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As of 1:00 p.m. EDT today, Steam users are able to snap up Wurm Online on the platform. As in the full sandbox title and its playerbase, not the standalone side-game Wurm Unlimited. The game offers what it's calling "ultimate freedom" that seeks to "hold true to the original sandbox vision." Players can hop into either PvP or PvE servers...

Time is running short to get ready for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands -- or so Blizzard would have you believe. While there is no set timetable yet for Shadowlands' pre-patch or official launch, the studio is giving its playerbase a heads-up that people might want to get certain activities done sooner rather than later. This includes claiming the Uncorrupted Voidwing...

If this year has taught us anything, it's that clear and boosted communication is vital to handling a crisis. Having information and a message is one thing, but getting it to people is quite another. When people are kept in the dark or have to deal with mixed messages, frustration brews and mistakes are made. Communication is absolutely vital to...

Rockstar hasn't had the best summer, what with SuperData dinging GTAO for its lack of major content leading to revenue dips and gamers protesting as clowns in Red Dead Online for the same reason. But today, the company revealed what it's working on for both games, although the details are still pretty thin. In Yahoo Skyrim, players are getting an...

Yesterday's big Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis announcement left pretty much everyone confused about what exactly it is. A do-over? An expansion? A completely new standalone game that inexplicably bears the "2" name? SEGA has finally addressed the confusion over the issue and explained that New Genesis is a "massive update" launching for PSO2 after episode 6, in lieu...

Could the Fable series be heading in a massively multiplayer direction? A blazing hot rumor is searing its way through the internets this week that suggests that the newest Fable game that is about to be announced won't be Fable 4 but rather be an MMO. French journalist @CronoTK appears to have inside information about the full lineup of Xbox Series...

Next week, the latest RuneScape quest, Desperate Measures, is arriving in the game. These story additions are always a big deal to the game's loyal community, especially considering that this one continues the tale from the last quest that came months ago. To get some behind-the-scenes information about this content update, we sat down with RuneScape Lead Designer David Osborne,...

We return to the ongoing Lord of the Rings Online saga this morning, as Standing Stone Games' MMOs have entered their 10th day of issues. Around 7:30 p.m. EDT last night, the studio brought LOTRO back online, noting that it would be keeping chat offline and monitoring the servers overnight. It also promised to extend the ongoing Midsummer Festival...

The title of this Daily Grind can go in a lot of directions, can't it? We could be talking here about an actual thief picking your pack, a ninja looter, maybe even just the game refusing to log your actions at a critical moment. What prompted this one, however, was remembering the story of one of my old Ultima Online...

A couple of weeks back, I was reading a piece on RPS that jokingly lamented the way the game reveals of this summer have gone down. "NotE3 is never going to end, is it," RPS's Alice O'Connor moped. "I’m going to be shown trailers for the Destroy All Humans remaster every fortnight for the rest of my life." It kinda feels...