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Wow.

Get a crash course in the history of MMOs

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Despite what your game's general chat might argue, World of Warcraft wasn't the first MMO and online games didn't magically become a thing with...
Over and over.

The Daily Grind: Have you ever dreamed about an MMO?

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At least two or three times a year, I have the World of Warcraft expansion dream. It's usually really nice. There are new systems...
This turned out super great here, guys.

Chronicles of Elyria fans have filed the pre-litigation paperwork necessary to sue Soulbound Studios

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If you were one of the people who really believed in the goals that Chronicles of Elyria's development team advocated and were hopeful to...

The Daily Grind: How successful do you think Crowfall will be?

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When Crowfall went into beta recently, I felt like my interest in this game was awakening from a long slumber. Some of these Kickstarted...
Hoos

Fractured outlines its plans for meaningful city selection in its next alpha test

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In the most recent Fractured test, your goal for selecting a player-run city spot was just picking out a place you liked. That was...
House.

Neverwinter kicks off a special new sort of campaign with the Redeemed Citadel today

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The latest patch for Neverwinter is delivering a different sort of content for players to take part in. It's a campaign, of sorts, but...
Oily.

Blade & Soul shows off a plethora of summer events starting August 19

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There are swimsuits. There will always be swimsuits. Did you think that Blade & Soul, a game with lady characters who are 60% leg...
Blooooooooooom

Path of Exile’s newest patch finally turns down the bloom (and lets you turn it down further)

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Depending on your personal experiences with Path of Exile, the newest patch either adds a largely irrelevant bit of graphical change or will finally...

Global Chat: Getting an early look at Crowfall’s beta

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Now that Crowfall's beta is on the scene, plenty of curious gamers are streaming in to see what ArtCraft's ambitious PvP title has to...
Skeeorch.

EVE Online’s weeks-long player war has cost players over $112,000 so far

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For over six weeks now, one of EVE Online's largest and bloodiest battles has been waging across the game's galaxy. World War Bee is...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most annoying travel system in an MMO?

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A while back, I finally talked my husband into buying his Elf Warden a basic Hobbit house in Lord of the Rings Online. He...
Well, you know.

The Dawngate revival project Kickstarter has funded

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We realize this one might be a slightly controversial statement, but we're going to say it anyhow: 2020 has been a weird year. It's...

RuneScape takes its community award show online

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Considering that RuneFest isn't going to happen this year, Jagex has been looking at other ways to celebrate RuneScape's community. To wit, the studio...
Much better.

Check out Sims 4 builds for living in Dalaran or Darnassus… or in a world of Overwatch

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You probably do not want to live in Darnassus in World of Warcraft. For one thing, it's on fire. For another, even when it...

Meridian 59 honored the late MMO developer Brian Green in yesterday’s memorial

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Last week, we covered the tragic news that Brian Green, better known as Psychochild around here, had passed away, far too young at the...
Holla back.

Wisdom of Nym: Impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Reflections in Crystal content

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All right, this format worked well last time; let's go for it again and talk about Final Fantasy XIV's latest patch. But to start...
Let's kill an oni.

Ghost of Tsushima is getting a co-op mode added with a free expansion

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Enjoying traipsing about Japan in Ghost of Tsushima but wish you could do so with your buddy, Ninja Rick? The bad news is that...
Working from not-home.

Final Fantasy XIV is planning more housing plots for patch 5.4 in addition to new housing servers

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It's not exactly a surprise to Final Fantasy XIV fans that more housing plots are in the plan, considering that Ishgard restoration is pretty...

The $420K ArcheAge class action lawsuit settlement is finally paying out

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I'm quite sure our readers will remember the class action lawsuit a group of gamers lodged against Trion Worlds way back in 2015 -...

The Daily Grind: What borky system in your favorite MMO needs some love?

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A few weeks back, a new SWG Legends chef was chatting me up on Discord, asking what were frankly very reasonable questions about some...

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