Updates

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The fiddle brings a new sound to Lord of the Rings Online

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Now that the fiddle is a playable instrument in Lord of the Rings Online, the only question left is who will be cast to...

Enter to win a Neverwinter Teal-Dusted Axebeak for PC in honor of Lost City of Omu’s launch

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To celebrate the arrival of Lost City of Omu for Neverwinter on PC last week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 50 mount keys to give away to our...
Very dynamic.

Star Wars: The Old Republic delays its next two patches slightly

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The next patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic brings with it a new boss and some pretty significant changes to the game's Conquest...
I HAVE COME AFLAME

H1Z1 is finally going free-to-play

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Remember way back in the long, long ago, before H1Z1 hit early access, split, reconstituted, renamed, didn't launch, aborted a console port, and all...

Revelation Online announces PvP-centric First Contact expansion

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Just as it turns a year old here in the west, Revelation Online is announcing a new expansion called First Contact. PvP players of...
Pretty me up.

Skyforge offers better previews, better symbols, and better trophies

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The latest Skyforge patch is out in the wild, and it makes a lot of little things in the game better. Case in point,...

Fortnite ups the ante with ‘teams of 20’ mode

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Ladies and germs, we are now in the final days of this seemingly unstoppable arms race between battle royale titles. Please spend some extra...

Otherland will add 15 new quest hubs and 130 quests in May

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Drago Entertainment continues to pepper players with plans for Otherland. Today, it's told Facebook followers that more than 130 new quests are inbound in...
We're friends, right?

Absolver has spent 2018 so far testing and tweaking combat

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We haven't talked much about multiplayer combat title Absolver since the new year, so let's get caught up, shall we? At the tail end of...

RIFT Prime kicks off progression server while Trion reclaims names

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The day is finally here. RIFT Prime, the new progression server that is bringing players back to the core game, has gone live following...

Trion says the original Defiance is NOT being sunset or neglected for Defiance 2050

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We were all pretty stunned when Trion announced Defiance 2050 last week, and indeed, we fired off a round of questions almost immediately. Trion's...
Oh dear.

Latest World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth build adds more Azerite traits, more models, and more text

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The latest build for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth's ongoing alpha test is available, and to the surprise of absolutely no one who...

Hyperspace Beacon: Carving up the new SWTOR Conquests

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The original Lead Systems Designer for Star Wars: The Old Republic was a man named Damion Schubert. A friend of mine used to call...
GOrging.

Project Gorgon is heading to Steam Early Access next week

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Good news, Project Gorgon fans: The game's early access launch on Steam draws ever closer. It is, in fact, astonishingly close right now. There...

Black Desert patches in Black Spirit’s Adventure 2 minigame, anticipates Drieghan region in Korea

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If you found Black Desert's little black spirit dude disconcerting, this week's patch is... not gonna help that. Today's update adds Black Spirit's Adventure...
There's not a lot of nice things to say about ArenaNet lately, so I'm glad to find things.

Guild Wars 2 living season AMA covers maps, PvP, API, bugs, avocado smoothies, the Olmakhan, and more

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With Guild Wars 2's latest living story episode out of the gate, ArenaNet's devs sat for another Reddit AMA. They don't talk much future...

Lord of the Rings Online’s road leads on to Update 22’s Northern Mirkwood

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Out of Mordor and into Mirkwood, that's just the way it goes for the Middle-earth adventurer. With Tuesday's Update 22: Legacy of the Necromancer,...

RuneScape goes deep sea fishing

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Every MMO has fishing. Been there, angled that, am I right? But as of this week, RuneScape has taken this sport to the next...

Albion Online’s upcoming fishing system hopes to reel in casuals and hardcores alike

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Fishing has become a hot topic in MMOs this week, thanks to the likes of RuneScape and Albion Online. The latter will see the...

Gaijin’s space MMO Star Conflict rolls out Journey update tailored to newbies

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I was shocked to realize today just how long it's been since we covered Gaijin's Star Conflict - that's the rather well-loved but under-the-radar...