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ArenaNet has a fun new diversion for the Guild Wars 2 playerbase: You get to determine the lore name of the band living story heroes we've been saving the world with for the last few years: Taimi, Rox, Braham, Marjory, Kasmeer, and Rytlock. Just to be clear, you cannot vote for Boaty McBoatface. Sorry. Your choices are Eternity's Guard, Dragon's Watch,...

Riders of Icarus is gearing up for its third and final round of closed beta beginning tomorrow, complete with account rewards for participation. Nexon's granted us 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! To redeem your key, you'll need to download and install the Nexon...

Stick around in an MMO long enough, and sooner or later you'll bear witness to that one patch or expansion that triggers a digital trainwreck. Perhaps this moment has arrived for Elite Dangerous, as its recent Engineers update has caused no end of problems for the sci-fi flight sim. The major crux of the uproar from the playerbase seems to center around...

Camelot Unchained's 22nd newsletter has arrived, and I feel it's tradition at this point to confirm that it clocks in just under 9000 words. CSE says that it's hard at work on its ability system and the C.U.B.E. tool. "You might have seen some pretty amazing things with blocks, explosions, buildings, and some neat features getting added to the...

French video game developer Asobo Studios is on the cusp of unveiling an original multiplayer sci-fi game whose name is still a secret to those who aren't already deep in the test process. The developer says it's partnering with Exidium Corporation, "an industrial and research consortium focusing on space exploration and planetary excavation," a representative from the studio told us....

Soulbound Studios has just announced that Chronicles of Elyria will team up with a tech startup called Improbable to make use of its SpatialOS platform. CEO Jeromy Walsh says that the platform is how the studio will "get a hundred thousand players spread across the largest geographic area in a video game to date" in a timeframe that is...

Last week, our very own Bree Royce summed up a response given by ArenaNet's Chris Cleary to a self-confessed hacker on the game's subreddit who asked why he had not been banned for his actions. A list of offences was given in the post, and the indignant OP explained that the purpose of this bout of ill-advised honesty was...

Black Desert has a small patch out today, bringing to an end Mother's Day events and extending both the Rum and Black Stone events. There's a respectably sized cash shop update with stable slots, horse barding, and furniture; new tier 6 and 7 horses; and a slew of advancement quests for the gathering, cooking, alchemy, and processing life skills....

Update: Blizzard has corrected its tweets; the patch is June, not July. A series of tweets from Blizzard just before the holiday weekend have confirmed that Overwatch's competitive mode isn't coming until later this summer -- "mid-to-late July." https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/736331124645863424 Kotaku pointed out that competitive play was originally planned for closed beta and was disabled to be re-designed and implemented "sometime after Overwatch launches."...

Here at Massively OP we never enjoy posting notices about layoffs and closures. One of the things we often discuss behind the scenes is that while mass pink slips is often big news, what you don't usually hear about is slow and steady hiring that goes on constantly. So consider this a short, cheery burst of good news: Turbine has...