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Make My MMO: Book of Travels’ Kickstarter travels past $150K and promises a player music system

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, the Kickstarter for Book of Travels journeyed onward as Might and Delight has now pulled in over $150K mark...
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Astellia’s content roadmap touts a PvP battleground, new zones, new dungeons, and Astel equipment

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Astellia has plans. Lots of plans. Big plans. Plans that stretch out into 2020's first quarter and onward. The devs have laid out their...

Guild Wars 2 talks about Strike Mission bosses in Whisper in the Dark and confirms more Mastery Points

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Curious about the Whisper in the Dark episode coming to Guild Wars 2 next week? Do you have roughly 30 minutes of time to...
Dagrons!

WoW Classic activates PvP honor and world bosses

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You better savor these content updates, WoW Classic players, because there are only a finite number of them left. Out of all of the...

Elder Scrolls Online posts an update regarding fixes to the Activity Finder

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Remember that Undaunted event in The Elder Scrolls Online? The one that had to be shut down after only a few hours due to...

ExileCon 2019: A look at Path of Exile 2, the Metamorph league, Conquerors of the Atlas, and mobile

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So much happened on stage at ExileCon 2019, Path of Exile's inaugural fan convention! What started with a visit from the great beast hunter...
All the things.

Betawatch: Pearl Abyss announces all the things

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Remember when Riot Games was all like "ha ha, we're going to announce all the titles ever, eat that?" Pearl Abyss looked at that...

The Division 2 ponders the future of its communication and state-of-the-game streams

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How much is too much information about a game? That depends on how much the game actually has on offer. Over the years, we've...

Wizard101 digs up trouble and adds a spell boosting system with the Wizard City Underground update

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Wizard City is a lot of things, but "dangerous" isn't normally one of them. At least, that used to be the case until one...

G-Star 2019: Netmarble’s Ni no Kuni boasts five classes and a new trailer

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Near the end of October, we caught wind of a mobile MMORPG based on the Ni no Kuni franchise, but there weren't alot of...

ExileCon 2019: Grinding Gear announces Path of Exile 2, Path of Exile Mobile, and Metamorph

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(We've updated the end of this post with the big news from the keynote!) Path of Exile is about to reveal its future. From the...

Mobile augmented reality game Minecraft Earth enters early access in the US

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The real world and the world of Minecraft -- or at least its general sense of collaborative building -- have combined with the early...
I HAVE COME AFLAME

H1Z1’s sixth season features paltry rewards and no actual patch features

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Remember when Daybreak changed H1Z1's name yet again, presumably to distance the title's console version from the already floundering PC version (also known as Z1 Battle...
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Blade and Soul’s Golden Harvest Festival is live

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Let's all go win some plates covered in food and then shove them into our filthy knapsacks so that we can turn them in...
...huh.

Rumor: A complete overhaul is in the works for Anthem

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So, you know how Anthem scaled back its content updates and seems to have started moving into quiet acceptance of being at a dead...

Old School RuneScape kicks off hard mode league, Jagex resurrects Premier Club subs

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Whether you're into RuneScape or Old School RuneScape, there's plenty for your eyeballs so soak up this week. Let's do Old School first, as...

Overwatch’s latest PTR build brings an overall buff to armor and nerfs to shields

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The latest PTR patch for Overwatch is bringing some pretty big changes to the tanking game. The latest patch notes outline some tweaks to...

Inside Star Citizen offers a look at its next in-development spaceship

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Every ship in Star Citizen gets people where they need to go, obviously, but what if you want to deposit several people at once...

Today in transmedia synergy: Fortnite’s cash shop is now vending Star Wars stormtrooper outfits

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Look, if at this point you're not doing something Star Warsy in your video game, you're just doing games wrong. Most studio are gonna...
I believe we have a spaceship.

The Alliance has a fully staffed and functional spaceship in World of Warcraft and never uses it

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Who doesn't like a nice big spaceship? The Alliance in World of Warcraft, apparently. A recent article on Polygon points out that in Battle for Azeroth,...

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