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Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s Rising Flames
Logging into your Guild Wars 2 account right now will grant you access to an absolute treat in the form of episode 2 of the...
Paladins hits open beta on Steam today – pick up a Cassie key from Hi-Rez and MOP
It's official: Hi-Rez's shooter hybrid Paladins is leaping into open beta on Steam today, complete with Steam achievements!
"Some of the newest features of the Paladins...
Chris Metzen departs Blizzard, World of Warcraft for retirement
Chris Metzen announced this evening that he is leaving Blizzard and "retiring" -- and he says he means it.
Formally Blizzard's Senior Vice President of...
World of Warcraft Legion sells 3.3M copies, hits highest concurrency since Cataclysm
What do you do when you have sworn off bragging about your playerbase size and subscription numbers? You brag about expansion copies sold and...
Smed plans Indiegogo, Twitch stream for pixel-art OARPG Hero’s Song
Back in January, former SOE/Daybreak boss John Smedley revealed the details of his new company, Pixelmage Games, and its first title, a PvE-focused, sandboxy,...
Guild Wars 2 launches Ring of Fire-themed episode September 20
Well, it's not Cantha or Elona, but it's almost as good: Guild Wars 2's next seasonal episode will be set in the Ring of...
PAX West 2016: WoW’s Legion Companion App and Return to Karazhan
During the World of Warcraft panel at PAX West today, Blizzard revealed that it's rolling out a new mobile toy for the game called...
PAX West 2016: The Elder Scrolls Online’s One Tamriel is live on the PTS
During the Elder Scrolls Online panel this afternoon at PAX West, ZeniMax developers fielded a number of questions from the audience centering on what...
EVE Online is getting an optional free-to-play mode
EVE Online is going free-to-play -- kinda. CCP is being careful not to call it that, saying that its plan is "for a new...
Firefall appears to have silently sunsetted (Update: Or maybe not?)
Update, 8:39 p.m. EDT: The game and site are back online now, still with no explanation or clarification from The9 whatsoever. Hopefully it stays up for...
Happy World of Warcraft: Legion launch day and roundup
The time is here. After a few weeks of fighting against demonic invasions, World of Warcraft players can access the Broken Isles and start...
Funcom warns of system-wide forum data breach
A blaze of Twitter messages has just erupted to inform Funcom's community that all of its game forums have been breached by hackers and...
Guild Wars 2 suffers technical difficulties, pushes out gifts following rollback
If you're logging into Guild Wars 2 today, expect a bit of weirdness.
Yesterday's patch caused a soulbinding glitch that took the servers offline and...
Guild Wars 2’s servers suffer rollback, downtime
ArenaNet announced this afternoon that it must roll back Guild Wars 2's servers. Mike O'Brien broke the bad news on the forums:
"This is an...
EVE Evolved: No Man’s Sky vs EVE Online
Like many EVE Online fans, I've spent the past week fully immersed in the procedurally generated universe of No Man's Sky and wondering what its mechanics and...
Gamescom: Elder Scrolls Online on lockboxes, the gold edition, and One Tamriel
A Redditor who attended The Elder Scrolls Online's tavern event at this year's Gamescom snagged over half an hour of shaky-cam footage and a...
Gamescom 2016: WoW Legion’s first patch, Return to Karazhan, will include 5-man Kara
At the Legion Cafe event at Gamescom today, Blizzard confirmed that World of Warcraft: Legion's first patch (7.1) will include an epic five-player dungeon...
Star Citizen’s Sandi Gardiner vacates social media over harassment
Cloud Imperium VP of Marketing Sandi Gardiner, best known to gamers for her role as one of Star Citizen's most recognizable faces thanks to her...
NCsoft Q2 2016: WildStar up, Guild Wars 2 down
NCsoft's second quarter financials are in, and it's pretty good news for MMORPGs on the whole. Operating profit and net income are up quarter-over-quarter and...
Kakao to Black Desert players: Chargebacks have consequences
Kakao is putting its foot down when it comes to Black Desert players' chargebacks -- that is, attempting to reverse payment for a product...