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I kinda can't believe I'm typing this, but it appears that En Masse Entertainment, which has run TERA here in North America for the last eight years and has been a going concern for the last 11, just announced that it's closing its studio doors. "Today, it is with a heavy heart that we begin the process of discontinuing the...

You probably do not want to live in Darnassus in World of Warcraft. For one thing, it's on fire. For another, even when it isn't on fire it's a world perpetually being invaded by demons or satyrs or undead or demonic undead satyrs or some damn thing or another. But what if you had a version of the city...

Wurm Online has been fully on Steam for just over three weeks now. The surge of new players prompted Code Club to to roll out a new PvE server, Melody, on launch weekend. And now, it's adding another. "After the massive influx of players with the launch on Steam, the lands of Harmony and Melody have quickly become densely populated...

We were pretty amazed last month when we heard that Warhammer Online's rogue server, Return of Reckoning, was getting Twitch drops. It turns out that this was a pretty good move for the popular server, as 2,277 accounts were linked up during this promotional time. Even better, more than 2.5 million minutes of the game were viewed because of...

Last week, Epic Games kicked off both an internet drama and a lawsuit when it instigated legal action against both Apple and Google over barring Fortnite (and more specifically, barring Epic's proprietary payment system that subverted the platforms' cut) from their respective stores, which Epic deemed "unfair and anti-competitive actions" - essentially, monopolies in the mobile market. Epic isn't...

Last week, we covered the tragic news that Brian Green, better known as Psychochild around here, had passed away, far too young at the age of 46. He was one of the founding fathers of the MMORPG genre, given his work on and later stewardship of Meridian 59. And Meridian 59 came out to pay its respects in a big...

All right, this format worked well last time; let's go for it again and talk about Final Fantasy XIV's latest patch. But to start off, we're going to talk about it solely from the side of content, leaving story entirely to one side and without even spoiling the big mystery trial. While I would honestly be surprised if most...

Enjoying traipsing about Japan in Ghost of Tsushima but wish you could do so with your buddy, Ninja Rick? The bad news is that you will not be able to do so in the main game, which remains relentlessly single-player. The good news is that the upcoming free expansion, Legends, will allow you to team up into groups of...

A little-known fact: I am one of the less than 10% of the world’s population who are left-handed. It’s not always convenient (those chairs with the desk that folds down on the right side were pretty annoying for me to use in school, and writing on chalk/marker boards is a pain because I either erase what I wrote as...

It's not exactly a surprise to Final Fantasy XIV fans that more housing plots are in the plan, considering that Ishgard restoration is pretty clearly setting up a new housing district. Yet more housing is planned as soon as patch 5.4 according to a new letter from producer and director Naoki Yoshida. As the player population continues to grow,...