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With the introduction of so many new heroes in Marvel Heroes over the last few months, MassivelyOP's MJ has been distracted from playing her true love: Rogue. Now that the birthday celebration seems to have diverted the dev team's attention from releasing more right now, she's got a chance to dive back in on the maven of multiple powers....

Star Citizen started delivering weekly progress updates on its overdue FPS module this week, and two developers talked about how you'll be able to repair your ship. SMITE made some changes to its jungling and warding mechanics to help keep the game fresh and released its new melee brawler god Ravana, Demon King of Lanka. Path of Exile's developers...

WildStar lost a lot of dev talent over the past year, but at least one ex-Carbine staffer has landed on his feet. Former WildStar design producer Stephan Frost has stepped into the same role at Blizzard, according to his Twitter feed. "Day one at Blizzard has been awesome," Frost wrote. "I'm excited to start work as the design producer on...

CCP hasn't given up on DUST 514 yet, as evidenced by the fact that the PS3-exclusive shooter is getting a new patch tomorrow. It's called Warlords 1.2, and it includes an "improved user experience," community-requested updates, three new squad types, dropsuit slot progression, and an update to planetary conquest, according to a patch preview on the game's official website. The planetary...

If you're curious about Dean Hall's new Ion project that was recently announced at E3, a new interview at Polygon might be worth reading. Hall explains how the sci-fi space sandbox is straddling the fence between indie and triple-A, primarily due to the dev talent involved which includes Fallout 3 and Skyrim veterans as well as the concept artist from Alfonso...

Cloud Imperium has opened a new development office in Frankfurt, Germany, according to the company's latest press release. Star Citizen, dubbed a "first person universe space simulator" in the release, now boasts some of Europe's top game design minds as part of its team, including developers who created the underlying CryEngine. Currently the Frankfurt office features 21 team members, but...

Do you need a reason to log into Marvel Heroes? Beginning on Wednesday, July 8th, you can participate in Gazillion's $25,000 giveaway simply by playing. You'll need to find one of five "incredibly rare Vibranium ticket drops," according to a Gazillion press release. Each one is worth $5,000 USD and the winners will be congratulated publicly this Friday at...

Remember back in January when an ArenaNet forum user named Amax redesigned the UI for Guild Wars 2? As it turns out, Amax is Gradinar Razvan, who has recently redesigned the website for World of Warcraft as part of a job application. Razvan says that his earlier GW2 work led to some freelance design jobs, and he has updated the project to include his...

EVE Online's newest content update is apparently so big that developer CCP has decided to split it up into two chunks. The first part of Aegis will arrive tomorrow, July 7th, and contain a bulk of the new features. These include a new Hecate tactical destroyer, additional SKINs, improved icons, environmental graphic tweaks, and several balance changes to missiles and...

Did you ever see that late '90s TV show Early Edition, where this guy got a copy of tomorrow's newspaper a day early? Shroud of the Avatar's detailed patch forecasting feels a bit like that, especially when the game's developers lay out three months' of patches in advance. The new schedule comes in the most recent Update of the Avatar...