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Last year, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hit Epic Games with a $245M fine as the government body found that the company was using deceptive dark patterns to trick gamers into making unwanted purchases in Fortnite, with the money being set aside for refunds. At long last, those refunds are starting to make their way to affected players. So...

Are you ready for some more questing in RuneScape? Well if you're not, then you'd better be because the first of a new trio of quests is coming, which takes players back to the desert beginning on Monday, January 13th. The new quest, titled Beneath Scarabas' Sands, will see players assisting the pharaoh of Menaphos with investigating a spate of...

MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards kick off today with our award for the Worst way to die in an MMORPG. Yes, it's time once again for the Golden Yachties series, named in honor of somebody we've long forgotten from Old Massively who insisted that surely we make so much money that we're typing MMO blog posts from a gold-plated yacht....

The final Dune: Awakening newsletter for this year is online, and as one might expect, it's mostly a retrospective of the year that was in terms of the developing survival sandbox's reveals and progress, but it does have a couple of noteworthy tidbits for those who want to live in digital Arrakis. Most of the insight comes in the form...

If there's one event that Star Wars Galaxies always did in the most ridiculous way imaginable, it's... OK, actually, it's the Ewok Festival of Love. But if there are two events, the second one is most definitely the Wookiee Life Day festival, which has returned to SWG Legends this year. Life Day can be kind of overwhelming on this particular...

It's cold. It's winter. It's almost time for the holidays proper. That's got MOP's Chris feeling some kind of way for this afternoon's stream, and the game that's closest to his current mindset is Palia with its Holiday Homestead update. If you feel like he does, then tune in today at 2:00 p.m. EST for some snuggly winter vibes! What:...

MapleStory players already knew that The Dark Ride update was broken up into two halves, so the fact that this week brought more of the patch isn't exactly a surprise. Still, there is quite a lot going on despite that information! At the top of the new content in this week's release is a new boss known as Limbo, an...

If this news story were a Discord conversation, the US Justice Department would have posted the Futurama Frye squint animated gif and Tencent would have replied with a Homer Simpson disappearing into the bushes animated gif. That's kind of the way things went down after Tencent pulled its selected members off of Epic Games' board of directors in response...

There is a whole lot of curiosity about Elite: Dangerous' upcoming colonization feature (as one might expect), which means that Frontier Developments had plenty of questions that it tried to answer in the studio's last monthly broadcast of 2024. The pre-recorded livestream drew questions from a forum thread that opened earlier this month, which offered a few important insights into...

So the other day, an interesting topic came up in our feeds: Apparently, at least if you go by the survey, World of Warcraft's designers are thinking about stripping out the timer limits for Mythic+ as a gameplay mode and replacing it with a death counter, more akin to how Delves currently work. And wouldn't you know, I have...