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Sword Coast Legends is not without some muscle in the soundtrack department, as the game was scored by industry legend Inon Zur. And today the soundtrack is available to purchase on both iTunes and Amazon, although players who purchased one of the deluxe versions of the game will receive it for free. Zur said that the soundtrack is steeped in...

Do you like EVE Online? Do you like charts and graphs? If you answered yes to both of those questions, the latest CCP dev blog is for you. It's all about the game's economy, and it's basically a recap of and an expansion on information that was revealed at EVE Vegas and that has rarely been made public before. CCP...

It's the bloodiest (and blockiest) knight you'll ever see in an MMO: the Revenant. Trove announced its newest class in a post today, saying that the Revenant will be a heavy plate-wearing class that uses both spears and its own blood as weapons. Aw, how adorable. The class uses spirit attacks that draw from its own health pool and can...

It's go time tomorrow: BlizzCon is almost here, and I'm going to be liveblogging my way through most of the event. And boy, it's coming at an interesting time, what with the game officially declaring that it will no longer announce subscription numbers in the same year that the game has lost about 45% of its subscriber base. I could write a...

Sci-fi MMORPG Otherland most recently made blog headlines when it denied accusations that it solicited or purchased what appear to be suspicious reviews on Steam. So how would you like a chance to play the game yourself, for free, and form your own opinion? Drago Entertainment has given us 50 Steam keys that unlock the $19.99 standard edition of Otherland on...

Overwatch will be playable from the living room couch as well as at a desk, as word has leaked out that Blizzard's team shooter is heading to consoles as well as the PC. GameStop said that it received permission to share the news that Overwatch is coming out on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Additionally, the retailer revealed that the...

In the 11th year of EverQuest II, what did SOE/Daybreak give to me? An emotional rollercoaster ride! This Sunday marks 11 years of Norrathian adventures in the fantasy game, and what an adventure it has been. This year, unlike any other before, has been marked by upheaval and uncertainty for the company behind the venerable franchise. Yet there have...

A new job listing for a senior software engineer at Blizzard revealed that the studio is looking to bring back its classic games catalog in some way. One of the key goals of the job is to make Blizzard's older games playable on modern operating systems. "Evolving operating systems, hardware, and online services have made  more difficult to be experienced...

The western has been limping along for decades now, occasionally rearing its head to produce a well-loved movie or game smash hit before disappearing once more. It's certainly one of the most-cited genres when it comes to speculating about largely unexplored spaces for MMOs, but how feasible is doing an online western RPG really? We've seen some titles tap into the...

The first post-expansion patch for Final Fantasy XIV goes live on November 10th, but you'd better get in all of your gameplay before then. All game servers are going down for maintenance on November 9th at 4:00 a.m. EST, coming back online on November 10th. With the usual allowance for possible extended maintenance, naturally. Why the 24-hour downtime? It's unclear...