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Hello friends, and welcome to the new year's first installment of Choose My Adventure. As you may have noticed, I took a bit of a hiatus back in December in order to focus on the tempest that inevitably results from the confluence of final exams, the holiday season, and my superhuman ability to procrastinate, but now I'm itching to...

Just the other day we were discussing in the office the differences between Black Desert and Blade & Soul, and I said that I desperately needed a comparison chart to help me keep the two games straight because they bleed together in my mind. Fortunately for me and those like me, Steparu has created an article devoted to explaining...

If you've already put your money down for the $599 Oculus Rift, you might be curious about when you can actually get some games to play upon it. EVE: Valkyrie is the headlining title for the headset, and the good news is that it's going to be entering the alpha test phase for players on January 18th. Said test...

This guest Soapbox was commissioned through Massively Overpowered's Kickstarter campaign and is authored by D. Emery Bunn. The opinions here represent the views of our guest author and not necessarily Massively OP itself. Enjoy! Gaming media is broken. "Honest reviews" can come off like a sarcastic jab, especially with massive site-spanning advertisements mere pixels from the reviews themselves. Add in the lure...

Did you think the Oculus Rift would be $350? Not so fast: Oculus is asking $599 US for its sweet chunk of virtual reality equipment. As promised, pre-orders for the Oculus Rift opened this morning. The $599 bundle includes the headset, sensor, Oculus Remote, cables, Xbox One Controller, and its two flagship games. Those listed for sale as of press time will ship in...

In Trove, your Cornerstone is your home away from home. Also your home at home. It's your home, in other words. But just like real homes, you might wish that you could have more than one, arranged based upon your moods and desires at any given time. The good news is that you can have as many as you'd...

If there's one thing that you should know about City State Entertainment's Mark Jacobs is that the man likes to talk at great length, especially about projects that inspire his passion. So don't be surprised to see him gleefully tackle questions about Camelot Unchained on an hour-long episode of the Opposition Podcast. Jacobs used his time on the show to...

Although it was delayed from its planned roll out last year, Lord of the Rings Online's new datacenter is now ready for deployment. Executive Producer Athena Peters announced yesterday that the datacenter will be activated during a January 11th update: We are finally at the point at which we are ready to announce the opening of the new datacenter with all new...

Protip: Don't cheat in video games, especially always-online MMORPGs where the devs are actively seeking out cheaters and have a reputation for humiliating them publicly. Popular Guild Wars 2 YouTuber duo Suck at Love could've used that tip. They logged into the game to find their accounts banned by ArenaNet for hacking, so what did they do? Post a video insisting on their innocence....

There's still no word on exactly when the test servers for World of Warcraft: Legion will come back online following the winter break, but we can at least be certain that when they do come back it'll be with bells on. A tweet from a Blizzard employee confirmed it yesterday: https://twitter.com/Zorbrix/status/684127769517637633 What exactly the new content will entail is unclear, but...