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Moonlight Blade will finally hit open beta in Korea in January
Doesn't it seem as if we've been watching Tencent's wuxia MMO Moonlight Blade for half of forever? Keep watching, but maybe watch a little...
Life is Feudal: MMO counts ‘tens of thousands’ of players in open beta
So how's the Life is Feudal MMO doing since it hit open beta a few weeks ago? The login issues and emergency game wipe...
Camelot Unchained fleshes out books, clothes, and the new Dragonfang scenario
They aren't dressing it up with "burndown" hoopla, but City State Entertainment's devs are in just that kind of check-it-off testing mode with Camelot...
Betawatch: There’s factions in them there hills of Wild West Online (December 8, 2017)
Let's start with something that you probably already ascertained: Wild West Online is being delayed. It delayed its early access alpha, and that delay...
Guardians of Ember needs your help to QA test its live update
Well, here's a weird situation to be in as both a game and a player of said game. Guardians of Ember pushed out a...
WoW Factor: Reconsidering the next few months of World of Warcraft
There's a lot of information coming out about patch 7.3.5 at this point. Not everything, of course, and a lot of it is based...
Sea of Thieves announces March launch date for PC and Xbox One
Well this is a bit of welcome news before the year rounds out! Rare finally announced a launch date for Sea of Thieves: March...
Escape from Tarkov preps massive New Year’s stress test ahead of 2018 open beta
Did you think Christmas came too early this year? One of my hobbies was already rolling out Valentine's Day hoopla in August, so I...
MU Online activates exclusive server while MU Legend hauls out the PvP
Here's a two-for-one update on what's going on with the MU universe of games. First up is MU Online, which just activated a new...
Dragon’s Prophet sequel Savage Hunt is supposed to launch tomorrow
While Dragon's Prophet took a stiff nosedive in North America and was ultimately shuttered by Daybreak in 2015, the dragon taming MMO didn't die...
Warframe on how studios should ‘learn to fight superficial microtransaction integration’
Warframe has become aggressively popular according to Digital Extremes' own metrics, and our own readers back that up. Part of the reason is the...
Monster Hunter World’s first console beta event is slated for this weekend
You have nothing to do but play video games this weekend, right? No crushing holiday shopping you should be getting a jump on? Great...
The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
Betawatch: Star Citizen sells land… in space! (December 1, 2017)
Selling spaceships that don't exist yet? That is so 2016. The new thing for Star Citizen is selling land that doesn't exist yet, which...
DayZ finally makes hard plans to leave early access and launch (beta) next year
Remember like 50 million years ago when DayZ was young, Dean Hall was at the top of everybody's interview list, and nobody realized the...
Camelot Unchained hypes Saturday Night Sieges, promises big announcements next month
Settle in, folks, because it's Camelot Unchained monthly newsletter day -- and that means plenty of good reading for those excited about this RvR...
EA caught in lie over Star Wars Battlefront II customization, brings lootbox madness to UFC 3
Among the controversy of EA's pay-to-win lockboxes in Star Wars Battlefront II emerges a rather reasonable question: Why didn't the studio create and use...
Crowfall retires pledge packages in favor of pre-orders, partners with AbleGamers
Before we get to talking about ways Crowfall is trying to make money, here is something it's giving away for free: four brand-new Patch...
Ship of Heroes readies combat alpha, shows off a massive raid test
It's a hundred identical superheroes in hot pants facing off against a giant robot, and that robot does not stand a chance.
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Slay-to-win: Massively OP’s hands-on with the Dauntless closed beta
The end of September marked a major milestone for Dauntless, the upcoming monster-slaying action-MMORPG from indie developer Phoenix Labs, as it officially concluded its...