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The Iconian War is hot stuff in Star Trek Online these days, but players will need to cool their heels due to a "critical technical issue" that is causing a delay of the next update. Executive Producer Steve Ricossa broke the bad news to players on the official site, saying that the team will need to delay the next featured...

Don't believe everything you read from online retailers. This is the lesson that we must learn again as a supposed summer release date for Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns was denied by ArenaNet. "Retailers have been setting placeholder release dates for years," the team posted to Twitter, retweeting its statement from 2012: "As always, we have not announced...

Steam and TERA are a match made in F2P heaven, apparently. The latest En Masse press release heralds the action fantasy title as "the most played MMORPG on Steam." The firm is basing its statement on all-time peak concurrency numbers, which it says are available via Steam Charts. Since its May 5th launch on Valve's ubiquitous PC storefront, TERA has enjoyed "explosive growth"...

I'm not the biggest World of Warcraft fan. That said, I'm pretty interested to see what Duncan Jones does with the Warcraft movie. This is more due to the fact that Moon is one of my favorite pictures ever and less due to the fact that the Warcraft film is based on MMOs, but whatever, right? What about you, MOP readers? Would...

Square Enix, come on down! You're the next contestant on Make Your Own MOBA! Lord of Vermilion: Arena is based on the Lord of Vermilion CCG, and it's scheduled to hit open beta in Japan on June 4th. The beta will purportedly offer 15 new summons, a revamped tutorial, story mode content, and more. In terms of gameplay, MMO Culture...

Jagex has published a website update focused on some of the "more pressing issues" being faced by the Old School RuneScape community. The ongoing DDoS attacks that began after a recent ban wave are the dev team's biggest priority at the moment. "Our SysAdmin team have put a lot of effort into making our network more resilient which makes...

How do you pronounce Nar Shaddaa? When I was devouring Star Wars books in the 1990s and playing the crap out of the Dark Forces series, I always heard it as Nar Shade-ah in my mind. Then Star Wars: The Old Republic came around and all the NPCs were saying Nar Sha-DAH, which makes me giggle every time. Anyway, the Nar...

Nothing like a quick turnaround to pique your interest in a game, right? Tree of Life came out of nowhere to announce that its brightly animated sandbox environment would be available on Steam via Early Access, a rare example of a game being imported with ongoing development. The question was just a matter of when, and that question has been...

Dark Age of Camelot fans might want to adjust their plans for the upcoming holiday weekend in the US, as Broadsword is turning on the bonus faucet for Memorial Day. From May 22nd through the 29th, players will experience boosts to crafting, XP, realm points, and bounty points. Word of this event comes from the most recent newsletter. In it,...

Monday's blurb about NCsoft and its AI research was sort of interesting, don't you think? The Korean firm isn't the first MMO company to highlight advances in artificial intelligence, though. Heck, Star Citizen was talking up its AI a year ago. What about you, MOP readers? Do you care about AI advances in your games, or would you prefer that developers...