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As part of Game Director Colin Johanson's Q1 state of play update, ArenaNet has confirmed that gliding is coming to the Guild Wars 2 zones that we know as Central Tyria after being warmly received as part of the Heart of Thorns zone-specific mastery system last October. Switched-on, eagle-eyed fans had already guessed that Central Tyria gliding was on the cards after...

Elsword is in the midst of rebirth. Specifically, it's launching the second chapter of its "Season 2: Rebirth" rollout tomorrow, and with that chapter comes a revamp patch for several older characters. "In line with the Season 2 theme," KOG Games says, "every character is being revisited and being polished, revamped and brought up to spec vs every other...

Richard "Lord British" Garriott is well-known for several things: his creation of the Ultima series, his lavish geeky parties, his trip to space, and of course, his ever-present rat tail. This week that rat tail has lost a little of its majestic length as Garriott cut off a fifth of it to promote Shroud of the Avatar's winter telethon. Yesterday's...

The Repopulation is making plans, and they aren't plans to shut down. The sandbox studio Above and Beyond became ensnared in HeroEngine's financial problems last fall and was forced to halt development last month. But the studio's J.C. Smith told fans over the weekend that the game is very much not canceled and that the team will announce its plans later in...

Odds are that you won't be able to fly a ship in heavy armor in Star Citizen. We don't mean that in the real world; obviously if you yourself are decked out head to toe in full plate armor, you should not sit down at your computer to play a video game. (It does prompt questions about what you...

Being a Hi-Rez Studios fan means looking back with a certain degree of wistfulness toward the games that didn't quite have huge mainstream success. Global Agenda was the studio's first game, and it certainly didn't light the world on fire, resulting in its current state of limbo. But there's hope on the horizon from a recent tweet about the...

Lord of the Rings Online's move to its new datacenter yesterday triggered a few significant issues that were unseen by the dev team before they happened. Many players were reporting problems with logging into the game, broken chat, missing friends lists, and severe latency issues. The devs reported last night that they were working to iron out the bugs with the...

A year ago, Kotaku published a piece called The People Who Only Play One Game. The author was talking about the rabid, cult followings that blockbuster games like League of Legends, World of Tanks, and World of Warcraft maintain, made up heavily of people who wouldn't necessarily consider themselves gamers but who do consider themselves a fan of that one game. They're...

The world of e-sports and competitive gaming has seen a massive explosion in recent years in terms of both viewership and prize money. Top competitive gaming tournaments now routinely sell out large arenas and venues, often attract higher viewership figures than some real-world sports, and collectively dish out millions of dollars each year. Third-person MOBA SMITE is no exception, packing out Atlanta's Cobb Energy Performing Arts...

Final Fantasy XIV's soundtrack has been often cited as a favorite element of the MMO and has grown significantly since its initial 1.0 release. With the addition of last year's Heavensward expansion, the score welcomed a host of new tracks into its library, and soon fans will be able to purchase and listen to it outside of the game. On...