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If you fancy yourself a storyteller, and you're an Elder Scrolls Online fan, ZeniMax has a new contest that you might want to enter. Tales of the Dead tasks you with providing the backstory for that grim screenshot up yonder. You could win a $25 Bethesda Store gift certificate and an ESO t-shirt for your efforts. Entries must be 500...

TERA's newest dungeon is Sky Cruiser Endeavor, which is coming -- in both normal and hard modes -- to a server near you on February 24th. The game's official website has a boss breakdown if you're so inclined, and we've got a teaser vid of the new area posted just past the break. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpDsEMVR7Xc

Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade Senior Producer Nathan Richardsson posted a State of the Crusade letter today, saying that the team is moving forward with "a rapidly advancing schedule." Richardsson revealed that the team has been quiet lately because it's been reviewing its plans and isn't quite ready to discuss specifics (it's noteworthy that he did mention "expansion" as one of...

Justin and Bree discuss The Secret World, Daybreak's layoffs, Crowfall's B2P model, WildStar, Nexon vs. NCsoft, SWTOR 3.1, and Elder Scrolls Online's B2P relaunch, with mailbag questions on SWG's PvP system and traditional MMOs.

What is it about outer space that elicits the cutthroat nature of sci-fi MMOs? Well, get ready to go on that adventure again, as Nebula Online is running a crowdfunding campaign to build an "old-school hardcore sci-fi" MMO that corrects the mistakes of games such as, oh, EVE Online. "Some people may think that it is just bad copy of...

Final Fantasy XIV patch 2.51 is expected to drop on February 24th, and it's bringing the long-awaited Manderville Gold Saucer as its main attraction. A recent live letter from producer and director Naoki Yoshida explained several of the Gold Saucer mechanics and events in depths, including Chocobo Racing and the Triple Triad card game. And now there's an official...

We can't blame World of Warcraft fans for being in an excitement tizzy (that's a thing, right?) over the upcoming Patch 6.1, as it looks to add a slew of improvements to the game. While we can't shorten the wait for you, we can point you to the following informative video interview with Blizzard Lead Game Designer Ion Hazzikostas. Hazzikostas...

In the midst of this rebirth of Massively, I found myself suddenly placed in charge of my Star Wars: The Old Republic guild. We are on a roleplay server because we like to be friendly to roleplayers, but we are not strictly a roleplay guild. I'm actually happy with that stance. I would like there to be more roleplay in my guild...

How do you prevent a hostile takeover? In NCsoft's case, you buy something. Specifically, you buy a large portion of shares from Netmarble while also engaging in a large-scale swap of stock between the two companies to provide a buffer against Nexon's moves toward a hostile takeover. The deal in question involved a purchase of $345 million worth of...

Crowfall developer ArtCraft Entertainment has announced today that the game will employ the Voxel Farm technology platform. If that name sounds familiar, it's because Voxel Farm is licensed to several other high-profile MMORPGs, including Landmark and EverQuest Next. The best part is how the studio leads describe what they're doing with the tech. "We want to create hundreds of unique worlds, with unique...