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Shroud of the Avatar devs vow to drink, dance, and sing during next week’s telethon

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Shroud of the Avatar is planning a 10-hour streaming event it's calling the Spring Festival of the Avatar Telethon next week. On May 2nd starting...

City of Heroes fans mark 12th anniversary in Paragon Chat and Champions Online

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Twelve years ago, heroes answered the call to defend Paragon City against aliens, bandits, and nefarious sewer zombies. City of Heroes launched on April 27th,...
Practice makes something!

An EVE Online television show is in the works

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MMOs and television series might not seem like two tastes that go great together, but it makes more than a little sense for EVE...
Style.

Diablo III shows off the rewards for the newly arrived Season 6

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It's time to get up and start earning rewards for Diablo III's Season 6! "Now now," you whine. "I have to go to work...
When you're out in the club and you see a fly girl, do the creep!

Blizzard responds to vanilla WoW server requests, considers ‘pristine realms’

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The shutdown of the Nostalrius private server happened some time ago, but the debate it started hasn't stopped, and today the World of Warcraft...
WoW

The Daily Grind: Will Blizzard ever make WoW 2?

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On the heels of Blizzard's announcement that World of Warcraft's Legion expansion will arrive at the end of August, I saw several comments on...
It goes the same as a thousand before.

ArcheAge enters open beta testing in China

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The worldwide availability of ArcheAge takes another step forward as the game's Chinese client enters its open beta test. This comes after several different...
Yes, this assuages my nervousness, you bet.

Daybreak exec on early access, e-sports, VR, EverQuest Next, and the future of EverQuest

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GamesIndustry.biz has published a lengthy interview with Daybreak chief publishing officer Laura Naviaux Sturr on the evolution of the MMORPG studio over the last year....
How far we've come yet.

PAX East 2016: Richard Garriott discusses Shroud of the Avatar’s ‘launch’ and future

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It might seem as if Shroud of the Avatar has been in early access for a very long time, probably because it has. Technically, it's...
It's not just me, right?

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s deepest dungeon, Palace of the Dead

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The funny thing about Final Fantasy XIV, in some ways, is that the game could actually get away for a reasonably long time without...

ARK: Survival Evolved will soon incorporate player-made mod content

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Big news for ARK: Survival Evolved today on multiple fronts. For starters, the game now claims more than a million Xbox One copies sold...

Black Desert addresses pre-order horse controversy

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For want of a tier 5 horse, a kingdom was lost -- or so the saying goes. Some Black Desert players are quite upset that...
Come and get your PLEX.

The Daily Grind: What obligations do players have to improve an MMORPG?

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It's only reasonable to talk about the obligations that developers and publishers have when running a game. The designers have an obligation to make...

One Shots: Jedi to the max

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Are you all the Jedi you could possibly be? If not, then subscribe to our exclusive six-week course, where we'll teach you such advanced...
Here's the weird zone that no one has seen in forever, you live here now.

PAX East 2016: Final Fantasy XIV answers questions and reveals the Palace of the Dead

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If you think you've seen everything that Final Fantasy XIV has in its bag of tricks, the game's Q&A panel at PAX yesterday made it clear...

PAX East 2016: Elder Scrolls Online’s Dark Brotherhood DLC begins PTS testing this week

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From its community event at this year's PAX East, ZeniMax announced today that the recently teased Dark Brotherhood DLC lands on Elder Scrolls Online's...
Both hands!

Leaderboard: Will you be giving Guild Wars 2 another chance?

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This week's Guild Wars 2 update has been widely welcomed by both current and past players for its broad-sweeping quality-of-life adjustments (and rollbacks) for...
And here we go again.

WRUP: Don’t tell me how to do things edition

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Listen, there are things you don't need to tell me how to do. Don't tell me how to raise my kids. I don't have...

The Daily Grind: What are your favorite MMO dungeons?

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If a theme has emerged in my 2016 gaming habits so far, it has to be my renewed love of running dungeons in MMORPGs....
Back to the same.

Diablo III’s sixth season kicks off next week, but seasons aren’t coming to console

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Diablo III's sixth season is bearing down on us -- are you prepared? The fun kicks off on Friday, April 29th, at 8 p.m....