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Every MMO, whether sci-fi, fantasy, or equine, must at some point feature zombies. It's video game law. Fortunately for Shroud of the Avatar fans, it looks as though Portalarium is putting some thought into its undead creations. The shambling corpses will not only pose an immediate threat to survival but also surprise players with an infectious zombie plague that will...

EverQuest 2 producer Holly Longdale says that Daybreak will merge US servers on the long-running fantasy MMO "within the next few months." She says that merges are quite challenging, but fortunately they're also semi-related to the dev team's ongoing cross-server dungeon work. Additionally, the database changes completed by Daybreak's coders earlier this year laid a solid foundation. Longdale says that international...

Cryptic has published a new dev blog that touches on Neverwinter's upcoming strongholds feature. It's designed to provide content for guilds, and much of the core functionality relates to donating to your stronghold's coffer and building structures. Structures do everything from improving the guild's land to providing "boons" for members, and it sounds like Cryptic has a number of possibilities...

BioWare teased that things would change for Star Wars: The Old Republic on June 15th. And it's true. The rumors we reported on this weekend are all true. Producer Jeff Hickman stepped onto the E3 stage today to explain that BioWare is going back to its roots and producing a game where the choices that your character makes matter. And...

EVE Online may be seeing a shift in how its intergalactic warfare works with the advent of the new Entosis Link. According to CCP, the device "is a way for the server to tell who won (or is winning) a fight in a specific location." Basically, players can use the high-tech device to take over targeted subsystems on structures and...

Rare announced a new piratey thing called Sea of Thieves at today's Microsoft E3 event. It's an Xbox One exclusive and Windows 10 title with sailing ships, buried treasure, and stylized graphics that was described as the firm's "most ambitious title to date." The reveal trailer featured players running to and fro with MMO-style nametags floating above their heads, but...

Frontier CEO David Braben has announced that Elite: Dangerous will be one of the first "early access" games available via the Xbox One's Game Preview Program. Perhaps more relevant to those of you who have been playing the space sim on your PC for a few months is the new Close Quarter Combat mode that Braben also announced today at...

After two years in operation on both mobile devices and the PC, Solstice Arena is calling it quits. The so-called "speed MOBA" announced last night that it will be closing down on August 12th. "We don't take the decision to sunset our games lightly but we made the tough decision to close Solstice Arena so our team of game makers...

DayZ creator Dean Hall announced his new RocketWerkz studio last winter. This week, we've got a better idea of what he's been up to alongside "simulated worlds" developer Improbable. The two entities revealed Ion, a simulation MMO and a "massive open world universe" inspired by beloved RPG Space Station 13. Ion looks to be set in space and it may...

Mo discovers the value of MMO friends in the pursuit of sweet, sweet revenge.