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Mabinogi will unleash the power of pets in its next update
Having a pet in Mabinogi will be quite a bit different with the next planned update. Dubbed the P.E.T. update (which stands for Pawsitively...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is trying to move away from ‘anything that feels like it might be a grind’
You've heard it from the World of Warcraft development team over and over: Anima for your covenants in Shadowlands will not be a grind....
Hearthstone’s Scholomance Academy is open for students new and old
Ah, Scholomance: It might just be the dungeon I've run the most times in all of MMOs. And now Blizzard is asking you to...
Tencent edges out Sony in Leyou Technologies buyout negotiations
A week or two ago, we covered the especially-amusing-to-MMO-fans news that Sony was gunning to buy up Leyou, the Chinese holding company that both...
Astellia Online heads to Avalon with its latest update
The future has been revealed for Astellia Online, and that future is contained in one word: Avalon.
The next big content update will take players...
Torchlight III opens PTR, tests endgame ‘dun’djinn’
With massive adjustments, patch filler, and wipes incoming, Torchlight III isn't the most stable of online environments these days. Weirdly enough, it may actually...
RuneScape introduces Player Advocacy Group-led changes, OSRS adds new Slayer content
Ah, yes, another week of RuneScape updates via the usual newsletter. Time to open it up and -- what's this? a totally new format?...
PUBG breaks 70M sales ahead of 8.1 update as Steam concurrency continues to drop
It's not every day that a video game sells 70 million copies, but PUBG is celebrating just that this week. In honor of that...
Path of Exile elaborates on changes to storage tanks and Harvest crafting descriptions coming in the next patch
This week's patch for Path of Exile will be making a number of adjustments, but in a separate post made to the game's forums,...
Wolcen deep-dives a number of performance improvements coming with the Second Dawn update
Lest you forget about the promised Second Dawn update arriving to Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem, the devs of the ARPG have resurfaced once again...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Stonethorn DLC launches August 24 for PC, September 1 for console
Elder Scrolls Online is apparently not wasting any time when it comes to its Stonethorn cadence. After announcing the new DLC last Thursday, it's...
Elite: Dangerous fixes an installation issues for fleet carriers that may result in a new crew member
Fleet carriers have some bugs in Elite: Dangerous, and the newest patch for the game arriving tomorrow is fixing one of the major bugs...
World of Warcraft: Shadows Rising is a solid book stuck in an uncomfortable midspace
My long-standing policy for the prequel novels for World of Warcraft expansions has been to not read them. We've gotten these things for a...
EVE Online’s Zenith update begins the apex to the Triglavian invasion, adds new items and features
Today marks the rising crescendo of the Triglavian invasion in EVE Online. The Zenith update kicks off the beginning of the sandbox's third quadrant...
APB Reloaded clears out the anniversary area and event items, tunes its anti-cheat software
Parties are fun, but when everyone has left, the unhappy job of cleaning up the mess remains. That's just what APB Reloaded has done...
Vendetta Online adds prediction monitoring to combat PvP lag and make space debris physics smoother
Vendetta Online can predict the future. A very specific future, anyway. A future involving where dynamic debris will go and where players are going...
Occupy White Walls proudly announces a big art lift with its latest update, the Heist
The team behind Occupy White Walls is pretty proud of this art heist. It's not a real heist, of course, but the update is...
Life Beyond studio Darewise rakes in over $3 million in new seed investment funding
Darewise, the development studio behind co-operative survival MMO Life Beyond, has gotten itself a fresh infusion of funds to the tune of €3 million...
Lost Ark kills the gender lock, adds the Scouter, and preps for global release
Momentum is picking up for the long-long-awaited Lost Ark, which just began its closed beta (in Japan). A Redditor reported that the beta patch...
The Survivalist: Astroneer adds automation (and it’s awesome)
Astroneer is already an awesome game. Even as a survival game, it is my go-to for chill fun. It scratches the mega harvesting or...
