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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Shroud of the Avatar's Richard Garriott and Starr Long shocked gamers by auctioning off art pieces that include their own blood, which was drawn on a promotional stream earlier this week. The reliquaries are no longer on eBay as originally reported; instead, they have been moved to Portalarium's Make a Difference Store, which will ensure...

While Aion's North American community is looking forward to next week's Echoes of Eternity update, the European crowd has its own special patch coming this summer. The Aion EU team announced this week that Update 5.0: Lost Memories will be going live on August 10th. Update 5.0 increases the level cap by 10, includes more character customization options, tosses in...

When does the history of MMOs start? If you answer that the first MMO was Ultima Online, you're right enough. If you answer that before that came along there were MUSHes and MUDs, you're also right. If you answer that the whole thing really started with Lucasfilm's Habitat on the Commodore 64 back in 1986, you sound like you're...

Who has plans to play the mighty Myrmidon when Crowfall comes out? This minotaur looks absolutely frightening, a lumbering war machine full of muscles, horns, and a grumpy disposition. To give some additional personality to the Myrmidon, Crowfall has honored this new class with its own art vector poster. Such detailed posters aren't simple to make; ArtCraft said that it takes...

When YouTube first became a thing, I dismissed it as a site that was mostly preoccupied with people talking into cameras in an attempt to stoke the fires of their narcissism. And while that certainly still exists, I've gradually come around to the sheer usefulness of this video sharing site, particularly for its purpose in archiving historical videos. And by...

Every so often, people seem to be curious about what I really meant when I said something. The answer is usually "what I said," but for the purposes of this feature, let me remove all doubt whatsoever about what I meant when I said certain publicized things recently. For example, when I said that Transformers Universe killed the dinosaurs, what...

One of the most frustrating aspects of being an MMORPG gamer is the passage of time. I can't put MMOs that I'm not playing on "pause" to pick them up when I'm good and ready, after all. If I don't play them now, their popularity may wane or the game could close entirely. It really does make a difference when...

We have a launch date for World of Warcraft's next expansion, but we don't have a date for the pre-patch before the expansion launches. It is fair to say at this point, though, that the designers are just playing with the affections of players. First the developers tease something big coming just to announce a Twitter contest for getting...

World of Warcraft players beware: There's a new scam going on that requires a little bit of gullibility and action on the part of the account holder. Apparently some scammers are impersonating players' friends and guild members who then ask on flimsy pretenses for the user to post a "/run" command into the game's chat box. Doing so on the askance...

Diablo III -- on the PC at least -- is all about the seasonal fun these days, and players who have worked hard to attain all of the achievements and rewards from season six only have a couple of more weeks left to put a cap on it. Blizzard announced today that season six will wrap up worldwide on July...