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Shards Online has published its October newsletter, which includes a project update letter from lead dev Derek Brinkmann as well as information on new spells, a new map, new WASD movement options, playtest incentive rewards, and more. Citadel is also hosting a Night of the Living Dead event for Halloween weekend. It allows players to spawn as undead, from ghosts...

With two giant MMO expansions releasing this month, it seems only natural that we take the opportunity to pit them against one another in our weekly Leaderboard poll. First up is Guild Wars 2 with its Heart of Thorns update, and let's not forget about the Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Both patches...

Perfect World and Cryptic Studios are actually expanding Champions Online's team. The companies announced new hire Kaiserin in a state-of-the-game post last night, telling players that she's a long-time community member. Recent updates, the studios report, have focused on a more streamlined user experience, a revised event system, and onslaught supervillain gameplay. And lockboxes. They actually list lockboxes. Cryptic says it's...

Welcome back to our ongoing exploration of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt’s book The Video Game Debate. As you can guess, the book itself focuses on games in general, not just MMOs and online games, so I was able to apply today's chapter on moral panic to recent trending indie RPG Undertale. I've argued to educators that not only is there evidence that...

If you want to play Sword Coast Legends right now, you can do so. It's out and available! And the initial reception of its launch has been rather mixed, with middling review scores and criticism over what it lacks rather than what it has. Director Dan Trudge has penned a letter to the community promising that the developers are...

Marvel Heroes' 52nd character launches today. The stylish quasi-vampire Blade joins the roster just in time for Halloween along with new costumes for Blade and Wolverine and a limited-edition Franken-Castle team-up. Gazillion is also teasing "The Infinitely Replayable Danger Room," due out in November: "The Danger Room is an all-new experience, built for level 60-plus players of every skill and gear level....

Get your clicking fingers ready! Thanks to Obsidian Entertainment and My.com, we've got 30 collector's edition keys for tank MMO shooter Armored Warfare to hand out today. Here's what's in the Operation Emperor collector's edition packs: Two exclusive tanks: Mowag Taifun II and RDL/LT Three premium tanks: LAV 150-90, FV433 Abbot, and Object 430 120 days of premium account time 6,000,000 credits 6,500 gold “Emperor,” “Typhoon,” and “Lightning”...

I wanted to like Rebel Galaxy more than I do. That's not to say it's a bad game at all; on the contrary it fills the mission of this column rather nicely, which is to provide me with a temporary escape from the maddening MMO genre as I continue my neverending and seemingly futile quest for an adequate Star Wars Galaxies...

While more closed beta tests will be coming before Black Desert's western launch early next year, Daum Games said that it will not be hosting an open beta. In an interview from Paris Games Week, the studio announced that it will start to sell pre-order packages within the next few weeks and that these packs might contain closed beta access....

This week sees a big Halloween sale over at Steam, which includes several MMOs that you might want to pick up while they're at a discount. The sale ends on November 2nd. Both The Secret World's basic and ultimate editions are half-off at $15 and $30, respectively. The ultimate edition includes all of the content from issues 1 through 11,...