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PlanetSide 2 hosts Nanite of the Living Dead event for Halloween
You can travel to another world, but even in PlanetSide 2 the dead of Halloween will chase you. Yes, it's time to celebrate the...
Lineage II Classic increases drop rates across the board
The design of Lineage II Classic is leaning all in for its hardcore designation, but there's a different between "hardcore" and "outright frustrating." So...
Rend updates its engine and adjusts balance across the board
The biggest technical change with Rend's latest patch is upgrading its version of the Unreal Engine to 4.20. That is a technical improvement, but...
West Battle Royale is a battle royale game in the wild west, quelle surprise
Yes, you read it right. West Battle Royale is exactly what it sounds like. It is a battle royale game, as the name says,...
Aion NA outlines its item changes arriving with Awakened Legacy on October 24
The next major update for Aion in North America is overhauling item progression and grades, and as a result players are going to get...
Crowfall offers a not-so-spooky look at the fate of your body when you die
So Crowfall offers you a bit of a good news/bad news scenario right from the start. The bad news? You are dead at the...
Fortnite’s latest patch adds in an epic dance fight
The newest limited-time mode in Fortnite does not allow you to do the safety dance. In fact, you will be explicitly doing the unsafety...
New partnership for CD Projekt Red hints that Cyberpunk 2077’s multiplayer may still be on the table
We learned a lot about Cyberpunk 2077 back in June, but one of the things we learned was that the multiplayer components discussed in...
Mad World shows off some gameplay videos that do, in fact, involve people running in circles
All around me are computer platforms,
Some are Windows, some are Android,
I would like to play the same game on them,
This game does it, thanks...
Albion Online’s next patch places a cooldown on shifting allegiances
Guild vs. guild combat is important to the core of Albion Online, but it kind of falls apart if everyone is just grabbing everything...
Taiwan has been banned from the Hearthstone Global Games due to cheating
Let's talk about stream sniping, shall we? As much as everyone would like for Hearthstone matches to be perfectly simultaneous around the world, it...
MapleStory 2 prepares for its upcoming launch with a new class and a new area
MapleStory 2 has launched its headstart, but it hasn't actually launched yet. And unlike many games, it intends to make its actual launch a...
Dataminers dig up EVE Online’s Chinese server elements: RMT interfaces and prison sentences
Ah, datamining, the best way to guess about what's coming to EVE Online in future patches based on incomplete evidence! (And every other game,...
Fortnite patches in a chilly new panel and the Soaring 50s limited-time mode
The latest Fortnite patch is here, and it invites you to chill out. We're sorry, there's legally no better way to discuss the inclusion...
Overwatch teases its upcoming LEGO sets, players decry Pharah’s nerfs
She's weathered a lot of updates without being significantly changed, but Pharah is finally getting some big changes with the next Overwatch patch... and...
Dungeons & Dragons Online adds wood elves and cloaks with today’s update 40
Look out, Dungeons & Dragons Online players, there's some sort of fluttering piece of fabric chasing after you! We're just kidding, of course. It's...
Aion shows off the new area of Lakrum arriving in Awakened Legacy
The next major adventure in Aion will bring players to Lakrum, a heretofore undiscovered land that also happens to be hosting sites of great...
Anthem will have matchmaking for raids but no loot trading
It's hard not to compare Anthem to Destiny 2 just by the nature of what both games are trying to be. More to the...
City of Titans is still on track for Issue 0 by the end of the year
The fact that City of Titans is still planning to have "issue zero" playable for backers by the end of the year is indisputably...
MapleStory 2 prepares for its headstart with a massive patch
The headstart period for MapleStory 2 is arriving today, and that means players are being treated to a nice big patch reflecting the fact...
