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It's been a tough year for online RTS Grey Goo, which released in January 2015 to less than stellar reception. The game promises classic RTS gameplay and has some impressive cinematics and decent reviews, but players have complained of balance problems and a lack of content. There are also typically fewer than 100 players of the game online at any given time, which...

Last week, Daybreak announced a monetization change for zombie survival box H1Z1 that almost slipped under our radar: The studio is adding bundles of its RNG-laced lockboxes to the cash shop, only they won't be locked. "Tired of waiting for crates to drop in-game? Want to get your hands on the newest skins right away? Crate Bundles are coming soon...

Pretty much every MOBA has some system in place for upgrading your chosen hero as you play. Paragon is making use of a card system, and a new video from the development team is all about how that card system is meant to work over the course of a match. It's not quite as random as the concept of...

The most recent patch for Shroud of the Avatar is live now, and as has been the case with previous major patches, there's a grand tour to be taken showing all of the ways in which the game has been updated. This in and of itself isn't unusual. What is unusual is that this will be the final Grand...

Good news, Phantasy Star Online 2 fans! Or hypothetical fans of the game who still have not played it due to the fact that it's never released on Western shores, thus requiring anyone with an interest in the game to futz about with a variety of prerequisites to download and play the game! You can now watch a show...

Daum has just announced that Korean sandbox Black Desert is arriving in the west sooner than you might've thought.

Funcom has released its fourth quarter 2015 financials, and the news is both good and bad. The studio's latest quarterly revenues were up $342,000 US over its third quarter numbers, which we might have guessed were due to The Park's performance through the holiday season, though Funcom notes its "ain sources of revenues are The Secret World, Age of Conan and...

Hellgate is one of those titles that never quite seems to die; the former Flagship title has been resurrected and shut down so many times that you can be forgiven for losing track of all of them. Well, it's closing again, and this time it feels a little more final than previously. Hanbitsoft is shuttering the last Hellgate server in...

Ultima Online latest newsletter, part of a new initiative to insert itself into your inbox, reveals the Broadsword team is hard at work on new content on a new publish that will land in early March and include "new quest content, bug fixes, and new art." Producer Bonnie "Mesanna" Armstrong says that the spring update will continue the exploration of...

There's a bit of a content drought in place on the World of Warcraft servers at the moment, what with the game's last major patch coming out in June and nothing new on the horizon until Legion releases. But perhaps you'd like to pass the time by fighting a large dog with two heads? The Lunar Festival is back...