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This is not the new zone, we've seen this.

Astellia Online promises Avalon this month and a new zone in December

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It's pretty clear that the team behind Astellia Online isn't just importing the game and then letting it go completely, seeing as how the game...
Teaching!

EVE Online’s newest patch improves new player tutorials and balance tweaks

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Looting stuff feels like it should be kind of self-explanatory, doesn't it? But when you're floating out in the cold darkness of space like...

Asheron’s Call would’ve been 20 years old this month, but the community isn’t dead

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Ah, Asheron's Call. We miss you. You'd have been 20 years old this month, celebrating your antique status with the likes of Ultima Online...
Shoot to build.

Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida explains the Ishgard Restoration plan, addresses population bottlenecks

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Yesterday saw the introduction of the Ishgard Restoration content in Final Fantasy XIV, if you could see it past the enormous sea of people turning...
oh no skellingtons

World of Warcraft’s latest test server build sparks player anxiety over glowing eyes

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The next World of Warcraft patch is in the middle of testing, which has already resulted in some negative player feedback on certain systems. But...
All things go, all things go.

The Daily Grind: What was your ‘golden age’ of MMO gaming?

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While history has yet to really settle this issue definitively, many MMORPG players seem to believe that we have already seen the great MMO...

MU Online announces a server merge and an event to celebrate the occasion

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Most of the time a server merge is cause for concern, but for MU Online, it's cause for a party! Two of the game's...
Viva buhos!

A mobile version of Granado Espada is in development from Hanbitsoft

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We understand if you have forgotten about Granado Espada at this point. Sure, Hanbitsoft has been developing it consistently for years now, but it has...

Guild Wars 2 has lost yet another developer, this time to Bungie

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Even if you disregard the poor community reception of some of ArenaNet's recent initiatives, it's been a rough couple of months for Guild Wars...
And chill.

British Esports Association aims to increase ‘female esports players at the top level’

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If you'd like to see more ladies kicking butt and taking names in esports like Xiaomeng "VKLiooon" Li did at the Hearthstone Grandmasters final...

Choose My Adventure: Second time’s the charm in Citadel Forged with Fire

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As interesting as figuring things out on my own in Citadel: Forged with Fire may have been the first time around, I have to...
We remember, to our detriment.

World of Warcraft: Classic has all servers down to one layer now

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If you're still salty over the addition of layering to World of Warcraft: Classic, you have picked an odd hill to die upon. But you're...
Healing girl.

New Overwatch short story details what brought Mercy back into the field

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The original Overwatch still has a bunch of heroes who never got a whole lot of further exploration, such as the almost ubiquitous healer Mercy....
Working from not-home.

Final Fantasy XIV patches in Ishgard Restoration and the newest Ultimate content with 5.11

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So often cities are destroyed in MMOs and never seem to be actually fixed in any way. But that's not the case in Final Fantasy...

Fallout 76 dataminer is banned from the game after reporting an exploit

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No good deed goes unpunished for one Fallout 76 player who found a significant exploit regarding legendary weapons, reported it, and got summarily banned...
Glorbo?

The Daily Grind: Do MMO market undercutters grind your gears?

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MOP's Carlo proposed this question for a Daily Grind run: Do MMO market undercutters annoy you? "I undercut the market so I can move...
Pet action.

Final Fantasy XI’s latest version update adds new monthly objectives and sort of updates Beastmaster

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The newest patch for Final Fantasy XI has included adjustments for Beastmaster... in theory. You can hear about it in video format or just look...

Fan author of The Secret World releases a fourth book in her unofficial series

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Do you remember The Secret World fanfic author Amber “Blodwedd Mallory” McKee? She's an author who was given the go-ahead by Funcom to write,...
Nothing really changes.

EA Spouse was 15 years ago, and not much has changed in games development

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When it arrived back in 2004, EA Spouse felt like a wakeup call. But now it's easy to mark how long it has been...
The other side.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.1 in review, part 2

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There are some things that I am just not qualified to comment on extensively when it comes to Final Fantasy XIV. Generally speaking, this mostly...

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