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Flight! Letting slip the surly bonds of gravity and taking to the skies! Final Fantasy XIV has let players fly in the expansion zones before now, but starting with patch 5.3 players can take flight in the base game zones as well once the initial 1-50 MSQ is completed. And that's one of the bits of additional content highlighted...

Torchlight III players already knew that there was a wipe incoming as a result of Relic retooling, but developer Echtra Games is apparently looking to "have a little fun with it" by celebrating the 12 Days of Wipemas. The downside is that today PWE and Echtra announced a delay for the wipe and associated festivities: It's now coming August 11th. Meanwhile,...

MMO gamers are gearing up for stress testing in Amazon's New World today and into the weekend. As we previously posted, today's event kicks off at 5 p.m. EDT. Alpha players and Amazon preorder players who bought the game before July 26th should've already gotten their keys and access info, while Steam preorder players will need to follow the...

The old Ramsgate is dead and gone. Destroyed by some sort of cataclysmic event, and with only the mysterious orb from the Umbral Deeps to thank for anyone making it out alive, this event is both the kicking-off point and explanation for why Dauntless has chosen to refresh the long-standing primary hub. I was granted the opportunity to check out...

So here's a press release I wasn't expecting to get in my inbox today: En Masse MMORPG TERA is apparently rolling out a "team-based battle mode" called TERA Battle Arena later this year. My first thought was that this is was just a typical MMO PvP mode with an attention-grabbing name, but on closer inspection it looks more like...

The recently added Naturalist role appears to be turning in to a monkey's paw wish for Red Dead Online players that were hungry for some kind of content update. Not only is this new Frontier Pursuit adding more animals to hunt, it's also added more animals that hunt players. Up to this point, finding game to take down was generally...

The first version of the Conduit system in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands didn't exactly go over well with players. No one was excited by the prospect of having to farm for various items to slot into soulbinds and then hope for a more powerful one to drop later. This is, thankfully, why the design has been changed. Conduits will...

Is anyone here familiar with Wipeout? It was an obstacle course game show where contestants had to avoid some pretty plush yet hard-hitting goofy obstacles in an elimination format. It was a lot like Ninja Warrior except it didn't take itself quite so seriously, or was like American Gladiators without the '80s fabulousness. I'm bringing those shows up because they...

Guild Wars 2 players are busy on Reddit this week debating whether precursors should be even tangentially in the Black Lion chest loot table following a game update that added Gnashblade's Exotic Weapon Grab Bag (which had a remote chance to drop precursors) to the game's lockboxes. ArenaNet has already hotfixed the grab bag to remove that chance, but...

While we're still kind of watching and waiting for the game to arrive to our shores, Korean players of Lost Ark are already deep into the game's second season. In fact, they're even looking ahead to new content and a new class. Season 2 has begun, which MMO Culture reports is bringing a number of guild and multiplayer-related content updates...