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Path of Exile’s take on Farmville blooms on June 19 with the Harvest League

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After seemingly countless quarterly updates and leagues, you might think Grinding Gear Games would eventually run out of ideas for Path of Exile. Not...

Choose My Adventure: Star Trek Online and my hunger for a space MMO

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My installation of Star Citizen isn't working right, and Elite Dangerous has some neat things going on but not the right kind of hooks...

Desert Oasis: Black Desert’s Hashashin, new server types, PvP changes, and new regions

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I would be lying if I told you that I stayed up late this weekend just so I could hear the executive producer Jae-Hee...

Fight or Kite: Deep-diving Crowfall’s Dregs RvR gameplay

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A couple weeks ago I was preoccupied with leveling up my Frostweaver in Crowfall and completely missed out on the Dregs campaign that was...

Massively Uplifting: Charity tourneys, Asheron’s Call in Animal Crossing, and over a million Kind Words

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May day! May day! We have warm fuzzies incoming! And just in time to start June off with happier thoughts. And who couldn't use...
The other side.

Wisdom of Nym: So, if there is a Final Fantasy XVI…

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It's been about a year since I wrote about Naoki Yoshida's mystery project, which still has not actually been announced in any way and...

Desert Oasis: Recapping Black Desert’s Heidel Ball, from backstage to balancing

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One of the complications of playing playing Black Desert is that it operates on UTC. Since I live in California, aka the center of...

Jukebox Heroes: The best of Echo of Soul’s soundtrack

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Echo of Soul is one of those MMORPGs that seems doomed to languish and be tossed around from publisher to publisher until it fades...

The Survivalist: Astroneer launches persistent multiplayer servers

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Sometimes the gaming gods do listen! Sometimes you do get your wish. Sometimes your heart's desires are granted. And that sometime is now! From day...
All over again.

WoW Factor: Shadowlands needs an excitement boost it’s not getting

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Back in February, I wrote about how Blizzard could help restore some player confidence about Shadowlands. And we're a few months in, and... yeah, that's...

Desert Oasis: Rethinking the Black Desert grindspot debate

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Almost a year ago, I penned a column on grindspot etiquette in MMORPGs. Specifically, I wrote about the commonly accepted etiquette when it comes...
Lol

Vague Patch Notes: BlizzCon’s cancellation might just be for the best

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After a lot of time spent expecting this particular announcement, yesterday it was finally confirmed that there will be no BlizzCon 2020. This is...

Wandering Wraeclast: Final impressions of Path of Exile’s Delirium

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Let's talk Delirium! We're in the third month of Path of Exile's latest league, and with the next league expected in June, we're running out...

Perfect Ten: Unconventional MMORPG magic classes

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Earth. Fire. Air. Water. These elements are all well and good if you want to summon Captain Planet for some reason, but they make...

Choose My Adventure: Taking the new Warbird for a spin in Star Trek Online

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It was unanimous: We were meant to be Romulans and continue with the storyline that we were following in Star Trek Online. The voting...

Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s No Quarter

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After March’s relatively lightweight release, Steel and Fire, a lot of Guild Wars 2 players were expecting something big from this month’s release, entitled...
This is who we were.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers has mined out its own nostalgia

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There are a lot of themes that are running hot through the entirety of Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. Some of them are very obvious and...

Jukebox Heroes: The best of Neo Steam’s soundtrack

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While there always seems to be much love for steampunk among geeks and gamers, the setting never seems to be the catalyst to instant...

The Game Archaeologist: McDonalds’ McWorld MMO is a thing that existed

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If you thought that it was strange for MTV to create its own virtual world, then you probably are forgetting how desperate companies always...
Maybe, maybe not.

Vague Patch Notes: The endless allure of the games we never got

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It's kind of weird for me to see the intensely positive reaction people have had to the concept art for the original version of Diablo...

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