Columns

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Global Chat: The fallout over Secret World Legends

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The fallout over The Secret World's reboot into Secret World Legends has spread far and wide over the MMO blogging community, with many expressing...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s Bastion of the Penitent raid lore

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As promised, I'm making a return to the lore found within Guild Wars 2's newest raid Bastion of the Penitent now that we've summarised the...

EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s moon mining overhaul and the future of conflict

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Just under four years ago at EVE Fanfest 2013, EVE Online's Executive Producer Andie Nordgren took the stage and delivered an epic long-term vision for the...
This is who we were.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward in review – the main scenario

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I never really had a chance to explore Final Fantasy XI expansion by expansion. By the time the game launched in North America, the...

The Game Archaeologist: Rubies of Eventide

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I can't say that Rubies of Eventide has been on my radar, like, ever. And yet practically every time I've asked for suggestions of...

One Shots: Avenging angel

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When you push a player too far, commit too many crimes, and flaunt your evil with one of those tacky pre-battle speeches, you're going...
It's not real.

The Daily Grind: What MMO April Fools’ Day joke makes you sad it’s just a joke?

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It's not really difficult to tell when an announcement is an April Fools' Day joke; they're usually pretty obvious. Final Fantasy XIV's announcement of...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: More terminology the MMORPG genre needs

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Many moons ago (so, a few months), I wrote a column about terminology that we need for the MMO genre. This made our Editor-in-Chief...

EverQuesting: Digging into EverQuest’s 18th birthday and chatting with Daybreak

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Holy smokes! EverQuest is old enough to vote! The world of Norrath just turned 18 years old on March 16th. In the US, that...
It's been real, and it's been fun, but... eh, you know the joke now.

Choose My Adventure: Gearing up for Black Desert

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I’m going to be honest with you, folks; the last Choose My Adventure installment left me feeling kind of depressed. It’s a shame to...
You want some secret world? It'll cost you.

The Daily Grind: Are you excited about Secret World Legends?

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I quite like the setting behind The Secret World, and the game had some very neat ideas about progression and character builds. For my...

Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #12-7

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It's starting to get serious now. As we well know, people are highly opinionated about everything, but when it comes to music, there seems to...

Hyperspace Beacon: Star Wars The Old Republic will finally allow us to switch factions

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Long-time players of Star Wars: The Old Republic: In the next update 5.2: The War for Iokath, you will finally be able to switch...

Funcom reboots The Secret World as Secret World Legends, a ‘shared-world action RPG’

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Raise your hand if you felt trepidation as well as hope when Funcom announced during that last investor call that it was relaunching The...

The Game Archaeologist: How DikuMUD shaped modern MMOs

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Even though there are hundreds and thousands of MMOs spanning several decades, only a small handful were so incredibly influential that they changed the...
I need healing.

Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on the healer skills Final Fantasy XIV could delete

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Tomorrow, we're getting the end of the Heavensward story quests in Final Fantasy XIV, which means I need to start looking at Heavensward as...

Guild Chat: Tips for meeting guildmates in real life

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Welcome along to Guild Chat, my column in which I join forces with commenters to help a reader in need with a guild-related concern....

One Shots: I took a picture THIS big!

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When you take the best screenshot in the world and want to impress your friends, do you find that you end up exaggerating a...
Still kicking!

Betawatch: Pathfinder Online isn’t dead yet (March 24, 2017)

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You could be forgiven for kind of thinking that Pathfinder Online was dead in the water, but it turns out that there's still hope....
Just absolute galaxy brain

WoW Factor: The good and the bad of World of Warcraft’s patch 7.2 date

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Boy, this is a time I am glad to be wrong. I was outright worried that Blizzard was going to hold patch 7.2 for...