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The weekly video from Star Citizen is online with another bundle of new details for fans to digest. At least, the second half of the video does; the first part is mostly talking about how PTU feedback helps development of the game overall and alpha 3.10 in specific. Which is nice to hear, but also not exactly revelatory for...

The circle is now complete: Social media has mastered skills MMOs and online games haven't, not that social media was paying much attention to the fact many of its problems were problems from MMOs, MUDs, and other online games first. That doesn't mean it's too late for game devs, though. Daniel Kelley, the Associate Director for the Anti-Defamation League's Center...

The devs of Final Fantasy XI don't seem to really appreciate what "maintenance mode" is understood to mean, judging by the new pieces of content arriving to the game. First off is some patch notes for the latest version update, which saw the opening step of The Voracious Resurgence story arc yesterday while the rest of the August update...

The Drizzlewood Coast map and its associated metas have been the subject of chatter in the Guild Wars 2 for months now, as players have stumbled trying to effectively complete the events crowning the pair of episodes that added them. Fortunately, ArenaNet has been listening and is taking action on one of the sticking points. "As we mentioned on last...

A pre-test "shakeout" before the next pre-alpha is happening in Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, which seems redundant, but it's better than not having things ready to go before the full-scale pre-alpha. At least, that's the reasoning given by the devs, which explains that show stopper features of pre-alpha 5 need to be tested to ensure they're bug free. As...

Big news coming out of Crowfall this morning, as ArtCraft has just announced that it's marching right up to its next milestone, with a beta planned to open up on August 11th. The studio says that's when "the first invites will be sent to those in the early Beta groups," referring to backers. Yes, folks, this game was Kickstarted...

Still got your eye on Temtem? The totally-not-Pokemon MMO hit early access earlier this year, with plans to formally launch next summer, and as of yesterday, Spanish studio Crema Games revealed that it's got plans even bigger than just a PC launch. "Today, at the Sony State of Play event, Humble Games and Crema announced that Temtem is looking towards...

We've got a bit of good news, bad news, and really bad news for those looking to hop servers in Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online. Yes, you can once again pay to move your character between active servers, but no, your characters on dead worlds are still in virtual limbo. And some DDO players...

This week, MMO players have been talking about a game - and also not talking about a game. New World's beta weekend has been keeping us buzzing all week, but since this latest version is under NDA, most of the first-hand experiences being posted in public (even the good ones) are being made anonymously to avoid detection by Amazon....

File this one under "I was about to go to sleep when the internet erupted in an absolute panic over Tencent": Late this evening, the sitting US president issued an executive order that effectively bans WeChat and its parent company from transactions with people in the United States. WeChat's parent company, of course, is Tencent, one of the biggest...