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The Stream Team: Warframe’s The Sacrifice
Warframe's next big story quest is facing Massively OP's MJ, and she's ready to take on the challenge. What she learns in The Sacrifice...
World of Warships offers free premium play, World of Warcraft doubles experience during the outbreak
If you're not used to being home a lot, you're probably a little twitchy right now and angling for something to do. Fear not:...
Co-op RPG Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff is too much stuff for you to handle
Besides having a name that is giving our editor conniptions, Swords 'n Magic and Stuff is charming fans into opening their wallets for this...
Overwatch tests Echo while Heroes of the Storm preps ancient Greece event
It's been a homecoming long in the making, but finally Echo is arriving in Overwatch. The game's 32nd hero is currently on the test...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Avorion, Naïca, Pocket Mortys, Mighty Party, Neopets, Uncharted Waters Online, and Wolf Team
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of -- or have totally forgotten about until now! We'll...
More and more MMOs are offering sales and events during the coronavirus pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, MMOs and other MMO-adjacent games and studios continue to react, bringing their staffs home and offering bonuses...
Fortnite’s latest update adds helicopters and a Spy Games LTM
There's been an update to Fortnite this week and it's brought with it a variety of updates and new features including the addition of...
Overwatch drops origin story video for its next playable hero, Echo
Blizzard's been teasing a new Overwatch character for a while now - in fact, we first heard of this one way back in 2018,...
Perfect Ten: Original MMOs that never came to be
"What could have been" is a path that I travel frequently, especially when I write The Game Archaeologist column. It genuinely haunts me that...
Choose My Adventure: The end of the breadcrumb trail in Albion Online
Well, that didn’t take long.
This week was all about following the rest of the breadcrumb trail in Albion Online to see where it led,...
Warframe showcases Titania Prime, modular Archwings, and Operation: Scarlet Spear gameplay
Another devstream from the folks at Warframe is in the books, and it's offering a variety of reveals as per usual. This latest broadcast...
Steam hits a new peak of 20 million concurrent users thanks to quarantines and social distancing
It's very likely that global quarantines caused by the novel coronavirus have helped matters, but regardless of the reason, Steam concurrency numbers hit a...
The MOP Up: Dark Age of Camelot widens its F2P doorway
St. Patty's day is alive and kicking in Dark Age of Camelot through next Wednesday, but the big news here is that Broadsword is...
The Trials of Osiris have officially begun in Destiny 2’s Season of the Worthy
The much-loved and highly anticipated Trials of Osiris mode finally kicked off in Destiny 2 this past Friday, bringing on another activity for players...
Warframe studio Digital Extremes cancels in-person TennoCon 2020, turns it fully online
Another MMO-adjacent gaming event has now been canceled in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic. "TennoCon is going fully digital!" Warframe studio Digital Extremes announced...
Overwatch brings the Archives out again with new challenges and rewards
It's going to be a while before the co-op PvE of Overwatch 2 is playable, but there are still some good old-fashioned Overwatch PvE events, aren't...
Blizzard roundup: Michael Chu leaves Overwatch, Acti-Blizz gets a new COO, and WoW Classic drops a banhammer
Blizzard's been on a tear this week with staffing shifts and patches and cancellations, so let's dig in. First, probably the saddest part of...
Coronavirus roundup: Virtual GDC, Overwatch League suspended, Crowfall and Funcom work-from-home
As the novel coronavirus pandemic's impact is felt across the globe, shutting down everything from international travel to the NBA to markets, it continues...
Desert Arena: First impressions of Shadow Arena, the Diet Black Desert of battle royales
Did someone just cast Arcane Echo? Because this'll be our second piece on Shadow Arena this week, following its deep-dive by our PvP columnist...
The MOP Up: Fortnite’s players are spending more money than ever
Don't think that the Fortnite craze has settled down quite yet. According to a new survey, player spending in the game is higher than...