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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...
Elite Dangerous players rediscover a unique gas giant that has been missing for seven years
How do you miss a planet? Pretty easily, to be fair, especially when the original discoverer didn't wite down how it was found. This...
EVE Echoes launches a Project Discovery science initiative, EVE Online preps for next Alliance Tournament
Regular players of EVE Online are likely very familiar with the game's Project Discovery "citizen science" initiatives that let players help out scientific research,...
Final Fantasy XIV plans a week of special farm streams in anticipation of Island Sanctuaries arriving soon
Eager to jump into the peaceful farm life in Final Fantasy XIV when the Island Sanctuary arrives on August 23rd? Well, the team has...
New World shares a lore post as players raise $2300 for St. Jude’s in a player-run fishing tournament
New World has a story to tell its players. A story about two enterprising pirates seeking the Heart of the Ocean - a jewel...
Final Fantasy XIV player develops a functional book controller for playing Scholar
Have you found yourself playing Scholar in Final Fantasy XIV and thought to yourself that it just doesn't feel immersive enough when you're casting...
Path of Exile studio took on hosting duties for the player-run wiki
About one year ago, a group of Path of Exile players had a dream to make a definitive player-run wiki to compile all the...
Warcraft Adventures fan remaster project reaches completion after six years
Back in the long long ago, there was a Blizzard project titled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, a point-and-click adventure game that explained...
Massively Uplifting: WoW players break barriers, Bungie and ZeniMax raise money to help children
Summer sweetness is not just for corn and watermelon! No, it's for all the kind and generous gestures of of our fellow gamers and...
