Updates

We’re not even going to try to sort out the patches from the updates from the iterations from the campaigns and expansions and expanshalones. If it’s something going into an MMO that’s already out, it lands in this category! [Follow this category’s RSS feed]

It's in the right spirit.

Black Desert deletes Shadow Arena, compensates players, and opens the Egg Hunt

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The day has come, folks: Shadow Arena is officially patched out of Black Desert today, after hackers and banwaves and what had to be...

Elite Dangerous announces April 23 update with newbie tweaks and new pilot modules

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Frontier has just announced Elite Dangerous' next big update is launching on April 23rd. "As mentioned in the beginning of March, this year's initial updates...

Albion Online is officially free-to-play today – and already ‘under heavy load’

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Fancy getting your peekay on in an actual PvP sandbox? Albion Online is officially free-to-play today, meaning you can swarm the game without paying...

Wurm Online’s massive update brings six months of adjustments online

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If you read a claim that an MMORPG update has been six months in the making, it's a pretty safe bet that there are...
Try this again.

EVE Online dials back repairs and rebalances capital and subcapital ships with its newest patch

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The most recent patch to EVE Online is all about balance, and part of that balance is about reducing the effectiveness of repairs. Players...
Oh gosh.

Hearthstone: Rise of Shadows goes live with plenty of freebies

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Hearthstone has always represented the more light-hearted side of the Warcraft franchise, but now that goofy tone is, well, getting even goofier now that...

Skyforge’s New Horizons expansion is officially live with a new planet and catch-up mechanics

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Skyforge's next big thing has arrived! Dubbed New Horizons, the content update sends players to their first new planet ever, Terra, with all-new enemies...

Anthem’s latest update fixes bugs and not a whole lot else

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The latest update for BioWare's somewhat touch-and-go MMO shooter Anthem has gone live, but if you're hoping for some new content or major adjustments,...
Boosh.

RIFT Prime character transfers were delayed over ‘unforeseen circumstances’ as Trove loses CM

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When Gamigo announced that it was closing down RIFT Prime, the game's progression server, it told RIFT players that their characters would be safely...
This is a fantasy game. Yes.

TERA releases the Skywatch: New Heights update

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It's time to reach new heights in TERA. It will be, anyhow, when the Skywatch: New Heights update launches today after maintenance. And it's...

Guild Wars 2: Dragon mounts in War Eternal, living world mini-event, Ritualist outfit datamining, and new short story

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Guild Wars 2 is getting yet another mount: the Skyscale. As detailed by Eurogamer today, what sets this particular dragon (yes, sorry everyone, it's a...

PAX East 2019: Elder Scrolls Online Elsweyr makes playing the bad guy feel very good

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During this year's PAX East, freelance games journalist Sam Prell - you might remember him from his time at Joystiq and GamesRadar - took...

Neverwinter dev confirms Cryptic’s Magic: The Gathering MMO is still in dev in an Undermountain blog

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It's been a pretty heckin' long time since we heard about the Magic: The Gathering MMO that Cryptic first announced in June of 2017....

EverQuest’s Selo progression server turns the XP boost back on

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When the folks at EverQuest decided to turn off the server-wide 50% XP boost that was applied to the Selo progression server in March,...

Diablo III’s Season 17 content hits the public test server

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Considering the last Diablo III update's round of public testing reportedly went over so well, the devs have continued the trend with Patch 2.6.5,...

Enter to win a stack of real-life Rend swag courtesy of Frostkeep and MOP! [USA only]

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Frostkeep's survival MMO title Rend has had quite a wild couple of weeks: It surprise-launched out of early access at the tail end of...

Shroud of the Avatar outlines planned updates for the second quarter of 2019

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Q2 2019 should have some significant updates for Shroud of the Avatar if plans work out the way the devs hope. The latest update...

Camelot Unchained continues to unleash hundreds of trebuchets in siege testing

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The past few weeks in Camelot Unchained have been all about doing extremely violent things to an extremely pretty castle, and this past week...
Cold analysis.

Wisdom of Nym: Why Final Fantasy XIV may have needed Hrothgar and Viera now

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All right. It's been three weeks, but yes, I do actually have a theory about why Final Fantasy XIV is adding two gender-locked races to...

Kakao is permanently killing off Black Desert’s battle royale mode, Shadow Arena, this week

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Dang, this was not the outcome we were expecting here: Kakao has announced it is outright sunsetting Black Desert's Shadow Arena mode. On Wednesday,...

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