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Choose My Adventure: Trove’s Candyman can

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Hello again, friends, and welcome to another riveting installment of Choose My Adventure. I hope you have a sweet tooth (and a good dental...

Choose My Adventure: Unveiling the Treasures of Trove

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Hello again, friends, and welcome once again to Choose My Adventure. The results of last week's race are in, and holy cow, what a...

Blade & Soul founder packs are now available for planned Q1 2016 launch

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I was very excited to sit down during Gamescom with Nicolas Coutant, producer at NCSOFT West, about the upcoming US and Europe release of...

Gamescom 2015: First hands-on look at Hi-Rez Studios’ Paladins

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Hi-Rez Studios pulled quite the ace out of its sleeve during Gamescom with its freshly announced new addition to the shooter market, Paladins. The...

MMO Burnout: Virtual bush flying with FSEconomy

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I play a lot of flight sims. The Sturmovik series, DCS, X-Plane, and pretty much every similar title ever released has found its way onto...

Choose My Adventure: A whale of a time in FFXIV Heavensward’s Sea of Clouds

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Hello again everyone, and happy August. It's happy for me, anyway; this past weekend marked the first time in recent memory that I could...

Choose My Adventure: Dungeons, soloing, and PvP in FFXIV’s Heavensward

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Hello again, everyone, and welcome to week three of Choose My Adventure. If you're tuning in for the first time, allow me to bring...

EverQuesting: First impressions of EQII’s progression server

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When it comes to a launch, rough winds are pretty much expected. But surprisingly, EverQuest II's progression server launch on Tuesday was pretty much...

Choose My Adventure: Heart of the Cards in FFXIV Heavensward

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Welcome ladies, gentlemen, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri to the second installment of Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward edition. Last week, I...

Behind the scenes: The sights and sounds of World of Warships’ vessels

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Immersion. That's not a word you often hear associated with lobby-based PvP games. But in the case of World of Warships, the third title...

Trion welcomes action-RPG Devilian into its fold

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After a cryptic teaser site posted last week, Trion Worlds is finally ready to make its big announcement: The studio will be publishing Korean...
Make it everything.

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward is (almost) a perfect expansion

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There are certain phrases you really want to be able to use but don't expect to in a first impressions piece. That headline is...

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...
This is my surprised face.

E3 2015: The Division’s Dark Zone demo does the game no favors

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After covering the development of Ubisoft's The Division since 2013, I finally got my hands on the game itself -- and its PvP -- at this...

Punching dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Evolved

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Five minutes after I logged into ARK: Survival Evolved, I punched a fish. A few moments later, I punched a tree. Shortly thereafter, I...

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: Cory Jones discusses HEX, lawsuits, and cake

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I first saw MMOTCG HEX at E3 2013 at the same time the Kickstarter was revealed to the public, which was actually after it had...

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...
Not gignatic: the remaining workforce.

E3 2015: Hands-on with Motiga’s ‘shooter MOBA’ Gigantic

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As some of you recall, Gigantic is one of those games that looks like a MOBA and smells like a MOBA but -- for a...

E3 2015: David Braben on Elite: Dangerous

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How does the guy who got motion sickness from Kirby's Air Ride get assigned to the flight simulators every year? Yes, at this year's E3, with...

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