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Are you ready to enter the Heart of Thorns? Because Guild Wars 2 is opening the testing doors today, allowing players to step in and experience a small amount of the expansion's leveling content with a Revenant or the eight extant professions. There are three play windows open today: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30...

This morning's Daily Grind question comes to us from Kickstarter donor Specus, who asks, I've seen many games where new players have trouble joining a game that's been out for a while because the noob zones are almost completely empty. How can we keep the veteran players engaged with the new players? This is one of the core problems of the...

League of Legends launched a new system to hand out immediate automatic bans for chat infractions this week, leading to many claims of unfair bans and false positives. The LoL player who stalked and harassed female gamers pled guilty to a string of serious offenses this week in court. Dota 2 finalised the teams for the qualifiers of its...

Time to roll up a new character in Dungeons and Dragons Online! In a new producer's letter, Robert Ciccolini said that the team will be introducing the Warlock class to the game next month. The Warlock is a more sinister class than others with the ability to forge pacts with fiends and other forces in exchange for power. Ciccolini said...

Mo downs his first miniboss, only to see one of his "friends" abscond with the loot.

Post-apocalyptic sci-fantasy MMO Novus Inceptio is now on Steam Greenlight. The indie title aims to diverge from current MMO norms and create an "integrated living world" featuring "hardcore suvival action, tactics, and strategy." The Greenlight description mentions character aging and permadeath, attributes that increase with use and decrease with neglect, and effects such as illnesses, injuries, and exhaustion. All of...

I thought I saw a dev dungeon reference. I did! I did see a dev dungeon reference! And it's about time. I have to admit that as much as I have been looking forward to Landmark's future features, dungeons totally slipped my mind. I'd like to think it was because the anticipation of utilizing gamemaster tools to control AI on...

Have you been keeping up with Das Tal's Kickstarter updates? The game's crowdfunding drive has hit its midpoint, and Fairytale Distillery has posted everything from an overview of player buildings to "constantly changing worlds." The indie PvP sandbox allows its developers to "create new and diverse servers with unique rule sets all the time," and it allows for player input as well. There's also...

There's a phrase that gets passed around my house frequently these days, and the phrase is "expansion mode." I have two characters locked into it in Final Fantasy XIV. My wife has one. Our constant companion has one. I suspect many of my readers have at least one, possibly more. This is a bit upsetting because you get to that...

It could be one of the most heart-dropping emails an MMO player could get: a notice that the game key he or she purchased turned out to be from a shady dealer and that the account will be closed. But that's just what's happening right now with Elder Scrolls Online. ZeniMax is sending out emails to players who have purchased...