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Things are heating up in the sci-fi action game Warframe. The latest update, dubbed Ring of Fire, adds the flame-flinging Nezha Warframe to the mix on consoles. This new fighter's abilities are all about fire, fire, and more fire. (OK, and some spikes for good measure.) If incinerating your foes is not quite up your alley, you can instead...

Can you believe that it's already been more than three months since Heart of Thorns came out for Guild Wars 2? As players settle into a Tyria full of gliding and masteries, the development team is hard at work preparing its spring update -- and addressing concerns from the expansion is among the top priority for the patch. In last...

One of the trends cropping up in the MMO industry in recent years is the Neverwinter Nights custom shard phenomenon. Games like Star Citizen, Shroud of the Avatar, Shards Online, and even Smed's Hero's Song promise some form of large core servers for an MMO experience, but they also offer some form of small-server experience. Don't want to deal with...

If you're among the legions of Trekkies, then you are almost certainly aware of Cryptic Studios' Star Trek Online. Since early 2010, players have boldly gone where no one has gone before in this MMO that blends spaceship battles, ground combat, and faithful tie-ins to the long-running franchise. Star Trek Online appears to be thriving following a free-to-play adaptation...

While the upcoming Conan Exiles will take place in the same fictional universe as Age of Conan and be made by the same studio, it's not going to quite be the same game. The survival title, which goes into early access this summer, will take place when Conan is much younger and lack the class structure of the MMO. In...

Rottweilers left in a yard without proper leads who are trained to jump, growl, and bark. The idea that there is a secret second Pope out there who is conducting unknowable secret papal business. Spiders. Really big spiders creeping into my home. The thought that if there were actually spiders which piloted humans around like giant robots, we would...

Some people hate lockboxes, some people hate PvP, some people hate grind, some people hate jiggleboobs. But I hate... screenshake. Seriously, if I could banish one thing from games, it would be screenshake that makes it impossible to tell what the hell is going on -- when it isn't outright hurting my eyes and sense of balance and making me...

In the grim darkness of the future, there is no more launch or beta or alpha testing, just early access for eternity. Fortunately, Eternal Crusade exists in the present, not the grim darkness of the future. It is in early access now, though, with a surprising new publisher in the form of Bandai-Namco. I think it can safely be...

The Camelot Unchained team was back to work to work this week, confirming that City State's brand-new (and much more mobile-friendly) website is up and running before updating backers on the state of development in its latest newsletter. The community team checked in to answer questions about the in-progress crafting system and the incoming backer gifting system; the design team got meta...

If you've ever played a game focused around vehicle combat and thought "hey, this would be better with Mad Max-style customized war vehicles," you owe it to yourself to give Crossout a passing glance. The game has entered another round of testing that runs until February 7th, allowing testers to play around with the first version of the game's...