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Black Desert revealed PAX East party, weekend preview stream, and latest PC update
So what are you doing at 4 a.m. EDT Saturday? Sleeping, I hope. But if not, you'll want to tune in to Black Desert's...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s April Community Day strategy hurts its own goals – and players
Once again, Pokemon GO is marching forward to places its players don't want to go. Niantic, the same company that pivoted commendably during the...
EVE Online begins testing changes to upwell structure defenses and ships, adds a feature preview opt-in function
While EVE Online is continuing to flap excitedly at the upcoming Fanfest event and all of its planned reveals, there are still adjustments to...
CCP Games outlines coming attractions for 2022’s EVE Fanfest in-person event
As EVE Online's Fanfest draws near, we are now at the point when CCP Games is going to drum up all the hype for...
CCP Games walks back EVE Online’s bargegate fiasco, plans ship packs ‘made for new players, by veterans’
The past few days have seen many EVE Online players up in arms over the sale of a mining barge bundle that CCP Games...
Into the Echo to expand pre-alpha in April while the studio hunts for investors
After an understandable delay due to evacuations of some of its developers from Ukraine, Etlok is finally ready to activate Into the Echo's next...
EA cancels its usual E3-adjacent EA Play event altogether
Electronic Arts has long had a "you can't fire me, I quit" attitude toward E3 in general. It doesn't want to have to deal...
Gamescom outlines efforts to be ‘climate neutral’ in 2022 and beyond
Gamescom is, without a doubt, the single largest gaming convention on the planet, which means it also requires massive amounts of energy to operate...
EVE Online begins its PLEX for Good charitable campaign to help Ukraine’s humanitarian crisis
While the ongoing community kerfuffle over EVE Online's decision to sell its players a kitted-out mining ship is still something to bear in mind,...
Skull and Bones begins accepting applications for private testing
Well, shiver me timbers! We were not expecting Ubisoft's multiplayer piratical sandbox Skull and Bones to get to this point, but sure enough, the...
EVE Online player reps to CCP on the mining barge fiasco: ‘Please stop this sale and don’t do it again’
Yesterday, we covered CCP Games' controversial implementation of a pay-to-win Prospector Pack in EVE Online. The $24.99 bundle includes a "ready-to-fly" mining barge that...
MMO Cartographer: Exploring ‘tiny MMO’ Book of Travels
On its website, Might and Delight describes Book of Travels as a "Tiny Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game," but that is an inadequate description of this...
Fallout 76 just dropped a roadmap for the entirety of 2022, including The Pitt this fall
At the tail end of last week, Bethsoft teased Fallout 76's next update, Invaders from Beyond, but as of today it's revealing what it's...
EVE Online previews updates coming to structures, ore compression, and battleships ahead of Fanfest 2022
With the in-person Fanfest of EVE Online inching its way closer, CCP Games is hoping to spin up some hype for both the event...
World of Warcraft Eternity’s End is finally going live February 22
Blizzard has finally put a date on World of Warcraft's 9.2 Eternity's End: February 22nd. The update was originally unveiled back in November, right...
Vague Patch Notes: Looking back on the MassivelyOP magic, seven years in
As of tomorrow, we're seven years out from the launch of this site. This means that we're actually into the point when I've been...
World of Warcraft is finally getting cross-faction dungeons, raids, and rated PvP
So hey, if you're one of the bajillions of World of Warcraft players who've been agitating for Blizzard to nuke the faction divide for...
35 states and the US Justice Department back Epic’s appeal in Epic v. Apple lawsuit
We knew the Epic v. Apple lawsuit wasn't entirely over in spite of the ruling, as both parties planned to appeal, but this latest...
SpatialOS developer Improbable’s polling says 90% of gamers think the metaverse will form in ten years
The joke is that 80% of poll stats are just made up numbers. That could certainly be applied to data released by SpatialOS developer...
GDC’s State of the Game Industry: NFTs, the metaverse, and more than half of game devs want to unionize
Ahead of the annual Game Developers Conference, GDC organizers poll industry workers and release it all in a state-of-the-industry wrapper, which has landed in...
