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EVE Evolved: A live event threatens to reshape EVE Online’s map
While EVE Online has always focused on the real stories created by players through player-vs.-player conflict rather than on its NPC storyline, its universe...
Path of Exile’s take on Farmville blooms on June 19 with the Harvest League
After seemingly countless quarterly updates and leagues, you might think Grinding Gear Games would eventually run out of ideas for Path of Exile. Not...
Valorant officially launches with new map, new agent, and a beta of the new Spike Rush mode
Today is the day for another team-based multiplayer FPS to arrive on the scene. This time it's Riot Games' turn on the sub-genre with...
Fight or Kite: Deep-diving Crowfall’s Dregs RvR gameplay
A couple weeks ago I was preoccupied with leveling up my Frostweaver in Crowfall and completely missed out on the Dregs campaign that was...
Betawatch: Torchlight III wraps up its closed testing
So it appears that Torchlight III has finished its round of closed testing! Great! And what happens next for the game? When is the next round...
Wild Terra 2 starts an open test event for all on June 9
The original Wild Terra was reasonably wild, we suppose, but Wild Terra 2 posits a substantially more wild situation than the first one. Still, you may...
Path of Exile patches in a new renderer and shares some Delirium League unique item stats
Grinding Gear Games is hoping to make Path of Exile look pretty and run smoothly at the same time. The most recent patch has...
Kickstarted MMORPG Crowfall moves from pre-alpha to alpha today
Goodbye pre-alpha, hello alpha: ArtCraft is officially pushing Crowfall into the next stage of testing. It hasn't been without its setbacks - MMO vets...
Magic Legends boasts of ‘one of the most powerful, game-changing features’ Cryptic’s ever made
Need a refresher on Magic Legends or want a behind-the-scenes look at how the OARPG is being made? Executive Producer Steve Ricossa penned the...
RuneScape’s Ninjas make several fixes to boss instances and interfaces
Go ninja, go ninja, go! More directly, the Ninja Team of Jagex, which has applied a variety of fixes in RuneScape's most recent patch....
Elite Dangerous plans Fleet Carriers launch for June 9, with bug fixes and mining balances along the way
Elite Dangerous' Fleet Carriers may have been delayed from last year, but the update is on track now: Frontier formalized a June 9th launch...
Torchlight III wraps up its closed beta, will talk about its future this Friday
After a year of traveling through alpha and beta testing -- not to mention downgrading from an MMORPG to an online multiplayer format --...
Betawatch: Ship of Heroes likes Unreal Engine 5, but it doesn’t expect to use it soon
Sometimes, the biggest beta news can be admiring a new feature and then finding out why you're not getting it. Such is the lot...
Realm of the Mad God introduces the Bard class in its latest Unity build
If I were playing a bullet hell dungeon crawling MMO like Realm of the Mad God, I would want to have a support class...
Valorant officially launches on June 2 with a season pass and a new game mode (that’s not deathmatch)
It looks like Riot Games is ready to call beta testing for Valorant just about done. During a Summer Game Fest livestream, the studio...
Black Desert spin-off Shadow Arena has just hopped into Steam early access
If Crucible isn't cutting it for you, Shadow Arena would definitely like to have a go at your time right about now. The Pearl...
Steampunkish Elyon proposes ‘massive’ Korean beta test this summer
If you cast your mind back a couple of years, you might recall that steampunk MMO fans were hanging their hopes on the then-newly...
Crowfall outlines the 11 classes of its current alpha
The classes of Crowfall might certainly sound fantastical -- Champion, Confessor, Duelist -- but at the brass tacks level, they're really just the classic...
Betawatch: Dual Universe could go to consoles – but isn’t planning on it
You'd think an entire piece from the Dual Universe team about how the game wasn't planned for consoles and will still not be going to...
Valorant has so far found and banned over 8,000 cheaters, causing sweet cheater tears to flow
As contentious as Valorant's Vanguard anti-cheat process has been, it appears to be yielding some results. According to a tweet from anti-cheat pipeline designer...
