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If you came into RIFT late in its life cycle, you missed Hammerknell. If you weren't raiding when Hammerknell was super relevant to the game's upgrade cycle, same deal. The point is that Hammerknell was once a favored raid, but like all endgame content subject to a themepark MMO's ever-expanding cap, it became less relevant. But the next RIFT patch...

Vanguard's diplomacy system was always one of the most-talked about features of that late fantasy title, using a card minigame to simulate conversational conflict between the character and NPCs. While the game shuttered last July, there may be a possibility brewing of bringing back this beloved system in a mobile format. Daybreak Programmer Timothy Lochner is testing the waters on...

Last September, a Guild Wars 2 player shared a story about his departed wife. She died from complications during the birth of the couple's son, and she had been a fellow GW2 player who enjoyed picking up rabbits and wielding a hammer on her character, Hiralyn. It's a tragic story we've all sadly heard before if we've played online...

I was basically still a kid when I first started playing MMOs, and my first, of course, was the wild west of the newly launched Ultima Online. Completely new to multiplayer games, I rolled up my first character with the fun-sounding tailoring and musicianship skills (no other bard skills -- just musicianship, a passive skill that did nothing alone)....

Descent: Underground has passed the 50% mark on its Kickstarter campaign and promised to add singleplayer to the title but has only four days left to secure over $200,000 US. Path of Exile pulled a hilarious April Fools' Day prank on players and revealed details of its upcoming Act 4 update, including the highly requested loot filter feature. League...

Thanks to the latest update, HEX: Shards of Fate fans can now enjoy solo PvE content that boasts 30+ new AI enemies in the digital trading card MMO. Each of the four tiers in The Frost Ring Arena will throw four champions and one boss at players who will battle using either the new PvE cards or any existing...

Microsoft's recent DMCA takedown notice may have temporarily derailed plans to liberate Halo Online from its Russia-only prison, but the modders responsible for last week's brouhaha aren't giving up. "We're working to improve people's experience, bring it to those who wouldn't have been able to play it anyway," Neoshadow42 explains in an interview at TorrentFreak. "I'd see that as a...

Would you like to hunt whales in Black Desert? No, not the big cash shop spenders, but actual whales in the ocean and stuff. Apparently you can, as shown in a video recently posted by Steparu. He describes the whale hunt as "very relaxing and peaceful," despite the chaos inherent in several player ships and nearly seven minutes of spells and...

Dupers -- players who take advantage of exploits to duplicate rare items in-game in order to sell them -- can be a type of MMO bogeyman, heard-of but rarely seen. However, Business Insider tracked down one MapleStory duper and got a rare behind-the-scenes look at this rule-breaking activity. Justin Liu confessed to the publication that he had made $12,000 in...

There's no doubt that the MOBA genre is a behemoth in the industry right now, with titles like League of Legends and DOTA 2 raking in millions of players and Ebenezer Scrooge-amounts of revenue. However, one author says that other studios chasing these numbers with their own MOBA offerings are heading for a trap of dire proportions. Over at Gamasutra,...