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Global Chat: Why is LOTRO charging for its fall update?

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Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril recently ducked into the upcoming DLC for Lord of the Rings Online to see what it contained and...
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World of Warcraft is wiping Shadowlands characters and pulls back its release candidate of the pre-patch

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Well, this is slightly less than heartening for World of Warcraft players. There's less than a month until the stated launch date for Shadowlands, but...

The Daily Grind: What MMO has the best login screen?

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You might think this is a trivial thing, but I heartily disagree, and all I have to do is point to a login screen...
We hunted ourselves.

Fractured AMA covers questions about fast travel, PvP, pricing, and testing plans

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Dynamight Studios' CEO Jacopo Gallelli decided to open an AMA for Fractured, and curious players responded with a wide swath of questions about the...

Dark Age of Camelot celebrates 19 years with in-game tabletop map dioramas and RvR bonuses

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How do you best celebrate the world of Dark Age of Camelot? By having little chunks of the in-game world in digital tabletop form!...
Again and again and again and...

Fans are working on an improved Warcraft 2 remake with Warcraft III: Reforged

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It goes without saying at this point that Warcraft III: Reforged failed at pretty much everything it was supposed to do, with the game's...

EA’s advertisement of FIFA lockboxes in a children’s toy catalogue draws mounting criticism

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It would appear that Electronic Arts didn't learn from the last time it pulled this kind of nonsense, but apparently there was still fuel...
One brings GLOWERS

Naoki Yoshida is focusing on Final Fantasy XIV even as he manages hype for Final Fantasy XVI

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Right now, Naoki Yoshida is focused on Final Fantasy XIV. That doesn't mean that he's forgotten about the fact that he's serving as producer...

The Daily Grind: Which musical act do you wish would show up in your core MMO?

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Last week, we saw no less than three announcements of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles collaborating with musical acts and pop stars in their worlds....

Global Chat: Would it be easier than assumed for World of Warcraft to do housing?

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Piggy-backing on our column on World of Warcraft's lack of housing, MMO blog GamingSF argued that the game actually has a lot of the...

One Shots: Amnesia and shipwrecks at level one

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Utakata's shot of a "quiet earth" in Blade and Soul here is not from the starting area (I'm assuming!), but it definitely makes me...
This wasn't it, Chief.

The Daily Grind: What has your biggest MMO Kickstarter disappointment been to date?

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The complete non-starter of Pathfinder Online did not surprise me. It was about what I expected, and it always struck me as one of those...
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WRUP: How the articles get made (a look behind the magic) edition

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First and foremost, you need to find a bird. Are you writing this down? You find a bird. You find a bird. You. Find....

The Daily Grind: Do you like pop-up objectives in MMOs?

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Thinking back to my first days in WildStar, I think my brain went on sensory overload due to all of the Stuff that kept...
Mr. Anderson, welcome back.

Betawatch: Crucible keeps working on the Heart of the Hive

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Ah, Crucible, you entered our lives so quickly and then exited equally quickly... but only back to beta. You might think this is unnecessary...
As above, so below.

Wurm Online teases UI and mission changes ahead of next week’s roadmap reveal

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The most recent dispatch from the Wurm Online team does not actually contain a full roadmap for the game's development updates; that's expected to roll...

City of Heroes players have released a security-centric, server-inclusive launcher called Sunrise

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Back in 2019, when the City of Heroes community was still squabbling over who got to be in charge of what once a copy...

EVE Online’s unpopular ‘resource distribution’ plan, plus the messy 49u battle and Japanese localization

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Earlier today, EVE Online studio CCP Games released a dev blog on the next leg of its resource distribution plan. The studio aims to...
All over again.

WoW Factor: The stuff I’m genuinely excited for in World of Warcraft Shadowlands

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For the first time in the past three expansions, I am not in the beta for World of Warcraft's next expansion. This is fine. It's...

Leaderboard: Are you tempted by Ultima Online’s New Legacy server?

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So here's a fun fact for you: While vanilla, legacy, and progression servers have been all the rage for the last five years or...

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