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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best armor design?

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Face it: If MMOs only had our characters wearing paper bags as outfits, there would still be some of us in the community debating...
Nothing can ever stay the same.

Heroes of the Storm’s Lost Cavern is a straight-up one-lane slugfest

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One of the big things that makes Heroes of the Storm distinct in its genre is the fact that every single map has a...

EVE Online player spends three years visiting every system

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Despite the common perception that EVE Online is nothing but corporate intrigue and scams, some players do actually eschew the cutthroat capitalist meta game...
The ice is thin, come on, dive in.

WildStar opens up the Hoverboard zPrix Invitational

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The iconic vehicle of WildStar is the hoverboard because it's like a skateboard but it's a hoverboard. So how would you like to take...
This sounded good until you started attacking my toolkit for some reason.

Black Desert Online is hosting a Saint Patrick’s Day event

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There aren't a large number of MMOs that celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, probably because it's easier to come up with vague lore-appropriate reasons to...

Tree of Savior puts its early access to player vote

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The Tree of Savior devs are reworking their plans for early access based on player "feedback." IMCGAMES says that its three-month exclusive access plan was...
But robots.

The Daily Grind: What MMOs have your commitment?

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I saw two reactions to last Friday's WildStar news. The first was people loudly proclaiming that the game was dead and that they were...

Global Chat: ARK invents new types of griefing

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Just when you thought you've seen every type of online griefing known to man, here comes another. In An Age grouses about how ARK:...
It, uh... works?

Darkfall: Rise of Agon development celebrates booting up the original game code

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Darkfall: Rise of Agon isn't the only project out there aiming to resurrect the original version of Darkfall, which means that the developers need...
Perhaps not such good value for bat-men, but they have enough money.

DC Universe Online announces a tournament for Batman vs. Superman

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There's not much time left before the latest DC Comics movie makes the old geek argument of "who would win in a fight, Batman...
D(well)ragon Warrior.

Dwell is a top-down 2D sandbox MMO and it’s adorable

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Let's dash your hopes a little bit right now: You cannot actually purchase Dwell at the moment. It has been voted on to Steam's...
ArcheAge

Hate cheaters? ArcheAge has a present for you

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So here's a creative way to engender some goodwill in a game notorious for its rampant cheating: Instead of just punishing miscreants, ArcheAge will...
Screw history!

Guild Wars 2’s Mike O’Brien promises improvements for WvW play

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If you haven't done any raiding in Guild Wars 2, you also haven't seen any of the story involved in the game's raiding scene....

The Daily Grind: Would you play an Indiana Jones MMORPG?

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Disney confirmed yesterday that the Indiana Jones franchise is getting a new entry. Starring Harrison Ford and directed by Steven Spielberg, Indy 5 is...

Warcraft III gets its first patch in four years, with more to follow

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It looks like it's not just cult classic Diablo II that's getting a lick of fresh paint this week, as Blizzard has now released a compatibility patch...
Not yours, but... all right, yes, not funny, sorry.

Dark Age of Camelot adds revamped bosses and more guild symbols

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When your friends in Dark Age of Camelot want to take a trip to Spindelhalla, do you pretend that your internet connection has died?...
We all become one.

Skyforge offers players a merging tool for pantheons with its next update

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When you have contests between various guilds, it's going to be harder to maintain your existence as a smaller guild. Skyforge's pantheon conflicts have...

The Elder Scrolls Online resets leaderboards with a bugfix patch

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The Thieves' Guild DLC for The Elder Scrolls Online was meant to include a leaderboard reset due to the changes with the Vitality system....
Get in and get moving, I hear the law!

Star Citizen’s latest set of player answers involve outrunning the law

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So you're minding your own business in Star Citizen and just committing certain deeds which may - under certain laws - be considered "grotesquely...
Look at me!

Final Fantasy XIV posts its third video diary on visual design

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Final Fantasy XIV is a very pretty game. Even if you don't play it, you can see that a lot of care has been...

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