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Citadel: Forged With Fire lets you bring your tamed creatures with you through fast travel
Fast travel is important with Citadel: Forged With Fire, but it had an obnoxious and somewhat weird little quirk: Hopping through a portal wouldn't...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth turns on Dark Iron Dwarves and Mag’har for character testing
The first batch of the second wave of allied races are available for testing now on World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth's alpha test....
Final Fantasy XIV releases its next patch site and its Live Letter digest
Players are crucial to the reconstruction of Doma in Final Fantasy XIV, so it's only right that the next leg of the game's main...
OrbusVR adds in new pet breeding and gear combination
In the real world, walking up to someone and asking if you can put your dragons together will probably get you arrested. In OrbusVR,...
Revelation Online invites you to battle for glory in its new colosseum
It was teased, but now it's truly here. Revelation Online is introducing the colosseum, and its world will never be the same. Specifically, it...
Fortnite brings out a newer, better 50v50 battle mode
People liked the 50v50 mode in Fortnite, but it had some issues. Fortunately, it was only a limited-time mode, so the developers could take...
The Daily Grind: How much time do your regular MMO tasks take up?
MMOs are games of repeated content. You log in and do some things today, then in all likelihood log in to do several of...
Star Trek Online opens up its expansion bundle packages for Victory is Life
If you've been through prior expansion launches for Star Trek Online, you know that the expansion launch is almost always accompanied by big packs...
Monster Hunter World is patching in a new hunt against Kulve Taroth
Most games could not get away with a patch that adds literally one monster. "That isn't enough of a patch," players would say. But...
TERA delivers impressive new character abilities with the Godsfall patch
The latest update for TERA on PC brings characters to new heights of power. Not just because you're acquiring all sorts of commendations and...
Radical Heights teases female characters and jumping through windows
There's still plenty of stuff going on in the development of Radical Heights, and Cliff Bleszinski is showing it off on Twitter. What sort...
Bless Online details the origin and reasons behind its faction conflict
There are two factions in Bless Online, so you can be sure that both factions want to make sure that the other faction no...
Villagers & Heroes adds in new village options with the Wellspring expansion on May 14
The heart of gameplay in cross-platform MMORPGÂ Villagers & Heroes is all about villages, so anything that expands your options for villages is going to...
MechWarrior Online adds the Solaris arena with its newest patch
Unlike the usual battles in MechWarrior Online that are part of savage and cruel wars, the battles in the newly added Solaris arena are...
Hearthstone’s newest expansion has a new card that’s causing balance issues… with animations
When a new expansion arrives in Hearthstone, there will be balance issues. That's almost inevitable; you know it's going to happen, it's part of...
Closers invites players to take part in new challenges at the planar gate
If you've got a need for some new challenges in Closers, possibly of the planar variety, you'll get plenty out of the new Planar...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds adds map changes and red zone shrinkage
Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene does not have kind words for people who dislike the red zone in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. In his own words, people who...
The Repopulation previews more of its delayed patch
The next big update for The Repopulation has not arrived just yet. It's the same reason as before; Idea Fabrik wants to use the...
The Daily Grind: How diligent are you about making money in an MMO?
No one believes me when I say that I'm bad about making money in my main games. It's true, though; compared to the people...
Final Fantasy XIV confirms its next major patch in late May
If you were watching the most recent Final Fantasy XIV live letter, we can only hope you speak Japanese. It would be pretty hard...
