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Heroes & Generals has Utz! No, not the potato chips. It's a patch named Utz, after General Willibald Utz of the German forces, and it adds in a new Forward Airfield assault map for players to storm. It's a different sort of map from what already exists in the game, with a mix of long-range and short-range combat to...

The Bay of Betrayal is another piece of content being added in WildStar's next patch, and it adds in a few more new ideas to the usual Adventure gameplay. Story-wise, it's a chance for players to face down the Ascendancy and take on its leader, Calidor Antevian, by bypassing other hopeful Ascendancy acolytes and meeting the big guy himself....

How can Crowfall be made with less than $10 million in this day and age? That's the big question of the day that Executive Producer Gordon Walton decided to answer for fans at this year's International Game Developers Association meeting. "We're doing a much smaller than normal MMO by choosing to be PvP-focused, doing algorithmic world generation, tight (but effective!) constraints on character customization and...

I've been playing GTA V an absurd amount since Monday. It's basically two games, though, which is problematic for an already overloaded schedule. I may just drop the single-player campaign. It's fun, mind you, but I can't stand Trevor and frankly I'd rather pull heists, hit tennis balls, collect cars and real estate, and fight it out with 29 frenemies in GTA...

Not only are vehicles useful in H1Z1 thanks to the trunk space and ability to cover large distances fast, but driving around in them has got to be one of the funnest things you can do in game. And MassivelyOP's MJ has snagged a sweet truck! That means the team can explore the farthest reaches of the map with...

If you're still mulling whether or not this week's Grand Theft Auto V PC release is worth a purchase, consider the new platform-exclusive Self Radio feature. GTA's radio stations have long been a signature of the open world sandbox series, but now you can import your own tracks with a couple of mouse clicks and then tool around both the...

Trion wants you to know that RIFT's 3.2 patch is officially live. Echoes of Madness adds a 20-player Hammerknell raid and improvements to instant adventures including "better scaling and pacing," fewer event distractions, featured queues, and more. Echoes of Madness also boasts a "massive upgrade" to RIFT's wardrobe system that allows players to save the appearance of any acquired item...

A long time ago on a website far, far away, we were having a discussion about modern MMOs and their inability to make sandboxes more than thinly disguised FFA gankfests. I suggested that devs riff on Star Wars Galaxies and its early TEF (temporary enemy flagging) system as a way to incorporate optional FFA PvP into a PvE sandbox. As it turns out, the system was...

MMO PvP comes in a lot of different flavors, and while all of them involve sticking the pointy end into the other man to some degree, there's a lot of variation in terms of how and where that sticking is accomplished. You can get your PvP fix in small dedicated arena instances or huge zones like Elder Scrolls Online's Cyrodiil...

The first iteration of Wurm Online's Elevation server had a problem according to the players: the map. People just did not like that map. So rather than telling people to simply get used to it, the designers nodded, took down the server, and spun together a new map consisting of five larger landmasses and a number of smaller islands. Reactions...