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Master X Master Online is an NCsoft MOBA with a twist

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Are you curious about NCsoft's Master X Master Online? Steparu's put the game through its paces and has nice things to say about it, concluding...

DC Universe Online: Halls of Power II and the end of DLC

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If you are not a subscriber to DC Universe Online, you're still sitting back on the sidelines anticipating the release of Halls of Power Part...

EverQuesting: Life after Landmark’s big wipe

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It was just over a week ago that Landmark's servers went offline in preparation for a major upheaval that affected nearly every system in...

Chaos Theory: Reaping the Whirlwind in The Secret World’s Issue #11

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To spoil or not to spoil; that is the question. When it comes to The Secret World, that's a very serious question indeed! As much...

Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s 12x XP leveling guide and Ziost’s finale

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Happy Revenge of the Fifth! Because this column comes out on Tuesday, I'm a wee bit behind on wishing you a happy Star Wars...

Hyperspace Beacon: Hands-on with SWTOR’s Rise of the Emperor update

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If you read the last Hyperspace Beacon, then you know that BioWare's announcement that Ziost is finally hitting Star Wars: The Old Republic excited...

Blasting through a hands-on with TERA’s new Gunner

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Are you tempted by TERA's new Gunner? I am. Admittedly it's been a long while since I've frolicked in the land of Arborea, but my interest is...
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....