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Happy patch day for Blade & Soul fans! Dark Passage is officially live today. At the core of the update is the Silversteel Laboratory, a 12-person raid for the level 60 HM 16 and up folks. "Lead Engineer Shingun has discovered Silversteel automaton protypes from what remains of the Steelbreaker. Instead of destroying these robotic creations, he and his team...

This may be the closest you get to a beach party this summer, so drink it up: TERA's summer festival has officially begun this week, with gobs of summery things to do. Digitally. Live right now is the Festival of the Sun itself; players level 58 and up will "journey to the Temple of the Sun in Balder's Refuge and...

Dual Universe would like to introduce you to someone. It's yourself. No, the devs at Novaquark aren't asking you to do some meditative introspection; they'd like to show you the new character model they've been working on, which is due to arrive to the space sandbox soon. "The goal of this redesign was not only to create something functional and...

The original plan for Fractured was to kick off its next alpha testing session on July 16th. That didn't happen, unfortunately; bugs cropped up at the last minute that needed to be squashed, which also delayed the testing phase. But fortunately for fans of the game, the bugs have now been squashed and the new kickoff for testing is......

Fun fact: While sales of music CDs have dropped dramatically over the past decade, vinyl sales have increased even in the face of the digital revolution. For some collectors and music fans, there's nothing quite like going back to record players for that "real" sound. Another fun fact: Daybreak recently started selling its EverQuest 20th's anniversary album on vinyl, offering...

Here's the thing about criticism: It isn't mutually exclusive with appreciation. You can like something that you also criticize -- and your head won't explode, nor will you be burned at the stake for a hypocrite. I don't know where this "one or the other" approach settled into modern fandom, but it's childish and I'm done with it. So yeah,...

This probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but Final Fantasy XIV will not be hosting any fan gatherings this year. The North American Fan Festival scheduled for November had already been cancelled, but amidst all of today's excitement for the next patch, the team announced that the game's Japan Fan Festival originally scheduled for December has also been...

Free game alert, though with a bit of an asterisk: Black Desert is offering a free trial starting now until August 5th that can end with players getting a full basic game pass for absolutely free, provided they hit level 50 before the trial period ends. This, effectively, means the usual 7-day trial for new registrants will become a...

Castle Thorn in The Elder Scrolls Online has lots of undead. No, really, it has more undead than that. They're squirting out of the walls like aerosol cheese cans. You open a door and fifteen ghouls all try to run through at you, except they get stuck like it's a Three Stooges routine. That's not what the new preview...

It's almost time to make sure that heroic raids are sufficiently... well, whatever they're supposed to be in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. It can't be hard, since there's a higher difficulty that's supposed to be harder already, but you can't queue for them and they still provide a roadblock. But whatever difficulty level they're supposed to target, the heroic...