So prestigious.

Black Desert releases its ‘Prestige Edition’ on November 6

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Ladies, gentlemen, and those who fall into neither category, we implore you to look to your physical video game collection. Does it mark you as a person of rare taste and admirable refinement? We have no doubt you have all of the basics in place, like that original boxed copy of the Burger King Xbox games or the stolen...

Derek Smart’s MMO shooter Line of Defense shows a brief sign of life after two years of radio silence

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You know him as the self-professed "internet warlord" and Star Citizen critic, but we have to remember that Derek Smart is also someone who is trying to make a game as well: the sci-fi MMO shooter Line of Defense, which has had its own rocky development history. Consider us a bit surprised, then, that the game has posted a...
In memoriam.

Pantheon talks pre-alpha 5, publishers, and properly funding the vision

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen producer Ben Dean recently did an interview with YouTuber Nathan Napalm touching on a wide variety of topics related to the game's development, its community, and its search for investors. Emergent gameplay, for example, is something Visionary Realms loves; Dean professed his love of it, noting that it's something the developers want and would...

Fractured shows off mining and blacksmithing, dates fall alpha for November 4

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Ah, the pastoral life of a sandbox MMORPG. None of this combat stuff, just you, your tools, and a slowly filling progress bar as you fashion components into a shiny new item. It's something I always am drawn to personally, and will be something that Fractured will soon provide, at least if you like mining and blacksmithing. A recent preview...
These losers again?

Wisdom of Nym: Going to war in Bozja in Final Fantasy XIV

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Here we are in the wake of Final Fantasy XIV's latest content patch, and while there are a lot of different things that were technically contained in patch 5.35... let's face it, the real focus was on the Bozjan Southern Front. A new piece of content that feels oddly segmented, in a way, as if it's the first in a...
Bleak!

Xbox’s Phil Spencer suggests the Bethsoft buyout won’t limit games launches to Microsoft platforms

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Microsoft has been up to a lot in recent months, what with a new console launching and a new title in the flagship Halo series, but one of the moves that was most directly linked to us and our readers was the buyout of Bethesda and its studios to the tune of $7.5 billion. Naturally, one of the questions...

Fight or Kite: Checking out veteran sci-fi sandbox MMO Vendetta Online – on mobile

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Over the last few months, I’ve been playing around with VR on my phone. I know, not the ideal VR experience but I had my reasons. In any case, as I browsed the Google Play store for different VR apps, I came across Vendetta Online. A robust, true mobile MMO with VR support that's been running for a billion...

Star Citizen has 720K total backers and 34K subscribers according to gathered public data

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Getting subscriber details for multiplayer and MMO titles out of companies can often be like pulling teeth out of an alligator's mouth with a pair of tweezers while it's doing a death roll. One intrepid follower of Star Citizen, however, has managed to pull just such a trick using publicly available information to collect backer numbers for the in-development...

Dungeons and Dragons Online fans take a look at Fables of the Feywild pre-order bonuses

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With anticipation for Dungeons and Dragons Online's fall expansion on the rise, some fans may be interested to know what they'll be getting if they pony up for one of Fables of the Feywild's more pricier editions. To help with this decision, DDO Players purchased the $130 edition of the expansion and put together a video showing off the pre-order...

Star Wars: The Old Republic details the upcoming Feast of Prosperity event

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Earlier in the month, we got word of several events arriving to Star Wars: The Old Republic, one of which being the all-new Feast of Prosperity. But just what is that, exactly? Luckily, fans have a new post to chew on. The Feast of Prosperity will take place in Nar Shadaa (of course) and features two feuding Hutts (of course)...