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Justin and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV 5.3, City of Heroes Homecoming, Daybreak buying Cold Iron, WoW Shadowlands' prepatch, EVE Echoes' launch, Epic's lawsuit, and the passing of Meridian 59's Brian Grene, with adventures in Valiance Online, LOTRO, and The Sims 4, plus a mailbag topic on industry stress for devs.

The latest patch for Neverwinter is delivering a different sort of content for players to take part in. It's a campaign, of sorts, but it isn't approached via the usual campaign interface or with the usual personal progress. Instead, this campaign is all about the entire server coming together in order to work on the Redeemed Citadel, building the...

It's hard to believe Guild Wars 2 is going on eight years old, but we'll roll with it if it means a pile of anniversary and birthday presents for super old toons, and it most certainly does! ArenaNet posted a full list of the gifts we can expect this year; for accounts, we're looking at... • Celebratory Birthday Enrichment: Apply...

There are swimsuits. There will always be swimsuits. Did you think that Blade & Soul, a game with lady characters who are 60% leg by volume and wherein everyone appears to have a layer of oil helpfully applied at all times, would run out of swimsuits? Of course there are swimsuits with the new Summer Chill event. There are...

We've been wondering when exactly Torchlight III would launch, especially given its de-MMO-ification and multiple delays throughout development. And technically, we still don't have a hard date, even now that the game's last big test patch and early access wipe are behind us. But today, PWE and Echtra Games have re-confirmed a fall launch, on the PC and consoles...

Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and online games industry news. There's a new class action in town, and EA is the target. Plaintiff Kevin Ramirez's suit claims that the Ultima Team Packs in the FIFA and Madden franchise titles are "predatory and designed to entice gamers to gamble" and "nothing more than a gambling bet" that are "simply...

Depending on your personal experiences with Path of Exile, the newest patch either adds a largely irrelevant bit of graphical change or will finally provide some sweet, sweet relief from that eye-bleeding syndrome that seems to be everywhere there's bright colors and flashes of random light. Yes, the game's designers have pushed a patch that reduces the overall use...

Now that Crowfall's beta is on the scene, plenty of curious gamers are streaming in to see what ArtCraft's ambitious PvP title has to offer. Among those looky-loos is Stargrace at Nomadic Gamers, who found herself "pleasantly surprised" at what the initially encountered. "It has been MANY years since I delved into a new-to-me traditional MMO," Stargrace wrote. "There have...

Back at the top of June, Frontier announced that the massive Elite Dangerous expansion it's been working on for ages is called Odyssey, coming in early 2021. The expansion's headline feature is a form of "space legs" that allows players to touch down on the surfaces of the planets they've already been touring with their spaceships, along with new...

Point your eyeballs at what Valve is up to with Steam: It's apparently trying to bar developers from using Steam to advertise, for example, their entry on the Epic Games Store, but the new policy actually seems to include much more than that. "In the game you ship via Steam, and in communications on Steam, you may only promote the...