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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...
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...
Medieval Engineers adds multiplayer
Keen Software House has added multiplayer functionality to Medieval Engineers. What's Medieval Engineers? It's the firm's followup to Space Engineers, an enormously successful Minecraft-meets-space-survival...
There’s an ARG going on in Elite: Dangerous right now
Elite: Dangerous players are in the midst of an ARG based around in-game artifacts that were tracked down by a coordinated community effort. Producer...
EverQuest II adds mercenary lockboxes
Even EverQuest II isn't immune to the money siren's call of lockboxes. The latest entry into the pseudo-gambling purchases came this past week with...
Worlds Adrift procedurally generates ‘amazing’ islands
Just because Worlds Adrift's islands will be procedurally generated doesn't mean that they will be dull and featureless. On the contrary, a new dev...
Learn all about LOTRO’s legendary item imbuement system
Lord of the Rings Online's legendary item system has been a point of fierce community debate ever since it arrived way back in the...
LOTRO’s getting new dungeons with the Osgiliath instance cluster
Lord of the Rings Online's Update 16 is heading our way on Monday, May 4th, and with it comes the first new instance cluster...
EVE Online is scrapping its old tutorial on April 28
Say your goodbyes to EVE Online's current tutorial, because it's being completely removed from the game on April 28th in favor of a new system...
World of Warplanes is nixing three-player flights
Wargaming is doing away with three-player premades in its World of Warplanes aerial battler. The firm's latest dev blog says that three-player flights have an...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Stronghold PvP
The PvP team at ArenaNet is steadily gearing up for the release of the Heart of Thorns expansion, with the PvP-inclined among the Guild Wars...
Learn about ship customization and more in today’s ArcheAge livestream
There's lots going on in the world of ArcheAge this week, and most of it is summarized in a Trion website update focused on...
SkySaga explains the tech behind its good looks
SkySaga's developers don't want you to automatically lump their title in with the rest of the voxel crowd based on it looks. A new...
How Crowfall will be built for around $6M
How can Crowfall be made with less than $10 million in this day and age? That's the big question of the day that Executive...
EVE Online re-opens alliance logo submissions
After being placed on hold for further review, the submission process for EVE Online alliance logos is back open and ready for player input....
Get a closer look at Defiance’s Alcatraz
The prison island of Alcatraz is the hot new destination of Defiance players following yesterday's patch. If you're a curious looky loo or a...
Gloria Victis upgrades to Unity 5 engine
Forget what you think you know of Gloria Victis' looks, as the devs announced that they've switched up the game engine to Unity 5....
Flameseeker Chronicles: Four fabulous Guild Wars 2 vistas worth visting
Guild Wars 2 makes me tick because the creatives at ArenaNet have laid such a unique and amazingly vast world at my character's feet, filled with...
GamersFirst is patching APB’s Easter event ‘bad experiences’
GamersFirst has posted a brief blurb on the heels of last Thursday's APB Reloaded patch. The devs are responding to player feedback and, more...
The Repopulation’s next build to feature underground cities, UI revamp, and more
The Repopulation's dev team has finished the quality assurance process on the game's 15.2.1 build. Why should you care? Well, because it adds some nifty...