World of Warcraft ad accidentally shows up in Disney’s Spaceship Earth

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So for those brave foolhardy souls venturing into Walt Disney World during this year of the pandemic, it must be a surreal experience to see normally crowded parks spread out and subject to all manner of extra precautions. But it must be even more surreal when an MMORPG just happens to pop up in one of Disney's most popular...
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World of Warships enters into a crossover with Transformers for unique skins and voices

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It's time for Transformers to cross over with World of Warships, and that means... ship skins. Like, seriously, that's the thing. You might think that you would get ships based on some of the numerous Transformers with sea-based alternate modes (Tidal Wave, Broadside, Seaspray, Thunderblast, Depthcharge, Splashdown, Undertow, Flattop, Manta Ray, and Waterlog all spring to mind)... but no,...
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Wisdom of Nym: What it means to be good at Final Fantasy XIV content

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Let's start with an assertion that some people may or may not believe but is still true no matter what: Dungeons in Final Fantasy XIV are not terribly difficult. That's not to say that FFXIV is bereft of difficult content, although your standards on how difficult it actually is will vary. Savage and Extreme, for example, are meant to be...

Camelot Unchained works on giants, pretty trees, wyverns, and replacing Ben Pielstick

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It's another week of Camelot Unchained updates with another Top Ten-ish and look at artwork -- followers know the drill by now. In this update, the devs discuss working on a new giant race that's slowly starting to come together, adding the viking keep plot crafted by the Builder's Brigade to the battleground zone, and introducing faction-themed wyverns. Meanwhile,...

Little Orbit offers Fallen Earth rebuilding update, say it’s temporarily ‘low priority’

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Fans of the post-apoc MMO Fallen Earth were thrown a bone by publisher/developer Little Orbit recently as the studio's CEO Matthew Scott checked in with an update on where the game's in-progress rebuilding efforts currently are after the game was taken offline in September 2019. And it's not particularly great news overall. First off, Scott stated that "out of the...
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Call of Duty gamers ignore pandemic-related safety orders at unofficial esports gathering

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I never got the impression that some players of Call of Duty are a particularly compliant bunch, and that assumption was not helped by the actions of a number of players in an esports event that ignored calls for a tournament to be held online and instead congregated in a LAN event. The competition in question was the American Gaming...

TennoCon 2020: The creepy charm of Warframe’s broken frame, Xaku

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When Digital Extreme's first announced that the Broken Frame concept won in the community creation contest, I had my reservations. I have known -- and appreciated -- how much Digital Extremes involves and listens to its community, but was this stretching it too far? Could eaterofstorms' meme-alicious idea that might be construed as a joke really fit into Warframe’s...

Anthem discusses the design goals for getting loot and gearing up in the rebooted version of the shooter

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BioWare Austin studio director Christian Dailey promised in his last preview of the Anthem reboot that a new dev blog would be coming soon, and sure enough, he made good on that vow with a look at what the developers are doing to improve looting and gearing up. Much of these changes are goals-oriented, but they do sound promising, particularly...

WoW Classic players squabble over the Ahn’Qiraj Scarab Lord title amidst griefing and bans

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Some player-crafted drama in WoW Classic appears to be brewing as guilds seek to complete a certain portion of the Scarab Lord quest chain. The incident in question involves the Horde guild Amnesty and the Alliance guild Sulfuras Alliance, both of which were attempting to finish the green scepter segment involving a boss fight. Just before Horde players managed...

The Daily Grind: How do you decide whether to play an MMO rogue server?

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Last week, we covered the bizarre case of a Dragon's Prophet rogue server, which announced itself as a legitimate, partnered version of the game coming to Steam and multiple other platforms. A few days of digging and prodding on the part of MOP and MMO Fallout exposed the server as just a fan-run emulator, whose operator banned media and...