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One Shots: Look – but don’t throw

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It's pretty common to be frustrated by MMOs showing you things that you can't ever touch or play. Whether it be fantastic races that...
Can't wait to see what's next here?

The Daily Grind: What upcoming MMO do you want to be good, even if it might not be?

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I'm excited about Peria Chronicles. This is not a secret. I'm also excited for Caravan Stories. And yet in both cases these games could be awful, and...

Jukebox Heroes: The best of Trickster Online’s soundtrack

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When going on musical expeditions, I get the most excited when I open up a folder of tracks from lesser-known MMORPGs. I think that's...

Lawful Neutral: What DMCA exemption victories really mean for MMO preservation

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You might remember back in October, we covered how the US Library of Congress granted expanded DMCA exceptions for preserving online games. The Library...
One last round.

Betawatch: World of Warcraft Classic’s beta testing has officially begun again

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If you tested World of Warcraft back before it launched, this week's surprise launch of the World of Warcraft: Classic beta test might spark uses of...

Hyperspace Beacon: Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes satisfies that Star Wars fix, but there’s a catch

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For the last few weeks, my other job has either taken away my game time or just sucked the energy out of me so...
The vista

First impressions: World of Warcraft Classic is exactly what it says on the tin

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The simplest analogy I can think of for World of Warcraft: Classic is being served a breakfast of toasted plain white bread with a...

Into the Super-verse: Getting to know City of Heroes all over again

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It has been well over a decade since I played City of Heroes with any regularity, and yet when I saw that familiar loading...
This is not hard to do.

WoW Factor: Thoughts on the impending arrival of WoW Classic

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So now we have a date at the end of August for World of Warcraft: Classic. That's actually a lot later than I had expected, but...
Yo.

The Daily Grind: Do you have any hope left for Anthem?

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I feel faintly as if I owe Bree an apology. When I volunteered to do our first impressions piece on Anthem, it was actually a...

Perfect Ten: The 10 most adorable MMORPGs ever

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We all like to think of ourselves as cultured and deep individuals who routinely calculate square roots and recite Gilbert and Sullivan at dinner...
Tamriel Infinium Sumerset

Tamriel Infinium: Ranking the Elder Scrolls Online’s expansions and DLC to date

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On the cusp of the release of Elder Scrolls Online's latest chapter expansion, Elsweyr, I thought it might be fun to go back and...

Choose My Adventure: The thrilling escapades of a Star Wars: The Old Republic sniper

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I have to say, I've made a really good choice this month. Yes, I used the word "good" to describe something Star Wars: The...

Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s War Eternal

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After playing through Guild Wars 2's new Living World episode, War Eternal, which is live today, I am still speechless. This is, in my...

EVE Evolved: What really sets Russian EVE players apart?

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One of the most interesting things about EVE Online is the fact that its single shard server forces players from different countries and cultures...
This should be obvious.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood in review – expert dungeons

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For all that dungeons are a core part of the Final Fantasy XIV experience, this expansion was the lightest on top-end dungeons. Where Heavensward wound up...

Not So Massively: Mourning the wasted potential of Trion’s Defiance

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One of my biggest gaming pet peeves is people declaring games "dead" before their time. If you can play it, it's not dead. This...

The Survivalist: The highs and lows of Conan Exiles, one year after launch

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In an industry that never seems to see games move out of early access, it feels strange to get to celebrate the first launch...

One Shots: What am I looking at here, exactly?

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I guess I was asking for pure nightmare fuel when I issued a challenge last week to create the most disturbing and deformed avatars...
This is not ambiguous. It actually seems pretty straightforward.

The Daily Grind: Do you have unplayed MMO characters you refuse to delete?

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For the longest time, I had an orc in World of Warcraft whom I had never played past level 7 but who was never getting...

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