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Have you been keeping up with Ascent: The Space Game lately? I haven't, and shame on me because an interesting round of updates hit the sci-fi sandbox title over the past week. One of the more notable feature adds is the ability to fully disembark from your ship at colonies. "Now you can travel around the transport grid network of your...

Reto-Moto has updated its Heroes & Generals FPS with the Vasilevsky update. The patch includes improved melee mechanics, optimized visual effects, weapon tweaks, and "deeper gameplay for generals with a new morale system for assault teams, new combat badges and ribbons, and much more," according to a new press release. The dev team has also released a seven-minute summary video...

Since landing on Steam early access last week, Tree of Life has been patching frequently and furiously. The team is not only working on the underlying hardware but also adding several features to make players feel safe and secure in this sandbox. Now players can lock up their goods in an effort to thwart robbers. And if those thieves abscond...

CCP's dev blogs are usually pretty wordy. It makes sense, given EVE Online's complexity, but occasionally it's nice to see some pretty pictures from the sci-fi sandbox title as opposed to walls of text. Such is the case with today's post featuring ship skins. Don't fret because there's some verbiage, too, but basically the take-away is that there are a...

Summer fun starts now in Star Trek Online, as the annual Lohlunat Festival kicks off for another year of flying around, riding powerboards, and building sand castles. The sand castles are very important. As always, the event brings captains back to Risa for several minigames and according rewards, with a new Ferengi ship serving as the ultimate reward. The Ferengi...

As I tried to log into Marvel Heroes this afternoon, I ran afoul of the 6 GB patch that Gazillion pushed out to Steam users today. Fortunately there's a lot of good stuff in this update, including plenty of birthday gifts for you the player in celebration of the game's anniversary month. This week Gazillion is treating gamers to version 2.0...

It's easy for the modern MMO gamer to be put off by multi-user dungeons (MUDs), what with their lack of graphical frills and their overabundance on pesky words. However, for a subset of gamers and developers, there's still a very special magic that takes place in the realm of MUDs, and one company isn't giving up on trying to...

Something intriguing is afoot over at Hearthstone. Blizzard. announced today that it's preparing to introduce new heroes -- not classes -- to its successful card game. These heroes will inhabit the same roles as before but offer a new cosmetic twist for those sick of staring at the same-old pictures. In addition to animated portraits of characters, there will be...

Reaper's life in Overwatch is pretty difficult. His whole schtick is being dark and mysterious and wraithly and so forth, but that can't work well for him when, say, he just needs to stop at a fast food joint and pick up some burgers because he's hungry. Or when all he wants to do is just kick back and watch...

Two things are coming up in Star Wars: The Old Republic that I'd like to talk about. First, BioWare is bringing back the Night Life (Festival of Splendor) Event on Nar Shaddaa. It's a gambling event where players can win different prizes by playing slot machines. Just as in real life, the house always wins, but I've got some...