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EVE Evolved: How much trust is too much in EVE Online?
Of all the headlines to come out of EVE Online over the years, the biggest and most far-reaching have been the stories of massive thefts...
Betawatch: Dark and Light enters closed testing (June 23, 2017)
One game enters the list and another leaves. Dark and Light has started its closed testing, although there's a very small number of people...
The Stream Team: Launching into Master X Master
MxM has officially launched, and Massively OP's MJ is diving back into the fray! Of course, now that all alphas and betas are over,...
Ship of Heroes fires up a red-hot powerset
Meanwhile, in the deep void of space, a fire has broken out on a starship. Jets of flame and a rain of red-hot meteors...
Crowfall illuminates racial bonuses and abilities in Q&A
There's no doubt that a lot has been happening recently with Crowfall's class and race structure, particularly following following May's announcement that the team...
Amazon’s Breakaway revamps warriors, confirms more upgrades on the way
Last September, the internet was buzzing about Amazon Game Studios' big reveals, including Breakaway, which the company teased for weeks ahead of time. It...
EVE Online calls upon pilots to fight a rogue swarm
If you haven't heard from one of your friends who plays EVE Online lately, it might be because he or she is in the...
Mark Kern will share Em-8ER’s design vision – for a price
Em-8ER, Mark Kern's attempt at subverting game naming conventions (and also something about giant mechs), is launching its next limited fundraiser on Monday to...
E3 2017: Hands-on with Sea of Thieves’ multiplayer ship crewing
As I mentioned in MassivelyOP's Best of E3 Overthinking article, I came away from this year's con thinking Sea of Thieves was the best playable...
Betawatch: E3 2017 brings launch dates, new titles, and delays (June 16, 2017)
Oh, E3, always a magical time full of promises when some aren't meant to be kept, some are meant to be kept but won't...
Valiance Online hints that alpha test could be near
"As a superhero MMORPG developer, what would you require before officially launching your alpha build?"
This intriguing question was presented to the Valiance Online community...
E3 2017: Sea of Thieves launches a banana meme
How do you eat a banana?
Well, you're wrong -- at least according to Sea of Thieves. The seafaring game's E3 trailer showed a brief...
Pantheon catches fans up on its 2017 progress
Feel like you're a little behind on what's being done over at Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen? The hardcore MMORPG team put together a...
E3 2017: Dauntless founder’s alpha begins August 18
At E3 today, Phoenix Labs announced that Dauntless' founder's alpha will begin on August 18th, not coincidentally the same day the NDA drops and...
E3 2017: Sea of Thieves delays release to early 2018
While it should come as no shock that Sea of Thieves was going to fail to make its projected spring 2017 release window, especially...
Dual Universe on playtesting, the planetary map, and summer cons
Kickstarted indie sci-fi sandbox Dual Universe has posted its monthly update this week with a meaty dev vlog from Novaquark's JC Baillie.
Baillie says that...
The Game Archaeologist: Phantasy Star Online
The Dreamcast was a brief but shining aberration in the gaming world. Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as...
Project Gorgon improves storage and guild systems
One complaints that Project Gorgon testers have expressed during the alpha is that inventory and storage is both limiting and cluttered. The small dev...
Camelot Unchained is chasing ‘a game to be proud of, not a minimum viable product’
Is beta one here yet? Nooooope. But Camelot Unchained continues barreling down the track toward it, as outlined in its latest weekly update. City State's...
Betawatch: Secret World Legends opens the beta doors (June 9, 2017)
If you're an active player of The Secret World, you can get into the Secret World Legends beta at this point. Really, you can!...