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There's a big ol' update on the Marvel Heroes forums, courtesy of Doomsaw and featuring some interesting news regarding both scheduling and Gazillion's tuning philosophy going forward. Character tuning will happen "at least once a month," Gaziilion says, with the ultimate goal being to move all of the game's heroes to "top tier" status which will enable them to be...

Players excited for the Sovereignty overhaul coming to EVE Online need only wait a couple of days more before it rolls onto the live servers. The Carnyx update goes live on June 2nd, with an extended downtime that starts at 7:00 a.m. EDT and runs until 8:45 a.m. EDT. This brings the first stage of the Sovereignty overhaul, with...

ArenaNet has announced that it will host the second Stronghold PvP public beta for Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns expansion on June 2nd. The throwdown starts at 3:00 p.m. EDT, and the map will be live for 24 hours, according to the latest website update, which also details the "first ever Stronghold tournaments available on live servers." In other...

After several delays, Shadowrun Chronicles, the rebranded form of what was originally being developed as Shadowrun Online, launched on Steam a month ago. Now, a month out, the studio behind the game is bankrupt. The company has apparently already been assigned a liquidator, which raises serious questions about the future of the game after a month of operation. One of...

Age of Conan fans will soon have a new raid in Dragon's Spine to dive into. Palace of Cetriss, which will have both a Tier 6 progression version and a "friendlier" one for the more casual player, is meant to give a greater challenge and even rival world boss fights for those who are level 80. After the uproar from...

Progress on the revived Otherland project has been running quiet for most of this spring, but now that looks to change. Today, Drago Entertainment announced some of the improvements that it's making to the Tad Williams MMO for its beta build. First of all, Otherland has added in its clan system, with the ability to create guilds, set up a...

You know what sucks about getting old? Apart from the adult diapers and the dying? Yeah, it's the seeing things you love retconned into things that you don't love. That's basically the opposite of fun, and so it goes here lately with me and MMORPGs. Don't get me wrong; I'm still playing them in the hope that they'll dial back...

No, it's not one of Tony Stark's inventions, but that doesn't mean this reactor is any less intriguing. Upon doing some sleuthing, RiftGrate discovered that Trion Worlds has been holding onto a trademark titled "Reactor" from December 2014 and has updated that trademark with "security interests" as recently as last week. So what could Reactor be? As there are no...

As Kickstarter projects successfully funded via the power of nostalgia have proven, gamer loyalty can burn strong even decades after experiencing titles that make such a profound impact. For a subset of players, the Ultima franchise will forever be one of the most influential RPG series in existence, which is why thousands of them have migrated over to Shroud...

What would you do if you could bend reality to serve your will? Probably become a superhero and fight deathmatches against giant gorillas and evil masterminds, right? So you and Symmetra are on the same page then. Today we've got another Overwatch beta video for you, this one showing a match through the eyes of the game's Indian warrior. Symmetra...