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Tree of Savior lands on Steam Greenlight
Will Tree of Savior get the thumbs-up from the gaming community? That's the big question now that the Korean title has landed on Steam...
ARK: Survival Evolved strands you on an island of dinosaurs
Do you have a weirdly shaped hole in your life that can be filled only by killing and riding dinosaurs (not necessarily in that...
Final Fantasy XIV is coming to Korea, keeping its subscription
Final Fantasy XIV has been pleasing MMO audiences around the globe for nearly two years now. Except for those unfortunate South Korean franchise fans...
MapleStory 2 ends Korean CBT, eyes July open beta
Expect to hear a lot more about MapleStory 2 now that the game has wrapped up with its Korean closed beta test cycle. Steparu.com...
Black Desert enters Japanese open beta, gets live-action trailer
What do live-action sword-wielding Japanese schoolgirls have to do with Black Desert? Hell if I know, but they're front and center in a new...
MMO Mechanics: Three favourite action combat systems
Virtually every MMO contains dangerous places that are filled with other players or NPCs that will attack characters on site, and many also feature...
Make My MMO: May 9, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we learned everything we ever wanted to know about Star Citizen's first person shooter module, plus a bit more....
Betawatch: May 8th, 2015
This week, Landmark was consumed in a fiery explosion, by which we of course mean that it had a big old wipe. But it's...
Elite’s Mac client launches May 12, Powerplay beta on May 20
This week's Elite: Dangerous newsletter covers quite a bit of ground. Firstly, the game's Mac client will launch on May 12th. Mac and PC...
Echo of Soul trailer puts the spotlight on PvP
Don't worry, PvP people -- Echo of Soul isn't going to leave you high and dry. The now-in-closed-beta Korean MMO has released a new video...
Guild Wars 2 initially aims for a small desert borderlands WvW test
Even as Guild Wars 2 players are diligently farming zones in the hopes of obtaining a Heart of Thorns PvE beta key, ArenaNet is...
Why Eternal Crusade can’t do a global megaserver
The dream to create a PvP-centric game on a single global megaserver might be just that -- a dream.
Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade Senior Producer...
Talking with Trion about the future of Trove
If you dismissed Trove early on as an insignificant game or a thinly veiled Minecraft clone, then it might be time to take a...
Land of Britain creates card game to fund the MMO
Land of Britain may be a long way off from launch, but that hasn't stopped Potato Killer Studios for developing a spin-off online card...
Blizzard still succeeding despite World of Warcraft slide
There's no doubt that Blizzard took a mighty hit this past quarter as it lost three million World of Warcraft subscribers in the post-expansion,...
How Skyforge’s invasion system works
The world of Skyforge does not sound like a fun place to live. In addition to everything else that people have to deal with...
Skyforge boasts big beta numbers
With the first two Skyforge closed beta tests out of the way and the third one currently running, it's of course time for The...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking Guild Wars 2’s beta drop RNG
Never before have I seen Guild Wars 2's Dry Top and the Silverwastes hive with such activity as we've seen this week. In case...
Plan out your Guild Wars 2 specializations with this tool
One of the big changes coming with Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns is the revamp of the trait system into the new specializations....
Everything you need to know about Crowfall’s combat testing
As nifty as Crowfall's mechanical goals are, they're not going to help the game much in the long run if the fundamental combat engine...
