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Engizzage.

Star Trek Online outlines its content roadmap through July

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The downside of Star Trek Online's new roadmap is that it is not overburdened with elaborate details about the content that's coming to the game...

The Daily Grind: What visuals do you wish you could hide in MMOs?

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Last week World of Warcraft made some aspiring nudists happy by announcing that it was going to let players hide pretty much every piece...
A Lad

Closers brings a Task Force upgrade for Wolfgang along with an April Fools’ dungeon

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Ladies, look at your Wolfgang. Now back to me. Now back at your Wolfgang in Closers, then back to me. Thankfully, he's not me. And...
But how bad are we talking, here?

Final Fantasy XIV prepares for the third expansion with patch 4.56

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We know that the third expansion of Final Fantasy XIV is sending us into the Light-suffused First, a chance for us to do our best...

Anthem misses the mark again: No armor loot in Elysian Stronghold caches

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The number of posts and threads about Anthem's loot issues are too numerous to count without a calculator. Now, we can add a misdirect...

Guild Wars 2 begins return-to-Tyria initiative with free episode and big Path of Fire sale

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At the end of last week, ArenaNet announced its plans for a new five-week Guild Wars 2 initiative that's intended to bring players back...
Snoooooow

Heroes of the Storm yanks the cash option for lockboxes in its latest test patch

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You can buy lockboxes right now in Heroes of the Storm, but with the current patch in testing on the game's test server, you will...
It was cute.

The Daily Grind: Is it possible for an MMO to make you feel like a kid again?

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Last month on /r/mmorpg, there was a thread about finding MMOs that will make you feel like a kid again. You can probably guess...

EVEsterdam 2019: EVE players intercept Triglavian war plans

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The EVE Online community was surprised recently when billboards across the game were hacked and displayed a threatening video from the Triglavian Collective, a...

One Shots: Selfish selfies

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Hey! Hey man, what do you think you're doing? You're a bleeding Division agent, all right? You're the thin line that holds back anarchistic...
SWEET GUITAR RIFF

The Daily Grind: When does an in-development MMO become real to you?

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Call me a cranky old person if you wish, but a game goes from "nice idea and/or tech demo" to "actual MMO" when it's...

Guild Wars 2 wants to bring former players back to Tyria with new initiative

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Every MMO player in existence has almost certainly, at one point or another, taken a break from a game and come back to it...
Well... whoops.

FFXIV Fan Festival Tokyo 2019: Travel to the First with Hrothgar and Dancers

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The third and final Final Fantasy XIV fan festival for Shadowbringers kicked off on Friday evening in by North American time schedules. We even...

EVEsterdam 2019: EVE Online explorer visits every star system without being killed

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When people say that EVE Online is a game that lets you make your own path, they aren't kidding. While CCP Games builds gameplay...
Go for it.

WRUP: New drinks served at your local bar edition

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The Frosty MacMurphy: Take one part Scotch, one part eggnog, one part motor oil, and one part expired eggnog. Put all of that stuff...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you wish you had come to years ago?

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It is really one of the more bittersweet of emotions that a gamer can feel: coming late to the party on something fantastic. On...
Are you a door or not?!

FFXIV Fan Festival Tokyo 2019: Liveblog of the opening keynote

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Here we are at long last. If you're anything like me, you've been looking forward to this event since Final Fantasy XIV first delivered...
Let's do the time warp again.

Betawatch: Guardians of Ember enters open beta again for the first time

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Hey, neat, Guardians of Ember is in open beta! Wait, didn't that already happen? Well, yes, but that was before Insel Games managed to get...

Elite: Dangerous prepares to move to new forums and announces a planetary expedition

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The community of Elite: Dangerous is going to be pretty busy in the next few days. On the one hand, there are plans for...
Plays well with others.

The player endorsement system in Overwatch has actually cut down on toxic behavior

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It turns out that when you reward players for being decent human beings in Overwatch, there's incentive for people to continue being decent human beings....

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