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City of Heroes Homecoming’s community is holding a player base real estate auction this weekend
Would you like to own a player base in City of Heroes: Homecoming but can't be bothered to do all of that pesky furniture...
Guild Wars 2 players are building absolutely INSANE houses with Janthir Wilds’ homesteads feature
I've only just unlocked my new player house in Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds and haven't dug my claws into the feature, but for...
Massively Uplifting: Labors of love, generosity, and grief in Warhammer, Terraria, Conan Exiles, Albion, ARK, and more
Labor Day in the United States is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievement of the American workers. The official Department of...
Elite Dangerous confirms a third new ship and Powerplay 2.0’s arrival in October as Lave Radio hits 500th episode
Frontier Developments' monthly studio-wide livestream has once more provided some tasty tidbits for Elite: Dangerous players. Following a teaser image earlier this month, FDev...
The original Diablo can be played on mobile or a web browser once again – here’s how to do it
One of the hallmarks of advancing technology is that power increases while form factor decreases, and now that looks to be true of the...
Old-school web browser MMORPG Tanoth has been resurrected in a playable beta format
Here's a blast from the past that is sure to catch genre fans by surprise. Does anyone here remember Tanoth? It was a web...
MMO studio Daybreak is named 2023 Extra Life Partner of the Year, posts 2024 fundraising plans
Daybreak's charity work has paid off: This week, Extra Life and Children's Miracle Network named Daybreak Games its Extra Life Partner of the Year...
TennoCon 2024: The terrific twos of TennoCon charities and Make-A-Wish
Good things come in twos at TennoCon 2024. Even the year itself is beautifully divisible by twos. But the best of the twos isn't...
Star Trek Online hints at a new ship bundle with mysterious teaser images paired with a cipher
What's a good way to draw hype for an upcoming reveal for Star Trek Online? Offer fans a mystery, apparently: The MMO's Twitter account...
Devs from multiple Bethesda offices formally create a ‘wall to wall’ union of over 200 workers
The unionization movement among video game developers has taken yet another large step forward this weekend, as workers from Bethesda Game Studios offices located...
League of Legends launches its limited-time PvE ‘bullet heaven’ mode and introduces an autistic champion
Usually the words "bullet" and "heaven" are incongruent, unless you're piloting a mecha named Bullet Heaven or are leading a throwback hair metal band...
Bungie and fans continues its free-to-play release of the original Marathon trilogy with Marathon 2’s Steam arrival
Back in May, Bungie and members of the Aleph One fan community decided that the classic series of Marathon FPS games should be re-released...
Blaugust, MMO blogging community challenge event, enters 11th year with 2024 edition
It's no surprise that we love gaming blogs around here, which means we're also big fans of the blogging community initiative that is Tales...
Players are building a multiplayer mod for Cyberpunk 2077
We all remember how at one point Cyberpunk 2077 was meant to have a multiplayer mode, right? It's the only reason we covered the...
Mount & Blade II’s Bannerlord Online MMO mod posts 2024 roadmap with castle sieges and clan revamps
Bannerlord Online is a prime example of how a community can take a good thing -- in this case, the medieval battle sim Mount...
Fallout fan filmmaker and artist lands contract work for Fallout 76 after an artwork mix-up
This is a story of how a fan creator of the Fallout series landed himself a gig doing artwork for Fallout 76, which we...
Final Fantasy XIV fans assemble 300 fans to play an Endwalker tribute medley
As of this point, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is officially done. The game is down for maintenance for 48 hours for the early access...
Helldivers 2 makes a charitable donation to honor playerbase’s decision to save fictional children
Last week saw players of Helldivers 2 face their own version of the trolley problem, as the major order for that week presented players...
RuneScape and Old School RuneScape celebrate Pride Month with colorful new capes and shark plushies
Pride Month events continue across the MMORPG landscape with another pair of celebrations happening in both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape; fans know that...
World of Tanks and World of Warships prepare special events to mark 80th anniversary of D-Day
The month of June is a historically important one, as 80 years ago on June 6th, 1944, the Allied forces stormed the beaches of...
