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Blizzard has added a bunch of character services to World of Warcraft's cash shop. Apparently being able to buy them all "from the comfort of the character selection screen" is a big deal, too. Or at least it's a big enough deal to merit its own website update! The post says that appearance changes including sex, face, skin color, hair...

The Heart of Thorns expansion is changing guild missions in Guild Wars 2. How so? That's what today's website update is designed to answer. New guild mission types for WvW and PvP will be added to the existing PvE types, as ArenaNet seeks to diversify the ways that guild halls may be leveled up. There's also a mission preference option...

Camelot Unchained's 14th newsletter has been sighted in the wild. It says that there will be a beta-focused livestream on Friday, October 2nd, followed by a backer Q&A session. It also sums up all of September's news and introduces new programmers Marc Hernandez and George Davison. Additional topics include a look at iterative design, a look at the art department's...

Wakfu is flying players to the moon with its latest update. However, it's important to note that the patch is not lining up with a Frank Sinatra song beyond that initial conceit because it isn't allowing you to play among the stars. Instead, you'll be playing among your other characters with the introduction of the game's Hero System, which...

Late last year, I published on Massively-that-was a set of articles addressing current research on the relationship between shyness and online game friendships, including a detailed interview with Dr. Rachel Kowert, a lead researcher on the related paper. Kowert and University of Münster colleague Thorsten Quandt have now collected and published their work and work by other academics into a new...

Lord of the Rings Online's Update 16.5 may not introduce any world-shattering additions to the game (who wants a broken world anyway?), but it does provide some quality of life improvements and bug fixes. Perhaps the most noteworthy change is in the store town services; auction, mailbox, legendary item, repair and sell, and vault services now last six...

Announced earlier this year, Chronicles of Elyria is a startup sandbox in a sea of such sandboxes, but some of its features are rare even within the MMORPG genre. Massively OP will be hosting a series of exclusive dev diaries from the CoE team at Soulbound Studios over the next few weeks to further explore the game and solicit feedback and questions. The...

We all know that guild halls are coming with Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, but how will that actually work? Is there an in-game realtor and papers to sign at a closing or what? It won't be that complicated, but there is still a process that must be navigated to unlock and obtain a guild hall. As part of...

Hello once again, friends, and welcome to a brand-new edition of Choose My Adventure. As you have probably already surmised, assuming that you read this post's title, I've decided to do things a little bit differently this month by bypassing the game-selection process altogether. I know y'all like to have choices, and I like to provide them, but WildStar's...

It's been a huge month for Aion. Not only is it the fantasy MMO's sixth anniversary, but today the dev team pushed out Patch 4.8: Wind of Fate. The update adds the zones of Signia and Vengar while destroying five regions (as well as those areas' related quests and instances). Players can duke it out in weekly territorial battles, fight over PvP...