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Guns of Icarus Alliance is now in beta
There's nothing quite like flying through the air in a steampunk airship, unless you're also blowing other steampunk airships out of the sky. Guns...
Riders of Icarus plans adjustments for Legendary dungeons
How do you feel about the Legendary dungeons in Riders of Icarus? Do you feel that they're tuned to just the right difficulty and...
Albion Online posts a video guide to the Faye update
In most games, you'd expect a patch named Faye to involve either helping or fighting someone named Faye. Not so with Albion Online; that's...
Revelation Online details the mechanics of guilds
Having a guild is important in Revelation Online. Then again, having a guild is important in a lot of games, so Revelation Online has...
Eternal Crusade promises its first major content update next week
A content update is coming to Eternal Crusade next week, which means that the developers need to explain how this content update (which most...
Final Fantasy XI plans several events for XI Day
XI Day is almost upon us. What's XI Day? Well, it's November 11th, which has been designated as a special day for Final Fantasy...
League of Legends preseason patch highlights and improves assassins
Another season has come to a close for League of Legends, and that means a preseason patch that can turn everything on its ear....
Albion Online promises better PvE content in response to backer survey
The final beta for Albion Online rolls on, and it's going to keep on rolling well into next year. But what is the state...
WildStar’s Redmoon Mutiny update goes live today
The next part of WildStar's Redmoon Terror raid doesn't go live until November 16th, but the associated patch is going live today. That means...
Lord of the Rings Online enables premium housing upkeep
If you've bought yourself a nice premium house in Lord of the Rings Online, you'd better be ready to keep the thing up. The...
The major class changes coming in SWTOR’s Knights of the Eternal Throne
Another expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic means another level cap bump and another set of adjustments for the various classes and their...
WildStar brings back the dungeon chase event
Do you like hunting the most dangerous prey in all of Nexus? Then you'll want to jump in for WildStar's returning Dungeon Chase event,...
Blade & Soul’s Midnight Skypetal Plains arrives November 16
There have been no shortage of big updates for Blade & Soul, and the newest update is delivering a big update for big groups....
Star Wars: the Old Republic goes into detail on repeating story chapters
If you were looking forward to hearing about what was changing with combat and class balance in Star Wars: The Old Republic's next expansion,...
Gigantic offers a video spotlight on Tyto the Swift
There are only two kinds of people who would really try to have "the Swift" after their name: really quick people and really slow...
WoW Factor: BlizzCon betting odds
My original plan this week was to talk a little bit about patch 7.1, but two things have made that less than possible. The...
EverQuest II shows off the Ascension classes for Kunark Ascending
When EverQuest II's next expansion hits, players are going to be progressing through an entirely new set of classes. The new Ascension classes are...
Blizzard responds to feedback on World of Warcraft’s hidden artifact appearances
There are a lot of artifact appearances in World of Warcraft: Legion, at least in theory. If you're not into pushing forward with PvP...
Marvel Heroes celebrates the Dr. Strange film with new costumes and free access to the hero
A big-budget Dr. Strange film is hitting theaters on Friday. No one, not even the studio executives responsible for the film, is clear on...
The Daily Grind: Does bigger content in an MMO feel more epic to you?
The tradition of making big plot stuff happen in big groups is not unique to World of Warcraft, but it was one of the...