Over the last year, we’ve seen a ramp-up of high-level chatter about bringing e-sports to the Olympics. Last summer the co-president of the Paris Olympic bid committee told the AP that it was considering video gaming for the 2024 program in France. The International Olympic Committee then said “competitive e-sports could be considered as a sporting activity, and the players involved prepare...

RuneScape is excited about its new elite dungeons, but the team isn’t quite satisfied with the performance of the second one to push it to live. Therefore, Jagex has decided to delay the Dragonkin Laboratory to work on it some more. The team said that it should be out on August 13th. A small patch released this past week will...

Are you kicking yourself that you missed out on last weekend’s Weatherstock X in Lord of the Rings Online? The tenth player music festival, which is one of the most well-known in the MMO community, raged for a good part of Saturday as several bands duked it out for audience approval. There’s a good chance that our readers may have...

Most of the classes added to TERA after its launch have been restricted to certain races and genders, but the latest update for the game in Korea is at least expanding the options available for the Brawler. As part of the game’s summer update, players are able to make Elin Brawlers, which operate much like the class has previously operated...

Guess what’s up from maintenance with a hefty update today? It’s Nexon’s Riders of Icarus, and the patch is called Dawn of the Magician, chiefly because – drumroll – you’re getting the new Magician class. The patch notes have the whole chart of new class skills, but it’s going to look familiar to fans of mages everywhere: Expect chaos, lightning,...

It’s been eight years since the launch of StarCraft II, which is cause for celebration due to the… amazing competitive gaming moments? That’s what the anniversary announcement opens off with, and there’s nary a mention of story or characters or game mechanics or anything else. Eh, celebrate the competition, we suppose. You can do just that by logging into play...

You’ve gotten to read about Rend, but now is your chance to see it live. Massively OP’s MJ is in the closed beta and is bringing you along to explore this new survival game. Even better, today she’ll be joined by Frostkeep Studios CEO and co-founder Jeremy Wood, who will be showing off some cool stuff as they wander about...

Remember when the Dutch gaming authorities effectively threatened to prosecute prosecute companies like Valve for vending and trading lockboxes the government agencies considered a clear violation of Dutch law? The result of that, as we wrote earlier this month, was that Valve turned off all trading for Dutch players, and then turned it back on again with the caveat that...

From time to time, I like to break from talking about the latest news from Star Wars: The Old Republic to talk about what I enjoy most about the setting that BioWare provides: a roleplay platform. Of course, I’ve talked about the good and the bad of the game as a roleplay platform on many occasions, so I’m not going...

Defiance 2050 isn’t just launching and going away, oh no: Trion Worlds has a new producer letter up today detailing exactly how it’s planning to buff the new baby over the next couple of months. Producer Matt Pettit lays out the game’s roadmap, noting that the Demolitionist class will “soon” unlock for all players, followed by the addition of two...