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Skyforge's Live Producer Aaron Biedma took the time today to welcome players to the game's early access week, noting the passion that fans have brought to the first 24 hours. Biedma encouraged players to log reports during this period: "We have great plans for the game as we move forward through early access, into open beta, and beyond, but first...

Cabal II opened its beta doors last week, which means MassivelyOP's MJ can sneak in for a peek. She'll show off the character creation tools before diving into the adventures. With her preference for healing and/or ranged magic, should she select a Priest or a Wizard? Join us live at 2:00 p.m. to decide which she plays! What: Cabal II Who:...

Virtual world MMO Project Gorgon is preparing for a third Kickstarter campaign, its creator tweeted this past week. Eric Heimburg confirmed that the team is finalizing plans to seek funding for current and future development of the game. It remains to be seen how ambitious a fundraising goal that Heimburg will set this time around. Project Gorgon attempted to raise...

We know that Hellfire Citadel is going to be the last raid in World of Warcraft's current expansion. We know that the expansion wasn't going to even have flying, but it was added in due to popular insistence. We know that there aren't going to be any new areas such as Farahlon added into the game for this expansion...

Wow, it's Star Citizen and Derek Smart in the same post! OK, now that I've stopped laughing (again), you can call me crazy because I remain optimistic about Cloud Imperium's space sim opus. Yes, I'm still optimistic despite the verbal stylings of Battlecruiser's creative lead and the dozens of MOP commenters who agreed with him about Star Citizen's supposed fast-track to failure. And frankly, optimism isn't...

Marvel Heroes' 49th hero, Ant-Man, will be coming to the game soon to coincide with the character's theatrical debut. While the game's been selling pre-orders of the hero for a bit now, only yesterday did the developers post an official FAQ on what Ant-Man would be like. Ant-Man will contain iconic powers of three of the people to bear that...

Skill queues are meant as a way for players to "store up" commands and have all of those commands finally executed in one fell swoop. They are not meant to create lengthy instant implementations of multiple attacks in less than a second, thus functionally serving as an instant kill. So when ArcheAge implemented the skill queue yesterday, you can...

The ground is rumbling underneath Path of Exile and will soon erupt in a plume of fiery content. The Awakening, a long-awaited content update, finally is going live today at 3:00 p.m. EDT. The Awakening starts by expanding the title's fourth act, going on to add a new socketable layer to the passive skill tree, new maps, more skills, legendary...

In analyzing survey responses returned from more than 250 developers this year, the organizers of GDC Europe did everything but declare mobile dead. "PC topples mobile as the most popular platform," read the PR blast. " percent of those surveyed said the game they're currently working on will see a PC release," compared to the 50% launching on mobile. The...

The most recent updates are toward the bottom of this post. This article is still being updated as of July 12th. Daybreak is currently suffering an apparent DDoS attack. Daybreak President John Smedley tweeted about the attack earlier this afternoon, suggesting the ensuing outage would be a brief one, but that hasn't been the case. https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/619255048841760768 Tweets on the studio's official account...