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So here's a funny thing: When I watched the TwitchCon streams for Star Wars: The Old Republic, I wasn't exactly looking to get new story reveals because most of those had already been spoiled for me. In fact, thanks to some dataminers, I even know what happens after the choice BioWare didn't let people click on during the stream....

With a patch name like Into the Wilds, you know that RIFT won't be introducing safe, tame content in which players can vacation. On the contrary, the update is bringing many new high-level challenges, including a five-person dungeon, Rhaza'de Canyons. In Rhaza'de Canyons, teams will battle their way through fiercesome foes, including enlarged planestouched dinosaurs. At the end is Teth Mornta, a...

Are you worried about getting hit by a sense of motion sickness whilst using a VR headset? Valve's Chet Faliszek states that you don't need to worry because VR motion sickness isn't related to the hardware at all (anymore). Faliszek himself is working on developing Valve's own VR headset for future release alongside Sony's Morpheus and the Oculus Rift. Addressing the...

Amazon has been trying to work its way into game development for a while, but the retailer has a new weapon in its arsenal. Eric Flannum, former lead designer for Guild Wars 2 over at ArenaNet, is now working for Amazon's game development division. Those of you who have been paying attention to the online retailer's history will note...

WildStar's long-awaited free-to-play patch is finally upon us, as Carbine re-launched the game at midnight with a new business model and scads of changes. WildStar: Reloaded includes many significant improvements and additions to the game, including a client optimization, new tutorial, better lighting, the cash shop, daily rewards, loyalty rewards, a challenge reward track, the Alpha Sanctum solo instance, bigger housing...

I logged into Ultima Online over the weekend absolutely determined to achieve a very specific thing: imbue some gear for my Tamer. But first I wanted to finish off my Arms Lore, which meant finishing the last few points of my Tailoring and Blacksmithing grind. But I ran out of ingots, so I needed to go mining first. But before I could...

On the fourth day of SWTOR story, the Empire gave to me... a hot desert sun and the end of chapter one. MJ and Larry ended last week with a trip trough Balmorra and onto the casino moon of Nar Shaddaa. Their next stops will be Tatooine and Alderaan just before finishing up chapter one of the Imperial Agent...

Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really fit into the MMO category. Join me each week for Not So Massively, where I gather together the top stories from the biggest MOBAs, competitive card games, first person shooters, and other popular online games...

Can you read Russian? Me neither, but I can read Reddit as well as the big date on the top of Black Desert's Russian website. Apparently the fantasy title is kicking off its Russian open beta on October 12th. I'm not sure what that means for the North American or European beta, if anything. So far, neither developer Pearl Abyss...

ARK: Survival Evolved got two new biomes in today's 216 patch. A swamp and snow-covered region are now available, along with new critters like the dire wolf and the megaloceros. Don't forget your mittens if you're going out in the snow, because ARK's survival gameplay mechanics and weather patterns can be hard on the unprepared avatar. The swamp is no...