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Chaos Theory: Our guide to The Secret World’s Unseen achievement

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For the last couple of months, I have been focused on trying to acquire The Unseen achievement in The Secret World. Why? It isn't...
It's a tender moment if you don't know the context.

Choose My Adventure: Assassinating randoms in The Elder Scrolls Online

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It's weird how attitudes towards death vary depending on the video game and the structure set up. In Saints Row the Third, a friend...

Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online juggles making money and making content with Crown Crates

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I think it's fair to say that the $15 subscription model just isn't cutting it for MMORPGs anymore. I understand that. The $15 pricetag...
What happens next?

Wisdom of Nym: The state of Final Fantasy XIV’s Machinist

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About a year and a half ago, I first put (digital) pen to (theoretical) paper about Final Fantasy XIV's Machinist. At that point, Heavensward...
Yes, I slightly broke tradition here, but it was a tradition established by one column only.

Epic MMO Battles of History: Star Trek Online vs. Star Wars: The Old Republic

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Asking whether Star Trek or Star Wars is the better science fiction series is like asking whether Game of Thrones or The Tudors is...

MMO Mechanics: 2016’s MMORPG mechanics in review

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The holiday season is finally upon us: My decorations are resurrected from their dark corner of my storage closets once more, Jack Frost is...

The Game Archaeologist: A talk with the man behind EQOA’s revival project

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This past week we reported on an ongoing attempt by a small group of faithful EverQuest Online Adventure fans to bring back the MMO...
Here we go.

Betawatch: These are the dates of our lives (December 2, 2016)

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I never wanted to be writing about betas for a living, you know. I wanted to be a novelist (once I realized that "combination...
Everybody dies.

WoW Factor: Looking forward to World of Warcraft 7.2

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It's been a little while, friends, but that happens. Last time I was making bets about what we'd see for World of Warcraft at...

EverQuesting: Preparing to play EverQuest II’s Kunark Ascending

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When I first spoke about preparing for EverQuest II’s latest expansion, Kunark Ascending, I pretty much focused only on leveling. That's because you can't...
Yes, yes it is.

Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG stories of 2016

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As we start to come to grips with the fact that we will be turning over the calendar into 2017 in one short month,...
Darn it.

The Daily Grind: Have you ever wished that supplementary lore were represented in an MMO?

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I do not care about Hearthstone. Odds are I'm never going to; I got over my CCG phase ages ago with actual cards, and...

Hyperspace Beacon: What to expect from SWTOR’s Knight of the Eternal Throne

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After some of the major flaws with Knights of the Fallen Empire, I wasn't expecting much from Star Wars: The Old Republic's latest expansion...
Not so bad, eh?

Choose My Adventure: My first week in the Elder Scrolls Online

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Despite the fact that for this round of Choose My Adventure, I am jumping into The Elder Scrolls Online in an era of doing whatever...

Global Chat: Evaluating the latest MMORPG expansions

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This week in our tour through MMO blog posts, we're going to witness a lot of evaluations of recent update and expansion launches that...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking Guild Wars 2’s A Crack in the Ice

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I've covered plenty of ground since my initial impressions piece went live last week, and I'm hoping that you've had time to play Guild Wars...
VOID

Wisdom of Nym: Our first preview of Final Fantasy XIV’s Patch 3.5

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The last patch of Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward is on its way. It's not here, of course; we'll have to wait until January for...

EVE Evolved: Getting started with EVE’s free-to-play

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Just under two weeks ago, EVE Online launched its new free to play account option with the introduction of clone states. Subscribers are now given the...

One Shots: A horse and his old boy

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As much as I admire the world that J.R.R. Tolkien built and his insane attention to detail, language, and extensive back histories of completely...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most frustrating streak of bad luck you’ve had in an MMO?

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There are two things I'd really like in World of Warcraft's most recent expansion, and since both of them are entirely random, I'm flat...