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Battle Bards Episode 110: Acoustic guitar

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The Battle Bards are quite familiar with the power of the strummed guitar and lute, knowing that such simple instruments can bring down walls,...
WHO WANTS TO GNAW ON HUMAN BONES

Skyforge is out for the Xbox One

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Who says that Sony fans get all of the good exclusives for this particular console generation? After all, you can now play a god...
Oh, wow, maps. What an amazingly new concept.

The Soapbox: Inconvenience is not immersion in MMOs or anywhere else

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Inconvenience is not immersion. This strikes me as something rather ridiculous to type; to mildly paraphrase Dan Harmon, it seems like should be one of...
feelin' fine!

Destiny 2 stream is canceled in the wake of player rage as a free trial surfaces

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So, let's recap the Destiny 2 saga. First, there was a leveling scaling problem wherein players discovered that the game was now slowing leveling...

The Daily Grind: What should MMOs do to facilitate your return?

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Over the past weekend, I picked up Hearthstone after a year or two away from the game. I certainly didn't remember where I left...

Global Chat: Saying goodbye to Marvel Heroes

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Few people are happy to see an MMO go down, especially in the manner that Marvel Heroes is going from a popular and well-liked...
kerburn

Path of Exile shows off the interactions of new skills and support abilities

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Part of the fun of Path of Exile is setting up combinations of skills, support skills, and items in order to create a constant...
Mars mars mars mars.

ROKH updates fans on the process of examining and improving the game

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Another four-week silence from the ROKH development team has been broken by the latest update on the state of the game. The last lengthy...
No, this is not from my playthrough.

Clicker Heroes dev on abandoning the free-to-play model for the sequel

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If you've never played Clicker Heroes, you can pick it up for your phone or on Steam right now; it's a lightweight little idle...

Revelation Online: ShadowBlade brings Assassin, new class training, and class changes

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Do you want to skulk in the shadows in Revelation Online? The new ShadowBlade expansion for the game lets you do just that with...

Raph Koster on the cost of making games from the industry side

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All of this talk about the price of making games and the price of playing games thanks to Star Wars: Battlefront II has meant...
Very dynamic.

SWTOR’s double event won’t make today’s 5.6 patch (but the trailer is now live!)

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The bad news is that the Star Wars: The Old Republic double event has been pushed back slightly. It was supposed to start today,...
Huh.

Wild Buster shows off footage of Serious Sam in action

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The original announcement that Wild Buster is going to feature Serious Sam (star of the series of games known as Serious Sam) as a...
Gay ship.

EVE Online patches in more alpha skills on December 5th

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The next patch for EVE Online arrives on December 5th, and it's going to give Alpha players (or "free-to-play players" for those not down...
Every so often, you need to take a look at the banner you're marching under to make sure it still echoes your beliefs.

Wisdom of Nym: Classes, job, and the Armoury System in Final Fantasy XIV

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Here's how this column got written. Last week, I was talking about new potential jobs based on weapons rather than on jobs that have...
Seriously, someone needs to turn up the gamma correction in New England.

Choose My Adventure: Challenging currency in Secret World Legends

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Here's the thing that I love to point to whenever I talk about this portion of Secret World Legends: New England is really kind...
Maybe here? Who knows.

Guild Wars 2 teases the next Fractal arriving with season 4

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There's another Fractal arriving with the next portion of Guild Wars 2's Living Story tomorrow, but where will it take you? What will it...
BANNED, you're all BANNED.

Mother of Fortnite cheater claims that her 14-year-old son is being used as a scapegoat

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Last month, Fortnite developer Epic sued two alleged associates of a cheating software site as part of the studio's hard-line approach to cheaters. Makes...

Raph Koster takes Rolling Stone to task over vanilla World of Warcraft

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Don't ever test Raph Koster on MMORPG history, because you'll probably lose. The Star Wars Galaxies and Crowfall designer challenged a recent Rolling Stone article and...
There is no 'enough.'

Gloria Victis expands its map and adds some hidden treasures

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There's even more land in Gloria Victis now, enough space that everyone has all the reason in the world to spread out and never...

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