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Are you tired of running Coast City in Infinite Crisis? Turbine is throwing you a bone, albeit a temporary one, in the form of this weekend's Crime Alley event. You can now queue up for a 1v1 battle with another protector in Bruce Wayne's least favorite locale, but you've only got until 10:00 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 6th...

The Repopulation's dev team has finished the quality assurance process on the game's 15.2.1 build. Why should you care? Well, because it adds some nifty stuff to the sci-fi sandbox including underground cities, a UI revamp, housing rent, and the usual round of tweaks and bug fixes. Nation cities gain access to "an underground space" at level four, as well as...

ArtCraft has posted a Crowfall week-at-a-glance update that contains plenty of interesting nuggets. Chief among them is the reveal of the female Ranger archetype. She's got a wolf pet in the concept art, but the devs say that "it's just a picture," so don't get your hopes up for automatic companion badassery if you roll the Ranger. Elsewhere this week,...

Both raids and strikes lie heavily upon the minds of Destiny's development team as it prepares a number of fixes in the coming Update 1.1.2. The team said that it's aware of some pressing bugs with a couple of the raids and will be fixing the most egregious of these soon. "In particular, we wanted to improve the Atheon and...

Players of Final Fantasy XI are unlikely to be happy about the fact that the game has moved into maintenance mode for the future, with new clients and spinoff titles planned for further development. But it can be helpful to at least understand why the change happened. A translation of producer Akihiko Matsui's answers to fan questions has been...

Interesting things happen when MassivelyOP's MJ and Larry team up in The Elder Scrolls Online. Exploring the justice system was quite the experience last time, and the duo is eager to jump back in for more escapades. But where will their adventures take today? Will Larry be a hunted man again after accosting the village people? Will MJ resist all...

The future looks quite grim for Greed Monger today, as its lead programmer, James Proctor, announced on the game's social media accounts that he is leaving the project and that a planned update is now canceled. His departure means that the game effectively has no dedicated team. Proctor pointed fans to a forum thread on RPG Codex in which he...

My favorite thing about Ascent: The Space Game is its planetary rotation. It's a small thing, granted, but the first time I sat still in my tiny, tin can spacecraft long enough to see Ceres slooooowly spinning through space... well, it was pretty immersive impressive. Ascent, a PvE-only space trading, mining, gas giant skimming, crafting, and combat simulator, is the...

Just because Guild Wars 2 is adding more zones with Heart of Thorns doesn't mean that these maps will be the same-old experiences with a verdant coat of paint. The team said that it's stocking its "jungle playground" with plenty of toys, choices, and experiences that will offer high replayability and player adaptivity. In a new post today, the team...

This guest Soapbox was originally commissioned in 2015 through Massively Overpowered's Kickstarter campaign and is authored by Tyler F.M. Edwards, who blogs at www.superior-realities.com. In 2019, we hired Tyler as a columnist, so this guest-authored piece has been attributed to his byline retroactively. The concept of "stickiness" is always a hot topic in the MMO community -- stickiness being the...