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Nearly eight months' worth of PC updates for PlanetSide 2 will finally arrive to PlayStation 4 players today with the Escalation update in what is being touted as the multiplayer shooter's biggest content release yet. Bastion Fleet Carriers, the Colossus Heavy Tank, the War Assets feature, the Sanctuary social hub; it's all part of this update, along with several new...

It's all over in Sea of Thieves, because you now have to fight skeletons covered in fire. Yes, the Ashen Lords arrive on the high seas, and that means aside from having to fight off skeleton pirates they're also setting your wooden boat on fire and generally being... you know, on fire. Fire is hot and difficult to deal...

We've updated the end of this piece with the latest info as of July 31st. MMO gamers were bummed back in May when Gamigo sunsetted Dragon's Prophet over in the Europe, especially since it was the last remaining western version after Daybreak's 2015 sunset of US version of the game. So it was cause for cheer when the game recently...

We all love multiplayer, persistent world online games, don’t we? Players stay for the familiarity, nostalgia, and potential for years of enjoyment. Studios love the playerbase stickiness, ability to build on an existing environment, and potential for years of a consistent, predictable revenue stream. But there’s at least one issue that long-term multiplayer games face that single-player, one-shot games...

In World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, players are wandering in the realm of the dead and dealing with afterlife issues. A perfect time to find members of the opposite faction and kill them, right? No? Well, in that case, why not just kill anyone else? Yes, it appears that the world quests related to PvP are returning in Shadowlands, with...

Here's a not-actually-very-secret bit of honesty about the industry that I have been working in for about a decade now: I am not actually right all of the time. I say it's not actually secret because, well, I talk about this a lot. I make my guesses and understandings clear, I play my cards on the table, and I figure...

Cursed by Netflix transmedia synergy, that is! Yes, as promised, the Netflix fantasy series Cursed has a big crossover with the Black Desert franchise rolling out this week. When it was announced earlier in July, we didn't quite know what it would entail for MMO gamers, but now we do: Pearl Abyss and Kakao have literally put the show's...

Warframe's newest mission is its most lucrative -- and dangerous. This week, the space ninja title dropped The Steel Path hardmode update, giving highly experienced players a run for the money. "The Steel Path flips the Origin System on its head, increasing the difficulty of every node on the Star Chart," Digital Extremes said. "Put your skills to the test...

The other day when I heard that Valiance Online was going to hold a one-week open beta event in August, I rushed to my calendar and put that as a "high priority" alert for those dates. Yeah, I'm shameless -- but I'm also excited to dive into this City of Heroes' spiritual successor for the first time. As we count...

Earlier in the week we reported on a Reddit post that wondered aloud what was happening with Squadron 42's development. CIG has now officially responded on the forums with some explanations on what's taking so long to keep backers informed on the project. The post first points towards several SQ42-related video pieces as well as some monthly reports from March...