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BlizzCon 2015 is less than a month away, and fans of World of Warcraft, Diablo III, Hearthstone, StarCraft II, Overwatch, and Heroes of the Storm have much to look forward to when the convention opens. To help you suss out what might be revealed and what will be discussed during the two-day event, there's the new convention schedule, which covers both...

Anyone reading this column regularly understands that I have a bit of a tiff with ZeniMax because of the way it's handled the leveling process in Elder Scrolls Online. And I honestly don't think the devs are going to really change anything. However, I would like to give credit where credit is due. With the Orsinium DLC, ZeniMax might have captured...

Chapter 2 of Star Wars: The Old Republic has been completed. MJ's Imperial Agent is free from the brainwashing programming of Imperial Intelligence. But a big question remains: Who gave that information to the Republic and why? It doesn't require any amount of brainwashing to get MJ's Agent to do what you would like her to do. When she comes up...

An MMORPG is going to put any set of network architecture under an incredible amount of strain. It's going to dropkick your netcode and force your development team to react quickly to a plethora of issues. So if you want to make it work, eventually you need to bite the bullet, turn on the servers, and let them run...

Expansion? Who is thinking about expansions when Halloween is prowling about? Guild Wars 2 players will have plenty with which to keep themselves occupied later this month, as The Shadow of the Mad King event returns right in time for Heart of Thorns' launch. The Tyrian Halloween festivities come back for another go on October 23rd, giving players two weeks to get...

The next expansion for EverQuest II is leading players into a tourist trap. Not in the sense that it's filled with overpriced stores and sub-par restaurants, but in the sense that it will literally trap and perhaps destroy any tourists who enter it. Don't believe that? Then take a look at the preview of the Thalumbra region in advance...

Curious about Overwatch? If so, you'll probably want to watch Blizzard's Twitch channel on Thursday, October 15th. The studio will air 90 minutes of unedited real-time gameplay footage from its upcoming team shooter. The announcement post says that you'll see things from two heroic perspectives, and you'll also get some sort of preview for the upcoming beta. Source: Announcement

The Crew's first expansion is coming on November 17th, and Ubisoft has dropped a looooong post on its website that examines the various feature-adds. Wild Run includes something called FreeDrive Challenges, which are basically player-created missions, and FreeDrive Stunts, which are a series of escapades that get progressively more difficult as you complete them. Wild Run also includes a monthly tournament...

TERA is one of those rare MMORPGs that seems to do better the longer it runs, and today, it's celebrating Halloween in a big way. Thanks to En Masse Entertainment, we have 1000 keys for a fun Halloween bundle for you today, just in time for today's The Lost Isle update! Here's what the key will unlock: Fresh Pumpkin Mask (Permanent,...

Man, every time we hear a Funcom report I get so incredibly depressed. I'm no financial expert, but it seems as though the studio is walking some kind of scary tightrope where one false step or unfortunate circumstance would send it plummeting to the grave. And that is certainly what I do not want. I admire the effort that the...