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With the well-fought Heroes of the Dorm tournament out of the way, Blizzard is preparing an even larger community event for Heroes of the Storm that leads straight into this November's BlizzCon. The Heroes of the Storm World Championship will begin this summer across five major regions and culminate in an eight-team battle at the convention. Sign-ups for qualifiers are...

World of Warcraft botters, beware: Blizzard is coming after you hard. The studio said yesterday that it has leveled the banhammer against several accounts -- perhaps as many as 100,000 for up to six months -- using botting software. The notice of the action was short and to the point: "We've recently taken action against a large number of World...

Wait, there are other ways to resolve conflict with in-game NPCs than to stab large holes in their torsos? The Repopulation seems to think so, as the sci-fi sandbox has added a new diplomacy minigame with today's 15.4.1 patch. This new system allows you to interact with "intelligent" characters and use various skills such as diplomacy, intimidation, or entertainment to...

Under normal circumstances, Guild Wars 2 Necromancers have a pretty decisive philosophy of not getting involved in melee. It makes sense, after all. These folks know what death can do, and they're quite happy to dispense it from the back lines. But there's always that one who decides to wade directly into combat with a two-handed sword, a horror...

Hey, you all remember the guy causing a whole kerfluffle about the fact that WildStar is supposedly going free-to-play? Good times! But the Redditor who started that thread wasn't done revealing internal secrets, although the account seems to have subsequently been banned (possibly for ban-dodging, possibly for being a jerk). In a comment, the supposed anonymous employee claims that Blade...

Yesterday's news regarding the possibility of a classic Darkfall server was pretty great. I loved Aventurine's 2010-era fantasy gankbox, and I'd resubscribe or even repurchase the client in a heartbeat if AV moves forward. It wouldn't be very enjoyable without a decent-sized playerbase, though, which is why I'm tossing this informal question out to you, the MOP readers, this morning. Would you try a...

You might know Raph Koster from his MMO legacy as a designer on Ultima Online or Star Wars Galaxies, or perhaps from his current role on the Crowfall team. But what about Buzzfeed Trivia? Polygon has a fascinating read on how Koster was brought in to update a bar trivia game after it had started to decline in popularity. After...

WildStar is coming to Steam, according to third-party scraper site SteamDB.info. When and for how much is less clear, given that Carbine and NCsoft likely didn't want this information in the public eye, at least this early. SteamDB uses SteamKit to "interface with the Steam network" and gives "more insight into the Steam database" by tracking applications and packages as...

Reto-Moto has announced that more than five million players have registered for its F2P World War II MMO shooter called Heroes & Generals. Since its July 2014 early access release, the title has "seen a steady growth in the player base." Reto-Moto's press blurb also touts H&G as the third most popular Steam release for all of 2014 as...

As pretty as the scenery can be topside, spelunking is where the action is since all the mobs were moved underground in Landmark. That's not to say there aren't amazing sites to behold underground as well; in fact, MassivelyOP's MJ has discovered a number of player-built ruins in various caverns as she's descended into the depths to find a...