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The global survival game Eco is just a few short days away from opening the doors to crowdfunding backers for its alpha test, and Strange Loop is putting the final touches on the build in preparation for its release. The studio said that it has built a special test settlement for the alpha, which looks quite the cozy frontier town....

The good news for you here is that if you aren't already in the Overwatch beta but want to be, you have better odds of getting in for a weekend of testing. The bad news is, well, it's just a weekend of testing, and it's all by invitation only. Starting on November 20th and running through November 23rd, the...

Hello again, friends, and welcome back to Choose My Adventure. As you may or may not have noticed, CMA took a little hiatus last week on account of my having some computer issues that ultimately ended up requiring me to reformat. But now I'm back with a fresh, clean hard drive, and not one but two weekends' worth of...

The next best thing to actually being in a beta is to watch someone play it, which both sates your curiosity and creates an unstoppable jealousy monster deep within your chest that threatens to burst out and go on a forum rampage. We're guessing that most of you haven't been able to get hands-on time with Civilization Online, so to...

Communities around the globe are still coping with the aftermath of last week's terrorist attacks in Paris, and in MMOs, it's no different. Similar to how players in several games held vigils after the incident, Lord of the Rings Online's community is preparing for a "Friendship France" gathering on the Sirannon server this Sunday. According to event organizers, the gathering will...

Normally, Thanksgiving is a time to both count one's blessings and gorge on high-calorie foods. In Trove, however, it's a time to run for your life and pray that you don't die an agonizing death by gobble-gobbling. This month, Trove is bringing back Turkeytopia, an event in which Dream Gobblers are running amok and only players with a death wishbone...

Boy, Skyforge has launched a lot of updates pretty quickly, hasn't it? But the game has to be quieting down now, and that... oh, wait, there's another update being prepared for December 2nd. And we hope that you like going to war if you're in the game because this update is all about war. It's even dubbed War's Onset,...

OARPG import Devilian's fourth beta event, War for Nala, kicks off tomorrow and runs all weekend. Wanna give it a go before ponying up for an early access pack? Trion Worlds has given us 500 keys to distribute to worthy adventurers, and that's precisely what we're doing right here in this post. Well, adventurers. Well, you went on an adventure once....

I've already brought you my initial impressions of the Gorseval raid encounter followed by a quickfire interview with Guild Wars 2 Associate Game Director Steven Waller to clue you in on the first Heart of Thorns raid wing that launched yesterday, but there's still so much to say in this edition of Flameseeker Chronicles! I managed to spend some time raiding...

The Secret World has a new face in its community management team, as Funcom has promoted Andy "Odonoptera" Benditt up from GM to CM. Benditt introduced himself in a forum post last night: "I’ve been working with Funcom since April 2012 and have been involved with online gaming communities since the days of direct-dialing a friend’s modem for a quick 1v1,...