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Players who are rejoicing that RuneScape's Port Sarim has gotten a rework might want to temper their excitement with the dread knowledge that the reopening will also coincide with a pirate invasion. Indeed, Monday's RuneScape patch will trigger an attack upon Port Sarim by the fierce pirate Jed, who has stolen a ship and is laying siege to the port's...

Whether you're in ye olde fantasy lands or the cold, dystopian future, weather is pretty much a constant force in the world. Exile Online tips its hat to Cybermother Nature with a new video that briefly shows off its rain and snow effects in the city. But wait! There's so much more! The team also released a second video showing...

Player numbers matter. If no one is playing your game, players aren't going to start playing just to play on empty servers. As a result, Evolve's player numbers on Steam are fascinating to watch. The game went into free-to-play mode on July 7th last week, and its player population has gone from an average of 106 players to an...

30Hear ye, hear ye: The next Neverwinter module has been declared to be Storm King's Thunder! While we don't have a date for the patch's release, Cryptic did post an outline of the features that players can expect in the update. The background to the new module is that a multitude of giants are threatening the land, and players will...

The early access switch was flipped on for Gloria Victis a month ago, which has been a big transition for the team. It's been a transition that's brought plenty of work along with it, to boot; a retrospective after the first month notes that the game has had 10 regular patches and several smaller updates applied to help trim...

Frontier has canceled the Elite: Dangerous CQC tournament intended to run this year, at least as it was originally planned. Head of Community Zac Antonaci explained the situation just ahead of the weekend: "In order to run the tournament we wanted to bring in a number of specific features which would allow us to run the event in the way...

Legion is coming. Last week, Blizzard began pushing out the pre-patch for pre-launch events for World of Warcraft's Legion expansion. That means Demon Hunters are really truly right around the corner, followed by the in-game lore events themselves. While Reddit is devouring every scrap coming from the beta, the broader MMORPG community seems more ambivalent toward WoW than I remember from past...

Warframe's Spectres of the Rail update on Friday hasn't quite gone to plan. Redditors have taken Digital Extremes to task for pushing out a "clusterfuck" that's riddled with a repetitive, confusing new player system, a broken market, and buggy gameplay that incentivizes weird behavior (as well as apparently causes motion sickness). And the studio is owning the criticism. Game Director...

There are going to be spoilers in this column. Let's make this entirely clear. If you read this column without having finished up Final Fantasy XIV's main scenario up through patch 3.3, you may very well be spoiled. There will be few, if any, spoiler warnings or cuts within the text itself. Are we clear on that? Grand. I've long...

Snowforged Entertainment's online space strategy MMO Starfall Tactics is running another pre-alpha event for testers later this week. "Prepare to crash your opponents in intense tactical battles, outmaneuver enemy ships, or simply ram them and climb in PvP rating with your friends! Snowforged Entertainment is running a pre-alpha test from 14th July 18:00 CET to 17th July 23:55 CET - hurry up,...