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The Winter Celebration is upon Skyforge, but wouldn't you know it, party poopers want to shut it down! Player deities-in-training are called to smack down the Khelps that want to get rid of the shiny festivities. Snowball fights against weird bearded aliens are but the start of Skyforge's newest event. Players can grab a free gift from under the large Christmas...

Crowfall: The Comic Book? It's happening, although the full recipients of this colorful treat will be limited to those who snag a collector's edition of the game. ArtCraft posted its first glimpse of the comic today, saying that it would be sharing more pages (out of order) in upcoming weeks. The purpose of such a tease isn't just to sell more...

Classic EverQuest's latest time-locked progression server, Phinigel, successfully launched last night. Nicknamed "the true box progression server," it metes out expansion content at a measured pace and restricts players to just one account per computer -- no multiboxing allowed. Explains Daybreak, Phinigel is our fourth version of a Progression Server, and we’re calling this a “True Box Server.” This is...

ARK: Survival Evolved is no longer the sole domain of the PC gamer. As of next week, the early access title will be available on the Xbox One as part of the console's game preview offerings. When the game goes live on Xbox One on December 16th, it will cost players $35 to jump into the prehistoric madness. Studio Wildcard...

Sad tidings are in store for the Age of Conan community today, as Lead Designer Matthew "CirithGorgor" Bennett announced that he is leaving Funcom. Bennett said that the split was amicable, and he shared some of his highs and lows from his seven years with the studio: "I want to make it clear that this is for personal reasons and...

Back in August, Hi-Rez surprised disgruntled Tribes: Ascend fans by announcing that it would be resuming updates after years of maintenance mode. At the time, CEO Erez Goren explained, "With the success of SMITE and Paladins, we have more resources than ever in the studio. We can now afford to go back and improve older games." The first large-scale patch for...

A new video is available for the open beta of Monster Hunter Online over in China, which is something less than heartening for our readers who would like to play the game in English rather than Chinese. But there's some good news on that front as well. There are no plans to actually localize the game officially, but Tencent...

In the comics, the Danger Room is the aptly named training facility for the X-Men, a room which is dangerous so that the superheroes are ostensibly ready for the real dangers in the real world. Marvel Heroes is bringing the Danger Room to the game with a very different but equally useful purpose. You aren't going to be just...

Oculus and CCP have just announced that the EVE-spinoff VR shooter, EVE Valkyrie, will launch bundled with the Rift itself in 2016. https://twitter.com/oculus/status/674983291527671808 CCP Bosun joined multiple CCP devs tweeting their excitement. https://twitter.com/ItsNej/status/674986240299679745 Check out the new gameplay video -- captured via VR -- and screenshots below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amtBUkmHS0w Source: Twitter

Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best MMO studio of the year. Last year's award was won by SOE, you'll recall, a choice that seems almost quaint from here at the end of 2015. We asked our writers to consider major MMO studios in 2015, not just their pet favorites, and judge the studios on what they did...