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Global Chat: Landing boots on WoW Classic’s Wrath shores
With WoW Classic's Wrath expansion officially out, plenty of veterans of the Northrend Wars of '08 returned for another tour of duty. Among these...
Betawatch: Embers Adrift is launching at last
Congratulations, Embers Adrift: Today we bid farewell to your place on our list! All right, yes, technically the game's actual launch is tomorrow and...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen discusses its latest pre-alpha, tours Sevil Manor and the updated Wellpond
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen made a lot of noise about the fact that pre-alpha testing came back at the beginning of this month,...
Embers Adrift wraps up beta and starts launch rollout
With the beta test behind it, Embers Adrift is full steam ahead for launch. And, in fact, some backers are already in the game...
Here’s how to join in on Spellcraft’s next alpha preview event
Like many Guild Wars fans, we've had our eye on One More Game for a couple of years now, given that it was founded...
After weeks of teasing, the City of Heroes SEGS Engine project has released its ‘very alpha’ build
Over the past while we've been covering the progress of the Super Entity Game Server (SEGS) Engine, a fan-run project that's trying to rewrite...
Legends of Aria’s blockchain mess gets a new name – BRITARIA – as its token sinks
The crypto shenanigans around Legends of Aria just keep getting weirder.
Readers will recall that Legends of Aria, Kickstarted by MMO players as Shards Online,...
Stick and Rudder: Everything we learned from Star Citizen’s CitizenCon 2022 presentations
I've lost five hours so you don't have to.
This year's CitizenCon event for Star Citizen was definitely something, and while a great deal of...
Betawatch: Star Citizen’s leaked footage and whale stuffies
Oh, Star Citizen, I would facetiously say that you should never change but that would imply there was a thin chance of that ever...
Supposed Squadron 42 sizzle reel from this year’s CitizenCon starts spreading across the internet
Cloud Imperium has unsurprisingly been making a lot of hay about this weekend's CitizenCon event for Star Citizen and Squadron 42, but it looks...
Star Citizen reels back publication of digital magazine and gives out huggable ships to subscribers
If you prefer to get your Star Citizen information through the Jump Point e-zine, then the latest issue has some bad news. The opening...
Past Fate adds character saves and toughens combat but delays early access
The last time we checked in with the gritty Past Fate, the indie MMO was entering into its open alpha test. The test, which...
Ashes of Creation shares a video preview of alpha two’s updated ranged attacks
Galaxy brains know that taking out an enemy from a distance - ideally without being noticed first - is the way to go. For...
Star Citizen talks NPCs and AI, gifts party whales to backers ahead of CitizenCon
NPCs are an important part of making any game feel lived-in and alive, and powering that AI behavior is a big task for Star...
Betawatch: World of Warcraft: Dragonflight sets its sights on November 28
If it's very flappy but it isn't a bird and it's very scaly but it isn't a lizard, what is it? Why, it's a...
WoW Factor: Updating our World of Warcraft expansion data set with the Dragonflight release date
Aw yeah, who likes math? I like math. I really like math, and you all know it, and you have to consistently sit there...
Star Citizen follows up on alpha 3.18 feature developments as the build heads towards a November release
Alpha 3.18 has been the talk of Star Citizen's summer series of Inside Star Citizen videos, but now that Cloud Imperium is wrapping up...
Ravendawn has a blockchain-linked version of itself that is now called RavenQuest
Regular readers are likely familiar with Ravendawn, the Open Tibia-built sandbox MMORPG that first unveiled itself in 2021 and more recently entered into closed...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen brings back pre-alpha sessions starting October 1
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is looking back at the year that was and ahead to the future in this month's newsletter, starting with...
MMO sandbox BitCraft makes exploring – and walking – far more satisfying
Even though BitCraft is still in pre-alpha, that doesn't mean its world is devoid of meaning and content. The studio behind the procedurally generated...
