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Some of the changes made to pantheons with the most recent Skyforge update are the result of systems just not working. The clan system was intended to provide an easy way to group pantheon members at a glance, but as the latest development update explains the system just wasn't working out properly for management. Thus Obsidian has removed the...

It's certainly been a week of expansion news! More than one game that had sworn off expansions in the past has circled back to them. That isn't a bad thing in and of itself because expansions are pretty awesome! Not everyone, however, is celebrating: Such news has some Secret World fans feeling left out (and maybe even a bit...

Here's a quick way to feel old: As of today, Ultima Online is old enough to vote. In celebration of its 18th birthday, Broadsword thanked players on the official site, casually dropping the October 8th release date for the anticipated Time of Legends expansion as only Broadsword can: From all of us here at Broadsword we want to thank everyone for 18...

The future of PlanetSide 2 is racing toward the community at a rapid pace according to a new developer Q&A that was hosted on Reddit yesterday. One possibility that was dangled in front of the community was the possibility of a player-settled continent. "How would you feel about more of a blank slate continent(s) that could be used to construct player-built bases,...

WildStar is going to be free-to-play in less than a week now. If you've already been playing the game, your path to get ready is pretty short - you just log in and start playing. But if you've never touched the game before and really want to be in there on the 29th, you would do well to peruse...

Raptr's monthly stat summaries remain the best possible way to track the popularity of games among the people who actually use Raptr. And it's a pretty solid month for those users playing online games of some variety, with Diablo III and Warframe jumping up the highest. ARK: Survival Evolved, Final Fantasy XIV, Hearthstone, and Star Wars: The Old Republic...

Camelot Unchained's current plans are to create a whopping 30 classes for the game, which means a heck of a lot of reveals over the coming months. City State Entertainment decided to include its community in the reveal process by announcing that it will send out surveys to allow its backers to vote on the order of the reveals...

We're coming down to the last few Kickstarter-submitted Daily Grind questions, and I admit I've been sitting on this particular one a while because MMOTCGs aren't my personal passion. Donor Chocmaw posed this question: Have you checked out HEX TCG and what do you think about it? HEX was originally pitched as the first true MMOTCG as opposed to an online TCG....

Who doesn't love cool new gadgets? MassivelyOP's MJ sure does! She's acquired for herself a fancy new Hover-Tech Stealthboard in The Secret World, complete with patented Veil technology. Of course, the Orochi developed it, so what could go wrong? Tune in live at 9:00 p.m. as MJ tests this new toy out in the wilds of Transylvania. What: The Secret...

Whether you call them server transitions, evolutions, consolidations, megaservers, or connected realms, server merges are a thing that affects most MMORPGs at some point in their lives -- if they are lucky. The really unlucky ones sunset or fade away before a merge can save them. So if you've been playing MMOs a while, you've probably gone through at least...