Previews

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GTA Online

GTA Online: All the open world feels, none of the MMO grind

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Any minute now I'm going to log out of Grand Theft Auto Online so I can finish this not-a-review. Seriously, I've played this game...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Stronghold PvP

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The PvP team at ArenaNet is steadily gearing up for the release of the Heart of Thorns expansion, with the PvP-inclined among the Guild Wars...

Infinite Crisis has basically made me a MOBA fan

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It's 1989. My buddy and I are in a comic store and raising our eyebrows at this odd little one-shot called Gotham by Gaslight....

Previewing Path of Exile’s mind-blowing Act IV

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If you thought Path of Exile's previous three content updates would be hard acts to follow, you clearly haven't heard enough about the upcoming...
Try to survive!

Skyforge’s beta is surprisingly satisfying

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I can safely say that what I got when I first fired up Skyforge was not, in fact, what I had been hoping I...

Get a sneak peek of LOTRO’s Update 16

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Lord of the Rings Online is gearing up for a big content push this month with Update 16. The devs put the patch on the...
Ascent

Ascent is MMO space simming done right

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My favorite thing about Ascent: The Space Game is its planetary rotation. It's a small thing, granted, but the first time I sat still...

A look at DC Universe Online’s gung-ho munitions powerset

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Not every superhero was bitten by a radioactive arachnid or born with jacked-up genes; some heroes must pull themselves up by their boostraps and...

First impressions of Skyforge beta, part two

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In the first part of my Skyforge closed beta impressions, I took a look at the tutorial and character creation process. Suitably impressed albeit...

First impressions of Skyforge beta, part one

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Slowly but surely, Skyforge has climbed my interest ladder until I was genuinely eager to check it out in its beta state. It's an...

Choose My Adventure: Torchlight Heroes

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Our March sampler-platter edition of Choose My Adventure is quickly coming to a close. There's only one more vote to take, one more game...

Hyperspace Beacon: What you need to know about SWTOR’s Outfit Designer

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Update 3.2 for Star Wars: The Old Republic is, in a lot of ways, my update. From the beginning of the game, I wanted to visit...

EVE Evolved: CCP’s Andie Nordgren on new structures and sovereignty

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I've been pretty critical of EVE Online's upcoming sovereignty and nullsec revamp, calling the constellation-wide battle fake and its use of reinforcement timers unnecessary....

Choose My Adventure: Diablo of Exile

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This month's Choose My Adventure is like no Choose My Adventure that has come before. Instead of deep-diving one game for four weeks, we're...

Tamriel Infinium: Dealing Elder Scrolls Online justice

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When The Elder Scrolls Online launched, many people had high expectations for the game. Of course, given the number of people who loved the...

RIFT is planning a new calling for 2015

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As RIFT hits its fourth anniversary this week, the team is eager to let you in on an exciting tidbit or two about what's...
Let me show my pokey... oh, you know the gag.

PAX East 2015: Hands-on with Undead Labs’ Moonrise

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I wasn't sure exactly what to expect when I first laid hands on Moonrise at this year's PAX East so I suppose that "fast-paced party-based Pokémon" should...
So long.

Strongholds and the Jungle in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns

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While I was taking my test drive of the Revenant class at ArenaNet's recent press event, I wasn't just playing through old familiar portions of...
Hooray, Rytlock's actually doing something!

Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Revenant

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It might be premature, but I'm pretty sure that the Revenant is my favorite profession in Guild Wars 2. And strangely, it's because it...
This genre clings to life like... well, zombie survival.

Behind the scenes of Armored Warfare

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At first glance, Armored Warfare definitely looks like a World of Tanks clone. That's not by accident, either. A recent article highlights the genesis...