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When leveling alts was already the plan...

WoW Factor: Reconsidering the next few months of World of Warcraft

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There's a lot of information coming out about patch 7.3.5 at this point. Not everything, of course, and a lot of it is based...
THE CLAMPS!

Path of Exile’s War for the Atlas expansion is live today

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Path of Exile's free-to-play War for the Atlas expansion is slated to go live this afternoon on PC, expanding the gameworld for diehard MMOARPG...
uh, guys, really?

RIFT puts an endgame currency out for real-money sales

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Look, we can all agree that "pay-to-win" is, at the very least, a difficult concept to be certain about. Right? There's a lot of...
Everyone shoots everyone else!

Fortnite is getting a new large-scale battle royale mode

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Over the past weekend, Fortnite managed to hit a peak of 1.3 million concurrent users and 30M total users. That's a lot of people....
Darn, no.

Lineage 2 EU completes its current story saga, plans free weekend on its classic server

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Big things are afoot in the realm of Lineage 2 this week. Its European version just added "The Last Page -- Salvation" update that...
Real-is-brown filter removed.

Escape from Tarkov preps massive New Year’s stress test ahead of 2018 open beta

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Did you think Christmas came too early this year? One of my hobbies was already rolling out Valentine's Day hoopla in August, so I...

Chaos Theory: Exploring Secret World Legend’s anima allocation and other QoL improvements

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Remember that big quality-of-life update that Secret World Legends launched mid-November? Chances are your quality of SWL life did indeed improve with a number...

Crowfall’s crafting looks more and more like Star Wars Galaxies’

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Hey crafters. Let's talk Crowfall for a minute. ArtCraft Design Lead Thomas "Blixtev" Blair explains today in a new dev blog that crafting in...
It would be difficult to master this again.

A ‘remastered’ version of ArcheAge is due out in Korea in 2018

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Would it be fair to say that XLGAMES has "mastered" ArcheAge? The developer behind it has been working on the live version for five...
No, it's still not.

Destiny 2’s endgame is now helpfully locked behind Curse of Osiris access

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If you've decided to hold off on buying the Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris DLC, good news! The game's endgame is now locked away...
Race!

Check out World of Warcraft’s allied races jokes and flirts, plus guilds topple Antorus bosses

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Back in the day, the only way we'd learn about the many jokes and flirt lines for races in World of Warcraft was by...
So what WILL you take?

Hearthstone: Kobolds and Catacombs is live today with free card packs

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Today, Hearthstone players across the world will, indeed, take candle. Blizzard's popular card game launched its newest expansion today, Kobolds and Catacombs. First revealed at...

Guild Wars 2 is planning a Wintersday balance patch next week

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Don't worry your little elfin ears, Guild Wars 2 players: Wintersday is on the way. And this year, ArenaNet is tossing in a balance...

MU Online activates exclusive server while MU Legend hauls out the PvP

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Here's a two-for-one update on what's going on with the MU universe of games. First up is MU Online, which just activated a new...

Raining outside? Sidewalks covered in snow? Better run out and play… Pokemon Go!

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It's an interesting time to be a Pokemon Go player. Niantic's put out two events that greatly reduced the game's grind and setting community goals, granting regional 'mon back-to-back....

Vindictus introduces the girl with the dragon spine

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If there is one thing that we have learned about Korean MMOs, it's that the smaller the girl, the bigger the weapon she carries....

Flameseeker Chronicles: Deep-diving Guild Wars 2’s living world S4 Daybreak

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I'm back with an earlier-than-anticipated special edition of Flameseeker Chronicles to share my impressions of the opening episode of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living World...

Roll a Mystic in Black Desert for fun and profit starting today

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Fancy yourself a new Mystic toon in Black Desert? You can't play her just yet, but you can roll one starting today. The MMORPG...
Well, there are woods. There might be an elf or two in there.

Dungeons & Dragons Online launches the Mists of Ravenloft

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There's a chill in the air through December under normal circumstances, but the chill rushing through Dungeons & Dragons Online is unrelated to the...

Wild West Online seems to be dropping FFA PvP in favor of faction-based PvP

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Still bummed out about Wild West Online's delay to 2018? Wait until you see the game's latest dev blog! 612 Games doesn't mention the...

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