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Crowfall is in beta. If that statement reads a bit reverently, that is perhaps one's cynicism that a crowdfunded anything can reach a finish line, let alone a milestone, and it's an event that has caused creative director J. Todd Coleman to wax poetic and philosophical about the game's latest step forward. "The process is terrifying and exhilarating in equal...

When I think back to my earliest days of gaming, sitting in front of a tiny TV set with the non-ergonomic 80s beauty of an Atari joystick in hand, I recall the relative simplicity of that time. Back then, we didn’t need to concern ourselves with things like cash grabs, the working conditions of developers, whales, politics, or early...

Torchlight III testers got absolutely wiped this week - literally. PWE and Echtra Games dropped part one of what it's dubbed the "mainline" patch yesterday, with a complete character and account wipe, more skill slots, new dungeon areas, fort deco, and controller support. The highlight feature, however, is the relic system becoming a "full-blown subclass," something players have been...

Last week, Dungeons and Dragons Online players were dismayed to learn that they hadn't quite escaped all the horrors of the LOTRO downtime last month after all: In fact, one of the DDO servers, Wayfinder, suffered a catastrophic bout of data loss, resulting in a rollback for the server and all of its recent players totalling three weeks. Initially, Standing...

Albion Online's long-awaited Rise of Avalon update is live for all players today, and I promise I won't make the joke about not needing roads this time - besides, you're definitely going to want the roads added in this patch. "This update brings numerous new features and improvements to the world of Albion. Foremost among these are the Roads of...

Boy oh boy have things been going all sorts of crazy in Red Dead Online. The most recent update to the online multiplayer sandbox has hitched its wagon to a whole host of hilarious and alarming bugs, glitches, and problems. Corpses inexplicably dancing their asses off? It's happening. Trains appearing out of nowhere? Yes sir, yes ma'am. Weird fun...

Could World of Warcraft's Patch 9.0 be arriving soon? The Shadowlands "pre-patch," as this game's strange terminology goes, just arrived on the public test realm, signalling that it's making its way to the live servers in the near future. Or the far future. This is Blizzard, after all, and speed is never one of the studio's traits. Still, it's...

It's with a very heavy heart today that we report that Brian "Psychochild" Green has passed away at a relatively young age. Green was an MMO developer who was deeply involved with Meridian 59, a frequent blogger, and a co-creator of Storybricks, the software that EverQuest Next purchased for its development. "Sad to share the news that Brian Green, game...

We've been watching TERA's latest move into -- of all things -- MOBAs with a quirked eyebrow and a quizzical expression. We're never quite sure why developers do the wacky things they do with their MMOs, but a lot of times it feels like experiments such as the above are a way to jump onto popular gaming bandwagons and...

Just because Path of Exile has started the process of working on its next League doesn't mean the bug fixes for the current game version stop, no siree bob. Consider patch 3.11.1F, which had some of its patch notes previewed yesterday. As the headline alluded to, most of this patch is focused on bug fixing, addressing things like accessing the...