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The Black Death is an upcoming survival MMO that places players squarely in the midst of the historical period marked by the plague. Players take on the role of an ordinary citizen trying to survive insurmountable odds as any one of ten classes. The Black Death encourages exploration, features a massive world, and much more.

It can be pretty heart wrenching, especially if you’re still firmly part of the community when it happens. Still, it’s fun to remember the good times, so let’s take a look back at some of the best (now shut down) MMOs of all time.

Obsidian Entertainment and Paizo, Inc. have announced that Pathfinder Adventures will be released on March 29th. PA is considered a “genre bending adventure card game” and will be released for both iPad and Android tablets.

Obsidian Entertainment and Paizo, Inc. have announced that Pathfinder Adventures will be released on March 29th. PA is considered a “genre bending adventure card game” and will be released for both iPad and Android tablets.

NGames has sent word that its isometric ARPG, Dark Era, has launched. Players take on iconic historical roles including Julius Caesar, King Arthur and Robin Hood as they blaze a trail across six vastly different eras and countries.

Users on Reddit are reporting that John Smedley’s Pixel Mage Games is under DDOS attack. Attempting to access the page yields a Cloudflare notification before the site can be accessed.

Like many other gamers, November and December of last year saw most of my video game immersion happen in a single game: Fallout 4. As the end of the year brought on the usual annual reminiscing, I got to thinking about all the time I’ve spent playing in the Fallout universe since 1997, and how Fallout is one of the few game series I’ve played regularly over the last 19 years – a testament to its’ quality.

This week our friend Christopher Coke is celebrating a new arrival in his family, so Bill Murphy is sitting in to talk about the week’s RPG news. Also, he urges you all to play Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arising on the PC, so we might get the MMO version outside of Japan.

CD Projekt Red has announced that XBox One players can grab a free copy of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings via the backward compatibility program. The free download is available from January 21st through February 5th in the US, Canada, UK, France and Germany.

IGN is reporting that EA CEO Andrew Wilson, in a speech given at the B.C. Tech Summit, has said that understanding the games business and branding EA as “this corporate beast that just wants to take money from them while people play our games” is not what is intended and not what EA is trying to do.