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No Man’s Sky launches significant quality-of-life improvements and new features in tomorrow’s Synthesis update

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Where the Beyond update in No Man's Sky changed the game, the upcoming Synthesis update will refine it. This new large-scale update for the...

Guild Wars 2 lost yet another dev, this time a key living world designer

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If you're starting to get more than a little worried about the line of developers departing ArenaNet, you're not alone. As the Guild Wars...

Elder Scrolls Blades kills chest timers, adds PvP, and delays Switch release

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Major things are afoot in Elder Scrolls' mobile title. Bethesda just revealed the tentpole features of Blades Update 1.5, and none of it is...

Black Desert previews succession skills, begins new Mysterious Knight event

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Black Desert isn't letting a little thing like Thanksgiving and Black Friday get in the way of big updates across its multiple versions. Here's...

The best MMO sales of Black Friday 2019 (so far)

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True story, Thanksgiving is not at all my favorite holiday, but I absolutely love the online sales that follow it, especially when I don't...

Nexon will bring mobile MMORPG Project V4 to PC players in Korea this December

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Good news for Korean MMORPG fans: There's going to be another game to play from off of the mobile small screen to the PC...
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Heroes of the Storm rolls out Deathwing to its test server

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We're so sorry, Heroes of the Storm players; the arrival of Deathwing means doom and destruction. Fortunately, it seems likely that his approach will mean...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 248: Saying farewell to Aradune

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Bree and Justin mourn Brad McQuaid, dip into Guild Wars 2, side-eye Stadia, imagine 20 more years of LOTRO, and enjoy watching EVE Online and Star Citizen's cons fight. Plus we tackle two mailbag questions about MMO genre positivity and playing solo in MMOs.

Google counters accusations that Stadia’s 4K quality was ‘exaggerated’

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Of all the problems early buyers expected to have with Google's Stadia, actual fraud probably didn't factor much into the list. But that's exactly...
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Elder Scrolls Online teases December’s Game Awards, kicks off Dawn of the Dragonguard

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So here's one of the beautiful things about Elder Scrolls Online development in the last couple of years: It's consistent as heck. You pretty...
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EVE Online patches in new balance adjustments and skills for Triglavian ships

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The entire Triglavian invasion in EVE Online would feel less interesting if players couldn't learn to build those ships, and the latest patch for the...

A teenage CS:GO player has developed an AI that has successfully found 14,000 cheaters

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While cheaters may never prosper, they also have a tendency to proliferate if not kept in check (and even sometimes when companies do try...

RuneScape lets players rear dinos, Old School RuneScape beta tests the Nightmare of Ashihama

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Whether you want to raise dinos or take on horrifying nightmare monsters, both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape have you covered respectively with some...

Fallout 76 players have found a way to kill pacifists via radiation poisoning

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Who would have ever thought that granting players in a sandbox game access to nuclear weaponry would be used irresponsibly? Certainly not Bethesda, which...
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Battleborn is shutting down for good in January 2021

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It's been about two years since Battleborn stopped receiving any updates, but at least it's still operational and playable. But not for all that...
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Wild Terra 2 shows off 25 minutes of pre-alpha gameplay footage

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It's often better to show and not tell, and the folks at Juvty Worlds have a whole lot to show regarding Wild Terra 2,...

Grim Dawn’s massive 1.1.5.0 update adds a roguelike dungeon and over 6000 item changes

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The newest update to Grim Dawn is being touted in the changelog as the largest the game has ever seen, and with tweaks to...

Survival shooter DEATHGARDEN announces its shutdown and goes free-to-play in the meantime

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All things must die. It is the way of nature and underperforming multiplayer shooters. So it is with DEATHGARDEN, the multiplayer survival shooter/battle royale...

Ashes of Creation highlights work on castle sieges in its latest devstream

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Yes, castle siege mode in Ashes of Creation is still coming. The first half of the latest livestream from the Intrepid Studios devs was...

Job postings point to an incoming Unreal Engine upgrade for Lineage II

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Hey, you know what the MMORPG world needs? Another version of Lineage II! This one, however, doesn't appear to be another wholesale mobile version...

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