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Player-run Open Perpetuum goes fully free-to-play on Steam

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Care for a little free-to-play sandbox gaming? How about one where you are a robot in an open world? If you've been curious about...

Elite: Dangerous asks for player assistance to pin down some top-voted issue tracker bugs

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Bug squashing can be a sort of team effort between game devs and game players, and it's in that spirit of cooperation that Elite:...

Lineage II’s casual friendly version includes an action-packed solo dungeon

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Hopefully you didn't miss the word that Lineage II is about to launch a brand-new version of the game that's far more casual-friendly than...

PlanetSide 2 brings back its summer weapons, introduces new vehicle engine cosmetics

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It's time once again for players of PlanetSide 2 to trade in their lethal firearms for some squirt guns as the shooter's summertime even...
Sorry for blur.

Final Fantasy XI prepares a Ramuh-filled update for August

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The developers of Final Fantasy XI really hope you like everyone's best-known avatar of lightning, Ramuh, because he's going to be featured a lot...
No screenshots yet, obviously.

Playable Worlds’ lead designer: ‘Our industry does not thrive on ideas’

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Raph Koster's startup Playable Worlds is working on an MMORPG. A big one. A big one we don't know much about yet, in spite...

SMITE’s next god is Charybdis, the Ceaseless Whirlpool

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I'm actually a bit surprised that it's taken SMITE this long to add this character, particularly since Scylla is already a playable option. Regardless,...

Amazon Games just delayed New World again, now to September 28

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Amazon Games has just announced on Twitter that it's postponing the launch of New World. "e're going to take a few extra weeks to smash...

Dungeons and Dragons Online invites players to discover the Sinister Secrets of Saltmarsh today (for money)

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Today is the day for Dungeons and Dragons Online players to get their boots mired in water, mud, and secrets. Today marks the launch...
Sounds like trouble.

Aliens: Fireteam Elite previews its soundtrack and difficulty modes

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Beneath the sudden sparks of gunfire, the hissing of something hiding in the dark, and the sound of a team slowly stepping through infested...
Sulking.

Vague Patch Notes: Blizzard may live on, but it will never be Blizzard again

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If you want to chart the moment when Blizzard stopped being Blizzard, you got a really nice data point when J. Allen Brack stepped...
Rise of the TREE more like.

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen talks limited action sets, traits and dispositions, and other MMO launches

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It's time once more for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's VIP developer roundtable podcast for the month of July. In this episode, Ben Walters...
Looking for more to make a boat work.

Book of Travels teases the groundwork of how cooperative play will work with Endeavours

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It goes without saying that the point of Book of Travels is that you will not be grouping up with other players to descend...

EverQuest II plots Toil and Trouble for next week, teases dinosaur/centaur expansion

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Daybreak's Jenn Chan has surfaced with a letter to the EverQuest II community this week that spills a few beans on the game's next...

Crowfall plans scoring and reward changes for Conquest campaigns

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Earlier this week, ArtCraft elevated Crowfall's first big patch since launch to the live servers, bringing the 3v3 faction PvP fully online and opening...

Elder Scrolls Online shores up its Waking Flame dungeons

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As Elder Scrolls Online focuses on its Waking Flame DLC this month, ZeniMax is working to make sure that the associated dungeons aren't falling...
Primary!

RIFT quietly retires free subscription trial from Steam

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Fans of RIFT haven't seen a lot to give them optimism about the MMO's future this year, especially following team layoffs and transfers back...
Point.

Activision-Blizzard Day 14: Brack and Meschuk exits, fraud lawsuit, proto-union, and Q2 financials

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It's been a helluva Tuesday in the swamps of the Activision-Blizzard sexism scandal: The day opened with the departure of J. Allen Brack from...

Apex Legends adds a new character, updates its map, and kicks off ranked arenas in Emergence update

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The battle royale shooting of Apex Legends has gotten a little bit more artistic. That's according to the general vibe of the title's latest...
Pnuk

Corepunk delays its beta testing until December

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Bad news to anyone who was heavily anticipating Corepunk's previously planned first beta test happening this month. The developers made a short video today...