Trove’s ‘splendid summer event’ is live today with a new quest track

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Gamigo is giving a smidge of love to more than ArcheAge this week: Trove is getting in on the summer fun with a new summer event, quest, and mounts. "It’s gradually getting warmer as the sun shows itself, even more, each day and the swim season begins! Do you also dream of a vacation on the beach with sweet drinks...
Black Lives Matter.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 275: What truly matters

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Justin, MJ, and Bree talk Black Lives Matter, Path of Exile, Elite Dangerous, FFXIV Fanfest, with adventures in ESO, WoW, Astroneer, LOTRO, Subnautica, SWG Legends, and mailbag topics on redesigning mages and what WoW did right.

Star Citizen shares answers and results from its Theaters of War AMA

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This past Friday, the devs of Star Citizen posted their replies to an AMA all about Theaters of War, the combined arms PvP mode that was first unveiled at CitizenCon 2019. Of particular note is a section that outlined Evocati test results, which unearthed a variety of issues such as persistence and service issues, hardware performance problems, particularly in an...
Destined even further.

Destiny 2 announces three expansions, including Beyond Light, and launches Season of Arrivals

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Bungie ran a whopper of a Destiny 2 reveal stream today, announcing literally all the things. OK, just four or so of the things, but they're big things! First and foremost, there's the Beyond Light expansion, launching September 22nd. "A new power is born out of the ancient Pyramid ship above Europa, and a dark empire has risen beneath,"...

Amazon’s New World character progression will seem comfortably familiar to MMO fans

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Listen up, all you bad boys and rude girls: Amazon Games' New World is seriously still slated for launch on August 25th, and if you're one of the five people who haven't been invited to the new-new testing, you're probably wondering how exactly you'll be developing your toon in the game. Happily, Amazon has obliged your curiosity in a...
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Neverwinter will improve its player scaling tech with the Avernus module

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When it comes to scaling tech in MMOs -- of artificially adjusting a player's levels and stats to fit a zone's level range -- it is not always an easy thing to get right out of the gate. Cryptic admitted that Neverwinter's old method of doing scaling calculations didn't always have the best result, which is why the studio...
Dagrons!

See where you fall in the obscure World of Warcraft iceberg of knowledge

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Oh, you know about obscure World of Warcraft things? That's great. But do you really know about it? Sure, you might think you know lots of obscure facts, like the wandering Goldshire children and their strange ritual, or the unused Karazhan Crypts, or the turtles in the Dalaran Sewers... But do you know about the Corrupted Ashbringer event in Scarlet Monastery? Martin...
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TERA launches the Awakening update on consoles June 30

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It's a big wake-up call for players in TERA on the game's console version, as both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions will get the game's Awakening update on June 30th. That means 13 different apex skills, one for each class, as well as the new Dark Reach Citadel dungeon that's meant to challenge your newfound class mastery in...

Choose My Adventure: EVE Online is already a bad time

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I knew there was a reason I wasn't looking forward to this one. I've dipped my toes into this piranha pool before. I first played EVE Online during Apocrypha, and came back to the game a while later when it went free-to-play. Now, I'm back in and already I've made a terrible mistake, and for a little while there, I...

EA Sports beefs up efforts against toxic chat in-game, PS5 confirms its new reveal event date

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The continued effort by gaming companies to clear their chat of hate has another large contributor: EA Sports. In a statement posted to Twitter, the EA Sports brand outlined several actions being taken in order to attack racist and hateful speech in its catalogue of titles, including active and regular reviews of its filtered terms to account for multiple languages,...