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Choose My Adventure: WildStar’s crafting frustrations

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Welcome, everyone, to another installment of Choose My Adventure: WildStar edition. Last week, Bonongo Jazz, Chua Spellslinger-slash-Explorer-slash-Architect extraordinaire, arrived at the Dominion outpost of...

First impressions: SWTOR’s Knights of the Fallen Empire delivers

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For the last few days, I have been playing the Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion Knights of the Fallen Empire. My expectations going...

Sword Coast Legends has officially launched today

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After a couple of delays over the past few months, Sword Coast Legends is now live on Steam and officially celebrating launch with a lengthy...

Choose My Adventure: Unearthing the mysteries of WildStar’s Levian Bay

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Choose My Adventure. Last week, you fine folks voted on whether my pwecious wittle Chua Spellslinger would continue his...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 raid beta impressions

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I don't believe I've ever been more excited -- and simultaneously nervous -- about a beta test than I was for Guild Wars 2's third beta...

Choose My Adventure: Mad science and spellslinging in WildStar

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Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to the formulaic introduction to yet another installment of Choose My Adventure. As is tradition, let's start with...

Massively OP’s first impressions of Devilian

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Call my stance on Trion World's upcoming Devilian "oh-so-cautiously interested." Personally, I think Trion invited more grief than it wanted with the importation of ArcheAge to...

Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Modern online game research

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Late last year, I published on Massively-that-was a set of articles addressing current research on the relationship between shyness and online game friendships, including a...

Choose My Adventure: Freeloading in WildStar

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Hello once again, friends, and welcome to a brand-new edition of Choose My Adventure. As you have probably already surmised, assuming that you read...
Boss of the road.

Here’s a look at the Ranger in Bless’ beta

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The final Korean beta test for Bless is officially over, and Steparu has published his final look at the game. He takes the Ranger...

Here are a few more gameplay vids from the Bless beta

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Steparu has published another look at this week's Bless Korean beta test. This time around, he tackles a flying tour and reveals that the...

Choose My Adventure: Pointy sticks and lunacy in Trove

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Hello, friends, and welcome once again to Choose My Adventure. This week, our time with Trove is drawing to an end, but we're not...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Understanding Guild Wars 2’s Mordrem Guard

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If you pay attention to the images I use throughout my Flameseeker Chronicles articles, you'll notice that one of my favourite characters to include...

MMO Burnout: Star Wars Uprising

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When I heard that Disney's first foray into the new Star Wars gaming universe was a mobile-only RPG, it made me sort of angry....

Why I Play: Final Fantasy XIV

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We used to do a column called Why I Play on Massively-that-was, and while I didn't originally plan on rezzing it here today, I did return...

Choose My Adventure: Trove’s brave new (uber) world

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It's everyone's favorite day of the week -- at least if you're that annoying camel in that one Geico commercial -- and you know...
Let's rock.

Blade and Soul beta begins October 30th, still launching Q1 2016

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You can stop holding your breath now: The beautifully rendered action MMORPG Blade and Soul arrives on western shores very soon. NCSoft officially announced today that...

Stick and Rudder: Star Citizen is starting to come together

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Last Tuesday I woke in the wee hours of the morning to install Star Citizen's 1.2 patch. I wasn't battling insomnia or anything like that; on the...

A wicked hive of synth and vibrancy: First impressions of Otherland

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I first covered Otherland, the Gamigo-turned-Drago MMORPG based on Tad Williams' sci-fi book series by the same name, at E3 2012. The idea of having...

PAX Prime 2015: Don’t hate me because I don’t like Gigantic

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If you've not heard of the game Gigantic, then I'm going to have to ask where you've been because Motiga's cross between a MOBA...