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]

Marvel Heroes 2016 launches today with new story chapter, visual updates

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Marvel Heroes is about to reinvent itself as Marvel Heroes 2016. And it's even 2016! What a coincidence! Launching today, the upgrade will download for...
I did a thing, now give me my stat boost.

Testing for Landmark’s next update is currently underway

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No, Daybreak hasn't abandoned Landmark: Producer Terry Michaels tweeted yesterday evening that the team has sent the next update to the QA server and is...

RuneScape adds Invention elite skill, slightly breaks the game

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There's a new elite skill that's come to the skill-centric RuneScape, and it's causing both jubilation and jeers among the game's community. Invention allows players...

Firefall vows to tackle more Razor’s Edge bugs

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Firefall's had a rough couple of months, first with Christmastime budget and reorganization problems and then with the rocky launch of its Razor's Edge...

Path of Exile demos Ascendancy Berserker, Hierophant, and Pathfinder classes

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Fresh off making public the news that Path of Exile's business is booming and the team is expanding to suit, Grinding Gear Games has produced...
It's beginning to look a lot like QA should have been called earlier.

The Division plans three paid season pass expansions alongside free updates

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Adding further hype to the multi-platform beta tests kicking off this weekend, Ubisoft has opened up on the company blog about The Division's post-launch...
Can we start, start over?

Shroud of the Avatar drops Release 26 update with a full character wipe

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Here's the bad news for players looking forward to the next major Shroud of the Avatar patch: A character wipe is happening. All of...

Today’s Tribes: Ascend patch addresses votekicking and vehicles

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The Tribes: Ascend servers are offline right now for the game's impending 1.2 patch. Of note, Hi-Rez is implementing a new vehicle queueing system and reducing...
Who's dark now?

Elder Scrolls Online video previews the Thieves Guild DLC

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The Thieves Guild is pretty much my favorite part of the Elder Scrolls series, full-stop. Will it be equally epic in The Elder Scrolls Online?...
When you're out in the club and you see a fly girl, do the creep!

WoW’s latest Legion alpha build revises talent loadouts, glyphs

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The alpha testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion is rolling along and getting just a little bit bigger. Another build has been deployed,...

Star Wars: Battlefront delivers huge nerfs, announces DLC plans

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If you've been playing Star Wars: Battlefront since the series was rebooted back in November, you've probably noticed that a few of the weapons and...
This is the world we live in, etc.

Path of Exile updates players on Ascendancy release dates and staffing changes

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In a development that will no doubt shock and confuse many of our readers, January is almost over. If you're a Path of Exile...
Gods.

Skyforge is making screenshots way easier with its new screen-pausing ‘photomode’

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Do you suffer from screenshot envy? Does it bother you that developers will produce screenshots that offer a perfect little slice of the action...
UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD

Albion Online patches in more convenience and more undead

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The January update for Albion Online really covers every conceivable base. It improves the quality of living for players adventuring through the world, and...
Still a better mountain story than Everest.

Tomorrow’s The Secret World patch adds new PvP scenario, new group finder

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Ready to quite literally fight to be king of the mountain? The Secret World's Shambala scenario tasks players with doing precisely that with a...

Cabal 2’s huge Calamity of War update hit by tiny delay

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"Go big or go home, kid." Cabal 2 must have heard these words as an impressionable youth and taken them to heart, culminating in this week's release...

Tamriel Infinium: Six features Elder Scrolls Online’s level-scaling system needs

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I have a terrible confession to make: I was about to write off Elder Scrolls Online. I was going to consider it dead to...

RIFT forces players to use cash shop for expansion gear upgrades

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Back when RIFT launched Nightmare Tide, it introduced earring slots and a new type of gear that required a "Planeswalker: Water" label. Both of...
You would think this would just be patched in pre-launch at this point.

Blade & Soul deploys a patch to reduce spam and fix bugs

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Blade & Soul went down for maintenance at 6 a.m. EST today and will probably remain down until 10:00 a.m. EST. That's the bad...

SWTOR shakes up crafting and instant-60 gear for Update 4.1

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We anticipate some very mixed emotions from the announced changes to gear and crafting in the next big update for Star Wars: The Old...