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Gamers and Twitch fans are in mourning this afternoon, as reports confirming the death of streamer Byron "Reckful" Bernstein have hit social media. Both his girlfriend and his roommate have relayed the tragic news. (And now his brother.) Reckful began his career in World of Warcraft esports over a decade ago, then became a Hearthstone pro and variety streamer. Memorials...

The world of Phantasy Star Online 2 isn't a particularly fantastical one in the classical sense, but it absolutely is an anime styled sci-fantasy world, so perhaps that's rationale enough for players to enjoy a crossover event with the anime film KonoSuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! Legend of Crimson. And yes, that's the full title apparently. This crossover...

So, who nommed the Fallout franchise when last we discussed which MMO or MMO adjacent title deserved its own movie or TV show? Because you were right on the money. Bethsoft announced today that Amazon Studios will be making a Prime Video series based in the post-apoc Fallout setting. If you're cringing right now, thinking about how the modern...

Elite: Dangerous has once more applied a patch to help mitigate several Fleet Carrier bugs this past Tuesday. Players should now see a variety of fixes to a wide array of problems, whether they're related to navigation, the market management screen, and landing pads among other things. The update has also made some stability improvements, fixing crashes for Fleet...

You probably don't think a whole lot about Leyou at this point, but you probably should; the holding company owns most of Digital Extremes of Warframe fame (Warfame), is behind the upcoming additional Lord of the Rings MMO, and apparently has plans for Transformers Online and Civilization Online. That's an impressive lineup, which means that it makes a certain...

So I'm glad that Crucible got a "pull back to beta" instead of a complete shutdown. I'm surprised but still happy because that's more likely to give the game a little bit of leeway rather than just giving the axe. Of course, that does raise the question of whether this is going to fix things or whether it's just...

The war against the hungry bot horde continues in WoW Classic. Shortly after Blizzard gave 74,000 accounts the boot, the devs have once again checked in with an update that saw an additional 40,000 accounts get banned for botting, hacking, and RMT dealing. This new figure is part of a reported increase in botting activity since June according to the...

It wasn't so long ago that Crucible opted to take itself out of launch and move back into beta. (It was a couple of days ago, to be more specific.) That means the developers are now moving forward with changes with the new pool of now-beta-testers, starting with weekly playtest sessions in which the developers are playing and looking...

If you follow Conan Exiles' twitter, you might have noticed that a bunch of gamers have been pestering Funcom this morning over the fact that the game, which was supposed to be launching today on the Epic Games Store as a free title for its first week, was not in fact there and appeared to have been taken down....

Remember last month when UK lawmakers started making fresh noise about classifying lockboxes/lootboxes as gambling to protect children following multiple reports and surveys on the monetization mechanic and its impact on the public? It's back in the news this week as the UK's House of Lords released a final report from its Select Committee on the Social and Economic...