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Summer's already hot, so why not make it hotter still? Some big bonfires and the errant flaming torch should do the trick there. Thanks to World of Warcraft, we can keep our sweating regimen going strong with the Midsummer Fire Festival. The festival, which is running through July 5th, marks the summer solstice and offers a nice XP buff for...

Let's have a look at what's going on in Norrath, shall we? We'll start off with EverQuest II, which is lauding its next update arriving on June 23rd. This update signals the start of the seventh Familiar Season as well as some behind-the-scenes improvements to Familiars, adds expert difficulty for all Blood of Luclin heroic dungeons as well as...

Back around when Elder Scrolls Online launched Greymoor, I saw an interesting thread on the official forums asking for new servers. For some MMOs, that's quite common, of course, as people like the idea of fresh start servers, and especially at the beginning of a game, the big influx of players can overwhelm a small server set. Over time,...

This week in the world of MMOs, we cheered for Star Wars Squadrons' multiplayer, welcomed Path of Exile's Harvest League, got a peek at DCUO's upcoming WONDERVERSE, nodded grimly at Torchlight III's early access messes, cheered because RIFT's not dead, waved farewell to WoW botters, hopped into Black Desert's new season servers, and celebrated the life of actor Ian...

Hitch up your shorts, buckle your boots, and step into another deep forest of MMORPG music with the Battle Bards! As diverse as the woods are in virtual worlds, so too are these tracks that attempt to convey the feeling of a variety of leafy settings. Battle Bards is a the world’s first, best, and only MMO music podcast. Biweekly episodes...

This month, Pokemon Go announced that it was discontinuing support for 32-bit Android mobile devices, mostly devices released prior to 2015, including the 1st-gen Moto G and the Samsung Note 3. The idea was that it would help Niantic "streamline development process and focus resources on supporting newer operating systems and technologies." Fortunately, those plans are now on...

Sword. Swordy sword. Swoooords. Sword sword. Big knife. Stabby boy. Swordelicious. Oh, look at that, it's sword time. Sword o'clock. Especially on New World's Twitter account, which recently offered up several informational tweets about swords as part of its flip-through of its melee weapons. According to one tweet thread, swords are a quick melee weapon perfect for close quarters combat...

With the increased speeds of modems and the move into 3-D space in the 1990s, some game designers thought it was a logical conclusion to want to merge the two factors together to form immersive, 3-D virtual worlds that would host multiple users. A true cyberspace, in other words, that would grab the imaginations of the visually oriented public. Before...

Are you hardcore enough to take on the Hardcore League in Dungeons and Dragons Online but were also hard up for cash and couldn't afford a season pass or VIP membership? Then you'll be happy to note that Season 3 is easing that restriction, making the upcoming Hardcore League open to every player regardless of account type. That's not the...

Last week's call for MMO screenshots of in-game statues resulted in so many great pictures, I could have probably done two of these columns! We'll start today with this one from Mysecretid, who bridges the gap between real world and fiction. "My main character in Star Trek Online visited the memorial statue to Spock on the planet Vulcan. On a...