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EverQuest’s returning Raid Raid Raid event tasks players with slaying giants and dragons all month
What do players of EverQuest do when their world is under threat by legions of giants and dragons? They Raid, Raid, Raid! The annual...
Bungie will donate sales of its Destiny 2 pride pin to benefit a transgender charity all month
Bungie has declared the month of November the time to raise awareness of transgender issues and equality. The Destiny 2 developer is forwarding all...
Guild Wars 2 players raise over $100K for Extra Life and unlock all collection hints in the process
Yesterday saw ArenaNet kick off its 24-hour Guild Wars 2 charity stream and it has already been quite a success. At the time of...
Guild Wars 2 is about to kick off its Extra Life charity stream – and the patch with April!
Multiple MMO studios are preparing for a big weekend of raising charity funds for Extra Life today, but our eyes are on Guild Wars...
Black Desert is canceling its Halloween events and sales following Itaewon tragedy
Unless you skip international news on the weekends, you likely read about the devastating tragedy in the Itaewon neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea, as...
Epic Games MOBA Paragon is resurrected as Paragon The Overprime under Netmarble’s oversight
It's been a long, strange, and twisty-turny journey for Epic Games' Paragon. The third-person MOBA came out in 2016 but quickly found itself floundering...
Guild Wars 2 outlines the boosts and bundles being offered for this year’s Extra Life charity drive
Friday, November 4th, will see the devs of Guild Wars 2 come together for another charity stream to support Extra Life, and the event...
Jennifer Hale returns to Guild Wars 2 to voice a child character based on a real kid for Extra Life
As part of its Extra Life 2022 efforts, the Guild Wars 2 team is going all out to celebrate one of the children helped...
Guild Wars 2 promotes this weekend’s Pink Day in LA fundraiser for cancer charity
Long-time Guild Wars franchise fans know that Pink Day in LA is a staple of the community when it comes to charity, and this...
MMO studios and publishers large and small come together to support Extra Life 2022
It's about that time of year when charitable drives are on the minds of many gamers, studios, and publishers, and just as last year...
One of Wizards101’s most iconic voice actors passed away last week
The passionate Wizard101 community is holding up a goblet of remembrance this week in honor of Dell Fife Aldrich, who passed away on October...
Riot Games sponsors design challenge centered on making online spaces safer
Riot Games is not a gaming company most folks in our industry would consider a paragon of community in or off the court. The...
Elder Scrolls Online players stuck on Stadia will be able to transfer to PC with all their stuff
Last week's abrupt announcement that Google will be sunsetting Stadia in January took a lot of gaming studios by surprise, including MMO studios. As...
Warframe discusses Halloween, Frames, cross-play, and charity initiative
It's something of a given that the developer livestreams out of Warframe are packed full of information, and Devstream 164 was no different as...
City of Heroes fans have (mostly) restored the game’s original 2012 forums
Looking for a forum-based blast from the past out of City of Heroes? Maybe you want to re-read some of the story threads, look...
A YouTuber is archiving every single portion of The Secret World
If you're the sort who has problems sticking it out through the combat model weirdness of The Secret World in spite of the outstanding...
Check out these amazing World of Warcraft tableaus made for tabletop Dungeons & Dragons
If you've ever run a tabletop game inspired by World of Warcraft, you probably relied a fair bit on the fact that most of...
Bethesda and id software turn on old official servers for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Back in the day, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was a team-based FPS that a lot of people really enjoyed playing. Some people enjoyed it so...
Red Dead Online has an in-game equestrian group that’s over 1,600 players strong
Most of the time riding a horse in Red Dead Online will result in getting where you need to go at best and finding...
Star Stable launches new charity initiative to counter negative ‘horse girl’ stereotypes
A few weeks back I joked on the MOP podcast that I'm a secret horse girl, and it's true in real life and in...
