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Last week's admission from Kakao that XLGAMES is pulling the plug on ArcheAge really hit me, and I'm still trying to process why because it was not one of my pet MMORPGs. It had the misfortune of launching in the west in the same couple of months that my daughter was born and I moved clear across the country...

One of the headline features of New World's latest season is the hard-to-say-10-times-fast Winter Rune Forge raid, which Amazon is toasting this week with both a Q&A and some of the studio's infamous heatmaps. In her Q&A, Amazon senior producer Katy Kaszynski explains that the Winter Rune Forge ties into the overall winter theme of the season, with multiple new...

This month marks the 22nd anniversary of Final Fantasy XI, which means that if you're feeling like we just celebrated this a year ago... you're right! We did! That's how time works. Now, obviously this year's celebration is not going to be as elaborate as the 20th anniversary celebration, but the game is still kicking off a big chunk...

If you thought World of Tanks clapping hands with Star Trek for an event was weird, have a look at the other things that are happening in the month of May for the military vehicle battler. There's a contest where players can win a pizza oven. That's real. Of course there's more than just oddness for May, as players can...

If you've been itching to try out SMITE's sequel, your time has come... assuming you got into the alpha or bought a founder pack, anyhow. Hi-Rez's Titan Forge Games has kicked off SMITE 2's first alpha weekend as of today, running through May 5th. "The event will let players choose amongst 14 Gods: Anhur, Anubis, Athena, Bacchus, Bellona, Cernunnos, Chaac, Fenrir,...

It might be hard to remember it at this point, but launching Albion Online's European fresh start server wasn't the only thing that Sandbox Interactive did for the game last month. It also released its big quarterly update, Foundations. And now, with the Alby Europe hoopla finally behind it, the team has moved on to shoring up that release....

V Rising continues to make sure people are extremely aware that it's leaving early access on Wednesday, May 8th, and it's doing so with a a splashy new launch trailer and some words of thanks to those who helped Stunlock Studios through its nearly two years of early access. The post offers plenty of appreciation for those who have been...

A milestone like 20 years of operation is the perfect reason to celebrate in big style, and that's just what Lineage II is looking to do as the giant celebration that we covered earlier went live, encompassing two decades and three versions of the MMORPG. The event was reason enough to debut a new trailer that condenses the events and...

I'd been saving this for myself for weeks now. It was late Saturday when I finally decided it was time to stop waiting and play something that I had been looking forward to before it launched and had known I would enjoy immensely. Oh, sure, it wouldn't win game of the year anywhere, or even be in the running...

Last night, the Star Wars The Old Republic team dropped a massive preview of its 7.5 update, which includes everything from a farming system on Dantooine to new solo challenge content. But tucked away in the stream was mention of the annual May the Fourth Star Wars celebration, which as always includes freebies for players. This year, it's BX-24. "In...