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Riot Games defends Valorant’s Vanguard security driver, offers a $100k bounty to exploit it

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Last week, Riot Games unveiled that their in-development competitive FPS Valorant runs an anti-cheat process in the background of player systems, which caused no...

Make My MMO: Project Gorgon is working on an epic animal husbandry system

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, MOP reader Dalton tipped us off to some fun stuff brewing in the near future for Project Gorgon. "Animal...

Fallout 76’s Wastelanders wins over Steam players, looks ahead to May

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With Fallout 76 reviews trending "mostly positive" on Steam following the release of this past week's Wastelanders content update, it looks as if Bethesda...
Gone, girl.

San Diego Comic Con is officially cancelled this year thanks to COVID-19

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It looks like the novel coronavirus has once again successfully put the kibosh on another major convention here in the US. San Diego Comic...
That arena is sure shadowy.

Betawatch: Shadow Arena’s final beta test is happening now

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It's the final countdown! Wait... no, I'm sorry, it's not a countdown at all. It's the actual final beta test for Shadow Arena and...

Destiny 2 pits its three classes against one another in the Guardian Games event on April 21

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The spirit of competition is coming to Destiny 2 and for once it's not about PvP. OK, it will likely involve a bit of...
Roast somebody.

World of Warcraft boosts reputation through May 18 and extends its experience boost

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If you've got some lingering reputations you want to raise before Shadowlands arrives in World of Warcraft, you've got some added help in doing...

Sea of Thieves on reviving crewmates, finding Tall Tales, and dealing with ragequitters

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In the most recent news roundup video from Sea of Thieves, players are getting a little peek at the home environments of some of...

ArcheAge tasks players with delivering watermelons in the Watermelon Event

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If you've ever picked up a watermelon, you know that they can sometimes be ponderously heavy, and their shape and smooth skin isn't doing...
OH NO BUGS

Sandboxy-ish Minecraft-ish spinoff Hytale is acquired by Riot Games

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We know that Riot Games has been making a hard push to move beyond its status of just having one major game under its...

NCsoft is already sunsetting its Aion: Legions of War mobile MMO

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It's been a good half a year since we covered Aion: Legions of War, the mobile MMO spun-off from the Aion franchise, back for...

Roblox will stream the One World: Together At Home event tomorrow

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Let's be real, the campaign slogans for the games studio efforts to fight COVID-19 have started getting a bit ridiculous. Play Apart Together. Stay...

Camelot Unchained talks about a new island scenario and other updates in a livestream

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Camelot Unchained held a mid-April livestream to share some of its latest progress with backers and fans. Specifically, Mark Jacobs, who broadcast live from...
Also, far too many dwarves.

Final Fantasy XIV’s first patch 5.3 preview is due for April 24

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We already know that patch 5.3 for Final Fantasy XIV is going to be a little bit delayed, but it turns out that even...

DC Universe Online’s latest Birds of Prey episode is live with gobs of new content

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Daybreak's DC Universe Online has been kicking ass and taking names lately, and it's doing it again now. Last night, the latest Birds of...

Take a fresh tour of Population Zero’s planet Kepler and biomes

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Leaving planet Earth right now doesn't seem like such a bad idea, although life on Kepler might be even tougher. This is the location...

Blade and Soul hammers out a Steel Uprising patch

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You know what would go down really nice right about now? A huge, hefty MMO content update. Or a shamrock milkshake from McDonald's. But...

Riot Games outlines rules for Valorant esports competition including a ‘no blood’ toggle

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With Valorant all over the gaming news recently and in the minds of a fair few (judging by the number of people watching streams...

Old School RuneScape brings more player requested improvements in the latest update

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There's a fresh update for Old School RuneScape, and much like the last one, this one continues to add Poll #70 requests, which means...

Torchlight III expands localization and talks up the player housing fort feature

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Good news for Spanish-speaking players of Torchlight III who would prefer to play in that language, as the game's most recent update has added...

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