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The Game Awards 2022: Blue Protocol, Diablo IV, Wayfinder, Nightingale, Dune Awakening
We've updated with all the big news and trailers now - scroll down to the end for the announcements! Original post follows.
Gamers who aren't...
EVE Online celebrates Spanish players with in-game events as Fanfest tickets are nearly sold out
EVE Online has decided to take a few days out of this week to celebrate its Spanish-speaking community and the game's soft-launch of its...
CCP Games has already locked down dates and early details for its EVE Fanfest 2023
We are all a very long way from September 2023, but CCP Games is still eager to tie down that month as the one...
Dune Awakening shares a sizzle reel about its cinematic trailer and another picture of lasguns
Are you ready for some hot and spicy multimedia out of Dune: Awakening? Then feast your eyes on lasguns and a Twitter video, friends....
One Shots: Hamming it up for Halloween
It's that time of year again! That's right, it's National Cat Day (October 29th)! So find the nearest cat, bow deeply to it, and...
Black Desert’s 2022 Calpheon Ball returns December 10 as an in-person event in Los Angeles
There's some pretty big news coming out of Pearl Abyss today: The studio has offered some initial details for Black Desert's 2022 Calpheon Ball,...
The Daily Grind: Are you hoping for ‘market disruption’ in the MMO genre?
Over the summer, a Twitter user replied to one of our Daily Grinds suggesting that a certain MMORPG was poised to "disrupt the MMO...
Final Fantasy XIV confirms Patch 6.25 for October 18, Fan Festival’s return in July 2023
The Live Letter from Final Fantasy XIV was already planning to have lots of information about what's next for adventurers in Eorzea, and it...
Massively Overthinking: Do you take vacation time to play MMOs?
Back when Amazon was busy merging several dozen Lost Ark servers, I saw a comment thread where people were grousing about being locked out...
Overwatch 2 outlines global release timing and a pre-launch checklist as the original shooter goes offline
A new era of Overwatch is just around the corner. The sequel to the hero shooter - or at least its PvP portion -...
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...
E3 2023 will host an industry-facing event on June 13 and a general public convention on June 15
Gamers and game devs all know that the ESA was vowing to bring its E3 event back in June 2023 after the show was...
Raph ‘Designer Dragon’ Koster reminisces on 25 years of Ultima Online
While our own Game Archaeologist columnist Justin offered a retrospective of Ultima Online (and its alt ruleset server New Legacy was delayed into next...
Some Assembly Required: What to expect from Dual Universe’s September 27 wipe and launch
Having trouble logging into Dual Universe? That's because Novaquark shut down its servers on the 22nd. But don't worry, the space sandbox did not...
Global Chat: Torchlight Infinite’s infinite challenges
The upcoming Torchlight Infinite is starting to build some positive buzz for this multiplayer ARPG, and Battle Stance was on the scene to check...
Final Fantasy XIV explains its Savage fight difficulty balancing in the wake of patch 6.21
When patch 6.21 arrived this week for Final Fantasy XIV, it included a pretty significant change in that it dropped the health of the...
Dune Awakening gives curious players weekly concept art sneak peeks on its website
If you've been hungry for more details about Dune: Awakening after its Gamescom reveal, you're unfortunately going to have to wait for something more...
The Game Archaeologist: How Ultima Online got made
You know how there’s that yokel in every global chat channel that likes to troll players by claiming that World of Warcraft was the...
Multiplayer survival sandbox Earth: Revival plans closed beta this weekend
If you just can't get enough survival sandbox, Chinese studio Nuverse has another one for you to die in. It's called Earth: Revival, and...
