WIR December 20 2015 (Posts)

        
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    Leaderboard: What was the best new MMO of 2015? - Yesterday, we announced our award for MMO of the Year -- it went to Final Fantasy XIV. But we deliberately expanded the category to include MMOs that launched before 2015, primarily in the hopes of avoiding a…
    The Game Archaeologist: Asheron’s Call - It's hard being the youngest child -- you get the hand-me-downs, suffer through swirlies by older siblings, and eventually develop such a neurosis that it requires seven different brands of horse tranquilizers to make it through…
    WoW Legion aims to flatten the PvP gear curve - Last night, Blizzard posted a dev blog to explain just how World of Warcraft Legion plans to drive a wrecking ball into the game's existing PvP paradigm. For starters, honor and conquest currencies are being replaced…
    Guild Wars 2 teases world-vs.-world tweaks - ArenaNet offered Guild Wars 2 world-vs.-world fans an early Christmas present this evening in the form of a sneak-peek at a set of changes on the way at some point in early 2016. Objectives upgrades will…
    Funcom announces new Conan game - Funcom has just announced that it's creating a new video game based on the Conan franchise. Funcom is excited to announce that the company has entered into an agreement with Conan Properties, making it the preferred…
    Take a tour of Star Citizen’s $10,000 club - Chances are that you and pretty much everyone you know won't be allowed in one part of Star Citizen: its Million Mile High Club. This special area is reserved for backers who dropped $10,000 on a…
    Elite: Dangerous’ Horizons goes live today - Elite: Dangerous' Horizons - specifically, the 1.5 ships update - is set for launch today. Horizons is considered the next season for the game's original version, which launched a year ago. That makes today's launch, Planetary Landings, the…
    Guild Wars 2 plans post-Heart of Thorns balance changes - On the Guild Wars 2 official forums today, ArenaNet's Gaile Gray has outlined a number of balance changes heading to the game, once again shifting the meta and generating salt from the usual suspects. [O]ur strategy for…
    Tencent buys up the rest of Riot Games - [AL:LOL]League of Legends developer Riot Games has a new owner this week. Well, really it's the same ostensible owner as before, China's Tencent Holdings, only now Tencent has gobbled up the last 7.22% of the company. Riot announced the…
    Student lands jail time for 2012 RuneScape robbery - Way back in 2012, Fordham University student Humza Bajwa was busted by New York cops for holding a pair of RuneScape players at (what they believed was) gunpoint while he forced them to transfer RuneScape cash…
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