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The latest Humble Bundle is based subtitled ‘Gamepedia Online Multiplayer’ and features a ton of great stuff for the mercurial online player.

Fans of System Shock 3 will be happy to hear that venerated game developer Warren Spector has joined Otherside Entertainment o work on the forthcoming title. Up to recently, Spector had been working at the University of Texas Moody College of Communication but decided he wished to return to full time game development.

The closed beta for Chronicle: Runescape Legends is over, but Open Beta is fast approaching. During this brief window of calm, we grabbed a quick update from Senior Producer Mark Killey and Lead Designer James Sweatman

Reuters is reporting that the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic & Environmental Crime has alleged that former CEO of Funcom Trond Arne Aas knowingly participated in “market manipulation and insider trading” during a nine month period in 2011-2012.

ESTsoft has announced that Cabal Online is now available on the Steam gaming platform. Players will be able to take on the legendary title that has seen nearly thirty million players take part over the years.

In this new column we’re calling The Playlist, we seek to be your MMO Spotify. We want to curate lists of games for all kinds of player types or interests. To start off, we’re going to focus on the best games out there for all kinds of explorers. If you love getting lost in a world, seeing whatever is over the next mountain, we hope to give you quite a few games to check out.

Poem Studios with the help of legions of Knights of the Old Republic fans is giving the game a new look, new missions, new places to explore by ‘rebooting’ the game using the Unreal 4 Engine. The indie team can legally do so since the finished product will be given away for free. That’s right: FREE.

A new job post has shown up on the EA Career site that seeks a Senior Lead Server Engineer for a ‘new unannounced project’ with Bioware. The job will be centered at Bioware offices in Austin, Texas.

Ultima Online launched just a little bit less than 20 years ago. 2017 will see the game’s twenty year anniversary. What is interesting about Ultima Online is that the legacy of that game still holds very true today. So many games are patterned off of design concepts that were created last millennium. Here is a list of some of those legacies.

This week on Game On, Ryan and Brax are joined by composer extraordinaire, Inon Zur. Inon has composed soundtracks for some of the biggest video games in the business, including Fallout 3 and 4, New Vegas, Dragon Age, RIFT, TERA, Icewind Dale 2 and more. He is premiering a brand new song, EXCLUSIVE to MMORPG and Game On.