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Bless Online highlights login bonuses and offers a new Bless Unleashed trailer

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Are login bonuses an excellent way to reward players for regularly logging into a game and thus enriching the active community, or are they...
Keeping your garden.

Final Fantasy XIV shows off more of the Arboretum hard mode

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There are two dungeons arriving in Final Fantasy XIV with patch 4.4, and it seems more or less inevitable that one of them is...

Star Citizen partially reverses CitizenCon streaming paywall decision after community erupts

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Note: We've updated the end of this post with the latest developments since the article went live Friday morning. The Star Citizen subreddit has been...
ESO Tales of the Dead

The Daily Grind: If you were an MMO NPC, what items would you drop for the players who slay you?

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I fell in love with an epic and frankly underrated Twitter thread from game dev Ben Porter this week. "If you were an NPC,...

Massively Overthinking: What’s your favorite MMORPG swag of all time?

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In a conversation about the recent Starflight 3 Fig campaign - which you won't see covered here since it's not multiplayer, but let me...
We keep it real.

Elder Scrolls Online reboots the Imperial City Celebration event in September

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Already done with the Wolfhunter dungeons in Elder Scrolls Online? Looking for something to do? ZeniMax is obliging come September 6th, when the studio...

Leaderboard: Does an MMORPG’s publisher factor into whether you’ll play it?

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I was genuinely surprised to see so many people flip out over August's reveal that Ashes of Creation will be using My.com as its...

ArenaNet partners with bubble tea vendor on a Guild Wars 2-themed drink, and there’s free stuff in it for you

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Ah, crosspromotions. Remember teasing Bungie for its Destiny candles, poptarts, and energy drinks last year? Good times. Guild Wars 2 is getting in on...
The man with the scars.

Final Fantasy XIV launches its special site for patch 4.4

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You know a Final Fantasy XIV patch is approaching when a special site for the patch goes live, and lo! Here's the special site...
oh gosh

EA sets up relief fund for Madden shooting victims and donates $1 million

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The ripple effect of the horrendous shooting at an esports tournament are going to be felt for some time. EA has already cancelled the...

PAX West 2018: PWE announces Neverwinter’s humorous The Heart of Fire module

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Perfect World isn't just using PAX West this year to announce a new module for Neverwinter: Penny Arcade itself will soon be woven into...
Sometimes it's about tweaking the right people.

The Daily Grind: Are free-to-play MMO conversions saviors or signs of doom in your eyes?

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When Dungeons & Dragons Online converted to a free-to-play business model, it was back when I was first working as a writer in the...

Battle Bards Episode 127: Champions Online

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When you sit down to make a list of the greatest heroes that humanity has ever known, obviously the Battle Bards will top that...
This is not a doll.

Final Fantasy XI will double up big rewards for its September events

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If there are some objectives in Final Fantasy XI you still need to get done solo, you might want to wait just a little...

Gamescom’s 370,000 attendees set another record for the biggest European gaming show

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Gamescom continues to kick butt and take names - 370,000 of them, in fact. That's how many people showed up in Cologne to attend Europe's...
Oh no tentacles.

Final Fantasy XIV outlines its 14-hour anniversary broadcast plans

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It's another anniversary for Final Fantasy XIV, and that means many components to the annual anniversary celebration, including a 14-hour long broadcast starring Naoki...

Hyperspace Beacon: How BioWare could get SWTOR back on track

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If you have yet to experience the conclusion to the traitor storyline from the latest story update to Star Wars: The Old Republic and...

Riot Games vows sweeping corporate culture changes in response to piles of sexism allegations

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League of Legends studio Riot Games is in the news again, this time in relation to the ongoing sexism scandal going on within the...
ExPLOsions! Overpowerin'

Destiny 2’s 2.0 update paves the way for Destiny 2: Forsaken

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There's no formatting wherein the Destiny 2 2.0 update doesn't look kind of messy. Those numbers should not follow one another like that. But...
There were some decent tabletop Star Trek games, but no.

Perfect Ten: MMOs with the most needlessly obtuse stats

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One of my favorite reviewers of tabletop RPGs at one point opined that percentile systems were one of the best tabletop mechanics possible, simply...

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