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Riot discloses the drop odds for League of Legends lootboxes
Mentioning lootboxes at this point is a good way to send players into paroxysms of rage regardless of how fair or unfair they are;...
SCUM is coming to Steam in Q2 2018
Remember SCUM? Yes, that's the name of the game. No, it's probably not going to make you feel great about yourself from the name...
Valnir Rok patches in female characters and horses
Girls love horses, right? That's still a gendered stereotype, isn't it? Because the latest patch for Valnir Rok adds both girls and horses to...
The latest World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth build brings even more hints of Mag’har Orcs
We don't yet have all of the allied races promised to us for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth available in the test builds....
Guild Wars 2 previews upcoming PvP/WvW skill splits
A skill is going to have the same general effect in all arenas of Guild Wars 2, but there are a lot of things...
TERA introduces new lootboxes for purchase, and they’re full of money
A lot of games have found ways to play with the idea of buying gold, usually with some form of currency exchange regulated by...
Warframe reverts beam weapons to their older state with extensive rebalancing
Once, beam weapons in Warframe were hitscan weapons that dealt appreciable damage and were accurate to a pinpoint. They had a balance problem, though,...
Neverwinter offers a tour of the Fane of the Night Serpent
Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? Well, because Neverwinter is currently lousy with snakes, that's why. Specifically, the Yuan-ti have a center...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds very slightly changes its paid and free lootbox system
A new patch for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds means new loot crates, and that also means that you have an option for one that you can...
Just Survive patches in construction improvements and looks forward to account-wide progression
Construction has gotten better in Just Survive with the game's most recent patch. For one thing, you can more quickly repair base damage with...
Check out voice recording from behind the scenes of Bless
You are probably aware that when you play an MMO, all of the voice samples you here are not produced in real-time by actors...
Warcraft 3 announces… a new patch!
It seems like just yesterday we were reporting on speculation about a Warcraft 3 remaster, due to the fact that it was in fact...
Fortnite speeds up construction
Building is a big part of Fortnite, and Epic Games has revealed some construction improvements geared to speed things up in both Battle Royale...
EVE Online outlines plans to spin out a new chat system in March
The small portion of EVE Online players who will be heartbroken over the loss of the game's voice chat will really just be riding...
Crowfall delves deeper into crypts with its latest video Q&A
Are you still struggling to wrap your mind around the way that Crowfall's new Crypt system is going to work as character selection? The...
World of Warcraft previews its upcoming Legacy loot mechanics
For all the good that World of Warcraft's level scaling has brought to the game, it has made farming for old appearances slightly more...
Closers unveils its first new character, Nata
It's time for a new member of the team to take the field in Closers, and the first new addition to the game's playable...
Rumors swirl about a Warcraft 3 announcement… like a remaster
If you're looking for the source of the story behind World of Warcraft, you can look no further than Warcraft 3. Most of the...
Path of Exile shows off its new boss fight with Vilenta
With the next major patch (numbered 3.2, for reference) for Path of Exile, players are going to have other things to contend with in...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 158: We are all heroes
Justin and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV, Closers, Guild Wars 2, Trove, LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, SWTOR, Secret World Legends, and Tree of Savior, with mailbag questions on lockboxes without gambling and sunsetting working MMORPGs.