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Allods Online always seems like one of those MMORPGs where there's no shortage of frontiers to explore. When Patch 7.0.1 arrives, that frontier will grow even larger with the addition of six new allods. This week, the team revealed the final two zones coming with the Unconquered Summit update: Iriy and Forgotten Temple. Iriy is filled with "thick woods and deep...

How are your World of Warcraft: Legion preparations coming? Everyone in the community seems to have his or her own to-do list for the expansion, and we imagine that for some, getting to know the lore and backstory of the Broken Isles is part of that. Blizzard delivered more of Legion's story this week with a new comic, Highmountain: A Mountain Divided....

While much is made of Roberts Space Industries' work on Star Citizen, perhaps much less known is the job that Turbulent has performed. This small team has been tackling web site content, including setting up the pledging tools, forums, and social games. A recent interview with Turbulent shines some light on what goes on behind the scenes, including the apparent...

If you've been eagerly anticipating Black Desert's upcoming skill awakening system, you might want to take note of a few changes. Renamed skill add-on instead of awakening, this system will unlock at level 50. At this level, the first of three total skill add-ons will become available; the other two unlock at levels 52 and 54. When attaching an...

I, like many others who were children throughout the ‘90s and early 2000s, went through a period in my young life where the only thing I wanted in life was to be a Pokemon master. I wanted to be the very best like no one ever was, the whole nine yards. My mom swears that when I was a...

If you've missed discussion of it elsewhere (including on this here site, even), World of Warcraft is rolling out a new system for item upgrades in Legion. Item drops from any given source can "explode" upwards, so rather than having a flat chance for a set upgrade, such as a 10% shot at a 5-level upgrade, any item can...

This year, Star Trek Online celebrates an important anniversary. Star Trek has been around for 50 years, and whether you first fell in love with Captain Kirk in the original series or got into the franchise by getting swept up in the pre-release hype for the next movie, it's been striking a chord with fans across the world the...

Indie sandbox Das Tal's summer alpha kicks off tomorrow morning on July 16th. Fairytale Distillery plans to cut the rope on the servers at 10 a.m. EDT and let you all rampage for two weeks testing out the new biomes, new spear and shield weapon set, the solo player challenge system, the new structures, and the tutorial. Fairytale Distillery has also...

Following Trion's announcement earlier this week that its cutesy voxel sandbox MMORPG Trove had registered five million players in its first year and that it's headed for a console launch later in 2016, we touched base with Trion CEO Scott Hartsman to get a feel for where Trove sits in the studio's current lineup. Enjoy! Massively OP: Five million registered...

Well, that certainly didn't take long! In just a week, Pokémon GO has overtaken every mobile game in the United States, becoming the biggest title of all time. The game boasts 21 million active users in the country, is present on 10.8% of all Android smartphones, and is seeing players spend more time in it than on Facebook. To feed players' addiction...