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It's gotten to that point in 2020 where the news that another gaming convention has canceled over the murder hornet pandemic is very surprising, mostly because we thought all of the shows have done so by now. So get ready to make your "Wait, that was still planning on taking place before this news?" face when you hear...

Chronicles of Elyria may not be a game right now, but you can bet your sweet bippy that it's a saga. A legal saga, to be precise, with disgruntled fans teaming up to put forth a class action suit against both Soulbound Studio and Xsolla even as Jeromy Walsh continues to claim that the game is being made. This...

I was strolling around the PvP areas on Dathomir on SWG Legends the other day and a stumbled into a building that was clearly marked as a memorial, as it held statues named for several fallen developers on the original game - including Brad McQuaid. It actually really hit me hard because I wasn't expecting to see it at...

Yes, Massively OP's MJ has been distracted from ESO's main story quest in Greymoor... and that's not going to change any tonight! Right now there's an event going on, and she's not about to lose out on those tickets -- even if that means PvP! MJ will brave both Cyrodiil and the Imperial City to complete the missions. When...

Inside or outside? Like a cat at the door, June had many of us unsure if we wanted to go out or stay in; just as some folks were finally getting out of the house as pandemic restrictions eased, others were retreating right back in to get away from the heat (or illness spikes). Luckily, staying indoors didn't mean...

As the promise of Unreal Engine 5's capabilities start to sink in, our little part of the gaming world is seeing perhaps the first waves of this new engine tech from a pretty unlikely source: a Korean game developer known as Game Tales that previously worked on casual mobile titles but is planning on making a big jump to...

A lot of the progress made in development of The Repopulation is pretty granular: bug fixes here, some greybox builds replaced there, things of that sort. For those who would rather get a bigger picture of what's to come, the developers have shared an updated roadmap of what tasks are next. The vast majority of the post is about what...

June's usual developer roundtable livestream from Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is a little bit different than usual: it's a solo discussion with community manager Ben "Kilsin" Walters about -- what else -- community management. The stream features a number of questions about topics that are brought up in the forums, keeping discussions on point, and even some thoughts about...

Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've (probably) never heard of! We'll start with Deadside, which is definitely in the adjacent bin, as it's billed as a "hardcore multiplayer shooter with survival elements." Rawr, get this game a cold Mountain Dew while it jumps off cliffs! Developer Bad Pixel pushed the game into early access...

Surprise, surprise, some players of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape have been presumably trying to circumvent the hard-locked chat terms meant to discourage hateful speech. In response, Jagex has added additional hard-filtering for several more words and phrases last week. It's like beta testing but all of the testers are horrible gremlin people! In much happier update news, this week's...