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If you love Blitzball, you just might get the chance to play it in Final Fantasy XIV someday. In an IGN interview, Game Director Naoki Yoshida said that he'd spoken with Square Enix's Yoshinori Kitase, producer of Final Fantasy X and X-2 from whence the popular underwater sport originates, about it adding into A Realm Reborn. While it is...

Frontier talks up the forthcoming Powerplay patch in this week's Elite: Dangerous newsletter. The titular patch feature "makes the galaxy a hotbed of activity," as players choose power blocs to back in "an epic battle for galactic conquest and control," Frontier says. Aside from that, the patch will turn mining into a money-making proposition via dedicated missions, variable density extraction...

Last night Bungie posted a weekly update that addresses participation, bugs, and cheaters in Destiny's recently introduced endgame PvP, Trials of Osiris. Since the House of Wolves expansion launched, over 118.5 million kills have occurred in nearly 3.8 million matches, and close to 300k guardians have achieved a perfect scorecard. Check out the two handy heatmaps below to see...

There's a big ol' update on the Marvel Heroes forums, courtesy of Doomsaw and featuring some interesting news regarding both scheduling and Gazillion's tuning philosophy going forward. Character tuning will happen "at least once a month," Gaziilion says, with the ultimate goal being to move all of the game's heroes to "top tier" status which will enable them to be...

Players excited for the Sovereignty overhaul coming to EVE Online need only wait a couple of days more before it rolls onto the live servers. The Carnyx update goes live on June 2nd, with an extended downtime that starts at 7:00 a.m. EDT and runs until 8:45 a.m. EDT. This brings the first stage of the Sovereignty overhaul, with...

ArenaNet has announced that it will host the second Stronghold PvP public beta for Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns expansion on June 2nd. The throwdown starts at 3:00 p.m. EDT, and the map will be live for 24 hours, according to the latest website update, which also details the "first ever Stronghold tournaments available on live servers." In other...

After several delays, Shadowrun Chronicles, the rebranded form of what was originally being developed as Shadowrun Online, launched on Steam a month ago. Now, a month out, the studio behind the game is bankrupt. The company has apparently already been assigned a liquidator, which raises serious questions about the future of the game after a month of operation. One of...

Age of Conan fans will soon have a new raid in Dragon's Spine to dive into. Palace of Cetriss, which will have both a Tier 6 progression version and a "friendlier" one for the more casual player, is meant to give a greater challenge and even rival world boss fights for those who are level 80. After the uproar from...

Progress on the revived Otherland project has been running quiet for most of this spring, but now that looks to change. Today, Drago Entertainment announced some of the improvements that it's making to the Tad Williams MMO for its beta build. First of all, Otherland has added in its clan system, with the ability to create guilds, set up a...

You know what sucks about getting old? Apart from the adult diapers and the dying? Yeah, it's the seeing things you love retconned into things that you don't love. That's basically the opposite of fun, and so it goes here lately with me and MMORPGs. Don't get me wrong; I'm still playing them in the hope that they'll dial back...