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Overwatch nixes hero pools from competitive play

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Freedom! That's the shout of Overwatch players this week as they heard the news that Blizzard is removing hero pools from the competitive play...
That's Trek for you.

Star Trek Online promises Romulan boosting while fan podcast calls for a boycott of the game in support of Black Lives Matter

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The developers behind Star Trek Online are letting players boost up a Romulan. A new level boost pack coming soon allows you to start...
We're here! We're... that's it, actually.

EverQuest’s Jen Chan apologizes for ongoing issues, compensates players

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Apparently it's been a rough scene in both EverQuest games over the past few months. And this isn't coming from our readers; Darkpaw's Jen...
Hell hell hell hell

Neverwinter explores the regions of Avernus for its upcoming module

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When the next module arrives in Neverwinter, you can go to Hell. Specifically, the first layer of the Nine Hells, Avernus, a war-torn wasteland of...
Oddly beautiful.

Wake of the Storm brings new weapons, accessories, runes, and an instance to Aion EU

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European players of Aion are facing the Wake of the Storm, which sounds pretty dramatic as update names go. Several of the patch's features...

Path of Exile outlines changes to Warcry skills coming with the next update

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The march of adjustment details continues on from Path of Exile in the run-up to the release of the Harvest League. The latest forum...

Trove’s ‘splendid summer event’ is live today with a new quest track

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Gamigo is giving a smidge of love to more than ArcheAge this week: Trove is getting in on the summer fun with a new...
Black Lives Matter.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 275: What truly matters

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Justin, MJ, and Bree talk Black Lives Matter, Path of Exile, Elite Dangerous, FFXIV Fanfest, with adventures in ESO, WoW, Astroneer, LOTRO, Subnautica, SWG Legends, and mailbag topics on redesigning mages and what WoW did right.

Star Citizen shares answers and results from its Theaters of War AMA

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This past Friday, the devs of Star Citizen posted their replies to an AMA all about Theaters of War, the combined arms PvP mode...
Destined even further.

Destiny 2 announces three expansions, including Beyond Light, and launches Season of Arrivals

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Bungie ran a whopper of a Destiny 2 reveal stream today, announcing literally all the things. OK, just four or so of the things,...

Amazon’s New World character progression will seem comfortably familiar to MMO fans

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Listen up, all you bad boys and rude girls: Amazon Games' New World is seriously still slated for launch on August 25th, and if...
Hottttt

Neverwinter will improve its player scaling tech with the Avernus module

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When it comes to scaling tech in MMOs -- of artificially adjusting a player's levels and stats to fit a zone's level range --...
Dagrons!

See where you fall in the obscure World of Warcraft iceberg of knowledge

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Oh, you know about obscure World of Warcraft things? That's great. But do you really know about it? Sure, you might think you know lots of...
Jump in any time.

TERA launches the Awakening update on consoles June 30

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It's a big wake-up call for players in TERA on the game's console version, as both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions will get...

EA Sports beefs up efforts against toxic chat in-game, PS5 confirms its new reveal event date

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The continued effort by gaming companies to clear their chat of hate has another large contributor: EA Sports. In a statement posted to Twitter, the...

Elite Dangerous’ Fleet Carriers update is live today on PC and console

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It didn't quite make its original launch time this morning, but it is nevertheless patch day for Frontier's Elite Dangerous, as the long-awaited Fleet...

Warframe’s Deadlock Protocol update is set to arrive to PC this week

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PC players of Warframe are going to have their hands full later in the week when The Deadlock Protocol arrives to the game, bringing...
Sailing, sailing,

Hearthstone is boarded by pirates while Diablo wraps up Season 20

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It's not International Talk Like a Pirate Day, but cutthroat seafarers are making the headlines over in Hearthstone with today's Patch 17.4. The update...
Again, again!

The first esports tournament in World of Warcraft: Classic is the new Summer Bowl

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Now that there's a second form of World of Warcraft out and playable, don't you want to know who's the best player in WoW...

EVE Online pirate pillages $60K worth of items from a shutdown Citadel

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Last week we reported on a new kind of thievery happening in EVE Online thanks to a recent update which causes unpowered Citadels to...

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