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Riders of Icarus is in the middle of its third and final round of closed beta, complete with account rewards for participation. Nexon's granted us another 1000 closed beta keys for our readers, so click the Mo button below (and prove you're not a robot) to take one home for yourself! (If you grabbed one of these keys earlier in the week, you won't...

It has come to my attention that I am, in fact, kind of a studio fanboy. This in and of itself would be a mark of shame, except that the studio I'm a fanboy for is Funcom. Not Square-Enix, not Blizzard, not Cryptic Studios, not BioWare, not any of the studios that make games I actually play. Somehow I...

If there's one truism in the world of MMORPGs, it's that all of us are accomplished armchair developers. I mean, c'mon, if the studios would just listen to all of our ranting and raving (and expert opinions), these games would become awesome in no time flat. Well, at least they should listen to you and me -- everyone else...

The third and final stage of Riders of Icarus testing is upon us! The third and final closed beta started on Thursday and will run until June 7th with a more relaxed NDA for people to chatter about the game. Isn't that nice? If not, well... too bad. Still what's happening. Sorry. Here, there's other beta news if that makes...

It's totally a party week here on OPTV, and today MassivelyOP's MJ is celebrating WildStar's second birthday. As part of the festivities, she's going to play with fireworks and check out the Starfall Celebration. Can she do well enough in the weekly challenges to reap some awesome rewards? You know she can't live without that rocket rowsdower pet! Join...

The latest expansion for Swordsman should improve any and all of your bird-related adventures with the new Falconer class. Falconers, to the surprise of no one, can use a trained falcon to attack their foes. It's not like a class named "Falconer" would throw rocks at its enemies or train dogs, after all. The good news is that the...

First of all, we hope you weren't planning on eating for the rest of today. No? Good. Black Death, the upcoming survival sandbox centered around everyone's favorite pandemic, posted its first-ever dev blog on the subject of visualizing various states of plague infection. "The more infected you are the worse you look!" the team enthused. "Currently there are four states,...

Path of Exile's Prophecy expansion is officially live this afternoon. New Zealand dev Grinding Gear Games says OARPG players can expect a new challenge league, new items, expanded skills, tech tweaks, and some new endgame content in the form of the Labyrinth: "The rumors are true - there is a fourth Labyrinth! High-level players must complete difficult map versions of...

Indie FFA PvP sandbox Chronicles of Elyria has officially been Kickstarted for over $1.36 million dollars, well exceeding its original $900,000 goal in spite of a canceled pledge from at least one potential "king" tier supporter in the last few hours of the campaign. Donors helped the game unlock a few of its proposed stretch goals, including a new environment artist, the wards of...

If any game doesn't need to offer players actual technical information about graphical upgrades, it's Star Trek Online. The developers could just say that the polarities were swapped on the inverse rendering scatter projectors and fans would accept that as perfectly valid. However, the developers have offered us a rather detailed look at how the game's lighting system is...