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The U.S. Copyright Office is currently considering easing DMCA anti-circumvention provisions which come up for renewal every 3 years. One of the most important topics being considered this year center around the preservation of abandoned video games. Previous rulings have granted museums, libraries, and other archival organizations the right to use emulators and other tools to make old games playable. [...]
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Grinding Gear Games has announced the latest challenge league for their free to play Action-MMORPG Path of Exile. The Bestiary League adds a new monster capturing feature to the game. Players will be able to capture monsters while adventuring and display them for all to see in their very own menagerie! Path of Exile has had a grand 2017, with [...]
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The voxel-based MMO Trove is receiving a new big expansion, and it's theme is Super Heroes. Trion, Trove's development team, has announced today that Trove Heroes will arrive in spring, allowing players to take to the big city and fight evil! Trove Heroes brings with it Luminopolis, a sprawling technological metropolis inside the Neon City biome. This new area comes [...]
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Next week, players can look forward to a new hero coming to town in Closers. This new character is foul-mouthed and pretty edgy, according to his trailers and bio. His name is Nata, and his hobbies are revenge, reading, and carving. He was orphaned by war, and raised by the government as an experiment. He has been enslaved by Vulture [...]
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While many potential players have been yearning for more details on when the game will fully release, NeoWiz, the development team behind Bless Online has stated in a recent interview that they are planning for a 6-month Early Access. In their recent interview Bless' Game Director Jae-hoon Jeon explains that this Early Access period will act as a soft launch of [...]
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Much to the indignation of it's players, as seen on the announcement thread, Lineage 2 's new cash shop items have caused a surge of displeasure throughout the community. These new items, dubbed "Circlets of Power", are Best in Slot items...but in the cash shop. Sounds pretty Pay-to-Win, and that's exactly how the players are reacting to this recent announcement. [...]
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The buy to play action MMORPG Wild Buster: Heroes of Titan was removed from Steam on February 13, 2018 for review manipulation. Multiple accounts associated with the game's publisher, Insel Games, were caught posting only positive reviews about the game, which is a clear violation of Steam's terms of service. In response, Valve removed all Insel Games titles from Steam [...]
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Black Desert Online introduced a new update today which introduced the "Blessing of Kamasylve" item, which increases loot gain by 20%, to the game's cash shop which led to serious accusations of "pay 2 win". Today's development is particularly egregious because in an interview with Docgotgame, Black Desert Online's community manager Jouska, specifically talked about the buy to play NA/EU [...]
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Dead Maze, the much awaited 2D zombie-based MMO from Atelier 801, has launched on Steam! Players can now embark through a zombie-infested wasteland, using all they can to survive. Cooperation is key in this game as players struggle together in the zombie crawling western US. Players must craft, scrounge, scavenge, and fight off hordes of undead while attempting to maintain [...]
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Nexon announced today that MapleStory will be holding a crossover event with the popular anime movie Evangelion. The event begins on February 28th and runs until March 28th. Players will be able to interact with characters from the movies by traveling through an inter-dimensional rift and complete special quests and events. Watch this video on YouTube Key Features of the [...]
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