Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns has a bevy of rewards in store for PvP

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Don't fret your sweaty heads, PvPers -- ArenaNet has not forgotten you. In fact, the studio is throwing you all sorts of incentives to fight other players in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns with new and upgraded reward tracks. Heart of Thorns will contain a reward track for the new mist champions along with reward tracks that will parallel...

Skyforge offers a peek into its distortions

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Distortions are one of the newer features in Skyforge, guild-exclusive 10-player instances that contain a mess-load of monsters from all of the factions. Even getting into one is challenging, since guilds have to search for one all across the game and then coordinate well to progress through all of the tiers. Maybe you want to have a look-see before taking...
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DC Universe Online launches Episode 17 for members today

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It's October 7th, and do you know what that means? Not just that Halloween is one day closer, as it happens; it means that the next major DC Universe Online update is available for members today. Players who would rather buy episodes piecemeal will have to wait until next week to pick up the episode, which contains a new...

Check out this guide to Elder Scrolls Online’s Orsinium

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We're about a month away from Elder Scrolls Online's next DLC update, which will open the doors to the Orcish ancestral city of Orsinium. To help prepare players for this large addition to the game, ZeniMax published a guide today covering what Orsinium has to offer in both activities and rewards. When players arrive in Orsinium, they'll be helping King Kurog...

Hyperspace Beacon: Quality-of-life tweaks in SWTOR’s Knights of the Fallen Empire

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BioWare's Eric Musco delivered an amazing livestream last week. Many of the questions that players have been asking about the upcoming expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic were finally answered. Most players were not looking for spoilers to the story; they were concerned about the functionality of some of the systems incoming when Knights of the Fallen Empire goes...

ARK Survival Evolved takes to the skies with the Quetzalcoatlus

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While ARK is no stranger to flying dinos and the players crazy enough to ride them, today it's upping the aerial combat arms race with the introduction of the Quetzalcoatlus. Quetzalcoatlus is a massive winged beast that can transport not only people, but platforms and large weapons as well. Players who track down the elusive beast and tame it can transform Quetzalcoatlus into...

Chronicles of Elyria dev blog: Permadeath in MMORPGs

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Announced earlier this year, Chronicles of Elyria is a startup sandbox in a sea of such sandboxes, but some of its features are rare even within the MMORPG genre. Massively OP has been hosting a series of exclusive dev diaries from the CoE team at Soulbound Studios over the last few weeks to further explore the game and solicit feedback and questions, and...

Cabal II’s large Ruins of the Gods update is coming next week

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You ain't seen nothing yet in Cabal II. ESTsoft announced today that it's preparing to release it's "largest content update" ever for Cabal II next week called Ruins of the Gods. The update will raise the level cap from 40 to 45 while opening up a new high-level zone to explore. The new zone, Gray Canyon, also includes three additional dungeons: Silent Snowfield,...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 raid beta impressions

I don't believe I've ever been more excited -- and simultaneously nervous -- about a beta test than I was for Guild Wars 2's third beta weekend that just passed. Raiding is by far my favourite MMO activity, so it's not surprising that I've been exceptionally keen to see for myself how raids work in the upcoming Heart of Thorns expansion. We know...

RIFT goes Into the Wilds today; check out the trailer

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RIFT's servers are down and getting patched with the game's 3.4 Into the Wilds update, but don't despair; Trion has posted a trailer to tide you over. Massively OP's Justin previewed the update a few weeks ago. Expect the brand-new Primalist calling and a little bit of everything, including a new zone, raid, and dungeon. "Patch 3.4 is so big," he wrote, "that Trion Worlds...