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Steam launches its Remote Play feature today

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There are a lot of fun games on Steam that are kind of meant to be played by multiple people around a couch, but...
The whole world.

Path of Exile explains the Atlas changes coming in Conquerors of the Atlas

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The system changes in Path of Exile tend to be well-considered and arrive in reasonable timeframes. As the game prepares for the upcoming Conquerors of the...

Guild Wars 2 admits new fractals, raids, and even hairstyles are many months away

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As we're mulling over our own impressions of Guild Wars 2's latest content release, Whisper in the Dark, the players who've likely already finished...
I'll never get over you getting over me.

Torchlight Frontiers is letting players help design in-game weapons

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Don't let this past weekend's revelation that Torchlight Frontiers has been delayed get you down: Echtra Games and PWE are charging ahead getting player-designed...
Mushrooms.

The Covenant abilities for Death Knights in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands have been revealed

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When World of Warcraft: Shadowlands arrives, every individual class will be choosing between four different class-specific abilities via the Covenants. Of course, enterprising fans on...
Back in order.

NCsoft unveils its mobile platform emulator, Purple

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NCsoft is big into mobile gaming, but it also wants people to be able to take that mobile gaming cross-platform. Rather than building a...

Roblox’s latest event taps some Star Wars Rise of Skywalker transmedia synergy

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All the Star Wars things, please! That's what Roblox is dishing up right now. The kid-centered building MMO partnered with no less than Disney...
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Neverwinter begins its Infernal Descent pre-events on November 21

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Yesterday, we covered the news that Neverwinter's next module, Infernal Descent, is on the way in January, with an adventure in the hellish territory...
great googly moogly

Hearthstone’s Battlegrounds mode rotates heroes and tweaks minion tiers

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The Battlegrounds mode of Hearthstone isn't as concerned with balance so much as it wants to provide a wild set of auto-battling madness. So it's...

Black Desert teams up with anime Berserk for themey ‘grim fantasy’ questing

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Anime fans, today's Black Desert PC update is for you. As teased, Kakao and Pearl Abyss have dropped some transmedia synergy all up in...

Activision-Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick downplays the role of politics in games

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Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick clearly doesn't fear the Blizzard boycott that is still technically ongoing following Blizzard's October decision to penalize a Hearthstone esports...

Diablo IV’s design team touches on BlizzCon feedback

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Undoubtedly, there is a lot of time between now and Diablo IV's launch, whenever that will be. This means that the online ARPG is...

Veteran MMORPG developer Brad McQuaid has passed away

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I'm sorry to report another MMORPG genre obituary tonight: It's just been announced that veteran MMORPG developer Brad McQuaid has died. McQuaid was probably best...

Starbase shares a list of progress notes made in the past week

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The videos that come out of Starbase are certainly fun and informative, don't get me wrong, but sometimes you need the hard data. The...
So much text, so ugly.

Black Desert Online introduces PlayStation 4 players to the world of fairy companions

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There are some players who think that Black Desert Online is an intensely hardcore game that rewards nothing so much as brutal combat efficiency. Then...
Neener neener.

Dauntless speeds up axes, hammers, and repeaters but nerfs aether strikers in latest patch

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I've been playing Dauntless for a long time now and I can 100% agree that the aether striker fist weapons still need a bit...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 247: Shopping for MMO guilds

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Justin and Bree discuss Dark Age of Camelot, Path of Exile, DDO, WoW Classic, FFXIV on Xbox One, and Anthem, with a sponsored segment on Kingdom Under Fire 2, and mailbag topics on the feel of old MMOs and shopping for guilds.
Can you see me?

The Elder Scrolls Online disables a purchased costume due to an invisibility exploit

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If you bought the Dungeon Explorer costume in The Elder Scrolls Online, you may have noticed that it is now a bit less... visible than...

Grab an adorable Vigo companion and free sub time in our Skyforge Ocean Invasion giveaway!

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Skyforge! Skyforge is the MMO I forgot when I was rattling off a list of MMORPGs that have made the jump from PC to...

Fallout 76’s latest patch focuses on bugs, but probably not the ones you wanted fixed

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It's a testament to how messy this year has been for Fallout 76 that I see patch notes on Twitter and cringe, hoping as...

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