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It's a dark day for several online EA titles that contains ray of light for Star Wars: The Old Republic. The publisher announced today that it will be ceasing service on four of its games due to a lack of popularity: Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Play4Free, Need for Speed World and FIFA World. Players will have until July 14th to say...

After being placed on hold for further review, the submission process for EVE Online alliance logos is back open and ready for player input. CCP said that player-submitted content is "the best course of action" for giving alliances a unique look, but the studio did say that it will modify the logos slightly so that both CCP and the...

The prison island of Alcatraz is the hot new destination of Defiance players following yesterday's patch. If you're a curious looky loo or a former player pondering a return, then we've got a closer look at the update to satisfy your curiosity. A recent dev diary expands upon the Alcatraz patch's key features, while fan site Defiance Data has a...

With Joel Bylos out of the picture as The Secret World's lead, the monthly update letter torch has been passed to other members of the team, starting with Senior Community Manager Laurie Payne. Payne's April update letter is full of studio backpatting and general enthusiasm about Update 11, although she says little that we didn't already know about the first...

Getting screwed over by other players cheating in H1Z1 isn't a fun feeling, even though the game is still in early testing and has many more resets before it goes live. But it is fun to watch cheaters try to get something for nothing, only to fail hilariously. So the most recent developer post on Reddit explaining how the...

The beta events for Skyforge are flying fast and furious now, with the third test scheduled for next week. Allods Team announced today that CBT3 is scheduled to run from April 22nd through May 13th. This round of testing will expand to include two new PvP zones, the Milene Caves area, the Alakur Island squad adventure, and the Phoreus Test...

There's no reason for you to go back to older dungeons in World of Warcraft unless you particularly like the look of something that drops there for cosmetic purposes; they surely don't offer much in the way of relevant rewards. But some of those dungeons were well-tuned back in the day, and if you've never experienced them in their...

I had the pleasure of chatting with Scott McGough, a Guild Wars 2 narrative designer who is currently working hard on Heart of Thorns content, about two new Hylek tribes that we'll be meeting in the Maguuma Jungle. In this special edition of Flameseeker Chronicles, we have all the juicy details about how the two tribes come together to survive in...

The last time the retailer yanked boxes of a game from the shelves and returned them to the distributors, it was The Elder Scrolls Online, shortly before that title announced its buy-to-play conversion. Now the same thing is happening, only this time it's boxes of WildStar. As go Australian EB Games outlets, so goes the rest of the world....

I am a horrible, horrible chess player. It's not that I don't understand the game or have the mind for basic strategies but that I simply cannot plan ahead and anticipate future moves the way that you need to in order to master the game. Sometimes I feel as though this "play in the moment" attitude saturates my MMO gaming...