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NCsoft is spending time and money on artificial intelligence, according to a report in the Korea IT Times. "Controlling games mobile environment is becoming more complicated and difficult. If artificial intelligence is applied to games, it will bring bigger fun to users," said CFO Yoon Jae-soo in a recent conference call. The company plans to use its AI technology...

Albion Online is surely milking its acquisition of Game Designer Matt Woodward for all its worth. After Albion heralded his arrival with a level of pomp normally reserved for royalty, Woodward took to the wilds of Reddit for a round of questions and answers with the community. When asked what he is working on right now, Woodward replied, "First thing...

What's going on in the super-powered world of Valiance Online? Quite a lot, actually. The spiritual successor to City of Heroes posted a list of 10 development updates to bring fans up to date on the project. Among the list is word that the team is overhauling the user interface, trademarking a new logo, improving the animations, fixing "hundreds" of...

Mo takes on an unimpressed crab miniboss with his newfound companions in his very first PUG.

If you are a Mortal Online player, you were probably in heaven this past weekend, as the game patched in a whole new continent full of content. Patch 1.82 introduced the lands of Sarducaa, a desert-themed realm teeming with dangerous creatures, dark dungeons, and all sorts of treasure. It also arrived with an important caveat from Star Vault: "Sarducaa comes...

The now-annual City of Heroes "Loregasm" is complete, with ex-developers Matt Miller and Sean McCann delivering another wealth of insights into the late, great superhero MMO. The pair tackled dozens and dozens of questions like champs in the community Q&A. One revelation is that the team never planned to fully redeem the sinister Lord Recluse: "I don't think we planned...

News is circulating in the EVE Online blogs and forum that developer CCP Games has just bought back $20 million in publicly traded bonds. The bonds were sold to the public back in 2013 and required the company to publish detailed financial accounts each year for investors to see. Now that the bonds have been bought back, CCP no...

It's not always a foregone conclusion that Blizzard will emerge triumphant from its many court cases. Recently, it chalked one up in the "loss" column, as a judge ruled against the studio's request for an injunction against Diablo gold-selling company Bossland GmbH. Blizzard brought the lawsuit to bear in Germany, claiming that the actions of the website were "anti-competitive." A lower court...

The Elder Scrolls Online is inching closer and closer to its console launch just three weeks from now, and that means... trailers! The last video covered the game's freedom and sandboxy choices; today's episode in this four-part video series is called "The Elder Scrolls With Friends" and focuses on unscripted multiplayer experiences, siege warfare, alliances, public and private dungeons, level-scaling, world...

Third time's a charm with Reddit! Remember back in March when a Skyforge moderator threatened to ban anyone using the term pay-to-win and was summarily excoriated by the community for his trouble? Apparently the ArcheAge Reddit mods rather liked the idea and have decided to ban posts discussing pay-to-win issues on their subreddit. Lead moderator NSA-SURVEILLANCE (seriously) made the announcement yesterday (quoted...