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So what happens if all the Secret World Legends' bee-blessed don't save the world from the Filth? Funcom is apparently showing that possibility come November 14th. A new portal is opening in Agartha, but it won't lead players to a where -- it goes to a when. And it doesn't look like a very pleasant when. Players noticed odd wikipedia...

What's spooky in Star Trek Online? When research goes awry! The mini-mission Hearts and Minds is back for Halloween. Maybe they could have called it Hearts and Brains! Massively OP's MJ doesn't think those researchers will ever learn; she's going back to witness the consequences of that research and maybe try to clean things up a bit. Tune in...

Player freedom in sandbox games is always a tricky balancing act, and developers often have to walk a very fine line to prevent their games from becoming "gankboxes." This is the exact subject of Legends of Aria's latest dev blog, in which Citadel Studios's Jeffrey "Miphon" Edwards details the game's Karma system and the difficulties of creating a system...

I have to wonder whether Bethsoft is having some regrets right now. It seems to me that Fallout 76's beta is being completely overshadowed by the release of Red Dead Redemption. Part of that is probably because the beta is a truncated, discrete ordeal, with windows for testing rather than an always-up scenario (and the PC launch was a...

Black Desert's Halloween day update has more than just sweets: It's got a revamp for the pet exchange system, intended to make the acquisition of higher-tier pets much easier. You'll now be able to see your rate of exchange success, the new pet will inherit your main pet's experience total, more pets traded in will boost your chances of...

Back in September, Bree posed a Daily Grind question that I thought was genuinely intriguing. You know, for once. Just kidding, Bree! She asked the community to share a nice thing or two about MMOs that people weren't playing. I thought this would be a great exercise for this column because there are all sorts of MMOs I'm not playing...

It seems fair to say that the last installment of Eureka in Final Fantasy XIV was not considered delightful by fans, but Eureka Pyros is trying something different. Specifically, it's trying to let players enjoy the glory of swapping in new and exciting actions that would otherwise be restricted to other roles and jobs. Want to provoke and tank...

Just because a game's still being built doesn't mean it can't work on seasonal events, Ship of Heroes proves once again today. Heroic Games has put up a new video showing off what Halloween will have in store for future players of the MMORPG, including the mechanics and the new werewolf and skeleton models. "The arrival of Halloween kicks off...

If, like our staff, you looked at yesterday's Guild Wars 2 patch notes and thought it was a "filler patch" with just a handful of bug and balance tweaks and some new Halloween bits in the cash shop, well, that's because the biggest and best change wasn't in the patch notes at all. That'd be the legendary weapon upgrade-swapping...

We're just a few days away from this year's BlizzCon, which will be taking place this weekend in Anaheim, California, and in preparation for the event, Blizzard Community Manager Ythisens has popped by the official World of Warcraft forums to give players a heads-up about what to expect from the convention in terms of both content and security. Content-wise, Ythisens...