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Paragon Chat hosts a winter formal in City of Heroes on February 9

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Hang out with your fellow heroes, dress up, and enjoy a celebration of winter in Paragon Chat this Saturday with the winter formal! Yes, the City...
Vengeance.

Final Fantasy XI’s February update brings substantial improvements to Red Mage

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It's been a long time since Final Fantasy XI made Red Mages happy. The job has languished for a long while with most of its...
Something got cast.

Check out these spectacular prize-winning player housing hideouts in Path of Exile

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Back in December, Grinding Gear Games launched a massive expansion for Path of Exile, Betrayal, and among its key features was an overhaul to...

Star Citizen players will be able to communicate using American Sign Language

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This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse kicks off not with development but with player footage of a 42-man dogfighter skirmish just above the...
My God, it's full of nonsense.

The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMO newbie experience that you powered through anyway?

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Earlier this week, Justin mentioned that he was toying around in classic EverQuest, and he said he was playing through the tutorial. That surprised...
This is... better?

EverQuest looks for player stories for its anniversary

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The memories that have been forged in EverQuest are numerous, due in no small part to just how long the game has been running. For...
tappa tappa tappa

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s creative director talks about the characters of Jedi Under Siege

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The latest update for Star Wars: The Old Republic brought a lot of characters around. It brought major characters back, it brought new characters into...
Things could be going better!

Square-Enix’s latest financials show a decrease in sales and profits for the past nine months

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The latest financial report for Square-Enix is out for the prior nine months of operation, and it's not a great report for the company....

Elder Scrolls Online is handing out 500 cash-shop currency to current players

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If you're an existing Elder Scrolls Online player who's logged in between the start of 2017 and now, heads-up: ZeniMax is handing out a...
Remember, he's bigger and stronger than you, but you're smaller and weaker!

Vague Patch Notes: Why the social penalty for open PvP in MMOs never works

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One of the most important things to have when you're thinking about games and their design is reference material. It's one of the things...

Riot Games says it’s really, truly not working on a League of Legends MMO

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Remember last summer when Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill teased Twitter by asking whether the company should make an MMO? Then, just as people...

Boy’s life proves MMOs are ‘a gateway to wherever your heart desires’

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I remember the first few years when MMORPGs were a going concern and how so many people back then used to justify their bad...
Flexin'

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the biggest homogeneity problem with outfits?

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Every MMO has a certain upper limit on how many different outfits you can come up with. That's just the reality. And some games...
This town is honestly bigger than it needs to be and we shouldn't be there.

Fortnite’s newest patch adds in bottle rockets, campfires, and the wild west

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Do you have a deep and unsatisfied need to tell your opponents in Fortnite that this municipal collection of residents lacks sufficient size for both...
THIS WOULD BE EASIER WITH MORE PEOPLE

Sea of Thieves kicks off the Friends Play Free event today

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The old aphorism is that there's no honor among thieves. But there can be honor, companionship, and even just good old-fashioned friendship in Sea of Thieves....
Bye Felicia.

Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers page on Steam accidentally reveals an additional zone

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It's the day when everyone gets to buy the third Final Fantasy XIV expansion, or at least pre-order it. And it turns out that there...
Are you a door or not?!

Final Fantasy XIV opens up pre-orders for Shadowbringers

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The third expansion for Final Fantasy XIV launches on July 2nd, but if you're a player for the game you are likely already hyped for...

Daybreak delayed EverQuest II’s new free-for-all PvP server, Nagafen [Update: It’s up now!]

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Daybreak surprised the EverQuest II community last week by announcing it was resurrecting the sunsetted Nagafen server as a free-for-all PvP seasonal server that...
GO LEFT YOU IDIOT

The Daily Grind: Are you looking forward or backward with your MMO picks?

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We do find ourselves in a very strange time to be MMO players. While there are plenty of titles in development and early access,...
No galaxy brain here.

World of Warcraft recaps the process of hunting down the Hivemind mount

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If your enjoyment of World of Warcraft partly relies upon hunting down the puzzles full of obscure notes for individual mounts, you would probably do...

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