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GDC 2018: Making sense of battle royale MMO Mavericks with Automaton Games

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So as you may know, I'm an MMORPG guy - not really a battle royale guy. There are some cool ideas for people who like...

Bless says its excessive attention to environmental detail is in the service of immersion

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With Bless Online due out on western shores this coming May, players who've never paid much attention to this Korean-born MMO may be wondering...

MMO Mechanics: The Fair Play Alliance and mechanising fairness

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News of over 30 gaming companies taking a united stand against unfairness and toxicity in online game communities sprung out of GDC 2018 a...

Game industry unionization: Game Workers Unite, IGDA, and GDC

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Earlier this week, we covered the emerging Game Workers Unite organization, something many folks in the games industry considered tantamount to unionization, which multiple...

Shroud of the Avatar: Partying with Portalarium, countering pay-to-win, and the state of the game

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The day is finally arriving: Shroud of the Avatar is formally launching next week. It's been a long journey. The path to this new old-school...

Bless Online interview: On soft launch, monetization, classes – and no lockboxes

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Earlier today, we posted up Bless Online's new trailer and big news: That's it's launching on Steam early access as a buy-to-play title this coming...

Interview: ArcheAge 4.5 Legends Return launches April 5th with dragon taming and fresh start servers

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If I were to tell you that ArcheAge's next big update is launching next month, you'd tell me that it's too soon. And we'd...

Guild Chat Special Edition: Interviewing Guild Wars 2 guild POOF

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Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column through which we examine all things guild-related and solve problems faced by fellow members of the Massively...
Balance that mine.

Path of Exile’s Bestiary expansion launches today, boasting 3.5M global players

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Path of Exile's 3.2.0 update, Bestiary, goes live on PC this afternoon with Xbox One to follow eventually; patching got underway a few hours...

Cyberpunk 2077 prepares fans for a ‘blockbuster’ franchise

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Fans of CD Projekt Red and its games are no doubt starving for any morsel of information about the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077. And while...

Interviewing an Asheron’s Call Shard Slayer: On griefing, doxxing, losing mates, and winning MMOs

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Last month, I put together an article and pair of videos discussing Asheron's Call's Shard of the Herald event to celebrate the game's first deathiverary....
Seriously, cool it.

Warcraft movie director says the production experience was ‘traumatic’

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During an interview with SyFy about his upcoming movie, Duncan Jones dishes on his experience directing the 2016 Warcraft film based in the universe...

Colony sim Seed aims to simulate life whether you’re logged in or not

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What do you get when you mash up Rimworld, The Sims, and EVE Online? Probably a big mess, but adjacent to that mess somewhere...

RIFT Prime progression server launches March 7, with pack preorders available now

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Can you believe RIFT's been around for almost seven years? Neither can we. Trion is celebrating by releasing the long-awaited progression server, RIFT Prime,...

Conan Exiles isn’t going the lockbox and battle royale route – for now

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Are you a little sick and tired of lockboxes everywhere and all of these games desperately trying to jump onto the battle royale bandwagon?...

EVE Evolved: Solving EVE Online’s botting problem

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Practically every MMO on the market today has had to contend with botting and the range of issues that come with it, and EVE Online...

Path of Exile: Gotta catch ’em all in the new Bestiary League and update 3.2.0, coming March 2

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With a new Path of Exile challenge league every three months, you might wonder whether Grinding Gear Games can keep coming up with new themes...
Three-point landing! Sort of.

Bless Online looks ahead to new races, housing, and a possible console edition

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Six months. Six months is the countdown timer from the start of Bless Online's early access to the game's official launch, according to developer...

Dauntless argues ‘bespoke purchases’ are replacing the lockbox model

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It might be tempting to think that the industry is doomed and that no studio will ever be able to ignore the siren song...

Camelot Unchained’s beta will launch on the 4th of July; we interview Mark Jacobs

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You can go ahead and order extra sparklers because you're going to need 'em this July 4th. That's the auspicious day that Camelot Unchained's...

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