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Some of the most momentous occasions in MMORPGs aren't when players are invited to explore strange, new zones, but when the community comes back to a familiar and beloved locale for a ground-shaking event. This is what might be in the making for Aion 5.0: Echoes of Eternity when it releases on July 13th. The Echoes of Eternity expansion will...

Last month's SkySaga Alpha 8 patch is getting a helping hand this week with a small but important update that adds new options for adventuring and socializing. With yesterday's Alpha 8.3.2, SkySaga now offers realm dungeons, jungle mastery quests, and the ability to queue up for activities no matter where you are in the world. Guilds got a helping hand with the...

You've got Crowfall questions? Well, ArtCraft's devs have Crowfall answers! Oh, sure, maybe not to every last little query that pops into your information-starved mind, but certainly a few more than you were privy to earlier today. In a new Q&A video, the team discusses six topics handed to them by the community: zergs, scaling, archetype promotions, testing phases, movement...

It's out with the old and in with the new as Landmark launches. Burn beta, burn! Thanks to the Trailblazer head start, MassivelyOP's MJ has already started collecting things to get going on her forever build site, but she can always use more. Lots more! Resources, NPCs, recipes, you name it. She needs tons of resources just to make...

ArenaNet has a fresh Guild Wars 2 video out today as part of its raid design series, this one focused on the art design of the Keep Construct raid boss, who we learn is a massive automaton effectively built out of pieces of destroyed architecture. In fact, he was designed in part by an environment artist working on his...

Epic has announced that "free open beta" for its gritty MOBA Paragon will begin on August 16th. Two letters to the community today suggest that radical changes are on the way for the game. "We know we’re lacking in some key areas - few strong hero roles, aberrant roaming deathmatch strategies ('Deathball'), and most importantly, a lot of the core...

More news is emerging from the Blizzard summit in Irvine this week. Kotaku's World of Warcraft interview touches on a number of topics, including Nostalrius and legacy servers (not much new there; Blizz is still at "cool ideas, but they are actually hard to execute") and how expansions are plotted out and paced (yes, Blizzard really does have the next...

Heads up, Star Citizens: alpha 2.4 is finally on Star Citizen's public test test server for all backers, not just the elite few. "SC Alpha 2.4 introduces the first iteration of in-game persistence and shopping, as well as major changes to the controls, updates to the ship roster (including making the massive Starfarer flyable in-game), bug fixes, balance updates and...

Given the choice, I am always going to pick a game with stylized graphics over realistic ones. This is for many reasons; it's partly because "realistic" so frequently means "bland and filtered over with brown" and partly because a game with realistic graphics is much more likely to look bad in a decade than one with stylized models. But...

The current lack of siege warfare in Black Desert Online is good news for people who don't like having random jerks besieging their structures and bad news for random jerks who like to besiege structures. The current plan is for the balance of power to shift soon, however, with the siege warfare systems hitting the live game on June...