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MMO Week in Review: LOTRO and Guild Wars celebrate big birthdays

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Business is booming for MMOs and online games, as the world under lockdown nevertheless turned in a stellar games industry revenue report card for...

The MOP Up: Star Sonata 2 reboots the universe

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If you've been playing Star Sonata 2, you need to prepare yourself for the end of the universe -- and the start of a...

Overwatch previews updates to queue times, the Workshop, and the communication wheel

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While the Overwatch team has to work from home, that doesn't mean they don't have things planned for the multiplayer hero shooter, and director...

Bless Unleashed maps out content updates through November

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Bless Unleashed has a content plan and it's sticking to it. The game has put out a content roadmap for April that outlines plans...

Make My MMO: Fractured’s June alpha will include its first attempt at proper player cities

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Fractured's current alpha test will come to a close, but don't fret: Dynamight is plotting the next round for June,...

EVE Online outlines timeline details and term limits for the next Council of Stellar Management

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The Council of Stellar Management (CSM) is going to be changing in EVE Online, and not just because the 15th elections are planned. There...

Classic Guild Wars RPG Maker fan project releases ‘feature complete’ version

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About a year ago, we covered a wholesome fan project to rebuild Classic Guild Wars with RPG Maker, and now it's back with an...
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TERA is swapping to properly transparent lockboxes

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With the next content update on Tuesday, April 28th, the lootboxes of TERA are getting a major refresh. Soon, all of the MMO's lootboxes...
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Betawatch: Star Citizen gets a nice guide to everything not in its next alpha patch

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So, the bad news for Star Citizen fans is that some features of its next major patch are being removed, and by "some" we...

Life Beyond’s latest update opens up more of the map’s edges

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Give me land, lots of land, under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. The devs of Life Beyond have heard you, Gene Autry,...
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Star Wars Galaxies Legends is hosting newbie welcome events this weekend

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When I first dipped my toe into the Star Wars Galaxies Legends rogue server two years ago, the game routinely hovered around a peak...

Fortnite’s Travis Scott concert draws in a record 12.3M concurrent and 27.7M total players

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It seems like Fortnite players are more than eager to attend a free in-game concert. Earlier this week we wrote about a performance with...

Bungie confirms a sharp rise in Destiny 2 cheating, explains what it’s doing to mitigate it

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While this week's update from Destiny 2 has plenty of things for fans to read over, one of the bigger topics is about cheaters....

Star Citizen answers questions about the Quantum system, talks about its new work-from-home life

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Earlier this week we told you about an upcoming AMA from Star Citizen focused on Quantum, the background simulation that will effectively let the...

RIFT’s newest raid world bosses are basic creatures that are super-sized and super angry

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Taking out masses of basic creatures like squirrels and spiders in MMORPGs is generally an inconsequential part of the player character's journey. Today it's...
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World of Warcraft appears to be quietly ignoring Battle for Azeroth’s genocidal intro in Shadowlands

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Calia Menethil: "All right, fellow Forsaken... I know a lot has happened over the past however long it's supposed to have been since this...

Elder Scrolls Online’s ZeniMax Online Studios snapped up a BioWare vet for what sounds like its new MMO

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We've known that ZeniMax Online Studios, the Bethsoft sibling behind Elder Scrolls Online, has been working on another MMORPG for a while - since...
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Final Fantasy XIV previews patch 5.3, Reflections in Crystal

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The upcoming patch 5.3 for Final Fantasy XIV might be taking a little longer to arrive than originally planned, but it's still on the...

Funcom: DUNE still ‘a few years away,’ will be a ‘more ambitious and robust version of Conan Exiles’

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This week, Funcom dropped its financial report for the entirety of 2019. It's not going to be a shock, since we covered all the...

The Nintendo account compromise was real, affecting as many as 160,000 gamers

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Earlier this week, we covered a brewing storm in the Nintendo community, as swarms of Switch owners and Nintendo users reported their Nintendo accounts...

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