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Alpha testing is ongoing now for Magic: Legends

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It's testing time for Magic: Legends! Everyone (who was specifically invited to the test) gets to try out Magic: Legends! The information is available...
How do we hide with all the glowy bits?

Albion Online explains the hideouts of Roads of Avalon

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Hideouts? In my Roads of Avalon? It's more likely than you might think in Albion Online. Yes, players can definitely stake their claim to...
glargh and suchlike

Warhammer: Return of Reckoning makes tweaks to RvR, quests, and abilities

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The Warhammer Online rogue server Return of Reckoning has put out a fresh patch recently, which isn’t exactly full of jaw-dropping features but has...

Lord of the Rings Online returned to service last night, with fresh outages and lag

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We return to the ongoing Lord of the Rings Online saga this morning, as Standing Stone Games' MMOs have entered their 10th day of...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever felt robbed in an MMO?

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The title of this Daily Grind can go in a lot of directions, can't it? We could be talking here about an actual thief...
Let the dead bury their dead, they will come out in droves.

Massively Overthinking: Contemplating the never-ending summer of not-E3

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A couple of weeks back, I was reading a piece on RPS that jokingly lamented the way the game reveals of this summer have...
Tink tink.

EverQuest II brings Tinkerfest around once more until August 5

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Do you love tinkering with the gnomes in EverQuest II? Alternately, do you absolutely hate doing that but love taking part in seasonal events...

Sea of Thieves offers apologies and compensation for last weekend’s dataloss

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So let me tell you a story. It's a story about an online gaming company that had major problems with its servers last weekend....
Sky sky sky

Vague Patch Notes: No Man’s Sky is the real reboot success story

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Whenever an MMO of any type has a launch that resembles the Nedelin catastrophe, people start talking about what the studio should do to...
Override.

Final Fantasy XIV updates its Reflections in Crystal site as it passes 20 million registered players

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It was easy to miss amidst all of the other news contained in yesterday's live letter from producer and director Naoki Yoshida, but Final...

LOTRO and DDO say they’re ‘making progress’ on the nine-day server crisis, but the community isn’t having it

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The server crisis that has been plaguing both Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online for over a week now may...
The stuff that you have, does someone have a claim on it?

The Daily Grind: Would you ever consider multiboxing in an MMO?

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If you've ever read Bannable Offenses, a Final Fantasy XI comedy blog, you may remember when the blog's supposed writer took control of the...

Check out this magnificent unicorn man that we never got to see added to PWE’s MOBA Gigantic

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As I wrote in an op-ed before, I miss the heck out of Gigantic, the so-called "shooter MOBA" developed by Motiga and released by...
Wheeeeeeee

Fractured starts its next alpha test today

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The original plan for Fractured was to kick off its next alpha testing session on July 16th. That didn't happen, unfortunately; bugs cropped up...
Outliers.

Final Fantasy XIV has cancelled its Japanese Fan Festival scheduled for December

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This probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but Final Fantasy XIV will not be hosting any fan gatherings this year. The North American...
UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD

The Elder Scrolls Online previews a whole castle full of the undead with Castle Thorn

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Castle Thorn in The Elder Scrolls Online has lots of undead. No, really, it has more undead than that. They're squirting out of the...
This. Is. Exhausting.

World of Warcraft connects two EU realms while planning its Heroic raid testing for Shadowlands

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It's almost time to make sure that heroic raids are sufficiently... well, whatever they're supposed to be in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. It can't...
The climb.

Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.3 gets a trailer along with more patch details ahead of August 11

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Patch 5.3, Reflections in Crystal, arrives in Final Fantasy XIV on August 11th after an unusually long delay. But if you need to see...

The Daily Grind: What were some of the most memorable MMO outages?

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This past week, many Lord of the Rings Online players impatiently nibbled on lembas bread and took to Reddit as several of the North...

Black Desert player opens over 1,000 Oasis Dream Chests during a livestream

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Remember when Black Desert had the Find Your Oasis event where players could earn Oasis Dream Chests full of stuff? How many of those...

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