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PlanetSide 2 player passes one million kills and becomes a ‘killionaire’

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PlanetSide 2 recently welcomed its first "killionaire," as player Mentis2k6 reached one million kills on a single character. In honor of the occasion, Daybreak...

Darklands creator Arnold Hendrick passes away at age 69 due to cancer

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Game dev lost another of its luminaries recently with the news that Arnold Hendrick has passed away at age 69, succumbing to terminal cancer...

Project Gorgon changes its UI, tweaks Fairies, and revises beehive encounters

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The most recent update for Project Gorgon has made a pretty broad swath of adjustments overall. One of the first series of changes are...

Ship of Heroes preps June test run with new animations and better performance

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It's June, folks, and you know what that means: Ship of Heroes' promised next test. "Today is June 1st and we said we are targeting...
The other side.

Wisdom of Nym: So, if there is a Final Fantasy XVI…

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It's been about a year since I wrote about Naoki Yoshida's mystery project, which still has not actually been announced in any way and...

Camelot Unchained works on bug squashing in preparation for its RvR scenario test

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The month of May has seen the shoes of Camelot Unchained's developers coated in bug guts. The weekly Top Tenish report details a variety...

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen showcases animation syncing and how certain stats can affect storylines

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has a couple of things to show you. Video things. Two video things. Two video things about combat animation...

Desert Oasis: Recapping Black Desert’s Heidel Ball, from backstage to balancing

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One of the complications of playing playing Black Desert is that it operates on UTC. Since I live in California, aka the center of...

Star Wars Galaxies Legends shows off Bespin, paves the way for Empire Day 2020

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Things are still being updated in the rogue server known as Star Wars Galaxies Legends in 2020, and the latest community transmission newsletter has...

Guild Wars 2 players have a wedding in-game after their real-life one is postponed

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We all know that the pandemic put the kibosh on a whole lot of larger events, but we also have seen lots of smaller...

MMO Week in Review: Elder Scrolls Online’s Greymoor, Guild Wars 2’s living story, and the PSO2 clowncar

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This week - along with the rest of 2020 - is not being kind to the world, but for MMOs, it's not been wholly...

Indie MMO One Hour One Life’s latest update annihilates nearly all of its reported issues

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The indie sandbox MMO One Hour One Life has made a lot of strides recently, with the game continuing to crank out new updates...

The MOP Up: Second Life’s super expensive brothel

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It's not every week that my editor marches up to me and demands that I cover virtual brothels as headlining stories, but this did...

World of Warcraft offers up a new short story about a… poetry contest

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Thalyssra and Lor'themar are about to have a poetry slam! Okay, not really, but in a new short story from World of Warcraft, the...
Ahem.

Ashes of Creation partially lifts its NDA, discusses open world housing and caravans in a livestream

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Things appear to be going rather swimmingly for Ashes of Creation. During the game's most recent developer livestream, the team touted an eight hour-long...

Lord of the Rings Online confirms Summer Festival and Farmer’s Faire for August

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For those Lord of the Rings Online players who work their free time in-game around events, there's been an asterisk on the game's Summer...

Phantasy Star Online 2 offers installation fix suggestions, promises a hitching patch on June 10

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Phantasy Star Online 2 has made good on the promise for more communication it made in its apology for the MMO's botched launch posted...
All right, here we go.

Betawatch: Torchlight III wraps up its closed testing

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So it appears that Torchlight III has finished its round of closed testing! Great! And what happens next for the game? When is the next round...

Sea of Thieves’ Lost Treasures update adds checkpoints to Tall Tales, daily bounties, and regular events

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The latest content update for Sea of Thieves has brought a bunch of treasures. Lost Treasures, to be exact. Except they're found and being...

Gloria Victis adds a new world event, kicks off its new Glory season, and improves AI and party system

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It's been a hot minute since Gloria Victis last graced our news page, so for anyone who hasn't been keeping regular tabs on the...

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