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"Alpha was, quite frankly and with as little hype as possible, a huge success." Mark Jacobs used the above to lead into a debriefing of Camelot Unchained's first technical alpha test. The test ran for a continuous 72 hours after a start delay. He reported that the game handled 1,100 players and bots without a problem and did not crash...

Two big MMO expansions are on tap this year, and you know what that means, right? Yep, Massively OP is going to pit them against each other in our Leaderboard column for fun and profit page hits. In this corner, we've got Heavensward, the first expansion for Square's Final Fantasy XIV. And in the other corner, we've got Heart of...

Former Guild Wars 2 Director of Design Chris Whiteside has left ArenaNet to pursue other opportunities. While on a long roadtrip, Whiteside tweeted the news to fans: "Yesterday I was super sad. Lonely, missing the team/community, family, and today you have all made me feel loved. Thanks so much." Whiteside said that he will be moving on to be a consultant...

Giant flightless birds make great commute buddies, not to mention that they take the simplest biofuel available. But if you want to get your own big budgie mount in RIFT to live that high feathered lifestyle, you're going to have to work for it! Trion Worlds is currently running a promotion where the studio is giving RIFT players a free...

ArtCraft has raised over $1.1 million for Crowfall in 14 days. And that's just on Kickstarter! The project has updated with a new video feature featuring J. Todd Coleman, who says that he expected the fundraising drive to come down to the last minute. Instead, Crowfall "smashed through the goal within 72 hours," Coleman says, and the project is currently...

Former PlanetSide 2 Executive Producer Clint Worley has left the team and studio, according to a brief announcement by him on Twitter. It is unclear whether he was laid off or departed for another reason. "Sorry for the lack of updates," Worley said. "I am no longer working at Daybreak Games. The PS4 team is still cranking away and the...

This morning's H1Z1 publish is now live with its overhaul of the Battle Royale system. Daybreak told followers on Reddit last night that the patch is intended to improve Battle Royale matchmaking, bugs, disconnects, maps, population tracking, and "other anomalies." Other game tweaks include new recipes, better base building functionality, and debuff adjustments. Critically, "furnaces and barbecues now have...

It's been quiet on the WildStar front lately, but that might change now that the team has started its 10-day trial program. The great news here is that not only can new players check out Nexus for a week-and-a-half, but the trial extends to former subscribers as well. The free trial FAQ says that current subscribers can't use it to...

This month's Choose My Adventure is like no Choose My Adventure that has come before. Instead of deep-diving one game for four weeks, we're deep-diving a genre. OARPGs (online action role-playing games) are the topic for March, with Diablo III, Path of Exile, Marvel Heroes, and Torchlight II all receiving a few days of play and a reader vote....

Do you like surprises? As long as they're good, right? Well, EverQuest players can breathe a little easier once they realize that today's "surprise" patch is quite beneficial. "There's an in-game issue we need to fix so we wanted to take advantage of the opportunity and address a couple of other things, namely a few improvements to experience gains," Holly Longdale...