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Albion Online alters resource respawns and rune rewards

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Resources matter in Albion Online, and major changes to the respawn rates of resources is going to shake up the game's economy significantly. The...
Waifu

Dark and Light apologizes for rollbacks following the ice caves patch

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Nobody wants to see the word "rollback" associated with a game, including the designers. You can tell that the staff behind Dark and Light...

Hyperspace Beacon: A happy accident in Star Wars The Old Republic gives us hope for the future of CXP

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The last couple of weeks have been really rough week for Star Wars: The Old Republic from a technical standpoint. The Umbara update itself...
BREAK BREAK BREAK

Guild Wars 2 is running another Path of Fire stress test on Thursday

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Quick show of hands, who in the audience would like to break the Guild Wars 2 servers? Well, that's... that's a lot of hands,...
No longer.

Raptr is shutting down on September 30th

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Do you remember Raptr? You can see a screenshot from our own memories of it right there in the header. Yes, there was a...

The Daily Grind: What do you think of World of Warcraft’s Shadows of Argus so far?

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It's been a little over a week since World of Warcrafteers (that's a term, right?) jettisoned the world of Azeroth for that of Argus,...
Such value!

OrbusVR is bringing market stalls and messages to its second closed beta

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Thus far when playing OrbusVR, players have had no ability to send private messages to one another. As a result, you've had to rely...

Guild Wars 2 on how Path of Fire is the most ‘complex’ story ANet’s done

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Even if you're a Guild Wars lore fan whose favorite word is "Cantha," it's likely that you've lost a bit of the story along...

Worlds Adrift responds to player PvP feedback

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Tuning PvP during a game's testing process has to be a thankless task, but the team at Worlds Adrift are up to the challenge....
El Black.

Black Desert is getting a Spanish localization

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Remember when Black Desert wasn't localized in English and every attempt to play it involved jumping through a lot of hoops in a language...
Boat? Boat.

The Division’s new patch 1.8 locations want you dead

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Have you ever really wanted to get ganked by the AI in a game? That's what you'll be getting with the two new areas...
What's two times zero?

EVE Valkyrie will be getting loot boxes

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There's really no two ways about this particular tidbit of news. CCP is adding loot boxes to EVE Valkyrie, according to a recent interview....

Funcom will still love Conan Exiles when the new baby is here

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Longtime Funcom watchers and MMORPG veterans already knew that Funcom was working on multiple games as part of its Conan franchise push, but some...
SWEAR TO ME

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG is the worst at balancing difficulty?

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Justin's LOTRO Legendarium article on whether or not Mordor is too difficult struck a chord wth me. "I do not envy devs and their...
That's not a doll, guy.

Final Fantasy XI makes high-quality items a bit easier to nab

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High-quality items in Final Fantasy XI can be a bit of a bear to acquire. High-quality base items aren't common, and they're difficult to...
I am not throwing away my shot.

Wisdom of Nym: Breaking down what we know about Final Fantasy XIV 4.1

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I've been gathering, crafting, and fighting my way up in Final Fantasy XIV in preparation for 4.1. Not that I haven't been enjoying the...

The Daily Grind: What MMOs do you wish would come to Steam?

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I was poking through my Steam library this weekend hunting for an old game I wanted to install to see whether it still worked...
Just in case you were unclear.

Game of Thrones: Conquest is what Turbine does now

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So... Turbine. You remember Turbine, right? Used to run some games before the company spun off the MMOs to Standing Stone Games and shuttered...

One Shots: In the altogether

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Warning: After the break is a shocking depiction of human nudity and the bravado of a squirrel that seeks to save you from nightmares...
But not of-the-year material.

The Daily Grind: Who are your favorite MMO NPCs to hate?

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The first really story-heavy MMO I played was arguably Guild Wars, and while it's been many years I still remember talking with other people...