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The self-described "action survival MMORPG" Frozen Flame is soon entering its next stage of metamorphosis. Following its initial reveal in June and its backers-only alpha in July, the game now moves to closed beta on Tuesday, September 15th. Beta will introduce a number of new things for players such as new game zones with new mini-bosses and artifacts, the ability...

My long-standing policy for the prequel novels for World of Warcraft expansions has been to not read them. We've gotten these things for a long while, with Cataclysm being the first to get a novel that was really supposed to "set up" the next expansion, and if that's not an inauspicious start I don't know what is. Nevertheless, that's...

The waters surrounding Ubisoft's long-delayed pirate title are starting to stir once more. After more than a year since last hearing any movement on Skull & Bones, VGC is reporting that its sources in the studio have revealed that the game is being retooled as a "live service model." While Skull & Bones already had online elements, such as multiplayer...

Dune, Conan Exiles, Secret World Legends, Age of Conan... all of these properties and more are now directly under the thumb of China's Tencent. Funcom announced that this past spring, Tencent made a voluntary offer to gobble up all of the shares in the Oslo studio. Long story short, Tencent now completely owns Funcom. "Following the completion of the voluntary offer,...

As promised, ArenaNet has pushed out the trailer for Guild Wars 2's next episode, titled Jormag Rising and launching in just two weeks. "Chapter four of Guild Wars 2’s ongoing story The Icebrood Saga arrives Tuesday, July 28, with the vast stirring of the ancient, magic-devouring Jormag, the Elder Dragon of Ice and Persuasion. Titled Jormag Rising, the episode expands...

It's no secret that my favorite aspect of Dual Universe is the opportunity for creativity. Bring on that voxel building! Oh the hours I'll spend mining and shaping and crafting. That said, there's more to the space sandbox, and I aim to experience all of it. Yes, even the fighting. Just because I am not known as a die-hard...

Dual Universe is not the first MMORPG to charge a sub for a beta - let me just state that upfront. So today's Daily Grind isn't meant as a referendum on that game but on the overall practice. For example, who remembers Pathfinder Online? It's still a going concern, believe it or not, and it was one of the first...

Today marks the rising crescendo of the Triglavian invasion in EVE Online. The Zenith update kicks off the beginning of the sandbox's third quadrant for 2020 and signals the tail end of the invasion as well as promising that players will influence the final "star-spanning consequences" in this update. The entirety of the third quadrant will bring new challenges, new...

Massively OP's MJ is really enjoying the garden-building features of Path of Exile's Harvest league. She's planted and harvested a few crops already, and now she's ready to take her gardening up a notch! Not only does she want to better organize her garden, but MJ has planted some higher-tier seeds. What will this special batch yield? Tune in...

Parties are fun, but when everyone has left, the unhappy job of cleaning up the mess remains. That's just what APB Reloaded has done in what it's calling "the Un-Anniversary Patch," effectively cleaning out the game's anniversary content and the Beacon Bash district as well as removing a number of event-specific items from ARMAS on July 15th. These include...