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Blizzard's charity work is legendary at this point, and here's one more beneficiary: a children's hospital in Seoul, South Korea. The company apparently teamed up with Carbot Animations creator Jonathan Burton to donate Blizzard-themed Carbot-style art to a computer hub called "Blizzard i-Room." Burton tweeted photos of the grand opening last week: https://twitter.com/CarbotAnimation/status/743366708346359808 The Carbot murlocs are my fave. Source: Twitter via Kotaku

PWE and Cryptic have confirmed today that the Star Trek Online universe will collide with the JJ Abrams lore. "Players will soon be able to journey to the alternate reality seen in Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness," the studios posted today. "A new mission awaits our captains there, along with other exciting surprises! Look for future updates on...

What do you think of gated communities? The answer to that question probably lies in whether you're in the inside or outside of one. Believe it or not, Shroud of the Avatar is wrapping up work on its own gated community for an upcoming release. Brittany Estates is a huge player town area made up entirely of city-sized lots. It...

Post-apoc F2P MMORPG The Skies has been busy since launching its early access alpha on Steam last month. Last week, it performed a mass inventory wipe of all alpha players; more recently, it's buffed its roleplaying and leaderboard systems and says it's taken community feedback on a major guild update with clan levels, member caps, and a clan ladder. Studio...

Raids continue to be a big focus for Guild Wars 2's endgame, and another entry into this exclusive space is coming soon. ArenaNet recently discussed the creation of its Twisted Castle raid on a livestream. This three-wing raid will present unique challenges for players, as it's being designed to drive characters insane -- literally. As players make their way through...

Star Citizen reached what Redditors are calling one of its last major milestones this weekend: 1,000,000 ships sold. The sale of the new Drake Dragonfly is also being credited with pushing the game's crowdfunding over 116 million bucks. http://i.imgur.com/3THZZkS.png Massively OP commenter DK pointed us to a community-collated spreadsheet spearheaded by player athanasius for a SC clan, where ongoing tracking of the game's stats...

Between all of the stuff in patch 3.3 and the plethora of reveals from this year's E3, my cup runs over with parts of Final Fantasy XIV to talk about. For the moment, though, I'm going to focus on what I said I would focus on last week: more about the most recent Final Fantasy XIV patch. What can...

Are you eager to play Phantasy Star Online 2? Wait, scratch that; the ship has pretty well sailed on that and most of the people excited to play it have found ways around its failure to ever launch in the West. Were you eager to play Phantasy Star Online 2? Because you can get some of the flavor by...

Alternate characters can be important in MMOs. If you're playing a game that doesn't allow for swapping classes, it's a chance to try out a different playstyle and a different outlook on life. Considering WildStar's different paths, classes, and factions, we'd say there's plenty of options out there to support alts, but about a month ago the game's development...

Multiplayer mobile game Firefly Online was originally planned to release over a year ago. Then it delayed to work in the main cast and revamp. Last winter, the studio shut down in-app purchases ahead of its planned beta. In March, the official Facebook page remarked only that the game was still there and still flyin'. But beyond those beeps and boops of...