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Shadows of the Innocents, Blade and Soul's 2.4 patch, hit the live servers yesterday, giving max level players more content to consume. There are two new dungeons that arrived as well as the Twisted Grimhon Wilds, a 24-player open world instance with scads of dailies. The update also majorly boosted experience that players will receive by completing story missions. Other...

All is not well following World of Warcraft's recent pre-expansion patch earlier this week. Two controversies are rocking the game resulting from the update changes. The first is the studio's decision to create multiple instances of city hubs on roleplay servers, effectively dividing up the community that congregates in those areas for socialization. "As a player on Wyrmrest Accord, we've always...

If you've been playing Warframe a long time, it's a good time to refresh your account credentials. Vice's Motherboard blog reports this week that it has scooped up evidence that hundreds of thousands of email addresses, usernames, and account creation dates from Warframe are circulating through the digital black market -- "nearly 800,000 records," the site said. Digital Extremes "confirm...

I am not going to lie to you, dear readers: This is a question to which I have a really easy answer. I've been writing about MMOs professionally since 2009, meaning that a genre I very nearly didn't get into at all has been responsible for my entire adult career. It's not hard for me to say how MMOs...

What became an overnight global phenomenon certainly prompted the MMO blogosphere to talk about their experiences and opinions with Pokémon GO! To Game for Life calls it a "juggernaut," In An Age says it's a "perfect storm in motion," while The Ancient Gaming Noob deems it "a moment of change for Nintendo." Bloggers recalled their adventures, such as traipsing across...

War games are afoot -- or more precisely, on foot -- in the aspiring MMO Foxhole.  Unlike other war-themed games that are lobby-based or involve only vehicles, Foxhole features a persistent world and focuses on shaping a large-scale war as a foot soldier. Players will band together to plan strategies to change the tide of war that might take...

If you like aspects of Guns of Icarus but want to play a version without the PvP, your wish will be granted for one week in August. The catch is you already have to own Guns of Icarus! From August 1st through the 8th, all players who currently own the PvP game can jump into new PvE Guns of...

Normally, surviving while playing a game on your smartphone is pretty easy, unless you do something like compulsively wander on to train tracks. Durango is a survival game through and through, though, so you'll want to be extra careful about surviving in both the game and the real world. You can get some advance practice in that field by...

There are always those people who, no matter how bad they want to buy something, will always wait for the desired item to go on sale. For those thrifty souls who have been patiently waiting out Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, now is their moment. From today through July 27th, Heart of Thorns is half-off in the store, with the...

"Thousands of players heeded our call and stormed onto the Das Tal servers on Saturday." So sayeth Fairytale Distillery's Alexander Zacherl in a postmortem on the game's first summer alpha weekend. Zacherl reveals today that his team doubled its server capacity to handle the influx last weekend and in prep for the weekend ahead: "All four servers have seen...