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Do you want to know how much pee is on your money? The Division is here to help you find out. Cash Contagion, a new alternate reality game for Ubisoft's upcoming sci-fi title, asks visitors to the site to either scan an European banknote or enter in the code to find out approximately how far it's traveled, how many traces of...

Get ready for another expansion in EverQuest II on the game's time-locked expansion servers! Players voted to move the timeline along once again, and thus Kingdom of the Sky will unlock on Deathtoll and Stormhold on Thursday, January 7th. If you have anything else you want to accomplish on those servers in the current expansion environment, you should probably...

The next major patch for PlanetSide 2 managed to sneak onto the game's test servers just before Christmas, but no one noticed. Thus, the patch has started quietly entrenching itself and fortifying the area so that no one can dislodge it from the test server. Wait, that's not right - the patch itself isn't building fortifications; it's allowing players to...

"Father of MMORPGs" Dr. Richard Bartle, author of the pioneering research that spawned the Bartle test, is publishing two new books about our imperiled genre. MMOs from the Inside Out: The History, Design, Fun, and Art of Massively-multiplayer Online Role-playing Games, the longer of the pair, will focus on MMORPG design. " speaks to the designers and players of MMOs, taking it as axiomatic...

Hello friends, and welcome to the new year's first installment of Choose My Adventure. As you may have noticed, I took a bit of a hiatus back in December in order to focus on the tempest that inevitably results from the confluence of final exams, the holiday season, and my superhuman ability to procrastinate, but now I'm itching to...

Just the other day we were discussing in the office the differences between Black Desert and Blade & Soul, and I said that I desperately needed a comparison chart to help me keep the two games straight because they bleed together in my mind. Fortunately for me and those like me, Steparu has created an article devoted to explaining...

If you've already put your money down for the $599 Oculus Rift, you might be curious about when you can actually get some games to play upon it. EVE: Valkyrie is the headlining title for the headset, and the good news is that it's going to be entering the alpha test phase for players on January 18th. Said test...

This guest Soapbox was commissioned through Massively Overpowered's Kickstarter campaign and is authored by D. Emery Bunn. The opinions here represent the views of our guest author and not necessarily Massively OP itself. Enjoy! Gaming media is broken. "Honest reviews" can come off like a sarcastic jab, especially with massive site-spanning advertisements mere pixels from the reviews themselves. Add in the lure...

Did you think the Oculus Rift would be $350? Not so fast: Oculus is asking $599 US for its sweet chunk of virtual reality equipment. As promised, pre-orders for the Oculus Rift opened this morning. The $599 bundle includes the headset, sensor, Oculus Remote, cables, Xbox One Controller, and its two flagship games. Those listed for sale as of press time will ship in...

In Trove, your Cornerstone is your home away from home. Also your home at home. It's your home, in other words. But just like real homes, you might wish that you could have more than one, arranged based upon your moods and desires at any given time. The good news is that you can have as many as you'd...