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In trying to anticipate the demand for reselling retired Crowfall goods and heading off some of the shadier aspects of third-party RMT transactions, ArtCraft announced that it is authorizing two sites to be part of its new Trusted Trader program. "The general idea is that if you want to sell or buy a retired pledge package or item as a RMT...

Have you hung out in a Rishii village? MassivelyOP's Larry and MJ are going to hobnob with the locals as they follow the next lead on the Revanites in SWTOR. Today's the day they plan on chasing down Revan himself. The big question will be, what will MJ's Agent do when she find him? Well, that is up to...

Citadel Studios' Derek Brinkmann hopped on Reddit yesterday for an AMA revolving around Shards Online. Among the highlights: The game does have hunger, but no one's going to starve to death on the core server (permadeath servers are another story). In fact, the permadeath ruleset is what Brinkmann says he's most excited about. "I think MMOs are afraid of...

Feeling the itch to strap on a six-iron and saddle up for adventure? Sunset Rangers, an upcoming western survival sandbox, might just give you the satisfaction you crave. Sunset Rangers is currently garnering support for a spot on Steam, promising fans all of the western trappings that they could want. The game will include randomized maps, powerful guns, the ability...

If you're a big fan of Wonder Woman, you don't need to be told that this year marks her 75th anniversary. You may need to be told that DC Universe Online is holding a celebration in her honor, allowing players to log in right now to claim a Wonder Woman chest emblem. You also get seven and a half...

Announced back in June, this summer's big Neverwinter expansion is called Storm King's Thunder, and as of today we know exactly when it's coming: August 16th. That's on PC, anyway; Xbox One players and those who joined the game on PS4 this very week will have to wait for the usual "later date." The expansion includes an endgame campaign and...

The big pre-patch for World of Warcraft's next expansion is finally here, meaning that everyone's specs have changed, everyone's abilities have changed, and bugs are cropping up. Those bugs are being squashed with the first few hotfix patches, but the fact that all of your abilities look just a little bit different is still going to bother you. Did...

Another day, another round of wild Pokemon Go stories from across the globe. Let's kick it off with this story from the Guardian: Bosnian players are being "urged to avoid areas littered with unexploded mines left over from the 1990s conflict." It's no joke; almost 2000 people have been killed or injured by landmines in the area in the years...

The PvP game in Black Desert has ramped up with the formal addition of conquest and node warfare. As if you needed an excuse to take a cudgel to your fellow player's noggin! Think of the new warfare modes as smaller and larger versions of the same concept. "While node war occurs daily and is a skirmish over single nodes, conquest...

UK tech startup Improbable is stretching the bounds of the MMO and MMORPG again with its announcement that its SpatialOS will serve as the foundation for yet another game: MetaWorld. MMORPG vets will recall that Improbable's SpatialOS is also one of the core components of Chronicles of Elyria; Soulbound said back in June that the platform would help Elyria "get...