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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...

Choose My Adventure: Entering the fray in Blade & Soul

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Hello, friends, and welcome to a spankin' new series of Choose My Adventure. This month, I'm going to be diving into NCSoft's wuxia-inspired Blade &...

Choose My Adventure: Brewing disaster in Shroud of the Avatar

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Hello, friends, and welcome to the final (belated) installment of Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar edition. Last week, I asked y'all to...

Bebopping through ArcheAge’s Bloodsong update with Trion

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Sometimes the wait for new content is made worse when you see another region enjoying it long before you can. That's how I've felt...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Shatterer Unleashed

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In the last edition of Flameseeker Chronicles, I discussed the Guild Wars 2 Winter 2016 update that releases today in great detail, so I'm really...

Hands-on with HEX: Chronicles of Entrath’s PvE

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What do you know about HEX: Shards of Fate? If you've ever played it, probably more than me. But what do you know about...
Much like TERA, having a discussion about this game's attitude towards women is mostly a matter of shaking your head in exasperation.

Leaderboard: What’s your opinion of Blade & Soul, one week in?

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On Friday, we updated our beta impressions of Blade & Soul with fresh impressions after a week of play, and the underlying theme of...

Blade & Soul impressions from around the MMO blogosphere

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It's probably no surprise to anyone that Blade & Soul managed to rope in a lot of excited fans and curious casuals this past...
I want to like you a lot.

Launch impressions of Blade & Soul: Combat, story, questing, and flow

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Every time I play Blade & Soul, I'm really playing a different game, which I dub Why Don't I Like You More? The object...

Chaos Theory: Figuring out The Secret World in 2016

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Behind you, it's totally dark and the way has closed off. There's simply no going back. Up ahead, everything is in shadows. You creep...

Choose My Adventure: Exploring Shroud of the Avatar’s (not so) open wilds

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Hello, friends, and welcome to the penultimate installment of Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar. Last week, in addition to giving the game's...

Choose My Adventure: In which my Shroud of the Avatar plans are foiled

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Hello friends, and welcome to the next installment of the Shroud of the Avatar edition of Choose My Adventure. Last week, as I'm sure...

Choose My Adventure: Trying on the Shroud of the Avatar

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Hello friends, and welcome to the new year's first installment of Choose My Adventure. As you may have noticed, I took a bit of...

First impressions of Black Desert’s closed beta test, part two: Crafting, gathering, and economy

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On Friday, I took a look at the classes, combat, and tricky mechanics of upcoming sandboxy Korean-import Black Desert's first western closed beta test....