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It's expansion day for Path of Exile as Grinding Gear Games goes all Oceans 11 with the release of Heist for PC and Mac players. As we've covered at length, this update introduce the Heist challenge league, new equippable NPC, the Rogue Harbour hub, new items, trinket lots, new skills, skill reworks, and of course, the heist content itself. "In...

No Man's Sky studio Hello Games has a bit of a habit of casually announcing major expansions out of the blue and crashing its own website. Today being what it is, that's exactly what happened this morning with the announcement of Origins, launching next week, with basically no pomp or fanfare, "the beginning of something new" and "another small...

Dynamight Studios' latest dev blog has some big changes for Fractured and its fans, starting with the news that the game's price is coming down down down. The devs explain that the alpha has gone on longer than anticipated as the developers continue testing, which means the first beta hasn't launched yet (and probably won't until Q2 of next year)....

In what will no doubt be a non-surprise to pretty much anyone who has paid attention to the industry over the past decade, it turns out that multiplayer shooters need more than just "you do the shooty and there are other people" to build a community. You cannot replicate the success of Halo by showing up. Today's victim of...

This week, Star Citizen is all about mucking with its inventory as the latest video digest opened with a look at an improved personal inventory system. This system, powered by the bespoke Building Blocks UI, will more easily let players move items from their various inventory locations, split stacks apart, and access other contextual functions of items. The system...

I've noted many times at this point that World of Warcraft does not seem to have done a great job with Shadowlands, at least from what we've seen so far. A little prison of the team's own making over here, a little bad philosophy behind redesigns over there, and not even a little salami as a treat. And we all shared a...

With this weekend's International Talk Like a Pirate Day bringing out the buccaneer in all of us, Dungeons and Dragons Online wanted to join in on the swashbuckling good time. The MMO is activating its Crystal Cove event from now through September 22nd, which opens up the usually hidden area for adventurin' and plunderin'. According to the game's Twitter account,...

Remember back in August when the Trump administration made noise about trying to ban WeChat and Tencent from transactions with folks in the US? It caused a big ripple at the time, as it was written to effectively include all of Tencent's holdings, including its games studios, everything from Riot and Epic to Funcom and Grinding Gear. While officials...

It's already been a year since Astellia Online launched here in the west, and anyone's first birthday is a cause for celebration. If it's a kid, that usually involves a messy consumption of chocolate cake, but for this MMO, it involves turning on the buff hose and letting it spray everywhere. "We truly thank all Astellians who have helped Astellia...

2021 is bringing a couple of new additions to the Monster Hunter series and both of them are going to be on the Nintendo Switch: Monster Hunter Rise and Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, both of which were unveiled during this week's Nintendo Direct mini showcase. Monster Hunter Stories is a single-player RPG that follows the protag who...