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The factional split between the Horde and the Alliance in World of Warcraft has taken a drubbing for a while, simply because the two factions wind up working together to beat one enormous threat or another every single expansion. Frankly, the only place where the strong factional split makes any sense is in the game's PvP matches. So the...

Skyforge is making the jump to a non-wipable open beta today (aka a soft launch), although the team dealt with a server issue earlier that caused a delay. Fortunately, it looks as though everything's been handled on the NA side, although the EU server is still down at the time of this writing. "The Skyforge open beta is officially...

Togrutas, the colorful Star Wars race that boasts both head tails and hollow horns, will become available to play when Star Wars: The Old Republic opens the doors to Update 3.3 next week. BioWare confirmed the species' addition to the playable roster on the official forums: "Togruta will be in Game Update 3.3 on Tuesday! We are pretty excited for...

You don't have to wait until Halloween for RIFT to break out the heebie-jeebies, as its Waking Nightmares update went live yesterday, though it was not without its problems. A number of issues caused multiple outages yesterday, including a guild bug and unrelated exploits that caused Trion to keep the servers down most of the afternoon and evening. Community Manager Ocho promised...

Revenants have proven very capable of inflicting conditions with demonic legends, being defensive with dwarven legends, and healing their allies with centaur legends. It's certainly a flexible profession even by the standards of Guild Wars 2. But we haven't seen any sign that the class could just wade in with weapons out and wreck things. That's what the last legend,...

I just downloaded Uncharted Waters Online via Steam, and while I haven't logged any time with it yet, I'm sort of looking forward to doing so. Few things fascinate me more than the Age of Sail and MMORPGs, so marrying the two concepts seems like a great idea. On the down side, it's old and visually at least, it...

New Pirate101 producer Leah "Professor Falmea" Ruben has penned a new producer's letter and posted it on the game's website. In it, she details upcoming content additions like The Pirate's Regatta, which will be on the test realm in short order. She also spends a lot of time talking about Pirate101's PvP, including the debut of ranked PvP and a...

There's nothing like sailing the virtual seas in a historically accurate battleship -- except sinking someone else's historically accurate battleship, that is! MassivelyOP's MJ is heading back into World of Warships to continue the war for naval supremacy. This time, however, she just might spend more time setting her enemies ablaze from the Japanese ship. The important part is setting...

NCsoft and Netmarble are joining forces to make a mobile version of long-running fantasy MMORPG Lineage II. MMO Culture reports that the game is currently called Project S, and it is due sometime in 2016. Netmarble is perhaps best known for developing the mobile RPG Marvel Future Fight as well as publishing free-to-play MMO Uncharted Waters Online through late 2013. Source: MMO...

Starting tomorrow and continuing through Sunday, July 19th, Rockstar is offering double XP and cash mission rewards for selected activities in Grand Theft Auto Online. The Prison Break Heist is one such activity, which is nice since it occurs early in the heist progression tree and is easy enough to complete with a competent crew. You can also get XP...