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Do you feel a burning desire to get in and try out one of the intended spiritual successors to City of Heroes? Because you can do exactly that right now with Valiance Online. The pre-alpha client is available for downloading and testing with no NDA, no restrictions, and no certainties about when the server may go down for patches...

Everyone knows that ARK: Survival Evolved is a survival game. But what do you do once you know that your survival is assured and you have plenty of resources to continue living? Well, you find more stuff to ride and build yourself a grappling hook. Yes, there's a grappling hook in the game now, and it works exactly as...

Technology is vital to every single MMO that we play and is also almost completely invisible. When a game is running well, you don't think about the technology underpinning that performance; you notice only when it doesn't work. That's all the more reason to have pieces like the most recent article about RIFT's past year in technology updates and...

There's treasure everywhere on the planet Nexus, even if your definition of "treasure" is on the stricter side. The Big Game Hunters of WildStar have accumulated a lot of treasure, so much that they don't want most of it and are more than willing to give it away to players. Of course, being as this is a group all...

Even if you've never played Final Fantasy XIV, you can probably make a decent guess about how the Gnath work. They're little insectoid people; obviously they all obey a hive mind. Not including that particular bit of species-wide characterization would be like not having early quests to kill innocuous rats right outside of the city limits. But what happens...

Gamasutra argued last week that there are three effective in-app purchase strategies that mobile gamers don't hate: the classic demo, where players can try the game out a little bit before they buy the whole game; opt-in, in-game advertising that rewards players with in-game currency; and paid DLC and expansion content on top of a free-to-play base game. Now, Gamasutra is talking primarily...

Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! It was a gigantic week for MMO news, not all of it good. The weird: Daybreak announced that it is splitting its zombie MMO sandbox H1Z1 into two separate (and separately bought, going forward) halves: a survival...

This week we heard the news that CCP Games will be officially shutting down PS3 online shooter DUST 514 in May to start work on a PC reboot. While this is obviously disappointing for the small but dedicated community that has stuck with the game over the years, it's a predictable end that we always knew was coming and the prospect of a PC reboot...

Almost two years ago, SMITE developer Hi-Rez Studios ran stream of its developers doing crazy stuff, like eating peppers and shaving their heads, in order to raise money for the American Red Cross. They raised $24,000 and vowed to produce a calendar based on the "Boys of Hi-Rez." As of this week, it's finally ready, and the physical calendar can be...

"Was Prince Hubalajad as foolish and stubborn as tales make us believe? Why would he build Abah's Landing in a place as unwelcoming as Hew's Bane and continue to invest in it regardless of all drawbacks?" I have always wondered the answers to those questions, in addition to a few more such as "Who is Prince Hubalawhatzit?" and "Does one...