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Hearthstone’s update 12 is live as Blizzard lowers class card appearances in the Arena

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Hearthstone's update 12 is live today, along with the Arena changes the devs explained yesterday. "This Hearthstone Update charges the nether coils as we get ready...
Taaake ooooon meeee

Crowfall explains its new capture system with outposts

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As you roam through the world of Crowfall, there will be various points of interest. Sometimes they'll be obvious resource nodes, yes, but sometimes...
I want noisemakers.

BioWare explains more about Anthem’s split between MMO and single-player portions

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Is Anthem a single-player game or an open-world MMO? The short answer is that it's both, but the split is a bit different from...
Nothing else has worked.

WoW Factor: There’s no fixing this Battle for Azeroth story

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Let's be totally clear about something: There is no twist waiting for this World of Warcraft story. It doesn't exist. There's no way that...
Hunt that moon, you crazy weirdos.

The Elder Scrolls Online details the monsters of Moon Hunter Keep

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The inhabitants of Moon Hunter Keep in The Elder Scrolls Online do not, in fact, hunt the moon. They hunt werewolves, which is also...

Tabloid muckracking, moral panic, and the mainstream media’s fuss over Fortnite coaching

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With every huge online game, there's an accompanying rush of mainstream fuss over it - it's in the rules. For example, Polygon has a piece...
It only became real very recently.

Ex-World of Warcraft Lead Chris Metzen urges fans ‘don’t panic’ over the current storyline

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It's been a fun week watching the World of Warcraft community freak, rage, and despair over the latest chapter of the Battle for Azeroth...
Oh, is this one my time? It keeps changing back and forth.

The Daily Grind: Have you ever run a ‘solo’ guild in an MMO?

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When housing first arrived in Final Fantasy XIV, a lot of people wanted personal houses but couldn't yet get them. So they did the...
Cluster of stuff.

EVE Online is hard at work on fixing downtime and mitigating DDOS attacks

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All of the balance changes in the world won't help EVE Online players if the game's servers are down, and considering that the game...
Play it cool, boy, real cool.

Blade & Soul launches a frozen event dungeon to keep you cool for the summer

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If you want to stay cool in Blade and Soul for the summer, you're going to have to get cool. The summer event that's...
drigdrag

Bless Online shares more about the Assassin class and holding dominion

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Very soon, players of Bless Online will get to try their hands at playing an Assassin, but why wait until the patch arrives? The...
Happiness is a warm car.

APB patches in bug fixes, balance changes, and a new gun

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It would be understandable if you felt a little cynical about the future of APB: Reloaded even after its acquisition by Little Orbit, but...
We all live in a potentially messy world.

CCP calls NetEase EVE Online partnership a ‘new era for internet spaceships in China’

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NetEase is making bold moves this summer. First it threatened to sue battle royale clones in retaliation for PUBG Corp.'s lawsuit. Then it dropped...

Global Chat: The ‘We Don’t Play World of Warcraft’ Club

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What do you do when you don't play World of Warcraft but everyone else all around you does and won't stop talking about it...
Guk never left

EverQuest II launches Return to Guk

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As it turns out, a lot of adventurers in EverQuest II's world have traveled to the ruins of Guk over the years. Sure, the...

Star Citizen fans raise pay-to-win objections over removal of in-game currency stockpiling cap

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Our inbox exploded last night with Star Citizen tips, and that can mean only one thing: money shenanigans. In-game money, that is, but this...
This went over great.

World of Warcraft fans are not happy with the latest story developments, some try to cope through harassment

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So yesterday's latest bit of story in World of Warcraft did not, in fact, delight and amaze fans. Quite the opposite. Reactions on the...
lol newb

The Daily Grind: Is Fallout 76 an MMO?

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We all know that the definition of "MMORPG" and "MMO" have been stretched, twisted, and interpreted in vastly different ways over the years based...
Doooo not care

Overwatch League finals did not draw eyes on ESPN

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The Overwatch League finals were broadcast on ESPN, but odds are that if you watched them you did so on Twitch or other streaming...
For you it's all in a day.

Final Fantasy XI plans new content for its August update

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Do you want to fight Iroha in Final Fantasy XI? Of course not, she's a perfect darling and wonderful. But fighting her is one...