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It looks like the stewards of the rogue server for Chronicles of Spellborn have been extremely busy. In a now-deleted but digitally recovered post on the MMORPG subreddit, the devs share the patch notes for an update that makes a whole slew of changes. Among these updates are general bug fixes to quests, some improvements to the Rawhead Landing area...

Developer KING Art Games and publisher Deep Silver have dared to ask, "What if the Polish-Soviet War had robots in it?" That's the general setup for Iron Harvest, a real-time strategy title that pits three factions -- Polania, Saxony, and Rusviet -- in a war with one another in an alternate reality 1920s setting where massive war robots are...

When you think of summer fun, do you think of armed felonies? It's kind of a thing in Grand Theft Auto Online, you know, and the new summer update is specifically the Los Santos Summer Special. That does mean players can take on new content, like new open-wheel races complete with a race track creator... which goes well with...

The current limited-time challenge league in Path of Exile seems to be rather popular with its more deterministic approach to crafting, so it definitely has mechanics that players like. The developers also quite like the mechanics, as it turns out... but despite that, these mechanics will not be getting added to the main game, at least not yet. Why?...

As the Heart of Deimos update to Warframe slowly makes its way to the game, a recent update on PC has done a fair bit of foundation laying in what's being called the Derelict Shift update. This update, as its name implies, has shifted Orokin Derelict Nodes, moving them in orbit around Mars. Furthermore, accessing these Nodes will no longer...

Pearl Abyss dropped its second quarter financial report today: The South Korean MMO company saw its revenues decline ever so slightly, down to 131.7 billion KRW (111 million USD), representing a drop of 1.1% since last quarter and 8.4% since last year. But of course, as we noted last quarter, last year saw the launch of Black Desert on...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I've found that being familiar with online communities and tech has really helped me survive our COVID situation. As I'd developed fewer digital habits in recent years, the outbreak felt like a very personal blow. I felt as if I'd made a lot of progress only to be knocked down. As...

Alchemists. Can't live with 'em, can't have a slightly unsettling dungeon crawl without 'em. There's something about this particular line of fantastical scientific inquiry that breeds madmen, and the Stone Garden dungeon arriving as part of The Elder Scrolls Online's Stonethorn DLC continues the trend as evidenced by the most recent preview. Unlike the last time we took at peek...

MMO readers will recall that NCsoft has been having a big year for revenue, doubling its revenue in the first quarter of this year largely thanks to the success of the mobile Lineage 2M during the pandemic. The company released its second quarter earnings today, and the numbers aren't quite as wild, though still better than this quarter last...

As of right now, funding for Star Citizen just ain't slowing down. A graph shared on the game's subreddit illustrates that 2020 has already been a banner year for funding CIG's efforts, bypassing last year's $47.7 million. The graph helps to visualize each month's spike up to this point, with considerable funding surges shown in the months of May and...