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The Sims Online was one of the odder entrants into the MMO genre, an online iteration of an immensely popular game franchise that promised deeper social interaction. With Electronic Arts at its back and the Will Wright name affixed to the front, TSO (not to be confused with Cryptic's STO) had a solid shot at cracking the big time. It...

Come to the dark side, we have goodies! OK, maybe that isn't an official slogan for SWTOR, but it is for MassivelyOP's Larry and MJ. The two team up again to soak up more Imperial story XP while giving away in-game goodies. Larry has a bunch of stuff he wants to dole out, and MJ has much further to...

As an owner of two cats which manage to somehow feel like seven cats, I really, truly want a Pallas cat. They are unbelievably adorable. They're huge fluffy piles of angry wild bear-cat, there is no reason for them to exist, and based upon the absolutely no research I have done the only ecological niche they could possibly fill...

Cloud Imperium has published another in its ongoing series of weekly updates regarding Star Marine (otherwise known as Star Citizen's first-person shooter module, if you're wondering). Senior producer Jason Hutchins is your guide to this week's progress, which includes a fairly lengthy bullet list full of stuff like running animation fixes and internal launcher tests. Hutchins says that the module's...

MMORPG game masters may be the unsung heroes of the industry. While developers get all of the spotlight and community managers the attention, the lads and lasses in customer service get the often-unthankful job of dealing with a nonstop stream of problems and complaints. I haven't had the need to petition GMs very often, but when I do, they are...

We've known for quite some time that The Secret World's next issue would be dungeon-based. We also knew it would take place under the Orochi Tower. Today, the devs shared much more information during a livestream, everything from unveiling the Issue #12 cover to discussing the ins and outs of the dungeon, raid, and lair changes. Lead Designer Romain...

Star Citizen managed to seize everyone's attention this week. Was it the opening of a new office for the game's development studio? The latest update from the studio in the wake of delay announcements? Or was it the fact that there's no way to combine the terms "Derek Smart" and "Star Citizen" in a topic without people paying attention?...

If nothing else, the timewalking dungeons in World of Warcraft have proven a great opportunity to look back at dungeons that you may have forgotten about altogether. When was the last time you really thought about the Halls of Lightning? It exists, it can be timewalked through during the Wrath of the Lich King timewalking event, and it features...

The latest Guns of Icarus newsletter says that steampunk airship multiplayer title's new and improved UI is the result of 23,124 words worth of player feedback. Muse says that the preceding UI tweaks were not well-received by the game's community, so the devs took it upon themselves to come up with a "minimalist" UI that still manages to convey...

World of Tanks is coming to Xbox One for a two-day beta event beginning on July 11. Testers will receive login bonuses that include an American tier three M22 Locust light tank, or 180,000 in silver and a garage slot if they already own an M22. But wait, there's even more incentive to log in! It's called a 2X experience...