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Black Desert is back online this morning with its interim patch. Of note, Kakao has tweaked the Sorcerer, added new crystals and cash shop goodies, made elephants more awesome, tinkered with the UI, and fixed a few bugs. The Golden Coelacanth event also kicks off today, assuming this morning's patch issues are resolved, to be followed by the Golden...

Future Crowfall warriors might be looking at all of the archetypes (classes) and wondering how theirs will play any different than the rest. ArtCraft's answer to this comes in the form of combat disciplines: traits that you mix-and-match to create a specific build. The studio released a new developer stream that discussed how disciplines will be used in the game and...

Don't have the patience or skill to get one of the Dark vs. Light packs from Star Wars: The Old Republic? Uncle BioWare is there to help you out, especially if you're burdened with too much money. The studio has started selling these packs through the cartel market for 250 coins each. The studio did note that these packs aren't...

How do you go from making Ingress to making Pokémon Go? We're using the hypothetical "you" here, if it weren't clear; you personally can't make either of them, they already exist. And according to a recent interview with Niantic Labs founder John Hanke, the answer is that you build the latter on the bones of the former. He also...

Confession time: MMORPGs haven't always brought out the best in me. Sometimes I've gotten irritated when real life "intrudes" on gaming, even if it's just a family member wanting some attention. Sometimes I'm suspicious that these games cultivate a nasty sense of greed, of "got mine" in all of us. And once in a great while I'll see someone...

Hello, trade chat, my old friend; I'm turning you back on again. Because the team on World of Warcraft has addressed your issues at last, so the players who were filling you with spam will not be banned, but will make sounds of silence. The new silence penalty is being rolled out with the game's pre-patch for Legion and will...

In every game, you run across the person begging for a handout. The player who always asks for gold, armor, runs, items, weapons, and anything else that can be traded. Isn't it high time that player type got a character class? The Black Death's latest update adds the Beggar, who has the ability to beg for money and craft...

An anonymous reader tipped us off to possible staffing shifts at Trion Worlds this week, and now Trion's Garth Chouteau has confirmed to Massively OP that two employees did depart in what is apparently not a mass-layoff as was originally feared: "We can confirm that two employees left the company last week, and we wish them the best! In unrelated matters,...

Time is running short for Shroud of the Avatar to prepare for its persistent world launch at the end of the month. The team has been patching up Release 31, including the most recent build yesterday, as it tries to nail down some pesky issues plaguing the game. While the patch fixes an issue of ever-fleeing mobs, the known issues...

We know what you're thinking: "Zombie survival games are all well and good, but they don't really go far enough in allowing me to desecrate these undead shambling corpses! When will the progressive developer attend to my needs?" Life is good then, because H1Z1's latest patch now allows you to harvest zombie blood. Why? Why would you want to take...