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Diablo III developer offers feedback on Anthem’s reward structure

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Here's something neat: Travis Day offering feedback on the reward structure of Anthem. Why is that neat? Well, it's neat in part because BioWare has...
ESO

The Daily Grind: How do you and your guild handle political discussions inside MMOs?

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I'm genuinely curious about this one, so indulge me. From my vantage, it's seemed to me that casual discussion of politics inside MMOs has...
oh nooooo

H1Z1 patches in quick fixes for its mammoth Season 3 update on PlayStation 4

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Adding a whole lot of stuff to a game in a patch can also break things. It's not intentional, but it's inevitable. H1Z1 had...
THAT'S NOW HOW LAWS WORK

RuneScape launches its third and final Elite Dungeon, the Shadow Reef

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All seasoned adventurers in RuneScape are encouraged to dive into the last Elite Dungeon today. This of course means "seasoned" as a synonym for "experienced,"...

Get an eagle’s eye view of LOTRO’s entire world map

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You might know that Lord of the Rings Online's world is big. Like, really, really big. But you might not have the appreciation for...
It goes clicky.

Leaderboard: What’s your biggest beef with Anthem?

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If you're still a little confused as to why EA would drop something like Apex Legends right as hype was reaching its peak for...
I am not throwing away my shot.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s Shadowbringers overhaul jobs, part one

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There are four jobs that we know of which are getting some major reworking in Shadowbringers. For a game with fifteen jobs, that's not so...
hnn... colonel

There’s far too much hitbox around Pathfinder in Apex Legends

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Hitboxes are tricky things in any sort of competitive game. Broadly speaking, hitboxes are the spaces around a character that can be hit by...

300,000 people took part in the Xbox One betas for Black Desert, Pearl Abyss previews roadmap

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My guess is that most of our readers are already plenty familiar with Black Desert, being as it's still the newest of the large...
oh noes a bitey scratchus

Two weeks after Activision Blizzard’s layoffs, its stock price is barely higher than before the layoffs

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You all remember when Activision Blizzard laid off 800 employees on a year that was, on balance, a very good year for the company?...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO is soooo close to being perfect but just misses the mark?

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Last week, there was a thread on the MMORPG subreddit that struck a chord with me. Author SaintNutella rattles off a list of some of...

SWTOR gives a skimpy roadmap while Star Wars Galaxies is remembered… in song form

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It's a two-for-one Star Wars special in this post today! A short post on the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums shed a very...

One Shots: Don’t look behind you!

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Oh man, you did it. You clicked on this column and brought a curse onto your head. Right now, something terrifying has materialized out...
Pay me to play me!

The Daily Grind: Do you get worried when MMO fan sites shut down?

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Fan sites come and go. They always have and always will. The game that you thought you would care about forever when you were...
How near, how far.

After a month of quiet work, Valiance Online updates fans on internal progress

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A while back, Valiance Online made a thread on its official forum to keep fans up to date on the internal progress for the game;...
It goes clicky.

WRUP: This post was not written by a neural network edition

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Well, folks, I'm sorry. I strongly hinted in the last intro that the next installment of What Are You Playing would be written by...

The Daily Grind: Does law and order add to MMORPG worlds?

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As of late I've been going through the Thieves Guild DLC in Elder Scrolls Online. The result of this has taught me that (a)...
Hooray, or something?

Betawatch: Anthem has begun to sing

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It'd be nice to say that nothing in beta can stay there, but that would be a lie. There are lots of games that stay...
Not red, nor falling.

ZeniMax Media is hit with a trademark dispute over a filing for ‘Redfall’

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What is "Redfall?" We don't know just yet, beyond the fact that it's a trademark filed by ZeniMax Media (the parent company of Bethesda...
There was something beautiful and wonderful and it destroyed itself.

Jukebox Heroes: The 10 greatest MMO soundtracks of all time (as voted by you)

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A few weeks ago we witnessed the showdown of the ages (or at least the epoch known as "late January 2019"), as Massively OP...

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