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Allods has announced that its 6.0 Broken Chains update will hit your server on March 5th. "Many innovative features await you, " the dev team promises, "from mountain-hopping travel systems and optimized reward trading to progress-logging and optional raid modes that are built to suit your pace." Today's news blurb says that more information is on the way between now...

Star Trek Online has a new captain helming its ship, as Stephen D'Angelo has stepped down as executive producer and long-time STO dev Stephen Ricossa has filled the vacancy. D'Angelo will now be Cryptic's chief technology officer in charge of overseeing "several internal projects." Ricossa introduced himself as a life-long Star Trek fan and teased one big upcoming change to...

If you're looking for a reason to try Forsaken World -- or maybe you're looking for a reason to return -- how does a new expansion sound? Perfect World released Freedom Falls yesterday, which added everything from new solo and group instances to pet transformation to the free-to-play fantasy MMO. There's a new race (Demon) and a new class (Tormentor),...

What sort of character are you going to make in Skyforge? A new user video shows off the character creator and classes from the most recent Russian test event, walking viewers through the various creation options in some detail. The video is embedded just past the break, and there are plenty of sliders, idle pose options, and the like...

There's a lot to take in with Neverwinter's upcoming Elemental Evil module, including two brand-new zones to the game: Drowned Shore and Reclamation Rock. In a dev diary posted last week, the team delivered the back story on both of these areas and gave players some hints on what to expect when the update goes live. The Drowned Shore used...

In previous PvP seasons for Star Wars: The Old Republic, players never had a clue what the rewards for their efforts might be until midway through the season. But this time around, BioWare has teased us with a single image of the weapons we can expect. According to the official post, these weapons are called the Swashbuckler's set, but they aren't the...

It's hard to think of a sandbox game without the ability to create and dwell in player structures, but until now that feature has been missing from Pathfinder Online. Fortunately, this will change with Update 4.0 on February 19th, which promises to bring in the first wave of temporary player structures that can be used to populate the world. The...

This has already been such a weird day for MMOs, so why not this? Atari announced that it's reviving one of its most famous classic franchises, Asteroids, as a massively multiplayer title developed by Salty Studios. The new game is Asteroids: Outpost, and according to the official site it's "an open-world sandbox survival game." However, instead of building up wooden...

Are you doing big things in World of Warcraft that the whole world urgently needs to know about? Maybe not. Do you want to let everyone know about it anyway? Of course! That's why the new Twitter integration feature (with a preview video just past the break) will allow you to tweet about whatever's going on for you in...

Well, here's a news post I didn't want to write. SOE Daybreak Games has laid off popular Global Community Relations lead Linda Carlson as well as EverQuest franchise lead Dave Georgeson as part of a staff "realignment" that comes in the wake of the studio's sale to a holding company last week. "I have been released from the best and most...