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If you've ever played retro 2-D MMORPG 8BitMMO, the time has come to change your password. We recommend 256-bit. Archive Entertainment's Robby Zinchak told players yesterday that the game's database had been hacked. "At around 5AM last night, I detected an attempted attack on the server database. Looking into this issue, I found a potential exploit that may have been used...

The Elder Scrolls Online has been teasing its Thieves Guild DLC for a while now, and today we have a closer look at the lore and the mechanics. "The Thieves Guild of Abah's Landing, an organization of pickpockets, burglars, robbers, and thieves, is being hunted by a mercenary guard force known as the Iron Wheel. This relentless organization will stop...

Firefall's Razor's Edge update yesterday didn't exactly go to plan, which you know if you've been desperately trying to log in to no avail. Red 5 Studios Community Manager FadedPez told players yesterday morning that the company was delaying the update as a result of numerous issues, including Steam purchasing errors, blank tooltips, zone chat bugs, and UI problems associated...

Remember all of the absurdity about World of Warcraft's collector's edition with Warlords of Draenor? That was ridiculous. Basically, if you wanted to pre-order the collector's edition for the physical goodies but also wanted the digital goodies, you had to buy the expansion twice and then ask customer service to disassociate your "extra" key from your account so you...

I haven't the slightest interest in Black Desert for various reasons that deserve more than a pithy comment here, but boy, that standalone character creator is pretty cool, huh? I always like those. I liked when The Sims 4 released a Sim creation tool before the game came out; I had a huge amount of fun playing with the...

The good news is that Blade & Soul is turning out to be pretty popular here in the west. The bad news is that Blade & Soul is turning out to be pretty popular here in the west, to the point that the servers are straining to contain all of you. "With such a successful reception of the Blade &...

When Hi-Rez Studios first revealed its upcoming online shooter Paladins, people immediately started comparing it to Overwatch and the slew of MOBAs on the market today. Paladins definitely seems to derive many of its core ideas from MOBAs, with team-based objectives and iconic characters with abilities that unlock and improve over the course of a match. The main difference is that players...

If you've paid for unique items and extra content for an upcoming game, would you want all of that available in the game's offline mode as well as its online version? And if so, how accessible should that content be in both? This is the question that's being put to the Shroud of the Avatar community. The big issue is...

Some things we're coming to accept that Paragon is not: slow, quiet, calm, and composed. And that's just the way that the game's fans probably like it. In a new gameplay video, Epic Games shows us how crazy a mid-lane push can get as rival teams clash face-to-face. It features four heroes -- Gadget, Feng Mao, Rampage, Kallari -- all...

If you're going to play Dark Age of Camelot, here's a bit of friendly advice: Don't cheat. We're not talking about relationships (you shouldn't cheat there either, but the game won't penalize you for it), we're talking about all of the lovely ways that people have devised to cheat in the game as outlined in the latest producer's letter...