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Scope out the Guild Wars 2 Dragonhunter summary

You can't play a Dragonhunter Guardian in Guild Wars 2 right now no matter how much you might want to be wielding a bow and hunting the third most dangerous game (dragons are third, humans are second, bears with cyborg implants are first). But you can find out a little bit more about how the specialization will work with...
Don't tell me we can't all fireball everyone!

The Daily Grind: What MMO do you wish had turned out differently?

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Back in the day I was a big fan of Darkfall. I remember waiting an eternity for the game's 2009 launch, and then I remember not being able to play it at launch due to Aventurine's clusterfunk of a billing system. Nonetheless, Darkfall 1.0 remains one of my favorite MMO experiences to date, which is saying something since I'm not...

Week in Review: WoW slips to 7.1M subs [May 10, 2015]

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review! World of Warcraft raised eyebrows this week as Blizzard revealed a three million sub drop in the last quarter, the sharpest three-month drop in the game's history. The heavy losses don't appear to worry MMO players,...
Someone is excited, probably.

Heroes of the Storm prepares an arresting display of skins

Nobody is going to accuse Heroes of the Storm of being tasteful and restrained, especially after seeing its newest batch of character skins. Not that that's a bad thing; this genre always needs more of a sense of humor. Blizzard posted a new video that shows off several new skins with their color variants and themed powers. Included in the...

Watch Dota 2’s Red Bull Battle Grounds Grand Finals today

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Dota 2's Red Bull Battle Grounds e-sports event draws to a close this weekend with the Grand Finals best-of-five finale in San Francisco's Warfield Theater. China's Invictus Gaming will face off with EU champ Team Secret for the Grand Finals. (If you were wondering, Americas champion Summer's Rift was knocked out of the tourney last week.) The official pre-show stream begins at 3:30 p.m. EDT today;...

Bridges, stairs, and better boats coming soon to Wurm Online

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Trust us: You will never see anyone so excited over bridges as you will in this Wurm Online dev update post. To be fair, being able to construct connections over gaps and valleys is pretty important to a freeform sandbox. So huzzah for bridges, which will be coming to Wurm Online with its spring update on May 12th. "It has...
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Star Trek Online interviews Voyager veterans and Season 10 voice actors

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Star Trek Online's Season 10: The Iconian War adds franchise veterans Robert Duncan McNeill and Lisa LoCicero to the fold. McNeill and LoCicero will be voicing digital versions of Tom Paris and Miral Paris, who will be fighting alongside player captains during the Iconian invasion. Cryptic has interviewed McNeill and LoCicero and posted the pieces on SoundCloud, so be sure...

MMO Mechanics: Three favourite action combat systems

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Virtually every MMO contains dangerous places that are filled with other players or NPCs that will attack characters on site, and many also feature destructible terrain or objects that must be destroyed. With all that smashing, crashing, and bashing, it's clear that the mechanics employed by our favourite genre must be as diverse as the array of titles that...

Das Tal counts down to its Kickstarter campaign

Das Tal's Kickstarter campaign has a start date: May 12th. The crowdfunding campaign for the isometric PvP sandbox will kick off on Tuesday, aiming for a currently unspecified amount. Fairytale Distillery is using Thunderclap to help spread the message of the impending event. "It's going to be important for the campaign to hit the ground running and show some good numbers...

One Shots: Bugs Bunny 2099

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What would Bugs Bunny look like if he were a futuristic space mercenary who chomped on freeze-dried carrots and spat out, "What's UP, doc?" right before he unloaded his plasma minigun on an enemy soldier? I imagine he'd look something like this. Our headline picture is from reader Enikuo, who hails from the land of Warframe. "Warframe added bunny ears...