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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...

Bungie is opening another revenue pipeline for its popular Destiny, as the game will introduce microtransactions next week. "This coming Tuesday, October 13th, Tess Everis will return to The Tower with a new look, a new storefront, and some new items to sell," Bungie posted. "Initially, Tess will offer eighteen brand new emotes. Like the trio of emotes offered via...

In her quest to level high enough to experience the housing system, MassivelyOP's MJ has been exploring more of WildStar. Today, she's wrangled a couple of friend together to delve into an expedition. They have the added benefit of scaling to group size, so what could possibly go wrong there? Tune in live at 8:00 p.m.to watch the adventure...

The experience of developing Overwatch is very different from that of other Blizzard games; it's a new IP for the company, and it's a different genre than any of its predecessors. Designer Geoff Goodman recently answered several questions on the game and its development process, explaining that the team isn't worried about specifically bringing in a number of characters,...

If you learn nothing else this morning, know that there are holidays in the grim darkness of the future. This means that as much as Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade sells itself on the idea that aforementioned grim future contains only war, it really contains lots of things. Probably not Santa hats stapled to the top of a Space Marine's...

A new alpha patch for Life is Feudal has made living in that game a little less futile. Ahem. Anyway, the big ticket items are a new player-to-player barter system, the ability to create campfires, and increased stability for the client. The team also retuned the leveling process for skills: "We had also significantly reworked skill progression formula towards planned...

ECO isn't ready for testing just yet, but Strange Loop Games is aiming to change that by the time the end of the month rolls around. In the interim, the developers have been hard at work making the game more solid, and the most recent entry on the official site outlines exactly what's been done on the game, including a...

Don't fret your sweaty heads, PvPers -- ArenaNet has not forgotten you. In fact, the studio is throwing you all sorts of incentives to fight other players in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns with new and upgraded reward tracks. Heart of Thorns will contain a reward track for the new mist champions along with reward tracks that will parallel...

Distortions are one of the newer features in Skyforge, guild-exclusive 10-player instances that contain a mess-load of monsters from all of the factions. Even getting into one is challenging, since guilds have to search for one all across the game and then coordinate well to progress through all of the tiers. Maybe you want to have a look-see before taking...

It's October 7th, and do you know what that means? Not just that Halloween is one day closer, as it happens; it means that the next major DC Universe Online update is available for members today. Players who would rather buy episodes piecemeal will have to wait until next week to pick up the episode, which contains a new...