Previews

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Blizzard lays out its plans for PvP in World of Warcraft Classic, teases Rise of Azshara stream

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Last month, Blizzard dished out the deets on how World of Warcraft: Classic's content will be divvied out in six discrete phases, but the...

A first look at Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Masters of Sharn sees goblins and dinosaurs

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When a new content update arrives to an MMO, one would likely expect some new baddies to fight. During a broadcast from Twitch streamer...

More news from the Undermountain: Neverwinter Ranger and Wizard changes on preview server now

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If it wasn't apparent by now, just about every Neverwinter class is getting some kind of overhaul. Although PerfectWorld hasn't decided to change Rangers...
Siri play Chariots of Fire.

Cool your jets: Destiny 2’s ‘Crucible isn’t going anywhere’

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We've never known the internet to take things to extremes. I have only ever know the internet to be a measured and thoughtful place,...
In a big outer land, land stays with you, and also your guild.

Albion Online is getting so popular ahead of its F2P launch next week that it’s already bracing for queues

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Oberon has been kind to Albion Online. The March 20th update has apparently driven a big spike of users for the not-quite-two-year-old game, and...

The final episode of Guild Wars 2’s fourth season of living story is called War Eternal

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If you can tear your eyeballs away from Super Adventure Box for a minute, ArenaNet has some Guild Wars 2 living world content updates...

Star Wars The Old Republic travels to a planet far too remote for an effective demonstration, don’t worry

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Players in Star Wars: The Old Republic are clearly taking a tour of classic Star Wars planets in the updates leading to the rumored...

Dauntless lays out its future plans with its new interactive roadmap

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The Shattered Isles of Dauntless are constantly expanding with the addition of new features, new activities, and of course new, terrifying behemoths, and now,...
AHHHHHHHH

Check out some Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Masterminds of Sharn content on the preview server this week

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The newest expansion for Dungeons & Dragons Online, Masterminds of Sharn, isn't slated to release until the end of this month, but players can...
Oh, I get it.

Project Gorgon previews its new War Cache dungeon feature in latest developer blog

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Some brand-new level-50 content is coming to Project Gorgon in the form of War Caches, a new feature coming in the game's next update....

Destiny 2 outlines quality of life adjustments coming in Update 2.2.1

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The weekly Destiny 2 report from Bungie is once again full of details for what's coming down the pipeline for the multiplayer shooter. Most...

Guild Wars 2 staff are reorganizing into ‘fully staffed content teams’ as ArenaNet outlines future content

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Guild Wars 2 has been in a bit of limbo this winter. Following mass layoffs at ArenaNet, the cancellation of two additional games, and...
Take with one hand and give with the other hand.

World of Warcraft Classic is all about old-school spell batching

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In the quest to bring back as close to an authentic vanilla era experience as possible, Blizzard is returning a system that players probably...
Slightly higher than zero.

Survival MMO Population Zero dishes on guilds and crafting workbenches

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Survival sandbox MMO Population Zero is continuing its information barrage this week with another dev blog and Reddit Q&A intended to shed some light...

Star Citizen spin-off Squadron 42 updates backers on February progress

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Still keeping an eye on Squadron 42, the Star Citizen spin-off that's... well, it's closer to launch than Star Citizen is, at least. Cloud...
Slightly less leashing than expected.

PAX East 2019: Bless Unleashed’s overview trailer actually looks good

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Bless Unleashed has been rolling out class videos over the last couple of months, but now, Bandai Namco is dropping a more generalist trailer...

Neverwinter announces an April 23 release date for Undermountain on PC

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Week by week, Neverwinter has been kicking out dev blogs touching on the various things players can expect in the Undermountain expansion, so a...

Guild Wars 2 is working on multiple fixes and features for the new warclaw mount

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It's a big week for Guild Wars 2 since Super Adventure Box today. But that's not all the studio's working on. MMO gamers will...

Torchlight Frontiers’ time-limited contracts are its version of seasons

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The crew over at Echtra Games isn't hellbent on reinventing the MMOARPG format, but instead it is concentrating on taking what works in similar...

Ascent: Infinite Realm looks into the lore behind its factions, the Vulpin and the Ontari

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New information about Bluehole Studio's upcoming steampunk-fantasy MMO Ascent: Infinite Realm continues to slowly trickle out, this time with a bit of lore about...