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As August marches onward, New World fans are eagerly anticipating the promised preview event launching on August 25th, which will let in all the folks who've signed up for the beta, participated in past alphas, or pre-ordered the game. August 25th, of course, was meant to be the game's launch date this summer, but Amazon delayed the game into...

As we've been covering, Epic Games is suing Apple and Google for "unfair and anti-competitive actions" as to their payment markets, over which Apple and Google banned Fortnite when Epic tried to implement its own payment system. Epic sought injunctive relief from the courts, not monetary damages, in an apparent attempt to force movement on a monopoly issue already...

For over six weeks now, one of EVE Online's largest and bloodiest battles has been waging across the game's galaxy. World War Bee is shaping up to be one for the record books, with "upwards of 130,000 players" participating and $112,000 of virtual assets reduced to space dust. One reason for the high price tag is the destruction of three...

Following the shocking announcement yesterday that MMO developer and publisher En Masse Entertainment is closing its doors, it's only natural to wonder what will become of its games. This morning, we have word that one title -- Closers Online -- is going to be just fine. On Closers' site, the team announced that the game's developer, Naddic, will be taking...

A while back, I finally talked my husband into buying his Elf Warden a basic Hobbit house in Lord of the Rings Online. He did not actually want a house, and so far as I know, he hasn't actually ventured inside or put down a single piece of deco. No, what helped me convince him was the teleport-to-house that...

We realize this one might be a slightly controversial statement, but we're going to say it anyhow: 2020 has been a weird year. It's been so weird that the fact that a revival Kickstarter for a shuttered MOBA funding successfully may not even break the top 10 for weirdness in this particular year. All of this is a roundabout...

Considering that RuneFest isn't going to happen this year, Jagex has been looking at other ways to celebrate RuneScape's community. To wit, the studio is taking its community award show completely online this year -- and is looking for nominations for the best content creators. "Obviously in this era of COVID-19, things will be a little different this time around,"...

As we noticed back in May, promotion and public updates for Jandisoft's Mad World has all but slowed down to a standstill. This is especially curious considering that the studio had previously said that the grimdark MMO was going to release in 2020, already a delay from its initial 2018 planned launch. So what's the scoop? Is it coming or...

It's been months since we checked in on Starbase directly rather in our weekly roundup, so we're going to do just that today and bump it back up to the attention of our readers. First announced last year by Finnish studio Frozenbyte, Starbase is the upcoming "massively multiplayer online game with gameplay focused on building and designing spaceships and...

If you've got some property in Dark Age of Camelot that you haven't visited in a while, you might want to make a trip back home to keep it from being taken away from you. Broadsword is preparing a massive repossession of abandoned houses in DAoC come Patch 1.127, which is currently in testing. This will affect any houses that...