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TERA’s next major patch on PC brings a new dungeon and new partner adventures

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The next big patch for TERA's PC version arrives in less than a week on June 16th, and it's got some new stuff to do. Well, it has one new thing for you to do, specifically. See, one of the additions for this patch is the new Partner Adventure System, which allows you to send up to three partners at a...

ARK: Survival Evolved celebrates five years, makes Crystal Isles map official, becomes latest free EGS game

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It's birthday time for ARK: Survival Evolved and its players, which is just one of several announcements made on the game's latest Community Crunch post, which outlines what's happening for the survival sandbox's five year anniversary and also confirms a community map's arrival to official servers. First, the anniversary event: From now until June 24th, players can mark the occasion...
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Magic: Legends shows off the process behind giving life to the land of Shiv

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Despite the fact that the name makes it sound like a sharp implement destined to slide into somebody's ribs, the land of Shiv is a place players will be exploring in Magic: Legends. For players of the card game, it'll be a familiar name. Of course, it'll be a familiar name primarily because it's a land of volcanic eruptions,...

Warframe launches Deadlock Protocol, previews Protea and new Jackal, shifts TennoCon to August

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Just in case three days' time is too long for you to remember what Warframe is up to, consider this a reminder that the Deadlock Protocol is now available for PC players. That means all of the goodies covered before are arriving: new story for the Corpus, a new Jackal fight, redesigned Corpus areas, and a new 'Frame. There's...

Tamriel Infinium: Launch impressions of Elder Scrolls Online’s Greymoor chapter

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As I sat down to take in the most recent content release for the Elder Scrolls Online, Greymoor, I was awash with a sense of anticipation. For gamers, including me, who were introduced to the series with Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim almost nine years ago, this feels a bit like a homecoming. Yet, the more I work my way...

Star Citizen shows off predatory creature concepts, previews new locations arriving in alpha 3.10

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Star Citizen has already briefly touched on a couple of creatures like the space cow and space whale, but not everything in the animal kingdom is friendly. In this week's Inside Star Citizen video digest, players get a first look at some concepts being put together for more predatory critters that might be found scuttling around planetside. The video touched...
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WoW Factor: How World of Warcraft’s elite progression obsession hurts progression players too

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Here's a statement that I think few people will disagree with: World of Warcraft has increasingly focused on raiding and high-end progression as the only important part of the game. This is not altogether new, but while raiding slowly got more accessible through the game's first three expansions, subsequent expansions pushed back against that fact. While Cataclysm introduced the Raid Finder, it...

Leaderboard: Star Wars Galaxies vs. Star Wars The Old Republic

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Yesterday, I read on Twitter that Star Wars The Old Republic has, as of this week, been live longer than Star Wars Galaxies was. I literally had to run the math on this because it's so baffling, but it's true: SWG launched in June of 2003 and was closed in December of 2011. SWTOR launched in December of 2011...
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World of Warcraft previews the undead might of Maldraxxus

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Maldraxxus is one of the new areas in World of Warcraft, and it's a portion of the realm of the dead with a very simple philosophy: Get stronger. The armies of the Necrolords within fight an endless war with the souls of the ambitious and driven smashing their opponents, being used as machinery, and brought back to serve as...
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Blizzard and Bethsoft donate for racial justice, Riot parts ways with troubling exec, and Raph Koster writes a song

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We've got a few more gaming-related Black Lives Matter stories to share this morning. Riot Games: First up, yesterday we reported that Riot Games was investigating its Global Head of Consumer Products for a racist post about George Floyd on Facebook. We weren't really expecting much to come of it given Riot's history, but it appears the problem was sorted...