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Indie sandbox Chronicles of Elyria captured MMORPG players' attention last autumn when it began revealing details about some of its more unusual mechanics, including its character aging and death system. A new dev blog this week sheds more light on how character aging works -- and how you'll use cash money to live again once you've croaked for good. Soulbound Studios...

Indie sandbox TUG has become the beneficiary of a huge windfall. In a new Kickstarter update sent to backers this afternoon, Nerd Kingdom announced that it has raised an additional $8.5 million to "expand on TUG, move into openGL, and put a lot more emphasis on tools and modding bits." That means the development team will be expanding too. The downside...

ArenaNet has announced its plans to change up PvP mechanics as Guild Wars 2 enters the second season of its PvP League system. Matchmaking is due for the biggest change: "Matchmaking for Ranked matches will use your placement in your current league division as your primary matchmaking consideration and pair you against players who are placed in the same point...

You can pick up a copy of The Division's beta in this week's Humble Weekly Bundle. As of press time, the beta unlocks with a $9.40 contribution (the current average). You also get like five million other Tom Clancy games, but you clicked here for The Division, right? Those of you with more than $9.40 burning a hole in your pocket might...

What was your reaction when you found out that to hop on board the Oculus Rift train, you were going to need to drop $600 on it? That price point really makes one weigh how important virtual reality is to a gamer. Many games industry analysts are struggling with a proper response to the Rift's cost as well. Some are...

Just when you thought the Greed Monger drama was so 2015, now it's back. The crowdfunded MMO sandbox appeared to have gone belly-up last year when its lead programmer quit as a result of not being paid by the game's project lead, and then the project lead himself quit, and then in May, the lead programmer announced the game was dead....

A long time ago, back in the stone ages of 2014, Bitbox did alpha testing for its upcoming MMO, Life is Feudal. It was an ambitious sandbox with terraforming, building, landownership, bartering, trade routes, diplomacy, and PvP. However, devs discovered (and disclosed to fans) that the small team just couldn't afford to keep heading in the direction they wanted at...

You keep asking for it, so MassivelyOP's Larry and MJ will keep giving it to you: More SWTOR Choose My Alignment adventures. MJ's Agent still has more work to do on Makeb... or is that trouble to get into? That is all up to you, the viewers; whether she plays nice or gets tough all depends on what alignment...

It's become tradition to fare well the MMOs that sunsetted in the preceding year, but that wasn't always the case. At the beginning of 2015, in saying goodbye to 2014's sunsetted games, I tried to put that into perspective. Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about how Vanguard's early stumbles foreshadowed the changing MMORPG industry. In January 2007, when Vanguard...

VentureBeat is reporting that Gazillion CEO and Marvel Heroes front-man David Brevik has left the company. Interim CEO Dave Dohrmann described the departure as "amicable" and indicated that the studio is seeking a suitable replacement. Brevik, known for his role as head of Blizzard North and one of the founders of the Diablo franchise, originally joined Gazillion over six years...