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If the subscription fee ever kept you away from the post-apocalyptic sandbox Xsyon, we're happy to share with you that this is no longer a barrier to play. Yesterday the lead developer announced that he was dropping the subscription in favor of making the early access title straight-up buy-to-play. Reasons cited for the decision include changes in the industry, resistance to...

Let's not mince words: We all know that a new film set in a galaxy far, far away is coming out in the very near future, and people are going to either adore it or despise it once they've gone to see it. It's the sort of thing that Star Wars: The Old Republic sort of has to respond...

Getting a level-appropriate weapon in Final Fantasy XIV is not terribly difficult at the moment, but that's not the same as having a weapon to upgrade as part of a project. Patch 3.15 brings in the long-running weapon upgrade projects in the form of the new Anima Weapons. You can accelerate the process of earning your Anima Weapon through...

Ready to get your dinosaur survival antics on while playing from the comfort of your couch? ARK: Survival Evolved is making the console jump today, launching on Xbox One (complete with a trailer just below) with all of the content that is already available to users on the PC. The game is priced at $35 while being in its...

Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for best MMO update or expansion of the year. Last year was a bit heavier on MMO updates and thin on expansions since that was the trend, so the award was expanded to include both, and it was won by Guild Wars 2's April feature pack patch. This year, we had expansions and...

The MechWarrior Online content train is charging full steam ahead, and that's not just because the game is now on Steam! Back when MWO launched in September 2013, devs made no secret of the fact that the game wasn't finished. In fact, #nofinalproduct wasn't an excuse for the state of the game then, but rather a commitment to continuing...

In celebration of WildStar's Winterfest events, which just so happen to begin today, Carbine Studios has granted MOP keys for 20000 WildStar toys: the Proto-Present Turrets shown above. It’s that magical time of year, Winterfest is finally here! In a holiday-miracle type of giving spirit, the Protostar Corporation would like to generously provide you with a FREE Proto-Present Turret. Nothing says, "Enjoy...

Way back in 2012, Fordham University student Humza Bajwa was busted by New York cops for holding a pair of RuneScape players at (what they believed was) gunpoint while he forced them to transfer RuneScape cash to his account. He made off with 4.7 billion gold before a sting operation took him down. "He then pulled the same stunt weeks...

The advent of Black Desert's first English-language closed beta test does not mean that the wait for the game is nearly over, since the testing process will take some time. But it does mean that if you've been waiting and longing for the chance to play the game in English, you can do so today. You can log in,...

I'm not generally interested in early access programs these days. For one thing, there are so many fully fleshed-out MMOs on the market that I don't need to be adding a half-baked one on my plate. For another thing, I feel like getting in that early will ruin my appreciation of the final product. As I've been avoiding them, I've...