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Blizzard is pushing out Overwatch's competitive play patch tonight -- but only on PC. Console players on PS4 and Xbox one will see the update next week. "We know this isn’t an ideal way to deliver new content, so we’re going to continue to refine our patching processes over the next few months in an effort to sync up...

This past weekend, ArenaNet crowded the champion of the ESL Guild Wars 2 Pro League Season 2 Finals the single-elimination tourney: Europe's The Civilized Gentlemen, who defeated American teams Team PZ and Astral Authority and European team Rank Fifty-Five Dragons to take home a $50,000 prize. The world champion will be decided in September with a $200,000 prize pool on the...

Here's a sweet way to make 5000 bucks: Design a stellar 3-D model for a War Thunder vehicle. That's what Daniil "_Joy_Division_" Zaitsev did, anyway; he designed a 3-D model of German night interceptor He 219 as part of Gaijin's Revenue Share Partner System, which will probably remind you quite a bit of Valve's Dota 2 skin shop. As the...

Being late to the party in Perpetuum Online is a more significant issue than in most MMORPGs, as Perpetuum offers a time-based skill progression system that was implemented for "equal opportunity." Ironically, the passage of time has taken the equality out of the system by favoring those who have been with the game longer over those who are just starting...

Crush Online has been mentioned on Massively OP only briefly, but this week it might be worth a closer look as tomorrow it launches into closed beta. Developer GAMESinFLAMES, surely a contender for studio name of the year, says the game mingles MOBA-style combat with a persistent MMO gameworld. Check out this exuberance: "Experience MOBA combat in a persistent MMO...

Justin, Bree, and Larry talk SWTOR's Dark vs. Light campaign, plus ESO, WoW, SOTA, WildStar's character boosts, EQII's $400 guild halls, and LOTRO's new raid, with a mailbag question on the Steam summer sale.

If you think about it for a bit, MMO adventurers have a pretty tough life. They're always on the front lines, always fighting, always getting hurt, and always being killed (only to be resurrected moments later for another round). This has to wear on the psyche, which is why you can't blame the characters for wanting to blow off...

En Masse has continued its steady leak of TERA: Aces Wild teasers today with a bit of info about the upcoming Ace dungeon system, which recycles old-school content for solo players. "We’re debuting a new way to play TERA, with solo versions of classic dungeons! 'Ace Dungeons' pit your skill against redesigned challenges and bosses, and your performance earns you...

You might have sensed a few changes in the wind coming for ol' WildStar, probably because Carbine's been hinting at and teasing them pretty extensively at this point. Well, today we're starting to get a much better idea as to what the next update entails for the game, thanks to the release of the patch on the PTR and...

If you've been following the Dark vs. Light event controversy in Star Wars: The Old Republic, you know that one point of contention is that players are being asked to roll a bunch of new characters to participate -- and don't have the server slots for all of them. BioWare community boss Eric Musco has addressed that today by telling...