The Crew’s expansion to feature monthly tourney, player-created missions

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The Crew's first expansion is coming on November 17th, and Ubisoft has dropped a looooong post on its website that examines the various feature-adds. Wild Run includes something called FreeDrive Challenges, which are basically player-created missions, and FreeDrive Stunts, which are a series of escapades that get progressively more difficult as you complete them. Wild Run also includes a monthly tournament...

Happy Halloween from TERA! Who wants a ‘Lost Isle’ promo key? [All gone, thanks!]

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TERA is one of those rare MMORPGs that seems to do better the longer it runs, and today, it's celebrating Halloween in a big way. Thanks to En Masse Entertainment, we have 1000 keys for a fun Halloween bundle for you today, just in time for today's The Lost Isle update! Here's what the key will unlock: Fresh Pumpkin Mask (Permanent,...

The Daily Grind: What should Funcom do?

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Man, every time we hear a Funcom report I get so incredibly depressed. I'm no financial expert, but it seems as though the studio is walking some kind of scary tightrope where one false step or unfortunate circumstance would send it plummeting to the grave. And that is certainly what I do not want. I admire the effort that the...

The Stream Team: Aerial taming adventures in ARK: Survival Evolved

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A new bird is available in ARK: Survival Evolved, and MassivelOP's MJ means to tame one! With a buildable saddle, this Quetzalcoatlus can become an aerial home or mobile mining unit. However, MJ is going to have to really work for her prize and call upon the help of friends in order to get through this adventure with both...

Not So Massively: Star Citizen’s map is amazing (October 12, 2015)

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Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really fit into the MMO category. Join me each week for Not So Massively, where I gather together the top stories from the biggest MOBAs, competitive card games, first person shooters, and other popular online games...
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Shroud of the Avatar goes recursive with Release 23

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Shroud of the Avatar is the most recent game that Richard Garriott has worked on, so why not spend your time in that game playing the oldest game the man worked on? The next major update for the game includes Garriott's first game, titled DND1, as a playable game on the in-game teletype machine. No word yet on whether...

You can kill people with trees in Worlds Adrift

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Bossa Studios' new Worlds Adrift title already seemed rather ambitious. With a recent dev blog, though, the studio admitted to the lofty goal of retooling the "mightily stagnant" massively multiplayer online genre. How does a small indie plan to "reboot a genre as entrenched and monolithic as MMOs?" Well, for starters, Worlds Adrift has kicked XP and leveling to the curb,...

Skyforge is getting additional PvP modes at some point

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Skyforge North American producer Aaron "Legatus" Biedma has penned a new producer letter that's posted on the game's official website. Biedma says that he recently returned from a meeting with the Allods Team, and that "a vast amount of very constructive feedback" was taken from the western community and presented to Skyforge's Russian devs. While Biedma steers clear of specifics in...
It, uh... works?

Ub3rgames wants to reboot classic Darkfall

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The long and checkered history of Darkfall has taken an interesting turn thanks to Darkfall: New Dawn, a project that aims to reboot the fledgling sandbox title "into a medieval fantasy EVE Online with an amazing combat system." A group of former Darkfall players has formed a company called Ub3rgames which is currently attempting to negotiate a licensing deal with...

The Stream Team: Going gangbusters with Marvel Heroes’ Spider-Gwen

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Is that a new hero to play in Marvel Heroes? Why  yes, yes it is! Well, in a way at least: Thanks to new costumes, characters you may not have wanted to play before become interesting. Such is the case with the new Spider Gwen costume; MassivelyOP's MJ couldn't stand the voice of Spiderman, but now she can't wait...