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First impressions of World of Warcraft: Legion, part three

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One of the things that bothered me about Warlords of Draenor was how bad it felt to play. It was unexpected. I don't inherently...

Shroud of the Avatar refines Release 33, works on stability

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Shroud of the Avatar's last content update, Release 33, came out last week, but the team hasn't been satisfied with a one-and-done approach to...
Wow, this open-pvp gankbox has a dearth of players? This is my shocked face.

The Exiled puts forth its plans for dealing with feedback

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The last few weeks for The Exiled (the game formerly known as Das Tal) have provided the developers with a lot of feedback. Plenty of...
And here we go again.

Overwatch’s Eichenwalde map and Season 2 are live (gg ez)

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Last night's Overwatch patch was hard to miss: It introduces a brand-new map, Eichenwalde, and implemented competitive play season 2 -- almost a week...
Gold! Wait, wrong reference.

TERA’s next big update is all about guilds

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Guilds are a pretty big deal in TERA, but let's be fair, they're a pretty big deal in most games. Of course, they're going...

The Daily Grind: How would you judge WoW Legion’s launch?

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MMORPG launches seldom go to plan. Trainwrecks are inevitable. Never spend a vacation day on an MMO release date -- that's the conventional wisdom. And...
Literally a fresh hell.

Albion Online introduces the Hell artifacts

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A new batch of artifacts is arriving in Albion Online, and it's hellish. These are literally called the Hell Artifacts, you see, and are...
I can't say it would be worse, exactly.

Neverwinter brings a live stage experience to consoles with Portobello’s Campaign

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The new event for Neverwinter console players is just a little bit recursive. When you log into the game, you're taking part in a roleplaying...
Well, what fresh hell is this.

The Division is opening a public test server

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There's nothing quite like putting a patch out into the wild. Sure, you can do your best to test something internally, but until players...

Happy birthday, Champions Online

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Champions Online turns seven years old today -- seven! And naturally, PWE and Cryptic have big plans for the whole month. Everything in the...

Check out Path of Exile’s Atlas of Worlds expansion patch notes and trailer

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Path of Exile's Atlas of Worlds expansion is almost here: In fact, it drops tomorrow. Earlier this month, Massively OP's MJ Guthrie spoke with...

ARK: Survival Evolved’s first expansion, Scorched Earth, is now on Steam

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Studio Wildcard has made good on the ARK: Survival Evolved tease it issued earlier this week: It's just announced its first expansion pack, ARK:...

Katee Sackhoff stars in new EVE Valkyrie PlayStation VR trailer

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Still reeling from yesterday's EVE Online F2P announcement? Switch targets to EVE Valkyrie for a moment, then. The spinoff VR title expands to PlayStation VR...

Lord of the Rings Online hints at a Shelob raid, schedules Update 19 for this fall

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Following the revelation of Lord of the Rings Online's two-and-a-half-year plan, the second part of a fansite interview turned its attention to the subject of...
Everything is not the same.

World of Warcraft previews the max-level zone of Suramar

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Four out of the five big new zones in Legion can be entered at any level and will scale up or down appropriately. But...
I'm sorry this is the only long-form article you're likely to get, Twin Saga.

Twin Saga enters open beta today with Dragonknights, level cap of 65

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Aeria's Twin Saga MMORPG enters open beta in the west as of today. The company says that closed beta saw 700,000 logins and 250,000...
Item by item.

The Daily Grind: Should MMOs have long-term consequences for nonsensical actions?

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On some level, I'm still amused by the fact that someone got held back in World of Warcraft: Legion as a direct result of...
Vacation spots!

Wizard101 looks back at its updates this year and teases the future

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The summer is just about over, as hard as that may seem to believe. Wizard101's producer, Leah Ruben, has taken the passing season to...
Okay...

Wild Terra adds blacksmithing and more metal items

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Did you dig up a whole lot of metal when Wild Terra introduced mining with no thought to what you'd do with it? We...
Bah, it was just a bird.

Pokemon Go dataminers predict buddy system

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Dataminers have uncovered a new upcoming system lurking in the code of Pokemon Go's 0.35.0 update: a buddy system. No, you won't be teaming up with...