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Surviving is never the only challenge in ARK: Survival Evolved; the devs keep things interesting with various competitions and contests. And the newest contest -- with a prize pool of $60,000 -- is directed at modders. For two months, from January 14th through March 15th, interested international participants can submit their workshop items in one of the three contest categories:...

Dragons are known to be secretive about their plans, but one has escaped from the realm of Istaria: The MMO will be getting a graphics engine update this year. "An exciting goal, that many will be interested in, is the upgrade of the graphics engine to use Unreal," the team posted last month. "That’s an epic project, but a number...

Remember Heavy Gear Assault? Maybe not, but it was announced last year as a satisfyingly stomp-happy arena-based PvP game. It's in early access now, and the last word from the studio was that another round of investment had successfully gone through in November. However, according to anonymous sources the entire development team hasn't been paid since July, and more...

Eternal Crusade is preparing for Steam early access, says Behaviour Interactive Senior Producer Nathan Richardsson. "We are now preparing to fully move over to the Early Access program on Steam, where you can easily get into our Closed Alpha with all the payment options they offer and the ease of use of the Steam platform. We'll be communicating more about...

WildStar patched in a quick update yesterday, with tweaks to multiple classes, the housing interface, and quests. Reddit can't decide whether it's grumpy about reskins or stoked for the new Madame Fay's Fortunes rewards, but of note are tweaks to the game's PvP matchmaking. "The matchmaking formula has been updated so that it takes longer for players in pre-made groups...

Given enough time, the most exciting moment in any video game will become mundane. If you were one of the earliest Guild Wars 2 players fighting the Shatterer, you probably have fond memories of the fight before everyone knew how to fight the dragon. Stand in the right spots, blind the dragon completely, rinse and repeat until done. Boring....

I've seen a lot of desperate requests in my day in which players are asking for games outside of the normal sphere of popularity and MMO mainstream (such as it is). We all know what the big games are, the ones that get the lion's share of the publicity, press, and popularity. But all of that attention can easily...

Free-to-play, top-down, 2-D MMO Tibia is closing in on two decades of operation, and it's just released its very first trailer. The game pubbed a patch in December and was greenlit on Steam last year, but in September CipSoft told fans the game just wasn't ready yet to relaunch on the platform because of the requirements of the new client: We are...

Sometimes even big damn heroes have to wait until a plan comes together. Firefly Online, the official online RPG that will be continuing the adventures of the 2002 sci-fi show, has been taking its sweet time getting to release. While it was originally supposed to come out in spring 2015, the dev team has kept it in testing due to the good...

Heads up Trovians: Trion Worlds is preparing to take Trove offline for two days next week to upgrade its data storage system with better hardware. The downtime will run from 10:00 a.m. EST on January 19th through the same time on January 21st. The upgrade is needed because Trove has maxed out its storage space for club worlds, resulting in some...