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Sometimes you reach a moment in your life where you have to take a side. With the launch of the fantasy city-builder Elvenar today, the moment of choice is here: Do you side with humans or with Elves? The two factions are now available to play as the US version of this free-to-play game goes live. Players can build up...

Health potions are one of the core elements of Diablo III, but they're not actually interesting to stock up on. The game has thus removed them altogether; Legendary potions are unchanged, but you normally just have a bottomless health potion to heal you. The change is simple, straightforward, and as good a lead-in to a patch full of item...

Have you been holding on to your hat during the first day of WoW Token sales? Did you think that 30,000 gold was a bit too low or too high for a month of World of Warcraft? Because the data from the first day of sales are in, and it looks like 30,000 didn't stay for long. According to...

Guild Wars 2 makes me tick because the creatives at ArenaNet have laid such a unique and amazingly vast world at my character's feet, filled with a plethora of different colours, sights, sounds, and peoples. As a ravenous explorer, I adore how diverse the scenery is in Tyria: My wanders can take me to such diverse environments, from the snowy tundra...

What have you done with your online life lately? We bet you haven't ascended to godhood and convinced other players to follow a new religion devoted to worshipping you. One Wurm Online player has done this, however, by becoming the first gamer in that MMO to start up a religion. The team announced the news today: "There's a new deity...

Mark your calendars, Lineage II fans, because on April 22nd you're getting a new expansion. It's called Infinite Odyssey and it will coincide with the game's 11th anniversary. NCsoft is removing the level cap, allowing players to "achieve level 100 and beyond," according to today's press release. The cap removal also means additional skills, with some of them boasting names...

I can safely say that what I got when I first fired up Skyforge was not, in fact, what I had been hoping I would get. At the same time, I can't say that I'm necessarily upset about that. My expectations for the game went from complete disinterest to genuine curiosity to something even resembling enthusiasm over time, and...

One of Phantasy Star Online 2's big hooks is doing crossovers with other major game franchises. The latest of these mashups is with Bandai Namco's Tales of Zestiria, which was recently released in Japan and will be coming here in the summer. And no, we don't know when -- if ever -- Phantasy Star Online 2 will follow suit. Thanks...

The first beta test for Ghost in the Shell Online is just around the corner, and it's going to feature a lot of shooting. But how will the various characters in the game play? What game modes will be available? New videos from the official site answered those questions, and Steparu helpfully compiled them so that you can sit down...

If you've had dreams of flying spaceships in the third dimension but were too poor to afford an Oculus Rift, then one clever gamer has a possible solution for you. YouTuber Colin Ford filmed a video in which he took an Android phone, Google Cardboard (yes, it's a real thing), Trinus Gyre, and Open Track and combined them to make...