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The Black Death overhauls building, introduces guild systems, and wipes all the things
The Black Death is taking no prisoners with its latest patch, V.026. Also called Dominion, the huge content update makes some rather sweeping changes...
Shoot and drive in Grand Theft Auto’s target assault races
Want to drive an assault vehicle? Want to shoot a machine gun from the back of a truck? You can do both in Grand...
Hearthstone enters the Witchwood on April 12
Is it Halloween already? In Hearthstone, it might as well be, as Blizzard is about to unleash the game's creepiest expansion to date in...
Ultima Online’s F2P conversion, Endless Journey, is officially live with new ‘deluxe starter pack’
At 20 years old, Ultima Online is finally doing what its EA-backed handlers at Broadsword once said it would never do: It's going free-to-play.
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ArcheAge 4.5 Legends Return launches tonight with new fresh start servers
ArcheAge's 4.5 update is going live tonight, complete with raise-able dragon battle mounts and shadow invasion content provoked when big world bosses are downed....
Here’s something nobody saw coming, and by nobody we mean everybody: Sea of Thieves griefers are abusing the brig
Did you think Sea of Thieves' patch yesterday, which aimed to address respawn griefing, was going to put an end to players' torment? Yo-ho-ho...
World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion launches August 14
Who had August in the poll? Anybody have August 14th specifically? Because that, my friends, is precisely when World of Warcraft's Battle for Azeroth expansion...
Battle royale Darwin Project adds a duo mode
Will we ever dig to the bottom of the pit of battle royale titles? Probably not, but here's another one that's been in development...
Skyforge streamlines and scales its adventure difficulties
The team behind Skyforge noticed a problem. Players who had hit the higher end of Prestige found themselves more or less locked out of...
SWTOR teases its new expansion, Cartel Market updates, and more coming by year’s end
With all the April Fool's updates and misinformation that were flying around this weekend, it was a little difficult to tell what was a...
World of Warcraft is retiring its remote auction house — but don’t panic just yet
If you've gotten used to perusing and trading on World of Warcraft's auction house from the mobile app, brace yourself for some slightly shocking...
Hyperspace Beacon: The SWTOR prank that revealed so much about the hungry fanbase
With April Fool's Day falling on a Sunday, Passover, and Easter, I didn't actually spend a lot of time on the internet watching the...
Black Desert opens up Ellie’s Mystical Lake Festival, invites you to walk there
We hope you've cleared your schedules, Black Desert players, because it's Wednesday, and you know there's always something new to do in-game on Wednesdays....
Kritika Online will release Windhome on April 18; check out the full reveal tonight
En Masse has been teasing Kritika Online's Windhome update for a bitsy already, but today, it's going to flat out infodump on its players....
Sea of Thieves’ patch today mops up bugs and addresses respawn griefing
Still arr-ing and ahoy-matey-ing and avast-ye-ing in Sea of Thieves? Today's patch... well, it's a wee one. Rare says it's fixed a bunch of...
GDC 2018: Bridging and embedding cross-platform online communities
As this year's GDC coverage is winding down, I am finally coming to the topic I saved for last: community. MMOs are more than just...
Ultima Online is officially going free-to-play on Thursday, outlaws multiboxing
If you didn't already know that Ultima Online is planning to go free-to-play, you probably still wouldn't be able to tell without reading between...
Journey to South Africa in Secret World Legends’ Dawn of the Morninglight today
Just a few short weeks ago, stalwart Secret World Legends players learned the location of their next adventure: South Africa. And when the servers...
Path of Exile mulls over reviving its popular April Fools’ Day Battle Royale mode
For this year's April Fools' Day joke, Path of Exile announced the creation of a Battle Royale mode... and then further surprised players by...
Dark and Light is devoting April to bug fixes
In the game development sphere, developers take part in two separate but equally important tasks: The development of features to add content to the...