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FromSoftware’s next game is rumored to be an ‘open-world title’ made in collaboration with George R.R. Martin

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Although the Game of Thrones TV series has just reached its controversial conclusion, series author George R.R. Martin is still (hopefully) hard at work...

Buying too many games in the Epic Games Store could see your account locked down

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You just can't make up stuff like this, friends: It turns out that doing something silly like taking advantage of sales in the Epic...

City of Heroes: All the public servers we know of, plus Reddit’s launch and Homecoming’s name release

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A new City of Heroes rogue server has joined the chat: Specifically, it's the Reddit-backed server, and it's called Pleiades. It went live at...

Choose My Adventure: My story begins to twist in Star Wars: The Old Republic

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Who would have thought that two planets would bring change? I was wholly expecting some generally insular stories from Nar Shaddaa and Balmorra as...

The pieces needed to build a WildStar emulator have been posted online

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Have any of you seen the movie Contact? It's a sci-fi film about an alien radio transmission that contains instructions to build an interstellar...

Dota 2 paywalls its Avoid Player feature by including it with its Battle Pass

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The nature of the beast in team-based competitive games is this awful notion that frustration with how a match plays out gives one carte...

World of Warcraft Classic preps for first major stress test tomorrow

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The gates are about to come down on the World of Warcraft Classic test, as Blizzard reminded players last night that it'll be temporarily...
I do crimes.

Overwatch kicks off its third anniversary celebration on May 21

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It's almost time for another Overwatch anniversary celebration after a year of new heroes, new maps, and about five minutes of forward motion in the...
I blew things up!

Apex Legends’ latest patch is all about sounds and hit detection

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Is Apex Legends just too darn loud? The game's next patch is out today, and one of the things that it's doing is just turning...

Worlds Adrift’s May update improves the Blight, knowledge, and ship storage

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It's been a few months since we checked in on Worlds Adrift, the early access MMO sandbox. MMO players will recall that back in...

Here are 10 key differences between original vanilla WoW and WoW Classic

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It is probably important to realize that no matter how carefully Blizzard developers recreate the early days of World of Warcraft for WoW Classic,...
Details, details.

The Repopulation updates players on LODs and inventory following water damage

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Unfortunately enough for the developers currently in charge of The Repopulation, the universe was not happy with keeping the game's player-facing updates humming along at...
Sing a song of madness.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood in review – the trials

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First and foremost, I freely admit that the title for this one is a bit of a misnomer, since we're covering a lot more...

City of Heroes: Homecoming concurrency, Rebirth and Reddit’s i24 servers, and the future of basebuilding

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I had wondered whether the slow-drip release of World of Warcraft Classic this week would dampen enthusiasm for other games' rogue servers and progression...

A side-by-side comparison of World of Warcraft’s graphics in Classic and Battle for Azeroth

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Computers get faster and better with time. Graphics that require a decent GPU in 2011 can be displayed at much higher resolution in 2019...

Ship of Heroes is hoping to roll out its character creation beta in July

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Ship of Heroes may be the youngest City of Heroes spiritual successor, but it's also the most likely to hit beta first: Its beta...

The Daily Grind: Do you think MMO worlds are too bloated and big?

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A couple of months ago, I saw an interesting topic on Reddit that deserved more love than it got. User RuccFeddit (<3) posted what...

Battle Bards Episode 144: Colors of the rainbow

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Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet: Combined, these forces create the awesome power of Roy G. Biv — otherwise known as the...

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...

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