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Hey, would you like a heap of The Secret World fixes and improvements today? Either way, you're going to get them. Update 12.5 is out, hauling with it a wagon-load of wendigo corpses, instances, and tweaked features. The tentpole additions include a continuation of The Manufactory dungeon and a nightmare version of the New York raid. Players will also log in to...

Next year, RuneScape will be celebrating 15 years of continual operation. Even if you don't play the game and consider it one of your favorite titles, you can't deny that it's an impressive achievement. A documentary on the game is being released in January 2016 to coincide with the game's anniversary celebration, but you can get a sneak peek...

The race for 2016 is officially on. Daum Games confirmed this week that Black Desert Online will be coming out in North America and Europe in early 2016. This Black Desert will be significantly different than the existing Russian and Korean versions, including its business model, which will be buy-to-play with an in-game cash shop. Daum Games Project Manager Daniel Loehr indicated that much is being...

It's been a very good week indeed for Divergence Online, as the upcoming sandbox MMO has shot into the top 10 list of Steam Greenlight titles. Due to the support, the team is patching near-daily and has decided to ramp up its development timetable and start working on getting fighting into the game: "We've decided to basically go for broke...

If you're looking for a sure way to get into Blade and Soul's alpha test, then it won't hurt to hand NCsoft a little bribe. OK, it's not a bribe, per se. But the studio announced that fans who pick up one of the game's founder's packs by 8:00 p.m. EDT today will get into this weekend's technical alpha test....

Funcom's The Secret World spin-off The Park finally has a release date that gets it out in time for Halloween: October 27th. In addition to its launch date reveal, The Park also has its own Steam page now that includes the ability to pre-purchase the game. While it is priced at $12.99, right now it's on sale for $9.99. Funcom's tossing in some...

I ran across a weird thread on Reddit  a week or two ago from a poster asking about toxic MMO communities, not because he wanted to avoid them but because he wanted to find one where he'd fit in. It's since been pruned, but the gist was that the poster was looking for an MMO where he could shoot...

Each week Massively OP's MJ and the Minions get a few steps closer to their EverQuest II goal: completing all Nektropos Castle Heritage Quest steps at the very same time! There are just three undead standing in the way for Restoring Ghoulbane, and War and Wardrobe only needs two tasks finished. Could this be the stream they wrap everything...

Elite Lord of Alliance, or ELOA if you'd prefer, has begun its initial beta test. Webzen sent out a press release earlier today that touts the hack-and-slash game's "triple battle stance system." The system apparently allows players of each class to switch between three stances in real time and thus make use of 24 skills per stance to solve...

Wow, so, where to start with this week's Stick and Rudder? I guess I picked the wrong time for a vacation, and shame on me for forgetting the CitizenCon date! In any case, Star Citizen acquitted itself pretty well last weekend by most accounts, and whether we're talking about Squadron 42's A-list cast reveal, our first real look inside...