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The first canonical trans character in World of Warcraft is here in Shadowlands: Pelagos, an aspirant among the Kyrians whose mortal form was that of a woman. The team has recently announced that Pelagos' pronouns in quest text were being updated to he/him as opposed to they/them following feedback from the community regarding the best way to show respect...

The first major update of Star Trek Online's Year of Klingon is A House Divided, a new civil war story arc. Massively OP's MJ has participated in the Task Force Operation, but she's saved the story for you! She's excited for more adventure involving Martok, one of her favorite Klingons. Tune in live at 2:00 p.m. to catch this...

What you're about to read is an account of how three guys in China defrauded Tencent under the guise of a famous chili sauce brand. Because this is just how things work in this timeline. The story starts with an esports advertising deal struck between Tencent and Lao Gan Ma for an April 2019 esports event for QQ Speed,...

Long-running MMORPG fansite Gamespot (/s) has just posted the not-so-exclusive-now news that sci-fi MMO Dual Universe is expected to hit beta on August 27th. MMO fans will recall that Dual Universe and studio Novaquark burst onto the scene way back in 2016, promising to basically be EVE Online but way better, with a single-shard PvP focus spread out over a...

Happy patch day, Guild Wars 2 fans. As we noted last week, Guild Wars 2's latest class balancing update is live today, and now it's here, which means any grumbling you did on Reddit about nerfs are all fair game once again. Some of the bigger tweaks are aimed at Necromancers, siege weapons, Elem fire traiting, Engi shields and damage,...

Well, well, well. Consider me pleasantly surprised. I wasn’t really sure what to expect when the voters told me to kick off my Dungeons and Dragons Online adventure, but things have been far more enjoyable than I anticipated. I suppose that’s a result of my own minor assumptions going in to this game. I always sort of pictured DDO as...

The former Bungie composer Martin O'Donnell has spilled some pretty serious tea regarding the partnership with Activision, calling the deal "bad from the start" and "not a match made in heaven at all" during an interview with HiddenXperia and flying directly in the face of Bungie's official line that Activision wasn't an "overlord." O'Donnell, who was on the board of...

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of my time in Guild Wars 2 running through the Drizzlewood Coast meta event (be sure to check out our impressions of No Quarter and the Drizzlewood Coast map if you haven’t already!). It’s a lot of fun, and the rewards are pretty good. I’m especially fond of the new Stormcaller weapon set,...

Remember back in June when THQ Nordic announced it was remastering Kingdoms of Amalur as Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning? And everyone groaned inwardly but then remembered Amalur was actually a pretty good game so we're not really that upset about the dumb name? Good times. Anyhow, THQ hadn't quite said when that was all happening. Now it has, plus...

You know who's probably breathing a big sigh of relief right now? Riot Games, whose multi-year scandal and lawsuit over sexual harassment and discrimination has been backburnered ever so slightly thanks to all the other awful people in the games industry who've now been exposed by their victims. The current studio under fire is Ubisoft, which as we covered...