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Trick Dempsey is out as Defiance's creative lead, but he's pleased to pass the project on to his successor: Carble Cheung. Cheung has been with the team since 2013 and has grand plans for Defiance going forward. "Speaking of the future: 'YES!' we are planning for Season 3 and beyond," he said. "This includes updates to arkfalls, sieges, expeditions,...

When Star Citizen recently announced its plans to sell temporary rental equipment this week, the online response was pretty mixed. While most backers seemed happy with the idea of adding some much-needed progression to the Arena Commander dogfighting module, questions were raised as to how much grinding would be involved, why equipment needs to be temporary, and how the...

Yesterday's Camelot Unchained update delivered quite a bit of good news to fans of the fantasy RvR sandbox. City State boss Mark Jacobs revealed the fourth iteration of the pre-alpha test checklist, several items of which have already been addressed, leaving the dev team in a good spot relative to its end-of-the-month alpha goal. Jacobs says that potential snags may...

Are you looking forward to the Iron Docks quests in World of Warcraft's patch 6.1? Even though they haven't been mentioned in any patch notes or by developers or shown any signs of materializing? Because despite what was expected by players, they're not in there. Community manager Bashiok confirmed that the Iron Docks, which were expected to be a...

Originally released back in 2001 when the MMO genre was in its infancy, browser MMO RuneScape has endured through over a decade of development and two complete game reboots. Today's RuneScape bears little resemblance to the game many of us grew up with, and naturally not everyone thinks the game has been changed for the better. In an effort...

I'm sure this won't serve as a grand surprise to anyone reading this, but I've been thinking a lot about the future of WildStar ever since we saw NCsoft's financials last week. While it's all well and good to try and cast the news as a positive by pointing out that it's nearing the range of City of Heroes...

Getting your next Tom Clancy gaming fix shouldn't be too hard this year. Ubisoft announced this past week that The Division will be coming out in 2015 in addition to Rainbow Six Siege. Of course, you might not even know much about this open-world online RPG yet, which is understandable. If that's the case, then there's an excellent 12-minute "everything...

Twitch reflexes are all for naught if an MMO's servers are super-laggy, which is why the APB: Reloaded team is dedicating itself to the task of bringing better tech online in order to improve gameplay performance and prepare for the upcoming console launches As part of this effort, the team is looking into potential cloud hosting solutions and is improving...

It's Thursday night, which means it's too early to start partying but too late to start caring about work. Instead, join MassivelyOP's Mike Foster as he jumps into a MOBA double-header featuring League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm. The right-clicking starts at 7:00 p.m. EST on OPTV. What: League of Legends/Heroes of the Storm Who: Mike Foster When: 7:00p.m. EST on Thursday, February...

One of Marvel Heroes' big money makers is the game's sale of iconic costumes for player heroes. In addition to creating and selling normal costumes, Marvel Heroes will begin rolling out limited edition costume variants this Saturday. The first batch includes three costumes: Winter Soldier Movie (Maskless Variant), Hawkeye Hawkguy (Sweatpants Variant), and Star-Lord Movie (Headphones Variant). As the "limited"...