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The latest Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen newsletter has quite a bit to say about the Shaman. The healing and support-oriented class is meant as a conduit for the world's past, channeling spirits of history into modern healing spells and debuffs. This is probably better than attempting to sell ancient relics as upscale decorations for your in-game breakfast nooks,...

So it finally happened. Really and for truly! Landmark launched into the realm of released games. I can officially remove the alpha/beta tag off this column. But other than that, what does launch mean? How did it go? Other than the game being offline for a couple days, it felt very business as usual. There weren't any major crashes or...

Whenever Naoki Yoshida shows up at a convention, you know ahead of time that Final Fantasy XIV fans are going to have plenty to look forward to. This year's E3 was hardly an exception, with a live letter being released from the show floor, an interview on the state of the game and future plans, and even rumblings that...

An Italian video games site appears to have leaked information about Guild Wars 2's living story season three in a new interview with ArenaNet. Though the original article is now gone, Redditor vulcanraven89 translated it this morning. The site claimed that season three will arrive by the end of summer with both PvE and PvP content and that the next episodes...

Camelot Unchained is losing its community manager, Jenesee Grey. During yesterday's farewell stream with CSE boss Mark Jacobs, Grey explained that her insane commute (500 miles) was responsible for her amicable departure. https://twitter.com/jenesee/status/743262438380941312 The studio has another big stream planned for this afternoon at 3 p.m. EDT. https://twitter.com/CityStateGames/status/743542826529611776 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_UedPshKBc Source: Stream announcenment via Reddit

One of the neat aspects of Crowfall's archetypes is how the team is scouting a wider range of fantasy races for its inspiration. Move over, centaurs; this week, the spotlight is all on the minotaur Myrmidon. This newest archetype will soon join the game's pre-alpha roster, bringing the class total to seven. Of course, it shouldn't be a huge surprise that...

Remember all of those times that Blizzard said that it was going to speed up the rate at which it produced World of Warcraft expansions? Well, to the surprise of absolutely nobody, the studio has finally given up on this notion, saying that it's going to focus on longer expansion cycles that feature more content updates than before. This word comes to...

Blade & Soul hasn't yet been out for a year and it's already gotten several updates, all good news for the players. While I had assumed the delay was because of a pro-wrestler like death grip from the game's Korean overseers, I was wrong, as I found out during my discussion with NCsoft at this year's E3 2016. Let's jump first...

E3 news about Mass Effect: Andromeda has got me hyped for the series all over again. The single-protagonist (or antagonist, depending) storyline that's more linear than it appears to be may not apply that well to an MMO space, but the lore of the galaxy really appealed to me and would be epic in a larger, more sandboxy setting. BioWare...

With E3 taking up so much head-space this week, we thought it only right to discuss how MMOs in particular fared at the convention. What was the very best showing for an MMO at the event -- and what was the biggest disappointment? I posed both questions to our writers for this edition of Massively Overthinking. Guess which one...