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ArcheAge’s latest patch introduces the feared leviathan

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The kraken? Oh, the kraken in ArcheAge was so last week's terrifying sea foe. Now the fantasy sandbox has a new threat emerging from...

E3 2015: Blade & Soul’s ‘full-access F2P’ model and hands-on

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Long before NCsoft officially announced that Blade & Soul was heading west, fans were eager for the chance to get their hands on the game...

One Shots: Primitive GPS

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There's no shame in being lost, especially if your MMO doesn't include an on-screen map. Anyone remember the olden days of using graph paper...

E3 2015: Torchlight Mobile is a new Torchlight, not Torch-lite

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When Perfect World and Runic Games announced last week that Torchlight was stretching out into the mobile market, it caught many folks quite unawares. (It's...

E3 2015: Hands-on with Sword Coast Legends

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I'm more an MMORPG player than a Dungeons & Dragons tabletop gamer, but I'm familiar enough with D&D to be intrigued by the addition of...

E3 2015: SWTOR Knights of Fallen Empire rumors are true

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BioWare teased that things would change for Star Wars: The Old Republic on June 15th. And it's true. The rumors we reported on this...

One Shots: Bagpipes in the woods

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I can't say that I'm the biggest fan of bagpipe music, although I do harbor a certain fascination for any musical instrument that looks...

See World of Warcraft’s oldest surviving screenshots

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Here's a treat for MMO history buffs. Dave Wilson, who works at Blizzard doing recruitment marketing, posted a series of captioned pictures on Twitter...

PvE sandbox Villagers and Heroes is reborn tomorrow

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When I last checked in on indie PvE sandbox Villagers and Heroes a year ago, the Steam launch was busy rocking the game with dramatic...

One Shots: The infinite summons

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One of the stranger Final Fantasy tropes is that the more powerful a summoned creature is, the longer it would take for any given...

Aion’s Upheaval begins on June 17th

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At a time when players are leery of being nickle-and-dimed, Aion is releasing yet another completely free expansion. Also known as patch 4.8, Upheaval...

Marvel Heroes celebrates its second anniversary with Doctor Doom

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Dust off your capes and adjust your ruby-quartz visors, for tomorrow is Marvel Heroes' second anniversary and all are invited to join in the...

One Shots: Reflections of me

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One fun in-game photography trick is to use reflections, mirrors, and glass to offer a different -- and sometimes more artistic -- vision of...

WildStar is going free-to-play this autumn

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Critics, current players, former players, people who had briefly heard about the title from friends and family - a lot of people didn't think...

One Shots: My imaginary friends

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Here's a fun thought: What if we aren't actually playing MMOs? What if we're just sitting in front of blank screens, creating fantasy worlds...

LOTRO Legendarium: Eight years, eight pictures, eight stories

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I might be a little tardy in doing this, but every spring since I started to write about Lord of the Rings Online, I've...
Much like TERA, having a discussion about this game's attitude towards women is mostly a matter of shaking your head in exasperation.

Blade & Soul hits western shores this winter

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Remember when comic books had little call-outs on the front cover proudly proclaiming that something happened because the readers requested it? I always thought...

Valiance Online plots its strategy going forward

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What's going on in the super-powered world of Valiance Online? Quite a lot, actually. The spiritual successor to City of Heroes posted a list...

Voxelnauts Kickstarter melds VR, voxels, and sandbox gameplay

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What do you get when you stick a sandbox, voxels, and VR into a blender? You get Voxelnauts, a new voxelbox -- actually, they're calling...

One Shots: Nothing to see here, move along

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Do you ever stop to realize just how much weirdness we see and dismiss every day as MMO gamers? If a fraction of the...