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BioWare posts update on SWTOR’s Season 5 win-trading
BioWare community manager Eric Musco posted a brief update on the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums yesterday concerning trolling and win-trading in Season...
Here’s a new(ish) trailer for The Repopulation
A couple of days ago, The Repopulation announced that it was launching in Q4 2015. The dev team also put a new trailer on...
Captain Nog joins the Star Trek Online cast
In the first episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Commander Sisko tells Jake not to hang around with that Ferengi boy Nog. He's...
EVE Online sheds some light on… texture lighting
Players spend a lot of time staring at the hulls of their EVE Online ships, so it makes sense to make those ships as...
Star Trek Online Iconian War featured episode delayed
The Iconian War is hot stuff in Star Trek Online these days, but players will need to cool their heels due to a "critical...
The Nar Shaddaa Nightlife event is coming back to SWTOR in June
How do you pronounce Nar Shaddaa? When I was devouring Star Wars books in the 1990s and playing the crap out of the Dark Forces...
Leaderboard: AI vs. player competition
Monday's blurb about NCsoft and its AI research was sort of interesting, don't you think? The Korean firm isn't the first MMO company to...
The Repopulation to launch in Q4 2015
Just when you thought The Repopulation was doomed to be in eternal testing, Above and Beyond Technologies announced that it's releasing. This year. This...
Funcom financials trend downward, new CEO appointed
While it could have been worse, Funcom's Q1 2015 financials could have been a heck of a lot better, too. In yesterday's financial report,...
Destiny’s House of Wolves expansion launches today
Destiny's House of Wolves launches today. Bungie's second expansion offers new story missions, a new cooperative strike called The Shadow Thief, and new endgame components...
Tamriel Infinium: What we know about Elder Scrolls Online’s Imperial City
Even before the PC launch of the Elder Scrolls Online last year, there was something the community pined for: the Imperial City. In my first trip...
WildStar gives free techno-kitty pet to everyone
Good news for those who were inconvenienced by WildStar's extended maintenance the other day: The game will be giving everyone affected a unique cyborg...
Master X Master Online is an NCsoft MOBA with a twist
Are you curious about NCsoft's Master X Master Online? Steparu's put the game through its paces and has nice things to say about it, concluding...
Albion Online’s newest dev answers community queries, snaps at EVE trolls
Albion Online is surely milking its acquisition of Game Designer Matt Woodward for all its worth. After Albion heralded his arrival with a level...
CCP Games buys back $20m in bonds, drops Legion trademark
News is circulating in the EVE Online blogs and forum that developer CCP Games has just bought back $20 million in publicly traded bonds....
ArcheAge spawns fresh Reddit drama over pay-to-win
Third time's a charm with Reddit! Remember back in March when a Skyforge moderator threatened to ban anyone using the term pay-to-win and was...
Voxelnauts Kickstarter melds VR, voxels, and sandbox gameplay
What do you get when you stick a sandbox, voxels, and VR into a blender? You get Voxelnauts, a new voxelbox -- actually, they're calling...
EVE Evolved: Building your own empire
When CCP announced its far-reaching plans to overhaul EVE Online's territorial warfare gameplay, players were cautiously optimistic but understandably guarded. EVE's old sovereignty system...
Elite’s Mac client benefits the PC; Powerplay update delayed
Hey Elite fans, did you miss Friday's newsletter #75? If so, it's worth reading for the news about the Mac client and the Powerplay beta. Originally...
Make My MMO: May 16, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Gloria Victis developer Black Eye Games let us know that it's in "the home stretch" in terms of...
