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Back at E3 2014, future players were told that The Division would release DLC as timed exclusives for the Xbox One. Of course, back at E3 2014 we were told that the game would be released in late 2015, and nothing has been said about timed console exclusives in the interium. But banners are now going up at Gamestop...

We don't know about you, but when we think of "sky whales," the image of Twitter's notorious "fail whale" comes to mind. Worlds Adrift begs to differ, as it's introducing a noble skybound whale that will be one of many striking sights that airship pilots can encounter in their journeys. The Worlds Adrift art team posted a behind-the-scenes look at...

If you were hoping to pick up an Eternal Crusade founder pack, today is the last day to hand over your money. Behaviour Interactive announced earlier this month that it would be closing down the founder program in favor of an early access launch on Steam, which will allow access to the closed alpha without all the founder perks. The...

The Firefall migration drama is finally over. The servers went down for their planned one-day outage on January 19th for the massive Razor's Edge update, but a host of issues ranging from Steam errors to UI problems and character migration bugs kept the servers offline until the 22nd, at which point players could roll new characters but still not access...

I walked away from last week's Star Wars: The Old Republic livestream pretty happy. Considering that I repeatedly say how much I absolutely loathe information presented as a video rather than just a nice solid block of text, that says something. When I returned to SWTOR, it was after a two-year break from the game that followed reasonably close on...

Perfect World Entertainment is up to something. The company has retweeted a tease Twitter account, @PlayLivelock, which has been tweeting out sci-fi nonsense about awakening from "slumber" for the past week. https://twitter.com/playlivelock/status/691666905027837952 It's clearly some sort of game. Think it's too much to hope that it's an MMO? An online FPS, perhaps? Source: Twitter

Bungie has denied rumors that it was planning a fresh round of microtransactions for console MMO Destiny. VG247 posted this morning that it had a "source familiar with the matter" who "confirmed" that Bungie planned to sell Destiny ammo packs for cash money, but Activision has apparently denied the rumor with a curt "We're not doing that" to Game Informer via...

We're going to be hearing about the next expansion to Final Fantasy XIV in... several months, actually. We're in no kind of rush here. But I promised last week that we'd be continuing on the speculation train this time around, and even if I hadn't promised it, I would still be eager to do so. I like speculation about...

Nexon has just announced a new "free-to-play action-adventure MMORPG" Riders of Icarus, whose highlight is apparently "exhilarating aerial combat unlike anything ever seen before in the genre." "In Riders of Icarus, players will explore a vast, majestic and ever-expanding world where they can collect and train hundreds of different wild beasts, taming them to become rideable mounts with unique special...

A week after its launch in North America and Europe, Blade & Soul claims to have surpassed one million players in the game worldwide in the west. The game launched in South Korea in 2012 and spread throughout Asia in the intervening years. NCsoft West Senior Vice President of Publishing John Burns says that the recent release helped push the...