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While you're still going to have to cough over some cash to grab the full version of Elite Dangerous, the good news for cheapskates is that Frontier is making its close quarters combat PvP mode, Arena, completely free for anyone who purchases it this weekend. "Elite Dangerous Arena will be completely free on Steam and the Frontier Store this weekend,"...

A few weeks ago, Hi Rez Creative Director Sean McBride announced that he was leaving the company. "Unfortunately at this point in time Hi-Rez and myself are not aligned," he wrote on Reddit. McBride was well known for his work injecting life into Tribes: Ascend, and he addressed that game's community directly. "As most know, the Tribes IP has been...

You've heard a lot about TERA's next big update lately, haven't you? There's been all sorts of information about what's coming with the update, so much so that it's easy to forget that the patch is going live on July 7th. Why, that's today! The patch is here today! What a wonderful coincidence. The game's Twitter account also reminds you...

There may have been moments over the past 12 months when fans feared this time would never come, but it has: Happy fourth birthday, The Secret World! It's been quite a roller coaster year; there have been ups (the 2015 Samhain mission was phenomenal) and there have been downs (financial woes are the worst). Through it all our favorite conspiracy game not only...

SMITE is in the midst of its huge summer 2016 promotion, with a mid-season patch just behind it and a Mac launch to boot. Among the new releases are new skins for heroes, including one for brand-new god Erlang Shen. And we've got a PC-only SMITE giveaway today to help you jump into the new stuff! (And yes, it works for Mac players...

World of Warcraft players, get ready to hurry up and wait: A massive 20-gb patch has begin preloading in Battle.net, heralding the pre-launch 7.0 patch for Legion. Just don't get too excited; as Redditors caution, there's still no release candidate build on the test server, and Blizzard has yet to signal the end of the ongoing arena season, so...

Is it a merge or something not as dire? Either way, Blade & Soul is preparing to make some significant adjustments to its server structure on July 14th. Call it a technical merge, then: "In order to adapt with our evolving player base, we’re going to be connecting the world zones between multiple servers together so that characters on other servers...

It's not quite an MMO, but Heroes of Incredible Tales does have an MMO pedigree: It's the first-born spawn of Yong-Hyun Park's NAT Games and published by Nexon. Park, you might recall, was one of the brains behind Lineage II and TERA. Heroes -- they're calling it HIT -- is already apparently breaking download records in its native South Korea....

If your bloodlust is running a little high as you wait for Dogma: Eternal Night to be finished, then perhaps we can slake your dark thirst with a trio of new videos today. First up is a look at both the male and female character creation screens, including all of the sliders that you can handle! We also get to see...

In honor of the launch of Star Trek Online's Agents of Yesterday expansion this week, PWE has granted Massively OP 50 Temporal Agent Starter Packs to give away to our readers! The packs contain: Tier 1 USS Enterprise -  A legendary 23rd century Starfleet vessel, the Constitution-class Cruiser regularly went where no one had gone before. A durable, versatile ship, it handled a...