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It's my favourite time of the year once again: The mulled wine is flowing, the festive lights are all aglow, the weather outside is most definitely frightful while my fire is indeed delightful, and I have a major increase in my gaming time since uni's out until 2016! I resurrected this old column earlier this year in March and...

Back in November, ArtCraft promised that it would soon be revealing a significant design element for Crowfall that would "require a shift in the way you are thinking, and tie together some of the elements in a way that you never expected." The moment for this reveal is fast approaching, and ArtCraft is using glimpses of its upcoming comic book...

A few weeks ago we put out a call for winter and holiday-themed screenshots. Two readers responded with multiple pictures each, so today's column is brought to you by Tyler and Stormwaltz. Take a bow, both of you! Our headlining shot is from Tyler in World of Warcraft. "Here my monk is taking in the sights during a snowstorm in...

Every time holiday events roll around in Final Fantasy XIV, I feel compelled to do them on my main character if no one else. Here's the problem: I basically never use the rewards. I just want to have them in the event that I ever want them, but so many of the rewards are cosmetic gear that I would...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Elite: Dangerous launched the first chunk of its planned Horizons campaign, Albion Online celebrated 60,000 founders, and Ultima Online fans raced to raise Indiegogo fans to save one of the oldest surviving MMORPG fansites from auction. Educational pseudo-MMO Eco visited the white house and released its second alpha, and Gloria Victis continued tweaking its...

We've been hearing about Black Desert for quite a while now, but what's it really like? Today's your chance to find out! MassivelyOP's MJ has pried open the closed beta doors and is slipping in. Be forewarned, though: There's apparently a challenge concerning the character creation, and she's not one back down from a challenge. Tune in live at...

MapleStory 2 looks to be quite the different beast than MapleStory, most notably with its 3-D cube-dominated visual style. Hey, what can you say? Gamers are cray-cray about cubes these days. Another area in which it is veering off from its predecessor is that MapleStory 2 will be run by the a different Chinese publisher, Tencent Games (MapleStory is handled by Shanda Games). The sequel...

Valiance Online doesn't see itself in direct competition with City of Titans for the throne of City of Heroes spiritual succession. How do we know this? Because the site not only said so but posted a video of City of Titans as a way to cheer on that project. Actually, we scooped together four such videos from u2willdie's YouTube channel showing the...

It's hard being the youngest child -- you get the hand-me-downs, suffer through swirlies by older siblings, and eventually develop such a neurosis that it requires seven different brands of horse tranquilizers to make it through the day. Not that I would actually know, being an oldest child and all. But I suppose it would be a hard-knock life. In...

Yesterday, we announced our award for MMO of the Year -- it went to Final Fantasy XIV. But we deliberately expanded the category to include MMOs that launched before 2015, primarily in the hopes of avoiding a repeat of our 2014 "nothing" vote, which was depressing. So what about just the new games of 2015? Which one is the best if...