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Neverwinter disables promotional codes following exploits
Last week, the Neverwinter team distributed a little bonus code via email to player accounts in celebration of the Elemental Evil update -- just...
Need for Speed World is shutting down on July 14th
Need for Speed World has entered its final lap. After five years of operation, the game is shutting down on July 14th, with purchases...
How to unlock your World of Warcraft Menagerie
There's a feature sitting right in your Garrison in World of Warcraft that you might have barely used, but it's something that pet battle...
Path of Exile adds Golems and Warcries in Awakening
Path of Exile's next major update, The Awakening, is introducing not one, not three, but two new types of skills to the game. There...
Marvel Heroes puts heroes and costumes on sale for tax season
Wednesday was tax day for people in the United States, a day usually accompanied by a great deal of eye-rolling and tooth-gnashing and money...
Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward update: Job and racial lore
The official teaser site for Final Fantasy XIV's first expansion, Heavensward, has gotten a big update today. If you've been sitting on the edge...
Guild Wars 2 explains the philosophy of Masteries
Players are not getting a level cap bump with Heart of Thorns; the apex of power in Guild Wars 2 will remain Level 80....
Grand Chase shuts down but offers fans a tribute post
There are some games you realize had a long run only after you say goodbye to them. Grand Chase might not have been one...
WildStar is now on clearance at Best Buy
So... you all remember how yesterday saw WildStar boxes being yanked in Australia, combined with that promotion encouraging players to buy more boxes of...
The Elder Scrolls Online’s Welcome Back Weekend starts today
Were you a beta tester on The Elder Scrolls Online but declined to purchase the game? Would you like to see what the game...
The Secret World kicks off a powerful weekend early
The Secret World is kicking off a weekend of power early. What makes this weekend worthy of the nickname of "Power Weekend," exactly? Just...
Trion snaps up Linda ‘Brasse’ Carlson
Nothing tells your player community that the transition to a new corporate structure will be totally fine like firing a pillar of community interaction,...
Heroes & Generals update adds Forward Airfield map
Heroes & Generals has Utz! No, not the potato chips. It's a patch named Utz, after General Willibald Utz of the German forces, and...
WildStar deep-dives in the Bay of Betrayal
The Bay of Betrayal is another piece of content being added in WildStar's next patch, and it adds in a few more new ideas...
Wurm launches new Elevation server
The first iteration of Wurm Online's Elevation server had a problem according to the players: the map. People just did not like that map....
World of Warcraft adds retro ‘timewalking’ dungeons
There's no reason for you to go back to older dungeons in World of Warcraft unless you particularly like the look of something that...
Rumor: WildStar box recall and promo might herald free-to-play
The last time the retailer yanked boxes of a game from the shelves and returned them to the distributors, it was The Elder Scrolls...
Black Desert adjusts for ‘casual lite’ Korean market
Every game changes during testing, but Black Desert seems to have changed even more significantly compared to its original vision from the fan standpoint. One...
Salem isn’t dead! It’s launching June 17th
Salem might have slipped off of your radar over the past few years. It's a permadeath, open-PvP sandbox that fell into the perpetual beta trap....
Guild Wars 2’s Stronghold public beta is today; here’s a guide
You can play Guild Wars 2's upcoming expansion PvP mode right now! The Stronghold public beta is today! And then it closes up shop...