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Secret World Legends posts a quick teaser of the agent system
One of the first new Secret World Legends systems is coming soon, and Funcom posted a quick video of it this week to whet...
Battle Bards Episode 115: EVE Online
Forgettable ambient noise or entrancing space sounds? This is the debate that’s at the core of today’s episode, as the Battle Bards take on...
SWTOR kicks off ‘share the love’ refer-a-friend promotion, gifts speeder and armor to subbers
What's Star Wars The Old Republic got up its sleeve for Valentine's Day? How about a "share the love" event for new and returning...
EVE Online brings the Guardian’s Gala and balance changes for its February patch
It's not exactly love that's in the air in EVE Online for the Guardian's Gala. For one thing, there's not really any air out...
Perfect Ten: The tabletop GMs behind MMOs
One of the advantages to computer RPGs, I've always thought, is that you don't need a friend who you can alternately sucker or bribe...
Star Citizen’s Cloud Imperium reps meet with California Better Business Bureau
Cloud Imperium apparently met with representatives of the Better Business Bureau in California for an "introductory meeting" that the Star Citizen studio described as...
Warframe’s Shrine of the Eidolon goes live as DE teases Valentine’s Day and incoming content
With Warframe's Shrine of the Eidolon update now live on the servers, Tenno have their hands full fighting legendary beasts summoned for battle. There...
CCP banned over 1800 EVE Online botters in January alone
If you've been paying any attention at all to EVE Online over the past few months, you know that the playerbase's anger over the...
Destiny 2 empowers players to set Nightfall strike challenge levels, prototypes raid features
Destiny 2's Nightfall strikes are in the wings, waiting for their turn to receive some love and adjustments. This should happen soon, as Bungie...
One Shots: Toy chests
Really, when you think about it, MMOs are our grown-up toy chests. They have all of these attractive and fun toys to keep us...
The Game Archaeologist: BBS door games
When you think of MMORPGs, I wouldn't blame you if your mind stayed rooted firmly in the past decade or so, perhaps taking a...
Star Trek Online’s anniversary event heads to console next month
With all of the excitement and freebies surrounding Star Trek Online's 8th anniversary celebration last month, it had to have been a particular bummer...
Star Citizen is balancing the crap out of ship weapons as the Crytek lawsuit drags on
Chris Roberts is joined by CIG Leader Writer Dave Haddock for this week's episode of Star Citizen Around the Verse, during which they check...
MMOs get incredibly excited about Tesla’s Spaceman
No, you didn't dream it up. Wednesday, the world was abuzz over Elon Musk's Tesla company sending a rocket into orbit that was toting...
Activision-Blizzard Q4 2017: Activision Blizzard boasts ‘record quarter, record year’
With revenues and net bookings up, Activision Blizzard is riding high going into 2018. CEO Bobby Kotick introduced the Q4 2017 report by saying...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPGs should stay away from legacy servers?
Legacy, vanilla, classic, progression - call them what you like, but alternative server rulesets, particularly of the nostalgia-driven kind, are all the rage in...
Destiny 2’s new Crimson Days event says the couple that slays together stays together
It takes two in the new Destiny 2 Crimson Days event. Specifically, players are tasked with taking on a 2v2 Clash and a new...
Raph Koster calls potential manipulative MMO microtransaction AI ‘horrendous’
Here is some nightmare fuel for gamers imagining the future of the industry. How about an artificial intelligence that deliberately manipulates and messes with...
Warframe is disabling trials (raids) for system-wide revamp
Not a day has gone by this week that we haven't had some big Warframe news, so let's make it four in a row:...
Warframe’s Shrine of the Eidolon is launching this week with the warframe and weapons overhauls
Warframe has taken a break from rewriting the whole darn game to tease this week's launch. Called Shrine of the Eidolon, the patch introduces...
