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Here’s how Elder Scrolls Online is compensating...

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2024/03/08

Elder Scrolls Online’s big Orsinium DLC giveaway this past week hasn’t gone off as smoothly as ZeniMax Online Studios hoped. The original plan was to grant all players the DLC on their second day of logging in during the promo, as a login reward. On day two, players ran into problems as players couldn’t collect […]

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PlanetSide 2 acknowledges ‘earned consternation’ over...

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2024/03/08

It’s always an unsettling feeling when a game — or its IP, at least — gets sold off but nobody really talks about it afterward and business continues to go on as usual. Or appears to go on as usual. That’s the strange state in which the PlanetSide 2 players find themselves after Daybreak sold […]

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Vindictus Defying Fate spinoff begins alpha testing...

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2024/03/08

Well, it’s not the Vindictus 2 you wanted, but it’s something: As we noted earlier this week, Nexon is barreling onward with Vindictus Defying Fate, its new ARPG based on the IP that spawned the original Vindictus MMO, one of the rare import MMORPGs that actually had legs. Until now, the build has focused on […]

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Even Zeus couldn’t get Fortnite’s Myths & Mortals...

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2024/03/08

You know what the Greek pantheon really needed? More gods and goddesses with guns. If that was the case, then ancient mythology classes would be far better attended. At least Fortnite is rectifying the situation with its Myths & Mortals content update: “Pandora’s Box has been opened on the Fortnite Battle Royale Island, bringing Olympus […]

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EA CEO talks up aspirations for AI tools and...

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2024/03/08

If you need any evidence that the push for AI tools is akin to drinking some brainworm-filled Kool-aid, you need look no further than remarks made by Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson, who used his time in a business conference to espouse the benefits of AI tools and tech, presumably while as glassy-eyed as a […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Sort your own MMO community, guy

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2024/03/08

One of the things I note is that every so often – not all the time, but every so often – something will just stick in my craw. I’ll just see or experience a thing and it’ll just hang with me for the rest of the day. And the other day this happened to me […]

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Star Citizen highlights alpha 3.23’s updates to FPS...

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2024/03/08

There are a lot of times when players of Star Citizen need to clamber out of their favorite internet spaceship in order to get into some FPS combat, and making that combat feel more impactful is a focus for the game’s alpha 3.23 as well as this week’s Inside Star Citizen video, which shows off […]

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Helldivers 2 resolves to address armored spawn...

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2024/03/08

The furor over adjustments made in Helldivers 2 has arguably reached a boiling point. Earlier this week, Arrowhead Game Studios put out a balance patch that bonked highly popular weapons with a nerf bat, ticking off a firestorm among gamers who argued that nerfs didn’t account for the reality of playing the co-op shooter at […]

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Albion Online tackles player concerns over new...

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2024/03/08

When Sandbox Interactive announced a new server to accommodate the burgeoning European population on Albion Online – one intended to balance the existing western and eastern playerbases even more – you might have thought it would be a benign announcement, but nope! Players have been voicing concerns all week, primarily focused on the belief that […]

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Nightingale’s roadmap includes a lot more QOL than...

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2024/03/08

If you were among those grumbling at Nightingale’s mini-patch earlier this week, Inflexion’s latest missive ought to make you feel better – or at least more confident that something bigger is happening behind the scenes. “While we’re happy with some elements of our launch, we’re not satisfied with a number of others,” CEO Aaryn Flynn […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s the most expensive item...

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2024/03/08

I’m talking about in-game currencies, not cash-shop crappies, mind you! Last night, I attended a posh auction in City of Heroes Homecoming on the Everlasting server, in a gorgeous base (vaultluxe-17647) by the kind @Easter Bunny and @BBBadger, and the roleplayers were auctioning off everything from charity dates and farming runs to pro Mids character […]

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The Stream Team: Starting Neverwinter’s The Dwarven...

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2024/03/08

She’s not going to lie: Massively OP’s MJ was put off from playing Neverwinter when her team discovered they cannot run any of the new content without using the cash shop. However, when she discovered that the next campaign adventure in her adventure book — The Dwarven King — was written by R.A. Salvatore, she […]

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Massively Overthinking: Are we ‘optimizing the fun...

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2024/03/08

MMO dev Damion Schubert recently retweeted a thread penned by a user named Zarathustra that presents our Massively Overthinking discussion for the week. Now, I’m 5’1″ – meaning the closest I ever got to playing basketball was leading the band. But I was aware the game was changing, just not quite how much – and […]

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Last Epoch puts out a fix-filled patch for...

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2024/03/07

The latest update for Last Epoch is another one of those decidedly unsexy but still necessary bug fixing patches. These things have to happen, especially when one of the bugs involves skills that were literally crashing the game’s servers. The impact of the bugs being addressed in the update aren’t quite so dire but still […]

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Overwatch 2 is collaborating with Cowboy Bebop on...

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2024/03/07

There are times when crossover events just seem like a bad idea at first glance. Not because of world inconsistencies, but… well, Overwatch 2 crossing over with Cowboy Bebop is a bad idea because Overwatch 2 has never been even half as cool as Cowboy Bebop. Very few things on the planet are as cool […]

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Sea of Thieves readies a preview event, anti-cheat,...

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2024/03/07

With Sea of Thieves preparing to debut on the PlayStation 5 next month and “sixth anniversary antics” in full swing, this PvP pirate sim appears to be cresting on the waves of excitement. But wait, there’s more! On March 20th, Rare will host a preview event of the game’s next three seasons along with other […]

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Here’s what we know so far about Elder Scrolls...

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2024/03/07

Not quite two months ago, ZeniMax Online Studios released not just the plot of Elder Scrolls Online’s latest yearly arc but also the basic outline of its roadmap for 2024. Now, we’re getting an even more detailed look at how the year is shaping up. First – next week, in fact – we’re looking at […]

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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classic is open for beta...

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2024/03/07

Remember when World of Warcraft had just launched Cataclysm? Are you eager to do that again? Stop shaking your head and shouting that you aren’t. It was a rhetorical question. This is what we’re doing now. Yes, WoW Classic has officially opened the beta gates for the next expansion to hit the game, and that […]

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‘Survival crafting MMORPG’ BitCraft plans closed...

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2024/03/07

That upcoming MMORPG sandbox BitCraft is heading into closed alpha is not a shock: Clockwork Labs has been teasing it for months. The new revelation today is precisely when it begins – and how you can sign up. “We are happy to announce that the first Closed Alpha test will begin on April 2nd, 2024,” […]

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New World delays Season of the Guardian indefinitely...

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2024/03/07

Just last night, I was telling my husband that New World’s Season of the Guardian was set to launch next week, so he’d better get ready. Well, scratch all that now because Amazon has just announced it’s delaying the launch – and we don’t know how long. “Thank you for playing the Season of the […]

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