Naval Action takes open sea warfare to a whole new level

There have been plenty of MMOs, multiplayer titles, and single-player games that have attempted to emulate the grand Age of Sail, but Naval Action might just take the cake. This upcoming sandbox is priding itself on an immaculate attention to detail, from weather effects on sailing to the reconstruction of period warships. As the name implies, Naval Action's primary gameplay...

Sword Coast Legends coming to PC on September 8

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Sword Coast Legends is officially releasing on September 8th, according to a blurb on the game's official website. That's on the PC, mind you, but it's worth noting that the latest D&D excursion will also appear on the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One in "late 2015." SCL features a story campaign, character and combat customization built around party-based gameplay, campaign...
I should be in a band.

Allods releases a trailer for its 6.0.1 update

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Allods' 6.0.1 Brothers in Arms patch is out, and it brought about the new cross-faction PvP Battle of Cargallas as well as new Priden classes and a "Time Void" dungeon generator. If you have no idea what any of that stuff is, well, watch the brand-new trailer that we've embedded after the break! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX3ubG7hd9I Source: Announcement
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Age of Wushu Dynasty is coming to mobile

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Snail Games has announced that its martial arts MMO Age of Wushu is headed to iOS. Touch Arcade reports that Age of Wushu Dynasty won't be a direct port but instead some sort of mashup between AoW and Snail's Taichi Panda mobile title. There will be eight martial arts schools, a "two-handed virtual button" control scheme, guild wars and PvP....

Skyforge Q&A talks Pantheon Wars, PvP, and more

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Did you catch the latest dev Q&A from Skyforge? It's about the game's take on guild-vs.-guild battles, otherwise known as Pantheon Wars. The announcement elicited a bunch of questions from the fantasy MMO's community, which Skyforge's devs have printed and answered. "All battles in the Pantheon War take place simultaneously, across multiple battlegrounds before leading up to a final struggle...

See World of Warcraft’s oldest surviving screenshots

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Here's a treat for MMO history buffs. Dave Wilson, who works at Blizzard doing recruitment marketing, posted a series of captioned pictures on Twitter showing the earliest stages of development on World of Warcraft. The pictures include the oldest screenshot of WoW using the Warcraft III engine, a placeholder town called Valguard circa 1999, the first character selection screen, Onyxia's...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 17

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Justin and Bree discuss Infinite Crisis' sunset, Heroes of the Storm's launch, TERA's growth, EverQuest Next, Marvel Heroes, Trove, PlanetSide 2, Aion, WildStar, and The Secret World, plus mailbag questions on game metrics and character origin stories.

Crowfall’s Confessors represent the darker side of religion

The team behind Crowfall is hard at work preparing what it's calling a "core combat test" between three diverse archetypes. One of these, the female Confessor, is the target of a post today that provides some of the background on her narrative and approach. The Confessors are a branch of the Mother Church that diverged from the Templars when the...

The Stream Team: Double trouble in SWTOR’s Nar Shaddaa Nightlife Event

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You know those times you ask for something that you may regret getting? Well now just might one such time as MassivelyOP's MJ and Larry team up again in SWTOR! Larry is continuing to try to convert MJ to the dark side, and this time he's using a new event to lure her in: the Nar Shaddaa Nightlife Event....
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Guild Wars 2 to restore Lion’s Arch in the next update

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It won't be long now, faithful Tyrians, before you will be walking down the streets of the shiny, reborn Lion's Arch in Guild Wars 2. ArenaNet announced that Lion's Arch 2.0 will be fully restored come the next content update. As part of the facelift for the once-ravaged city, Lion's Arch will get new names for its quarters as voted...