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Activision takes heat for poor female representation in its games over the last decade

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If for some reason you're not already annoyed enough with Activision-Blizzard right now, GIbiz has a new piece up that digs into problems that...
They've arrived

Star Trek Online previews a set of new support carriers for all of the game’s factions

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Players will have some new options for carrying support ships into battle in Star Trek Online on August 20th. The game is releasing four...
Faires past

Massively OP Podcast Episode 284: Mommy, don’t let them take my Fortnite away

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Justin and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV 5.3, City of Heroes Homecoming, Daybreak buying Cold Iron, WoW Shadowlands' prepatch, EVE Echoes' launch, Epic's lawsuit, and the passing of Meridian 59's Brian Grene, with adventures in Valiance Online, LOTRO, and The Sims 4, plus a mailbag topic on industry stress for devs.

Global Chat: Getting an early look at Crowfall’s beta

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Now that Crowfall's beta is on the scene, plenty of curious gamers are streaming in to see what ArtCraft's ambitious PvP title has to...

Elite Dangerous previews Odyssey’s atmospheric planets in new dev video

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Back at the top of June, Frontier announced that the massive Elite Dangerous expansion it's been working on for ages is called Odyssey, coming...
Skeeorch.

EVE Online’s weeks-long player war has cost players over $112,000 so far

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For over six weeks now, one of EVE Online's largest and bloodiest battles has been waging across the game's galaxy. World War Bee is...

The Daily Grind: What borky system in your favorite MMO needs some love?

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A few weeks back, a new SWG Legends chef was chatting me up on Discord, asking what were frankly very reasonable questions about some...

The MOP Up: Old School RuneScape’s trailblazer league

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A brand-new game mode is coming to Old School RuneScape with special challenges and special rewards. It's called the Trailblazer League, and you are...

Star Citizen promotes its latest buyable ship, stays mum on Squadron 42 progress

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Star Citizen is having a busy August, what with the release of alpha 3.10 and breaking last year's sales records and all. This week,...

Vendetta Online pretty much just went free-to-play last night

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One of the first cross-platform MMORPGs ever just got even more friendly to the free-to-play PC crowd. Sci-fi MMO Vendetta Online announced last night...

Global Chat: Are MMO classes too similar to each other?

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Blogger Yeebo Fernbottom has a beef with MMOs, and maybe you can relate. The issue, as the Yeebs sees it, is that in the...
Right, right, space. We're in it.

Elite Dangerous adjusts overlapping hotspots and tritium performance

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Fleet carriers are big and they cause balance issues in Elite Dangerous. Not unfixable ones, mind you; just ones that have to be adjusted...

GDC Summer 2020: Better living, climate awareness, and citizen science through games

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Way back during GDC 2018, I covered several panels relating to gaming for good. Things like citizen science projects, games as medicine or for...
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Massively Overthinking: Jumping the shark in MMOs

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I'm sure those few people out there still bearing a grudge over the Rune-keeper would disagree with me, but one of the things that...

Warframe moves Orokin Derelicts and shares details of a ‘frame-eating mouth ahead of Heart of Deimos

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As the Heart of Deimos update to Warframe slowly makes its way to the game, a recent update on PC has done a fair...

Pearl Abyss Q2 2020: EVE Online is doing great, NA/EU drives 48% of company revenues

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Pearl Abyss dropped its second quarter financial report today: The South Korean MMO company saw its revenues decline ever so slightly, down to 131.7...

Star Citizen is on track to breaking sales records in 2020 as it passes last year’s $47.7M

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As of right now, funding for Star Citizen just ain't slowing down. A graph shared on the game's subreddit illustrates that 2020 has already...

CCP and Netease’s mobile MMORPG EVE Echoes is officially live on Android and iOS

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We hope you got your preloading done overnight because EVE Online mobile MMO EVE Echoes is officially live, offered up by CCP Games and Netease...

EVE Echoes launches early tomorrow morning – here’s how to install it now

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CCP Games and Netease are about to embark on a joint venture that will hopefully do what no other EVE Online spin-off has done...
Still running.

The Daily Grind: Do MMOs need to jump onto bandwagons to stay relevant?

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We've been watching TERA's latest move into -- of all things -- MOBAs with a quirked eyebrow and a quizzical expression. We're never quite...

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