WoW gets a 6.2 patch survival guide and feature preview

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World of Warcraft's 6.2 patch drops tomorrow. Apparently it's a big deal, because Blizzard has taken the time to put together a patch preview and video survival guide for the Fury of Hellfire update. Want to watch it? All you have to do is click past the cut! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMUjg6Ik17Y#t=12 Source: Survival guide
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Tomorrow’s Guild Wars 2 patch tweaks the 1-to-80 leveling experience

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Tomorrow's Guild Wars 2 patch features a change inspired by player feedback, according to game director Colin Johanson. "We decided getting to level 80 will give you enough hero points to unlock all the core skills and traits entirely," Johanson says. Doing hero challenges will allow players to earn all the skills/traits before level 80, he continues. When the Heart...

Sword and Bored: Teleport

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Mo's companion demonstrates the proper way to deal with AFK grinders in their MMO.
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The demographics and realities of selling games on Steam

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Steam is one of those things that we think of as almost ubiquitous as a gaming platform. You can buy many MMOs on it, it has its own social networking functions, and it seems that almost everyone has it installed at home. But here's the reality of selling on Steam: the average game on the service will sell only 32,000...

E3 2015: SWTOR’s upcoming expansion builds on the ‘legacy of KOTOR’

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So what's with Knights of the Fallen Empire? Inquiring Star Wars: The Old Republic fans want to know! That's why we sat down with the BioWare devs at E3 to suss out some answers for you. We also got to see some of the expansion in action; Senior Producer Bruce MacLean and Studio Creative Director James Ohlen walked us through...
That map is big? Yeah, yeah, yeah! It's not small? No, no, no!

Neverwinter demos its biggest map ever

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The more things you want going on in a single map, the bigger the map needs to be. If all you want is for a player to walk in, click a thingy, and then leave, a small map is enough. But for Neverwinter's next major update, which promises guild structures, PvE, PvP, and possibly an international coffee bar somewhere...
Sorry I'm late, but you know I can't log in for about two hours.

Wisdom of Nym: The highs and lows of Final Fantasy XIV’s early access

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Thursday was a long day. So was Friday, but in very different ways. Playing Final Fantasy XIV over the past few days has been a weird experience for me. On the one hand, there's so much more cool stuff to do, and that's awesome. On the other hand, there's far more stuff than I can get a realistic picture of...
This image actually makes me not want to inflict this on my friends, but...

TERA introduces recruit-a-friend rewards

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Are you playing TERA? Do you have friends who are not playing TERA? Are said friends also swayed by the thought of both of you receiving shiny new stuff in the game? Then perhaps you'll want to take full advantage of the game's new recruitment drive, starting today and running until July 12th. It's a chance to earn prizes...
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Character name reclamation is coming to World of Warcraft

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With a decade of popularity and lots of people playing, World of Warcraft does not have a surfeit of names available for players. As a result, the game is reclaiming names from characters that haven't logged in since December 7th of 2010 when patch 6.2 goes live. Fortunately, if you have a character who may be at risk, simply...

Tree of Life dev explains crime system, prefers ‘2:8 wolf/deer ratio’

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Take heart, sandbox PvE fans. Tree of Life developer OddOneGames is on your side and has added a crime system to its early access sandbox so as to avoid turning it into yet another PvP-focused gankbox. In a post on the game's Steam forum, developer Chyaya says that the team's primary goal is "to build up a well-running ecological system." He says that the preferred ratio...