Updates

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ArenaNet’s Steven Waller discusses Guild Wars 2’s raiding foundation

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Following my playtest of Guild Wars 2's raiding, which I chronicled earlier today, I had the opportunity to fire some quick questions across to Guild...

Hands-on with Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns’ first raid

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, raiders of all professions: I'm delighted to finally be able to spill the beans about all things raiding...
It's coincidence that the last three expansions have spoken to the exact same vanishingly small portion of the playerbase.

World of Warcraft celebrates 11 years of operation

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Whether your opinions on World of Warcraft are positive or negative, you can't deny that reaching 11 years of operation is quite the accomplishment....

Not So Massively: StarCraft II Legacy of the Void sold 1M copies in three days (November 16 2015)

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Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...

Elder Scrolls Online’s 2.2.6 patch fixes Orsinium issues and more

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Elder Scrolls Online is getting a series of small patches this week, according to the notes on ZeniMax's official forums. The 2.2.6 update fixes...
Blue skies of Ishgard indeed.

Wisdom of Nym: The first impressions of Final Fantasy XIV patch 3.1

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Part of me feels really ungrateful for being upset that it took five months instead of the usual three to get Final Fantasy XIV's...

Sword Coast Legends adds companion skill trees, nature set

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Sword Coast Legends continues to make good on its promise to provide free DLC patches to shore up the core game. The D&D title...
But, see, now I want to play elephant guy.

Korean edition of Blade & Soul gearing up for a new class and more story

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Are you worried about the health of Blade & Soul? With any import title, it's easy to wonder if the game is going to...
I ruined just... all the things.

WoW preps patch 6.2.3, teases Gnome Hunters

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Ready to timewalk back to the days of World of Warcraft's third expansion? Or are you just looking forward to being able to use...

EVE Evolved: Huge PvP battles and corp wars in Citadel

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Huge PvP battles have always been a core part of EVE Online's territorial warfare gameplay, with fleets of hundreds or even sometimes thousands of...

The latest Elite newsletter features a pretty cool Imperial Cutter

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Frontier has released the 99th newsletter for Elite: Dangerous, which coincides with initial availability of the 1.5 ship update beta. There's also a slick new video...
Bet on it.

WoW Factor: In the wake of BlizzCon’s Legion content

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Well, folks, we're officially living in a post-BlizzCon world. Until the next one. The point is, we're done with that convention, and all that's...

Lineage II: ‘Classic hardcore is back’

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Lineage II formally launched on Steam this week, complete with a fresh-start server, Zaken. There are even server firsts rewards, mostly pirate-themed goodies, for those...

League of Legends tags in Illaoi, the Kraken Priestess

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Release the kraken! OK, now with that expected joke out of the way, we can proceed to telling you about League of Legends' newest...

Diablo III begins testing Patch 2.4

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Diablo III fans, were you perhaps a little giddy to hear at BlizzCon that Papa Blizzard wasn't giving up on your game of choice?...

Team up with Black Canary to rescue Green Arrow in DCUO’s Ep. 19

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Daybreak has just announced that Episode 19 of DC Universe Online is coming later this Fall. It's a major content update that adds new...

Holy crap, Space Engineers just added planets

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Space Engineers has been all kinds of awesome for a while now. Today, Keen Software House made its sci-fi multiplayer sandbox even more awesome...
Power overwhelming.

WildStar details the ins and outs of its world bosses

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There are lots of bosses out in the world of WildStar. They're larger, they're in charge, and they're designed for groups with two tanks,...
Shirts are for the less-divine among us.

Skyforge’s Journey of the Divine patch rolls out

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The Journey of the Divine patch is live in Skyforge today, heralding several new game systems: Invasion Avatars - The deadly Avatars of invading alien gods...
Turn into a bear.

World of Warcraft wraps up its Legion class previews with Druid and Rogue

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There are a lot of leather-wearing classes in World of Warcraft at this point, and two of them are sharing the last round of...