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This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse video is up! Cloud Imperium's Sandi Gardiner and Ben Lesnick discuss PAX South and the ongoing free-fly campaign before checking in with the LA, Austin, UK, and Frankfurt studios. The teams are busy working on the 325A's stats, shipyard feedback, character fiction, the Inclusion Mapper team, and new hires. There's a sneak...

When Crowfall launches, it plans to have upwards of 1,500 skills available for players to choose and train. Before your eyes cross just thinking about the nightmare of having to sort all of that out, know that ArtCraft has posted a new FAQ about the skill system so that you can begin to get a handle on it now. Players...

Daybreak has just announced that H1Z1 is splitting -- "evolving" is the precise word -- into two games. H1Z1: Just Survive is a persistent, open-world zombie survival game. H1Z1: King of the Kill is a high-intensity last-man-standing shooter. Players who purchase H1Z1 on Steam until February 16th -- including people who already own H1Z1 -- will get both games. Beginning on the...

What's the deal with Eternal Crusade? Massively OP's MJ aims to find out. And from what she hears, aiming appears to be a bit of a big deal: Friendly fire is a thing. That might make for a very interesting first peek into this slice of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. MJ also has a couple of early access keys...

Heists, prison breaks, and new friends are the topic du jour of DC Universe Online. Episode 21 is out today for members (and available to buy on February 10th for you sidekicks), bringing with it a duo to thwart a museum heist in Gotham, an eight-person prison break, and plenty of new gear and collectibles. Perhaps the most interesting feature to...

Mo's been collecting letters to the editor for me to address in Ask Mo for the past month or two, and this one from longtime Massively OP community member Siphaed keeps floating to the top: "Why is it that MMOs get a one-and-done review within a month of a game's release date? With the way these games are persistent living...

Are you in Division withdrawal, as one YouTuber put it, while you wait for the rumored open beta later this month? Maybe this new trailer will tide you over. It details the types of combat and utility skills and abilities players will have access to while playing, and it's loaded with in-game footage that shows how damn pretty the...

Korean website GameFocus reports that NCsoft is planning to continue its "rapid pace" policy by undertaking private tests of Master X Master, its MOBA, in mid-March, followed by Lineage Eternal tests in the second quarter of 2016. NCsoft VP Kim Taek-heon says the "precise detailed schedule is still undecided." Lineage Eternal was in focus group testing in the latter half...

DayZ developer Bohemia Interactive told users last night that its forums had been hacked. Actually, it was hacked well over a week ago, which it obliquely referred to on Twitter, but last night was the first full confirmation of the "security incident" and what precisely was taken. "According to our investigation all usernames, emails and passwords from forums.dayzgame.com were accessed...

In all of the hubbub surrounding Trion World's changes to the business model of RIFT, it might've been easy to overlook the fact that the studio wants to encourage players to subscribe by increasing the value of its patron program. Yesterday on the forums, Trion gave specifics about improvements coming for subscribers. Patrons will soon get immunity to soul vitality...