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Happy holidays to those celebrating a holiday today! Happy just today for everyone else! And an extra-special dose of happy for people who like their crafting systems to have ornate depth, because Camelot Unchained has previewed its crafting system and there's plenty for you to explore. Most of you can't actually play with it yet, no, but you sure...

Steam suffered a severe malfunction today, as users are reporting that they have logged into the service only to have access to others' accounts and information. This information allegedly includes addresses, wallet amounts, and partial credit card numbers. The prevailing theory is that this is a problem from inside the service -- a security hole or cache error -- and not...

Nothing says it's the holidays better than hopping around on brightly colored candy pieces like an over-caffeinated bunny while trying not to fall to your death, right? Well, at least according to Guild Wars 2 apparently. Massively OP's MJ has heard that fans look forward to this specific holiday jumping puzzle, but she's never tried it. Since it's Christmas,...

Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Longest MMO Newsletter. And the winner is... Camelot Unchained You guys. These things are epic. I gave up counting when one approached 11,000 words. Teach us to ask for design transparency! Want to nominate another winner? Let us know in the comments, and don't forget to check out our serious MMO awards while you're...

This year, we're taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into 2016. Final Fantasy XIV's Heavensward expansion launched in June to rave reviews, rising above the E3 scrum. The month heralded the announcement of Star Wars: The Old Republic's KOTFE expansion, Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns prepurchase...

With another year coming to a close, I thought it would be an opportune time to go back and give out flippant awards to some of the MMO and MOBA soundtracks that released in 2015. Not every game gets an official album release, of course, but if there was a new game on the scene, rest assured that I...

While other studio teams are powering down for the holidays, it looks as though Star Citizen's crew is keeping up the pace. The team just put out Alpha 2.1 today, bringing with it the flyable Freelancer base and Sabre fighter, as well as several fixes for the Crusader region. Alpha 2.0 has seen over 80,000 players explore it since...

Ahh, 'tis the season: When goodies galore are hidden inside a magical closet and gigglegibber goblins give out gifts. Yes, it's Frostfell time! And in EverQuest II, that's quite possibly the most anticipated live event of the year. Whether you've been gone a while and just lured back by the or you've been counting down the days in Norrath...

Every week for the last few years, we've expanded on our "Daily Grind" theme with a Leaderboard poll. On the one hand, seeing the numbers and bar graphs is a quantitative sort of magic that we don't often get from our other articles. On the other hand, it's really obvious when a certain game's community is swarming and brigading a...

To celebrate the holidays -- and promote its newest patch -- RIFT is giving everyone patron access for seven days. Patron access is RIFT's subscription service that comes with several bonuses, not the least of which is the game's new affinity system. Trion Worlds points out that all patron players who log in will rack up affinity points every day. This...