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Sure, you can get from player town to player town by using wagons, boats, or singposts, but apparently very soon players of Shroud of the Avatar will be able to get around the old fashioned way: with mounts. A sneak peek at this new feature from developer Catnip Games' Twitter account shows an early build of mounts that asks the...

My kids don't know it yet, but they are probably getting a PlayStation 5 within the next year. It's likely to be a big chunk of change, which is we we have to budget for these things. I'll probably be digging around for a deal and farming actual game purchases out to the grandparents. But there is one thing I...

Is it the Force or Valve that's giving Star Wars: The Old Republic a huge bump in popularity this summer? Perhaps it's both, because a month after BioWare's MMO hit Steam, it's already topping charts on the platform. This past Tuesday, Valve posted a list of the top Steam releases in July as ranked by revenue generated during those titles'...

Are Lord of the Rings Online's servers getting better? From anecdotal evidence, it appears so, although the recent instability hasn't completely vanished from the scene. Pressed for an update on the situation, the game's community manager said, "Work has been ongoing, and some work is being done this week to further refine the tools we have. Sorry I don't...

To this day there are few things that have bothered me as much as seeing someone refer to bears as "a big pile of Default Mammal parts." That angers me. I love bears. I think bears are great. I enjoy the heck out of these big snurfly salmon-devouring machines, and apparently that love is shared because 90% of the...

Being a kid is never easy, but it's downright life-threatening in DDO's Ravenloft. From scattered journal entries to a death house, Massively OP's MJ keeps running into kkids in danger. Tonight will be no different: MJ and the D&D night crew will embark on Fresh Baked Dreams, a mission involving the search for two missing youngsters, a pastry-smeared face,...

Today I learned that War Thunder has gotten some new limited-time modes based on the International Army Games and that the International Army Games are a thing. Players of the online vehicular battler can now take part in the Tank Biathlon and the Sea Biathlon, with the former being a recreation of the real-world event and the latter a...

The month of August has been a rather active one for the closed alpha of interstellar sandbox Starbase, enough to fill up an entire video's worth of information. So that's just what the devs of Frozenbyte did. in the video we get a look at a new welding tool that makes connector plates for beams obsolete (or at least optional),...

If you thought that stuffing Tetris into the battle royale subgenre was wild, then you ain't seen nothin' yet. Say hello to Super Bomberman R Online, a 64-player battle royale edition of the classic Bomberman game that's confirmed as a Google Stadia exclusive coming on September 1st. Super Bomberman R Online is, as its name implies, an online version of...

Tabletop game developer Steamforged Games is seeking to condense the sensation of playing Monster Hunter World into board game form with the perfectly named Monster Hunter World --The Board Game. That might sound like a daunting task, but in a preview from Polygon, it appears that the game's designers are up to the task, especially since the same company...