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When will World of Warcraft players experience the Legion pre-patch? Despite the fact that the opening lines of the most recent development dispatch promise to share more about when to expect it, we still do not have a firm date. What we do know, however, is that Demon Hunters will be playable on the second or third week of...

Star Citizen is continuing its rollout of a three-part Around the Verse in celebration of its 100th episode. Sandi Gardiner is joined this week by Erin Roberts, who gives a lengthy walkthrough of Foundry Forty-Two, which is working on the persistent universe, UI, Q&A, and other aspects of the game. Eagle-eyed Star Citizens have already dissected that part of...

Trion has a huge closed beta week planned for Atlas Reactor starting today (through July 17th) with a free-play event for the normally B2P, turn-based online game. There are new characters on the way for the event as well: Celeste, "a roguish firepower freelancer who will steal your heart – or at least, any valuables you may have," plus a second...

I spend a lot of my time thinking about MMO PvP. You might not realize it, but I'm actually a really big fan of PvP; it's one of those misconceptions about me that gets passed around a lot based on the occasional comment about disliking specific implementations of PvP rather actually disliking the idea of it entirely. So the other...

Artifacts are a big deal in World of Warcraft: Legion, which is why the most recent live developer question and answer session was all about artifacts and class halls. These iconic weapons give players new abilities and plenty of lore. But how long will players be investing time in their artifacts? A few months, according to a summary of...

Trion Worlds has filed a new trademark relating to video games this week: Starfall Prophecy. A thread on the official RIFT forums has led to a bit of speculation on whether this might just be the name of RIFT's next expansion, though that's hardly the only MMO on Trion's roster. What do you think? Source: USPTO via official forums. Thanks, Kyle!

Remember last year back when Richard Garriott raffled off his rat tail to raise money for Shroud of the Avatar? Yeah, good times. Now the Portalarium boss is selling something even wackier: his own blood. The studio announced the fundraiser during its livestream yesterday, where Garriott and longtime collaborator Starr Long joke about the call where they first discussed selling...

The bad news for No Man's Sky fans is that the game took longer than expected to be finished and launch was delayed slightly. Some people do not take this minor inconvenience well. But the wait is nearly over, as developer Hello Games has officially gone gold with the title ahead of its August 9th launch date: https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/751141699880095745 This all means...

During this week's podcast, Justin explained to me something that Trion is up to in RIFT that blew me away: Players who have run a dungeon five times will be flagged as a veteran for future runs, granting them a big bonus whenever they run that dungeon with a non-veteran. I have looked at this six ways from Sunday and...

Last week's Overthinking question was a very broad one all about genre-wide wishes that go unfulfilled. But what if we drill that down? That's what MOP Patron Roger's doing with his question to us this week: "What neat thing would you like in your favorite MMO that would probably not get added?" Real housing in World of Warcraft? Real crafting in...