DC Universe Online’s The Witching Hour Halloween event returns

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The Witching Hour strikes in DC Universe Online, bringing Halloween festivities to the many heroes and villains of Gotham, Metropolis, and beyond. The event, which began earlier this week on October 1st, and will run until the big day itself, October 31st, introduces new activities, feats, and items all themed around the spookiest time of the year. While The Witching...

The Stream Team: After the SWTOR betrayal

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As much as she wanted it to be someone -- almost anyone -- else, Massively OP's MJ had to face that the betrayer in SWTOR was one of her closes !voteflirts. Now she and Larry will have to save the galaxy form someone who helped them save it. Tune in live at 2:00 p.m. to make all those important...
This is the real magic item.

Neverwinter devs say that a legacy server is unlikely

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If you're the type of person who loves to delve deep into the messy format of Reddit AMAs for juicy information, then boy does Neverwinter have one for you today. The systems designers over at Cryptic fielded numerous questions from the community on Tuesday about the nuts and bolts of the game's classes, combat, and features, and there are a...

Hyperspace Beacon: First impressions of SWTOR’s new Huttball map

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Yesterday, Star Wars: The Old Republic released its latest update called Fame and Fortune. I'm not exactly sure why BioWare called it "Fame and Fortune" when really the only big thing that this update is a new Huttball map called Sky Shredder. Of course, there is also a smattering of quality-of-life additions, like being able to reach the roof of...

Trove interview teases upcoming Geode surface world, gem tutorial, dungeon design, and Bomber Royale’s reception

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At the tail end of September, Trove website Trovesaurus posted up a belated but quite welcome Gamescom interview with Trion Worlds that gives a huge overview of what's on the game's horizon now that the first part of Geode is behind us. And it's a lot! In addition to the predictable Halloween event and planned gardening update, players can look...
It's clear now.

Perfect Ten: Failed MMOs that could have succeeded with more love

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Hindsight is 20/20. Unless you're blind in one eye from nostalgia, in which case hindsight is 0/20. In any case, you understand that it's easy to look back upon MMO history and announce where things went wrong and how those mistakes could have been avoided or corrected. We have the luxury of time and perspective with these things. Yet it...

Get Black Desert for free… if you can get to level 56 during your trial week

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Kakao and Pearl Abyss have been touting Black Desert's 10M players number for a while now, but it's popping the bubbly now with a big event that essentially grants the game to newcomers for free with just a few hoops along the way. "New adventurers can earn a free copy of Black Desert Online by completing the 7-day trial challenge....

Elder Scrolls Online is sending you to Blackrose Prison in the upcoming Murkmire DLC

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You're going to jail! OK, you're going to prison, but you're not exactly a prisoner; you're actually on a rescue mission. Such is the plot of Elder Scrolls Online's Blackrose Prison, the four-person arena launching as part of the Murkmire DLC later this fall. According to the lore, the prison has a history of brutality and atrocities and has since...
Good work, great idea.

Overwatch teases its upcoming LEGO sets, players decry Pharah’s nerfs

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She's weathered a lot of updates without being significantly changed, but Pharah is finally getting some big changes with the next Overwatch patch... and it looks like it's going to be a pretty big nerf. It's not really fair to call "damage lowered by a fixed amount" a nerf because that's just tuning and balancing; your actual abilities and...
Oh, good crop of nightmares this year.

Dungeons & Dragons Online adds wood elves and cloaks with today’s update 40

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Look out, Dungeons & Dragons Online players, there's some sort of fluttering piece of fabric chasing after you! We're just kidding, of course. It's a cloak because cloaks are in the game as of today's patch, or more specifically visuals for cloaks are in the game now. Existing cloaks get visuals, new cloaks have visuals, you can apply cosmetic...