, you already know I made a lot about the help...

Path of Exile’s next patch makes a number of changes to Expedition vendors

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Either sometime today or later this week, Path of Exile will be getting its next patch, but as of yesterday players are able to...
Ah... huh.

Atlas previews plants and spider mounts arriving in the game’s next major patch

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So, Atlas fans, what do you want from the next major patch? Small clan support? Well, that's not in there. Major bug fixes? Uh......

City of Titans’ flight travel power is getting good tester feedback

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There is no superhero travel power as iconic as flight -- and none that is as important for a superhero MMO to get right....

Brazilian police have arrested a suspect in the murder of an Overwatch voice actress

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PC Gamer is reporting the shocking news that Brazilian voice actress Christiane Louise has been murdered and that police have now arrested the suspected...

Blade and Soul 2 offers a quick look at sword versus axe one-on-one PvP gameplay

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There have been plenty of videos coming out of Blade and Soul 2, but a vast majority of them have been pre-rendered CG animations,...

Project Gorgon teases its August patch, with five new non-combat skills

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It's been a month and change since we peeked into Project Gorgon, and if you just follow the game on Twitter, you will have...
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WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s burning of Teldrassil plot wrap-up is terrible

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Fair warning: This post contains spoilers for the current World of Warcraft plotline for anyone who has not finished up the latest parts of...
Put a leash on it.

Bless Unleashed PC counts a million downloads on PC since its Steam launch

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So, how is Bless Unleashed doing since its PC launch earlier this month? Well, apparently, as it's now claiming 1M downloads on PC alone. "Neowiz...