Previews

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The Stream Team: Surviving a sneak peek into The Skies

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What do Mondays and The Skies have in common? They both involve survival! The upcoming post-apocalyptic survival MMORPG is letting MassivelyOP's MJ in for...

Chaos Theory: Tomb-raiding The Secret World’s Issue #14 with Funcom

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Remember that Indiana Jones-inspired outfit from The Secret World's Issue #6? Today is a great day to dust it off and slip it on because...

Desert Nomad: Quality of life in the Black Desert

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Hello friends, and welcome back to Desert Nomad. After last week’s in-depth look at Black Desert’s cash shop, I decided that this week I would...

Hyperspace Beacon: Should you resub for SWTOR: Disavowed?

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Hello, friends. I hope you don’t mind my calling you that. I do respect my readers. Thankfully, most of you are rational and thoughtful....

Navigating through Neverwinter’s Maze Engine

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After the "big missteps" involved in Elemental Evil, Cryptic is looking to put Neverwinter back on top of its game with this week's Maze...

Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s Thieves Guild DLC is that ex you keep coming back to

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Dang it, Elder Scrolls Online, just when I’m about to give up on you again, you pull me back in. I really didn’t mind your...

Interview: How sci-fi CCG Star Crusade is more than just Hearthstone in space

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Ever wish you could play Hearthstone but with a sci-fi feel instead? Apparently the people at ZiMAD Games felt that way, as they're behind the...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Slothasor and the Guild Wars 2 AMA breakdown

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It's been a bit of a whirlwind week for ArenaNet, especially with a jam-packed Reddit AMA that contained the announcement that Colin Johanson has...

Desert Nomad: The Nomad’s guide to Black Desert

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Hello friends, and welcome to a new installment of Choose My Adv-- HA HA, PSYCH! This puppet's strings have been cut, suckers! No longer...

Choose My Adventure: Crafting catastrophes and dungeon doldrums in Blade & Soul

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Hello, friends, and welcome to the fourth and final installment of Choose My Adventure with Blade & Soul. Last week, as you may recall...

Beta impressions of Motiga’s MOBA Gigantic

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About a week ago, I got an e-mail granting me access to the closed beta test of Motiga's in-development MOBA title, Gigantic. Now, most...

Exclusive: Path of Exile’s Chieftain Ascendancy class is on fire

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Are you ready to enter the labyrinth? Last November we learned all about Path of Exile's unique gameplay experience that will opens its doors...

Choose My Adventure: Blade & Soul’s questing, PvP, combat, and impractically revealing outfits

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Hello friends, and welcome back to Choose My Adventure, where I'm in my third week of exploring NCSoft's martial-arts MMORPG, Blade & Soul. Last...

RuneScape’s big 2016 plans include an expansion and graphics upgrade

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RuneScape has a lot of years under its belt, and a lot of content under its hood. In fact, it's 15 for the former,...

Jagex announces RuneScape: Idle Adventures

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You know those moments when you are dying to get your RuneScape fix but you aren't anywhere near your computer? When you just need...

Hands-on with The Division’s beta: From character creation to Dark Zone PvP

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A couple of weekends back, I -- like many other players -- took part in the beta weekend for Ubisoft's upcoming MMO shooter, The...

Massively OP’s sneak peek of Atlas Reactor, Trion’s turn-based strategy MOBA

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I first experienced Atlas Reactor just before Trion made its big announcement at the PAX Prime party last summer. At the time, I didn’t...

Chaos Theory: In The Secret World, membership has its benefits

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By now, you've probably heard me mention a time or three that The Secret World overhauled its membership benefits and loyalty rewards. As a...

Choose My Adventure: Blade & Soul’s school of hard knocks (and mysterious, potentially deadly curses)

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Hello friends, and welcome to week two of the February series of Choose My Adventure. For those of you who are just tuning in,...

Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR Knights of the Fallen Empire Chapter 10 impressions

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I can't lie: The fact that BioWare took nearly seven hours longer to launch the next chapter of Star Wars: The Old Republic than...

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