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Both MSI and ROCCAT have released gaming peripheral news items over the last day or so. MSI has a new line of powerhouse gaming notebooks and ROCCAT has introduced the new "in-ear" headset called the Aluma.

It’s always a good thing to see a company taking risks. It happens so rarely anymore with companies simply releasing the same game year after year. But can you blame them? It’s a safe and easy way to make money, and the chances of failure are low. But Runic Games, the makers of Torchlight and Torchlight II, are attempting to buck that trend with their new game, Hob.

This week on Game On, Chris and Brax mull over EverQuest 2’s new prison servers. By demanding a subscription and not offering customer service, are they going too far with their power? The hosts also talk about Pillars of Eternity, how Marvel Heroes (2016!) has stolen their hearts, how WoW’s next expansion is likely coming before June, and more!

Star Wars: Uprising is one of a handful of new MMOs making their way to the mobile scene this year. I know we’re all PC enthusiasts here at MMORPG.com, but let’s make no bones about it: if the mobile gaming world can make a solid MMO, I’ll gladly take notice and play the crap out of it. Luckily, with Daniel Erickson at the helm, Kabam RPG seems to be doing just that with Star Wars: Uprising. Oh, and it’s the first game coming out that is tied directly into the new canon.

Ubisoft has announced that Tom Clancy’s EndWar Online has officially kicked off its first round of closed beta testing after a successful alpha phase. The CBT will run from today through November and will feature two new commanders for each side, a new PvE ‘special operations’ mode, a VIP system and the usual list of bug fixes and feature enhancements.

Kingart-Games has sent word for that a new KickStarter initiative has officially launched for Dwarves, a story-driven RPG for those who want all dwarf all the time. The game centers around epic battles and the acquisition of companions to take it to the enemies’ knees.

Our "Old Auntie Gamer" aka "Old-School Pong PC gal" gets a hands-on session with this popular Japanese console game at PAX and calls it good.

It would be difficult if not impossible to build any kind of reasonable case that World of Warcraft isn’t the most influential MMORPG ever. As it approaches it eleventh anniversary this November, it can lay claim to some truly enormous numbers. For example, in 2012, it reportedly surpassed $10 billion in total gross revenue. Last year, it reached 100 million accounts created.

During this past weekend’s PAX Prime, several interesting tidbits of news for Trion’s game were released. We will be covering Devilian, Rift and Atlas Reactor, but some notable news was also released for Trove, Defiance and ArcheAge.

Our intrepid PAX team met with Taehoon Kim, CEO of nWay and Steig Hedlund, Vice President, Creative on day two of PAX Prime 2015 where we got our hands on the mobile version of Chronoblade and editor Bill Murphy fan-boied over sitting next to Steig.