More for the slaughter once again.

Crowfall testing resumes on January 6th

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There's a new video from the development team behind Crowfall taking a look at the game's past year of development while thanking players who have been along for the ride. But when will you get to start playing the game again? On January 6th, as it happens, just over a week from today. Currently, six overall tests are scheduled, three...
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The Daily Grind: Do you have any resolutions for 2016 in MMOs?

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2016 is almost here, and I nearly forgot all about it! It feels less like "New Year's Eve" and more like "Thursday, get all of your writing turned in on time" to me. But it still means that the new year is about to kick off, which seems like the perfect point to start making some resolutions about what...

The Stream Team: Going wild in WildStar’s Winterfest

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Holidays mean festivals! And in WildStar, it's the grand celebration of Protostar's Winterfest that brings the seasonal cheer and gift-giving (and most importantly, gift-buying!). MassivelyOP's MJ is excited to delve into the festivities. She'll do some some caroling, smash some snowmen, and even stop at the SuperMall-in-the-Sky. Will she meet the notorious "Papa" Phineas T. Rotostar himself? Join us...

PSA: Get your free Marvel Heroes character tomorrow!

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Marvel Heroes is about ready to wrap up its 14 Days of Festive Favors, and the game has saved the best for last. On tomorrow, December 31st, anyone who logs in will get a free random hero token (which will either be a new hero or an ultimate upgrade token). Gazillion is also giving out the Classic Doctor Doom...

ARK: Survival Evolved is doing even better on Xbox One than PC

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It's no secret that ARK: Survival Evolved is one of the most popular early access titles of 2015. What is somewhat surprising is that ever since coming out on Xbox One earlier this month the title has already outstripped its PC counterpart in popularity. Xbox Wire reports that ARK had racked up over a million downloads in its first week...

The Stream Team: Cruising ArcheAge’s oceans

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The holidays are over in ArcheAge (*sniff*) so MassivelyOP's MJ has to find something else to occupy her time. How about a cruise? Those always lift your spirits, right? Yes, it's just what the doctor ordered to beat her post-holiday doldrums: a nice relaxing voyage... nice and relaxing until the pirates show up at least. Tune in live at...
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MMO Year in Review: Blizzard’s big plans (November 2015)

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This year, we're taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into 2016. BlizzCon dominated November 2015 with details on World of Warcraft's Legion expansion and its beta that apparently was not going to start "within weeks" of the con after all. The game's sub dip was barely...

Albion Online extends beta test, nixes free-to-play for launch

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Major changes are afoot at Albion Online -- and some might not make fans of the cross-platform sandbox too happy. Sandbox Interactive announced today that it will be extending the closed beta test at least through August 1st, 2016 and will not be pursuing a free-to-play business model for the launch version. "Making the game ready for a free-to-play model...

Massively Opinionated: Is Star Citizen’s ‘first-person universe’ really a new genre?

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Larry hosts MMO Bomb's Mike Byrne in a debate over topics ranging from Star Citizen to Overwatch!

Valve finally addresses Steam’s Christmas fiasco, says a DDOS led to the caching error

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Valve has finally addressed Steam's Christmas caching fiasco. In an announcement today, it explains the problem: that for 90 minutes on Christmas day, people logging into the Steam store were shown cached pages containing "sensitive personal information" from other users who were also logging into the Steam store during that same period. "The content of these requests varied by page,...