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It hasn't escaped my attention that survival games have become an insanely popular video game market over the past few years. Titles like ARK: Survival Evolved and Conan Exiles are recycling and refining a formula that seems to revolve around building stuff, building more stuff with the stuff you built before, roaming around, dying to critters, dying to other...

Are you impatiently waiting to explore the blackest and most brutal of all conceivable deserts? Because Black Desert's launch date is closer than you might think. The game is launching on March 3rd, meaning that you'll be able to play to your heart's content with the launch version. You can also reserve your name shortly if you've pre-ordered. This week's been...

Exploiters in Armored Warfare's open beta are finding out their activities aren't welcome this week. My.com Content Manager Silentstalker says that "a bug on NA server allowed the players to rack up to cca a week of Premium Time (as well as all the other rewards) per hour by following certain steps intentionally. You could do it once...

Ahh, Friday night -- the quintessential date night. And MassivelyOP's MJ has one all lined up that she's been looking forward to for weeks! Tonight, she's meeting up with HEX's PVE campaign. The two have been introduced, but this time will be their first get together alone. Instead of flowers, MJ will be showing up with codes for Set...

Indie sandbox Das Tal is running a "dev-supporter-exlusive" playtest this weekend to test its latest build and its new features. What can testers expect in addition to the usual balance and bug fixes? Opportunities, clan elections, and practice dummies: Added the Opportunities system to advertise game features to new players. Added the Equipment Drop Chance system to protect newbies from too...

Critters are always getting into where they don't belong, and it's no different in Skyforge. This time the invaders have settled in the swampy Magnican Lakes, a newly opened hostile territory composed of four different overland zones, each with its own Ether Resonators. The closer players get to each resonator, the more difficult the creatures become, but for those...

Of all the chapters in Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological Effects of Video Games, this is the chapter I've been most dreading to cover in our ongoing series on MMOs and psychology. It's not just because, as I previously mentioned, it's one of the most difficult chapters in the book....

Last month, Cryptic promised a new update for Champions Online, and this week, it's finally live. The studio calls it the "biggest challenge" in the game to date. "Teleios Ascendant is a new level 40 Epic Villain Lair containing some of Teleios’ newest cloning creations. This lair is the biggest challenge in Champions Online to date, with lots of new...

See that lumbering, chain-laden beast? That's the charmingly named Sephirot, who is but the first part of the Warring Triad in Final Fantasy XIV. He's also the focus of a nasty fight that's coming up with Patch 3.2. Sephirot's boss battle requires no less than a team of eight level 60 players looking to get slapped around by thousands of pounds...

Even GameSpot appears to have lost faith in EverQuest Next. "We're not really sure what's going on with MMORPG EverQuest Next," the site said in its "Games Gone Missing 2016 - Where Are They Now?" video last week. "Unfortunately, when GameSpot asked, the team had no updates for us at this time." The good news is that Daybreak can't possibly split...