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One of the two Darkfall reboots has sort of won the race to release, as New Dawn announced this past week that it has officially launched its in development server to the public. Players can hop onto the server for free during the next three weeks to check out the game. The team provided some additional details about what this server...

Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column in which we gather together to help a reader in need solve his or her guild-related quandary. The reader in question this time round is a young guildleader called Thomas who has spent some time working alongside another guild and has realised that the other offers more to its members that he...

It's an MMO tradition: When you down a particularly nasty boss, you and your party gathers around the corpse, joins hands, and sings about the wonder of yuletide. Wait, that's Christmas. Well, there are pictures involved, at least. Reader Jesse memorialized one such moment in EverQuest II lately: "We killed Darathar on the time-locked expansion server and all posed for...

At its heart, every single MMO is a game about collecting things. Most games have a number of very obvious things to collect; collect the best gear in World of Warcraft, collect money in ArcheAge, collect AP in The Secret World. There are usually optional extra things to collect, as well, like different equipment looks in Guild Wars 2...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Camelot Unchained released its latest newsletter (at just under 8000 words, if you were curious - it's tradition now to always count). The team recaps the addition of four new programmers, plans for its satellite studio in Seattle, and progress on the ability system refactoring and reward tier gifting system. There's a farewell from former...

Don't you get incredibly nervous when developers set their eyes on a class or champion that you're playing? It's agonizing wondering if they're going to break it, nerf it, or change how it feels and functions. Three Heroes of the Storm characters were on the receiving end of a balancing patch this week, and it is a mixed bag. Anub'arak...

Today, we take a trip to England, but not the England of our timeline. No, this is the England-That-Could-Have-Been, the England of King Arthur, Excalibur and pointy-hatted Vikings. This is the England of fairy tales and legends and blocky 2001-era polygon models. It is the England of three realms constantly jockeying for supremacy and power. It is the England...

If you bought and activated a key for EverQuest, DC Universe Online, PlanetSide 2, EverQuest II, or a Krono subscription from a third-party reseller, you might have found yourself on the nasty end of the banstick this week. Several sites are reporting that "thousands" of Daybreak players have been locked out of their games following the purchase of such keys. Daybreak does not take...

It is the end of ARK as we know it! At least it is for the MOPark server. As planned, the server will be wiped and started anew in its permanent form today. But before that happens, there's going to be an epic end-of-the-world party -- and you are invited. Party favors include giganotosaurs for all, and PvP will...

Aeria Games has laid off around a number of staff following the planned merger with fellow games company Gamigo, Gamasutra is reporting. According to the site's source, 106 employees were let go and several projects have been shut down as a result of the June merger. There's no word which projects have been affected by this, but suffice it to say that Aeria has...