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Pet lovers, perk up: Project Gorgon is grooming its animal handling skill to be better than before. According to a new dev diary on the subject, the old skill wasn't providing the right synergy between owner and pet: "The idea behind the skill is that you and your pet are working together as a team, but in practice you've mostly...

Lord of the Rings Online's long-running player concert series is poised to make a triumphant return this weekend with Weatherstock VIII. "Weatherstock is the largest player run event in all LOTRO's Middle-earth! Come see the 10 bands who have made it to the Summit entertain an audience of Elves, Hobbits, Dwarves and Men!" trumpets the event planners. Ten player bands will take...

We've been keeping an ear to the ground on XLGAMES' second attempt at an ArcheAge mobile game. Last year, the Korean studio announced it was tapping Unreal Engine 4 and Gamevil for that game. Now we know it's called ArcheAge Begins and will land in some form next month. Signups for news (and maybe more?) are already open, and there's a...

Here's your dose of World of Warcraft nostalgia for today: All seven login screens for the game, from the original 2004 edition to this month's Legion facade. Considering how long the community got acquainted with each one of those screens, they're bound to trigger more than a few memories in viewers. Check out all of the login shots after the...

PlayStation 4 players who have been waiting for this month's release of ARK: Survival of the Fittest will have to keep on waiting. WildCard has announced that it is pushing back release of the spin-off version of the self-dubbed Multiplayer Online Survival Arena on the PS4 in favor of releasing the base game, Survival Evolved, on that console sooner. So how...

Making money in Final Fantasy XIV isn't necessarily easy. You have to play the free market quite a bit to acquire large amounts of gil, and you can sometimes make mistakes or bad decisions. Or you can make a really bad decision and just buy gil, in which case you can get caught in another wave of bans. Case...

Guild Wars 2 is continuing its rollout of teasers leading up to the launch of its third living world season next week. Today's entry is another in-character lore piece dressed up as an interview with Kryta's Queen Jennah. Jennah's message to her citizens is clear: She insists that the residents of Divinity's Reach are perfectly safe, which probably means they...

So there's this thing right now. It's kind of a craze. Maybe you've heard of it? Pokemon Go? Yeah, I thought so. The thing is, I myself am not even slightly tempted. As much as folks are flocking to this game, I don't even have an iota of interest. I did watch the cartoons when I was younger, but...

Last week, Valve announced that it was going to start taking action against the various Steam-based gambling sites, but no details were announced at that time. The details are here now, though, and it's clear that Valve isn't joking around. Cease & Desist letters have been sent to over 20 different sites, including one site focused around Dota 2...

Video games had a huge impact on my childhood and teenage years, imprinting themselves onto my psyche for all of the struggles and elation that they produced. While I did play consoles in my youth, most of my gaming time was spent on the PC, particularly during the 1990s. As such, I have a strong fondness (nostalgia goggles alert!) for...