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This is my wasteland, This is your wasteland, We group and we fight mutants and beasts, friend, With level scaling you won't be flailing - This waste was made for you and me. Also the update comes for free. It turns out that there's at least a little more to be said about how Fallout 76's One Wasteland update will work on a whole, which...

And we have a launch date, fam! It's been announced at the start of gamescom's digital incarnation this year that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands will be launching on October 27th, which means that we will just be looking at ten months since the last major content update before any new stuff in the game. This also means that you...

VentureBeat is reporting today that MADE, aka the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, is closing down its Oakland, California, base. It had already been closed since March in the wake of the pandemic, but now curators say that its management nonprofit decided to pull the plug and put all its artifacts in storage using donation funding following a...

Ultima Online studio Broadsword has been teasing all year that it had a big announcement coming for the game this year after publish 109, something that would bring the game to the "largest audience ever." Well, publish 109 launched last month, and Broadsword has announced... an announcement. "Earlier this year we talked about a major update coming to Ultima Online....

We're updating this post at the bottom - scroll on down for the latest! Forced to go digital thanks to the global pandemic, Gamescom 2020 is finally upon us, this time broadcast to the whole world instead of being the funtimes trawling grounds of just those who can make it to Cologne. The pre-show for the opening night ceremonies are scheduled...

Just a day or two ago I was chatting with an MOP commenter about how PlanetSide 2 really took off this year, getting more love than almost any other Daybreak property with the possible exception of DCUO. I love being proven right: Today, Daybreak's Rogue Planet substudio announced The Shattered Warpgate, a brand-new content wave coming to the game...

Atlas has had a long journey since its stumbly early access rollout in 2018, back when it was still promising to be an “MMO on the grandest scale” with 40,000 players on the same globe simultaneously. It can't do that even now, and in fact even if it could, it doesn't have the players to try (its peak concurrency...

In another new twist, Pokemon Go has just released Generation 6's big feature, Mega Evolutions, before Generation 6 pokemon themselves. While we've had mega hints coming at us for a while, and dataminers on Silph Road gave us some big hints on the feature, we've finally gotten some solid details from Niantic on how it's being added. I won't...

The Rising has begun because it's Final Fantasy XIV's relaunch anniversary, and that means stories. Yes, every year's anniversary is marked by stories exploring the corners of the game's lore, and the first of these stories is now available to be read. Without spoiling it, it's a tale of Beq Lugg before their isolation away from Voeburt, in the...

Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent (mostly adjacent today) industry news. Fortnite iOS players who don't read the news are in for a nasty surprise today when their game doesn't pick up the latest Marvel-themed season and update. While the game will still function on Apple devices, it'll be locked to the 13.40 (chapter 2, season...