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Star Wars: The Old Republic announces Onslaught expansion arriving in September
It's time to get back to the faction war in Star Wars: The Old Republic this September.
As announced at this weekend's SWTOR Chicago Celebration...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: TERA Origin, Astaria, NosTale, and Veloren
Welcome back to another brief roundup of MMOs and other online games you’ve (probably) never heard of!
Let's kick off our roundup with something for Japan...
Betawatch: The Cycle kicks off a weekly playtest cadence
Technical alpha testing for The Cycle has reached a conclusion, and that means that the developers are moving into the next phase of development...
Brave the Sunken City to confront a Great Old One in Conan Exiles’s latest update
Eldritch horror appears to be the flavor du jour in the latest test server update to Conan Exiles, which has opened up the gates...
Champions Online kicks off a leveling challenge and ushers in some gigantic monsters
How quickly do you think you can get a character to level 40 in Champions Online? The developers are challenging you to hit that...
Blizzard says negative fan feedback won’t divert the course of its storytelling in World of Warcraft
Sometimes a statement can be both the right and wrong thing to say at the same time, and if you're thinking that sounds like...
The Division 2 spots and patches out a homophobic slur hidden in in-game graffiti
The thing about making a large game with lots of moving parts is, well, sometimes you wind up signing off on something you don't...
World of Warcraft details the new zones and new Heart of Azeroth upgrades for patch 8.2, Rise of Azshara
It's almost time for players to start testing World of Warcraft's patch 8.2, the Rise of Azshara. But you won't be going into testing...
Final Fantasy XIV updates the Shadowbringers and Final Fantasy XV crossover sites
Darkness is approaching swiftly in Final Fantasy XIV, as is a sweet new car. The car is approaching more swiftly. Yes, the special sites...
Fallout 76 previews the Burrows and the new in-game camera
It's taken a little while, but Fallout 76 is getting that staple of video games, the sewer level. Yes, that's the core of what's...
World of Warcraft previews the Crucible of Storms raid ahead of its release next week
Something sinister stirs beneath the Shrine of the Storm, and in World of Warcraft's upcoming Crucible of Storms raid, it will be up to...
Monster Hunter Online is sunsetting in China at the end of this year
Bad news for the Chinese hunters of Monster Hunter Online: Tencent has announced that the game will be shutting down at the end of...
Fallout 76’s latest Wild Appalachia patch is live now
It's time for players to take on new quests in Fallout 76 with the new Wild Appalachia update, which puts a new quest line...
Daybreak devs address the Z1 Battle Royale turmoil, vow ‘minimal disruption’
It's been a rocky week for Z1 Battle Royale, as developer NantG laid off a number of its staff before announcing that it was...
Sea of Thieves on transitioning a live service, plus the Arena mode reveal
You know what's wild? When players buy an online game, they want stuff to do in that game. Not just one or two things...
Blade & Soul’s Legends Reborn is live today as NCsoft merges western servers down to two
It's time to be legendary in Blade and Soul, or at least adjacent to the rebirth of legends. Or something like that, as the...
Neowiz’s Bless studio is dissolving and merging back into Neowiz
It looks like Neowiz Bless Studio -- developer of Bless Online, if that wasn't immediately obvious -- is returning to the mothership, so to...
EVE Online dials back repairs and rebalances capital and subcapital ships with its newest patch
The most recent patch to EVE Online is all about balance, and part of that balance is about reducing the effectiveness of repairs. Players...
Saturday Night Live takes a jab at The Division 2’s love of talking at you
Sometimes you just can't get an NPC to shut up in a video game. Sometimes you can't get multiple NPCs to shut up. And...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 215: Anthem exposed
Justin and Bree discuss Anthem and BioWare, Guild Wars 2, DCUO, RIFT, Albion, DDO, Dragon Quest X, and Black Desert, plus a mailbag topic on event fatigue in MMOs.
