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Star Citizen fans have put together a size comparison of in-game planets and real-world ones
Have you ever sat down and wondered, "Man, I wonder how the various planets in the Stanton system of Star Citizen compare to the...
Team Fortress 2 updates its SDK to effectively make the shooter highly moddable and customizable
Who here had "big news coming out of Team Fortress 2 in 2025" on their bingo card? Yeah, neither did we, but big news...
Project Gorgon’s Sandra Powers is memorialized in World of Warcraft – twice
Did you guys know that the late Sandra Powers, MMORPG developer and one-half of the Project Gorgon team, was once a leading figure over...
World of Warcraft’s charity fox raises over $2 million for Duchenne muscular dystrophy research
Last December, we reported on how Blizzard started selling a special fox-and-backpack bundle in World of Warcraft to raise funds to help cure Duchenne...
Conan Exiles is selling an exclusive art print to benefit LA firefighters through February 6
Do you want some unique and incredible art and help out the firefighting efforts in Los Angeles, California? Then look no further than Conan...
Guild Wars 2, Overwatch 2 compensate players for recent tech and sale bungles
This is a tale of two MMO studios and how they handled recent fiascos competently. Happy Friday!
First, ArenaNet announced last night that it is...
Neverwinter Nights persistent world Arelith hits a new player concurrency record after 22 years
Three hundred eighty. That sounds like a pretty meager number when it comes to most MMO and multiplayer game concurrency records, but for the...
There’s a Final Fantasy XI zine on Kickstarter right now for your Vana’diel nostalgia tour
So how did people put together enthusiastic fan projects before we all had the internet? Why, you made a zine, of course. Assembled loosely...
Black Desert starts new arena season on PC and new high-tier content on mobile as players raise $70K for charity
This week once again has a bunch of good news for players of Black Desert, with all three editions seeing something new added in...
Blizzard donated one million dollars to a relief charity supporting California wildfire victims
The response to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires this past month has been particularly strong from the gaming industry, owing to the fact that...
Activision releases charitable cosmetic bundles in Call of Duty games to benefit LA fire relief
The fires that are continuing to threaten Los Angeles are still a focal point for game developers in the California area, as Activision has...
Riot Games, still closed in LA thanks to the wildfires, opens aid fundraisers in Valorant and League of Legends
Last week, we covered the devastation happening in Southern California, where half a dozen wildfires were ripping through Los Angeles neighborhoods from working class...
Warframe studio Digital Extremes donated $10000 to support California wildfire relief efforts
This week, we've been covering the devastation in Southern California as multiple wildfires are rampaging through Los Angeles, destroying tens of thousands of homes...
World of Warcraft is adding a third tribute to Mats ‘Ibelin’ Steen in the form of an NPC in patch 11.1
There are already two memorials for the player Mats "Ibelin" Steen, a World of Warcraft player who suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, within the...
Happy New Year to all the uplifting things in MMOs, 2024 edition
So last night, as is tradition, we posted our list of all the reasons we can't have nice things in MMOs and torched them...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends prepares to honor Carrie Fisher in-game today
Eight years ago, the Star Wars fandom lost a legend when Carrie Fisher passed away on December 27th, and ever since the operators of...
Happy holidays: 461 Elder Scrolls Online studio developers just unionized
Bethsoft has one union, yes. What about *second* union? In fact, this is more like third union, and we're not sorry to see it.
Readers...
Black Desert asks you to decorate a tree for charity
There's a special tree that stands above the rest in Black Desert and Black Desert mobile, insomuch as it offers real-world blessing to those...
Marvel Heroes emulator project gets loot updates and functioning missions in 0.4.0 build
The long and hard work of getting Marvel Heroes back into a functional state for emulator runners pushes forth, as the 0.4.0 version of...
Warframe’s Tennobaum gifting event this year benefits Toys for Tots
As it has for the last many years, Warframe studio Digital Extremes has kicked off its Tennobaum event, prompting gift-giving for the benefit of...
