Updates

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LOTRO’s Legacy of Morgoth expansion has everyone fretting over the new Elf looks

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The initial release of Lord of the Rings Online: Legacy of Morgoth seems to be going generally fine, albeit with a few bumps and...

Final Fantasy XIV outlines PvP updates and shows off gear in the preliminary patch notes for Patch 7.1

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Next week will bring new things to do for Final Fantasy XIV players, and that means that Square Enix's Creative Studio III has put...

Stars Reach’s new trailer shows significant visual improvement – and a partial list of professions

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Late last night, Playable Worlds dropped a new trailer for Raph Koster's incoming MMORPG sandbox Stars Reach, along with an update for its NDA. As...

Star Wars Galaxies Legends is working on two theme parks – including one from an Ewok movie

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Earlier this week, Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends dropped a developer diary for October with several teasers for the content the player...
Eye see.

Final Fantasy XI’s November update adds higher-level Besieged content

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Besieged used to be a big deal for Final Fantasy XI, but in large part the game has moved on from when the content...

NetEase drops a roadmap for EVE Echoes promising more content – but with few timelines

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"Will there be no more content for New Eden in the future?" is probably not the best way to announce your roadmap, but that's...

Dofus updates server transfers and opens pre-registration for its upcoming Unity engine upgrade

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Last week's announcement by Dofus of its move to the Unity engine on December 3rd is now transforming into a whole big event, complete...

MMO sandbox BitCraft is launching its third closed alpha next week

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BitCraft's latest letter from the producer heralds another big milestone for the game, as Clockwork Labs is launching closed alpha 3 as of November...

Old School RuneScape gets multiple mobile updates, outlines PvP plans, and adds Curse of Arrav quest

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Old School RuneScape has got a lot of irons in the fire as evidenced by the MMORPG's variety of dev blog posts and updates,...

V Rising teases a new region, multiple PvP modes, and the Fusion Forge gear feature

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Vampire survivalbox V Rising has been fairly quiet since its official launch last spring (which we loved); Stunlock Studios even told players in June...

Mortal Online 2 adds ranked duels, spider mounts, and the ability to surrender in latest patch

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The newest content patch for Mortal Online 2 is once again a bit of a melange, adding the ability to ride spiders, engage in...

No Man’s Sky is adding full multi-platform cross-saves, a PS5 Pro edition, and an old Mass Effect ship

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Whenever Hello Games' Sean Murray starts dropping teasers on social media, you know something good is coming to No Man's Sky: Today, the studio...
YOU AND HIM FIGHT

Throne & Liberty’s latest patch will let guilds fight over a castle and try to deliver tax money

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It was already outlined, but now it's here: The guilds of Throne and Liberty are now able to take part in a tax delivery...
We're in this together.

Star Trek Online is bringing its Borg multiverse event to Xbox and PlayStation next week

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It's not Star Trek if you're not milking the popularity of the Borg for all its worth -- a lesson that Star Trek Online...

Star Citizen marks progress on alpha 4.0’s AI, server meshing, and backend tech in October report

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This week is when Star Citizen looks back at the work of last October and condenses it into a developer progress report. Regular followers...
File names are for nerds.

World of Warcraft’s newest map, Siren Isle, will eventually allow some flight with tons of rep and token farming

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Update: Fresh datamining of the latest PTR build released just after we published this renders it all moot, so flight folks can rejoice: Apparently,...

Albion Online is overhauling dynamic encampments and mists camps already

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Albion Online's first real patch since the launch of its quarterly Horizons update landed today, and as you might expect, it's primarily a clean-up...

EverQuest II’s Scars of Destruction expansion now has a hard date of November 20

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The fact that EverQuest II is getting an expansion toward the end of the year is not any sort of revelation, given that Daybreak...

PlanetSide 2, fresh off an EU server merge, kicks off its 12th anniversary celebrations today

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Somehow, the news that PlanetSide 2 is turning 12 years old this month strikes me as both way too high a number and way...

New World’s weekly patch cleans up some bugs and buffs visual quality as the devs talk hippos

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All right, a New World update, let's goooooo! Oh, it's a really tiny patch? And it turns off Halloween? Well, dangit. Yes, New World's Aeternum...