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Shards Online has posted its latest newsletter on the heels of last weekend's pre-alpha 3 preview event, which included over 100 testers. Citadel's Derek Brinkmann wrote, "This month and the next we are continuing to focus on features and polish that directly improve the player experience. We are getting close to finishing up the core UI improvements and we are...

One of the vacation destinations awaiting Guild Wars 2 players in Heart of Thorns is Tarir, a "shining golden city" teeming with magic and mystery and the type of history that you never learn in school. According to a new dev blog, Tarir is also home to the Exalted, a race of servants that were created as part of the...

On the seventh day of TOR story the audience gave to me... many innocent deaths! During the last installment of the 12 Days of TOR, MassivelyOP's Larry and MJ finished chapter one of the Agent's story, and the chat room made the biggest choice to date -- which just so happened to heap the responsibility of a number of...

If I were a serious business console gamer, I think I'd be going crazy at the delay between PC launches and console launches for Neverwinter, but here comes another one: PWE has just announced that Neverwinter's Strongholds update, which went live for PC gamers back in August, will release for the Xbox One on November 3rd. The expansion brings...

Jumping into a new-to-me MMO can be a heady, nerve-wracking event. I think there's a reason why we find our "comfort" games and feel a pull to stay with the known than to venture out more regularly to taste the fruits of other online titles, and that's because there are so many small but crucial factors that play into...

The next step for EverQuest II's time-locked progression servers (Stormhold and Deathtoll) arrives today with the game's first expansion. A short downtime for the two servers started at 10:00 a.m. EDT to bring the servers up to snuff, but it's expected to be about an hour of maintenance as of this writing. Once the expansions are live, players will be...

Sandbox Interactive is shaking things up with its land ownership system in Albion Online. In a new development diary, the studio explains that it is ditching the old way (which included regular upkeep) for a new auction-based system. All plots will regularly come up for auction, allowing anyone to bid on the lease for the next period. Current tenants have...

Don't put much stock in what people are playing on Raptr? What about what people are watching on Twitch? The streaming giant recently released its September stats, and while you won't be surprised at some of the titles dominating screens -- League of Legends, Hearthstone, Dota 2 -- there are a few standouts, particularly in the pseudo-MMO category. H1Z1 stands at...

The first new expansion for Ultima Online in several years is finally here. Time of Legends has gone live on the production servers, bringing with it the Valley of Eodon landmass, as well as new skill masteries, housing craftables, artifacts, armor sets, and tamable creatures. All players will receive access to the new humility and spirituality virtues whether or not they...

One of the factors that keeps me from playing more MMOs than I already do is that so many of them are not very friendly to a casual gaming approach. They take too long to log in, or have a lengthy learning curve, or require far too much time to make decent progress. I mean, sometimes you want a...