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At long last, Valorant is officially released so you can play the game. But that's not enough; everyone knows that the real release is when you can play the game on your computer or your phone or your console or any smart fridges you might have in your house for some reason. This is the most logical reason why Riot is...

Yesterday saw the action MMO SoulWorker kick out a new update that has something for the high-level player: a new raid. Players level 65 and up can take on the Hidden Hideout, which features a boss battle that starts the moment the instance is entered. Those who wish to take on this fight will also need tickets from Deleska...

War Thunder is currently in the middle of a closed beta test for its next major content update, Starfighters, the centerpiece of which is the new Italian fleet and tech tree. "Introducing War Thunder: Starfighters, a brand new major update that introduces the Italian Fleet, Japanese helicopters, several iconic jet aircraft, including the famous F-104 family! New ground vehicles, reworked...

For those who have been following Dauntless on Twitter, you know that the next update is coming and it's bringing a whole lot of umbral aether with it. The devs at Phoenix Labs seem to be pretty focused on adding more lore into things this time around, with a lore post from last week that explores the source of...

Welcome back to another quickie roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent gaming industry business news. Activision-Blizzard is under fire yet again for its corporate management, this time from its own shareholders and their appointed watchdog groups. One such investment accountability group, CtW, argues that Bobby Kotick is grossly overpaid, on the order of $100M in options and equity over the last...

Massively OP's MJ might have worked through the current story offerings of AQ3D, but that doesn't mean she has run out of things to do! In fact, there are so many that she can have a hard time choosing which one. So instead of choosing just one, she'll be enjoying a hodge podge of adventures. Tune in live at...

Do you recall Destiny's Sword? It's a tactical MMO that plays like X-Com but has a metagame where players have to also consider their squad's mental health. We got a look at it at PAX West 2019, and developer 2Dogs Games' creative director Ken Hall even penned an exclusive dev diary that elaborated on this unique aspect of its...

Dang, time flies: Conqueror's Blade is officially one year into its soft launch this week, and My.Games is havin' a party. "Global publisher MY.GAMES and developer Booming Games proudly announce the first anniversary of their popular PC medieval war MMO with the Conqueror’s Blade Year One event, a 21-day celebration packed with epic bonuses, gifts, and sales for their passionate...

Amidst delays for digital events and ongoing corporate efforts to deal with the wolves somehow infesting its headquarters, Sony didn't really need more bad news. But it got that, as the console manufacturer has been ordered to pay $2.4 million in fines ($3.5 million in Australian currency) due to misleading and unclear refund policies on the game's digital storefront....

Turns out Guild Wars 2 wasn't the only MMORPG to host an honest to goodness player wedding this week. Kakao Games let us know today that it helped a pair of Black Desert players, Insidel and Svetluska, prepare a virtual version of their wedding inside the game during Heidel Ball after they were forced to cancel the real-world version...