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Ah, the flex emote. A classic staple of MMORPG gaming. How else could players ironically (or maybe unironically) laud their greatness without it? Besides wearing salad bowl-sized pauldrons that somehow vomit energy, anyway. Soon, Crowfall backers will get the ability to invite others to the gunshow with an emote awarded in August. In case anyone forgot, this freebie is part...

In the vast annals of MMO tropes, there's one that has been in front of you all along and you've probably never noticed: shipwrecking new players. Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril complains that lazy developers lean on this cliché too hard for the beginner experience (and he heavily hints that Amazon's New World does the exact same thing). "Many...

Albion Online's Rise of Avalon update has a number of things for players to look forward to when it lands in August, and one of those primary features are the Avalonian weapons, which recently got their own showcase post. The post offered a closer look at five of the 15 artifact weapons and offered up a preview of the highlighted...

If you are the sort who would much rather enjoy conventions from the comfort of your home, then 2020 is shaping up to be the year for you. World of Tanks announced that it is partnering with the Tank Museum in England to bring Tankfest 2020 to your computer screens this weekend. Additionally, QuakeCon 2020 is committed to bringing the...

Poor Vincent, he just survived Last of Us 2 and probably choked about six hundred puppies in the process. That's bound to mess up anyone -- he says that he was "an emotional wreck" -- so it makes sense to retreat into MMOs for a sense of calm and normalcy. Almost like therapy, just way cheaper. This Final Fantasy XIV...

Covering videos in this job is just plain annoying. It is. An information-dense text post takes me a few minutes to read through, I can parse out Final Fantasy XIV patch notes in 15 minutes or so and that's about the top end of information density. In a video, though, that same amount of information gets stretched out significantly, so...

The Elder Scrolls Online community has been abuzz this weekend over an incident that rocked the game's streaming crew. According to streamer Inklings, who posted about it this morning, a partnered streamer was alleged to have doxxed multiple people (including a minor), leaking real names, employers, social media, characters, and more, spreading this information among other streamers in a...

Star Citizen, to quote systems designer Jake Muehle, is "a universe where the ambulances have military-grade weaponry strapped to their hull." In other words, PvP happens. What PvP will look like going forward was the subject of CIG's recent Calling All Devs video. The broadcast first started by saying that the two in-development systems Terra and Pyro will be the...

With the month of July looming large and no noise out of the online multiplayer ARPG Conan Chop Chop, which was supposed to have a release sometime in the second quarter of this year, it's probably unsurprising that Funcom has once more pushed back the game's launch. Conan Chop Chop's release date is even murkier than before, as it's been...

It's time for Tyrians to celebrate Pride in Guild Wars 2. Starting today, June 27th, the Tyria Pride 2020 community event is underway; it began for EU players at 10:00 a.m. EDT this morning and will repeat for NA players at 5:00 p.m. EDT. If you missed it today, you can swing by at both times on Sunday too,...