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Did you miss last weekend's SXSW Star Citizen presentation? If so, you also missed a first look at the title's social module, which debuted inside of a five-minute trailer. The clip "showcases many of the experiences that will be available in Star Citizen's persistent universe," according to the Roberts Space Industries website. It also contains quite a lot of...

Mo gets a bright idea when he realizes that MMORPG food inexplicably restores health -- and lots of it.

There's no doubt at this point that Crowfall will be funded, but there is some question about how much extra stuff will be in the game when the funding period finishes. The project needs less than $100,000 to hit its next major stretch goal, unlocking mounts and caravans. With the goal so close, the team has decided to post...

After a one-week delay, Guild Wars 2 has delivered a much-anticipated first-person view to the waiting eyes of players. Today's patch is a hodge-podge of general improvements starting with additional camera options, including a field of view slider, a zoom sensitivity slider, a collision sensitivity slider, and the aforementioned ability to zoom into first-person mode. Players now have access to the...

Shroud of the Avatar has amassed over $6 million in crowdfunding along with over 150,000 backers according to the tracker widget on the fantasy title's website. In other SotA news, Update of the Avatar #116 features a recap of the dev team's SXSW appearances, an extensive look at changes to player-owned towns, and a Release 15 postmortem video roundtable featuring...

The last part of Final Fantasy XIV's pre-expansion storyline is going live on March 31st. That's about two weeks away. And while you'll be able to do such things as "no longer worry about the weekly lockout on World of Darkness" and presumably "buy those Ironworks weapons from the CT weekly," you'll also be facing the last dose of...

Korean investment firm KDB Daewoo Securities is not predicting a rosy future for WildStar, although it still is recommending NCsoft as a "buy" prospect. The firm sees WildStar dropping to $585,000 in revenue per month, with a year-over-year drop of 91.1% from its launch last year. The good news is that the firm forecasts NCsoft's revenue increasing in the first...

Revival is definitely aiming for a mature rating, as the horror MMO is also hinting that sex will be a part of the game. The team said that it will do a blog post on this topic soon, but on a livestream a dev said that there will be risque armor that will be worn not for combat but...

It was 16 years ago today that EverQuest welcomed players into its 3-D world and in so doing helped to propel MMOs to greater popularity. A good anniversary shouldn't pass by unobserved, and the team has seven new player-designed missions that are going live today. These player missions will run for six weeks and mark the start of a string...

I've been dabbling in Ascent: The Space Game here lately, even though I keep telling myself that I'm done with early access titles. It's definitely indie in terms of visuals, but the gameplay is strangely compelling, and I love the fact that it already lets you land on planets and fly through seamless atmospheric transitions unlike its high-budget genre...