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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Stalker hack: If you're one of the mostly Russian players of Wargaming's Stalker Online, better check your account and change your passwords. Cybernews reported this week that a database of user info associated with the game is floating around hacker forums. Wargaming and developer BigWorld say the leak lines...

EVE Online is probably best known for its ruthless player alliances sparking massive wars over territory, but this week everyone set their differences aside to help one player go out with a bang. EVE player Chappy78 Chapman posted the unfortunate news on the EVE forum that his cancer has returned and it's terminal, and that June 23rd would be...

While the update was a day late from its original announcement, the fact remains that EverQuest II has seen a fresh new update that adds its promised features like Familiar Season 7, expert difficulty for Rise of Luclin dungeons, and changes to Summer Ethereals weekly missions. The update has also made a variety of changes to several encounters, items, and...

It's summer time, and than means AQ3D players can chill on the sandy beaches of Pointe Less Isle. Unfortunately, the monsters there have decided to come vacation in Battleon -- and they aren't ideal guests! Massively OP's MJ is diving into the new shark-raid-o event happening in order to protect the town (and collect some sweet summer loot). Tune...

Sure, having your own private island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is nice, but why not just descend into the water around it and never emerge? The bad news is that even once the game's swimming update lands on July 3rd, you will need to emerge. But you'll also want to, because the update means that there are new...

Back in the day, I used to really be into the ukulele. I used to play in open mics and sold them as my day job! But that was a long time ago; I don't play as much anymore. The music never really dies, though. While I rarely go to ukulele club meetings and perform anymore, the itch to...

It's patch day for Bless Unleashed, as the Xbox One MMORPG has dropped The Saurin Deception, what Bandai Namco has deemed a "major content update." "In this new update, players will find brand new features that include new story quests that expand on the existing storyline, as well as new class skills to take customizing the combat experience to the...

I didn't catch the first release of Eternal Magic, so the Steam release this past spring seemed like a good time to get into it. I guess everyone else thought the same thing because the world was pretty crowded at that point. Flash forward to now, and the crowd has thinned out a bit, but I was able to...

The gaming industry is seeing a second wave - a second wave of the #metoo movement, that is. As we covered earlier this week, people from across the gender spectrum in the games industry have been posting their abuse survival stories to Twitter and Medium, with multiple sexism, racism, harassment, and even rape accusations against a range of industry...

Sometimes, dear readers, things simply do not line up. I really have a long piece I'm looking forward to doing, and then Blizzard does something terrible (or wonderful, but terrible is more likely these days) and my entire plan gets shot straight to heck as I'm rushing to catch up. Other times... well, I spend some time idly thinking...