Jagex backpedals slightly on a RuneScape ban wave related to Treasure Hunter keys and oddments

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Last Monday, RuneScape developer Jagex issued an announcement regarding actions taken against player accounts who were found to be cashing out items to receive more oddments than the cost of a currently discounted Treasure Hunter key, allowing players to generate a surplus of oddments which the studio considered to be an exploit. In total, over 4,000 accounts were found...
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The panther statue in Fortnite has become a player memorial for Chadwick Boseman

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The unexpected passing of actor Chadwick Boseman at age 43 has left many people struggling to find the words to express what has been lost or even the depth of feeling many people are experiencing in the wake of his loss. Fortnite players have already found one such way to express respect, however. As the game is currently crossing...

Grab a promo pack key for RTS Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming from Massively OP

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R2 Games has this week released Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming globally across its platform. It's a browser-based multiplayer RTS, and though it's not a headlining feature of the game, you can indeed team up with your player allies (and we spied a mention of PvP too). You'll be training dragons, buffing your castle, and cavorting with the...

Star Wars Galaxies Legends teases Bespin, previews new Days of the Aned-Kla festival

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It's a weird year when rogue servers are getting more love than some live MMOs, but we're not sorry to see it. One of those servers is Star Wars Galaxies Legends, which just dropped a whopper of a community report with news of future updates and events. Let's start with the event, since it's something completely new to SWG fans,...
The fanboy mines are harder to work all the time.

Blizzard plans a book of World of Warcraft fairy tales… but no more scrolls in Shadowlands

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So remember how people still blame World of Warcraft's current class design on the old statement of "bring the player, not the class"? That philosophy will have to now be amended with "unless the class brings a very specific set of buffs," since it appears that scrolls mirroring the effects of Battle Shout, Arcane Intellect, and Power Word: Fortitude...

Choose My Adventure: The slow-burning, esoteric start of Wurm Online

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I have a feeling this is going to be a short article and a probably completely inept series. Wurm Online is definitely not the kind of game one gets deep in to in a month's time, I think. That's not to suggest that it seems deep right now so much as the surface scratching is less like an epidermis...

Japanese survivalbox Craftopia is set to launch early access on Friday

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All summer, we've been keeping watch over Craftopia, a Japanese multiplayer "open world survival crafting game," and I think it would be fair to say that its testing and release schedule has been a bit slapdash. Early access was originally supposed to land in June, but then the closed alpha didn't actually start until July, and the results from...

Not So Massively: Iron Harvest 1920 is a dieselpunk RTS with a surprising amount of heart

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It's pretty common to stumble across a new game on the front page of Steam and think it looks interesting enough to add to your wishlist, but often such games languish there for months or years, and even if you do end up trying them, they often disappoint. Such is not the case for real time strategy title Iron Harvest...
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Rockstar wipes out characters caught using a money exploit, sending cheaters in to a rage

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You would think that the instruction -- either direct or inherent -- to not cheat in a game would be common sense, but as we all know some multiplayer gamers consider this golden rule to be nothing more than brass. Cheaters who were taking advantage of a money exploit in Grand Theft Auto Online are now facing the consequences...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Breaking down Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons expansion teaser trailer

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Last, after a lot of build-up, during a stream dedicated to the 8th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet finally released its teaser trailer for the game’s third expansion, called End of Dragons. As we had already surmised from the single piece of concept art, this expansion is indeed going to be set in the long-requested...