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Back at E3 2015, Producer Holly Longdale revealed an exciting tidbit of information that may very well put a smile on EverQuest II players' faces. And now, we can share that secret with you! What's with all the secrecy? Longdale noted that as much as Daybreak initially wanted to broadcast the news immediately, the studio decided to give the players who wanted to...

Not content to rest on its laurels after this month's The Awakening expansion, Grinding Gear Games has penned a quick post revealing precisely what it's working on now for Path of Exile. Chiefly, the studio has hammered out a fix for the disconnection bug that was booting players off the server at peak times. "The changes late last week helped," Lead...

In the real world, ships started making use of signal flags as a method of communication because it's easier to fly a flag than to try to shout to other ships. World of Warships had to include these flags, naturally, but the flags serve more of a purpose than simple communication in a game that features a chat function...

Server issues happen. They are inevitable. The development teams behind games do everything within their power to make sure that they don't happen, but sometimes it's just the reality of the situation. EVE Online had an unexpectedly lengthy server downtime back on July 15th, and in light of that delay in play, CCP promised players some skill points to...

Are big cats important to you while but not quite important enough to make you log out of RuneScape? Then the game's latest charity partnership is for you. Players can take part in a special Big Cats Quiz in the game and earn four new big cat kitten companions, and you can also exchange Bonds for the World Wildlife...

Since the launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic, there have been two human-like species that players have feverishly demanded be made into a playable species: the squid-like Nautolans and the colorful Togruta. It's only taken about four years, but as of the release of this article, Togruta are now in the game as more than just the Sith Inquisitor...

If you sit down and play No Man's Sky, you'll never see exactly what you see in this trailer. That's the big draw of the game, that everything is randomly and procedurally generated so that there's no predictability in what you'll encounter. And while it remains to be seen how MMO-ish the final product will be... well, we can...

Trove has gone down for maintenance and isn't expected to be back up until 1:00 p.m. EDT. That's the bad news. The good news is that it may already be past that time when you read this, and that maintenance is deploying a new patch to the server, complete with neon dragons, which are objectively the best kind of...

Trion Worlds is apparently getting out of the game distribution service, as least when it comes to games made by other studios. Scott Hartsman has reportedly announced that "Trion has ended its experiment with selling single-player DRM-free games." Anyone who has purchased non-Trion, single-player games through Trion's custom Glyph platform should have received a letter explaining the changes and will continue...

See, Reddit is good for something: It's going to save you 75% on a copy of The Elder Scrolls Online today. In conjunction with its summer sale event, online retailer Green Man Gaming has marked the digital PC and Mac versions of the game down to $15 US (or $12 with a coupon; see our update below), which is a...