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‘Buy-to-play’ is a term that refers to games that have box or download fees associated with them but do not incur a mandatory subscription. Some have optional subscriptions and are more properly referred to as hybrid B2P. Most have cash shops and microtransactions.

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for total MMO newbies

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If you're anything like me, you probably have a tough time deciding what kinds of gifts to buy all of your totally real, not-at-all...

Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s Veteran Ranks take center stage again

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This week, I really wanted to talk about Orsinium. There are some really great things happening in Elder Scrolls Online in the DLC that I’d...

Interview: Pantheon devs on funding, Unity, and the launch window

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Brad McQuaid's Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is an MMO that's suffered more than its fair share of drama and setbacks, but even detractors will agree...

The Daily Grind: What are the basic rules of conduct for an MMO community?

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If there's one thing I've learned from 18 years of playing MMOs, it's that games train us to abide by some pretty weird codes...
We're in space.

Elite Dangerous shows off the system specs for Horizon in its latest newsletter

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What will it take for you to land your ship on planets in Elite: Dangerous? Well, at the very least it will take a...

MMO Mechanics: Three game-changing movement mechanics

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In order to create the most truly challenging MMOs that connect players with the specific virtual environments they're traversing, developers have always worked on...

One Shots: Transformations

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Guild Wars 2 and One Shots is a pairing as old as time immemorial. Thus, it's great to bring this good-looking MMO back into...

The Game Archaeologist: Shadowbane

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Way back when I used to haunt the corridors of Gamestop and had yet to shun the place due to its stinky evil, I remember...

The Secret World livestream teases new PvP minigame, Issue 13

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Today's Secret World dev stream may not have delved deeply into details, but it did tease some upcoming content players can look forward to....

Elder Scrolls Online’s veteran ranks are going bye bye

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Elder Scrolls Online creative director Rich Lambert made a post on the game's official forum recently that should lead to much rejoicing. Unless you...

The Daily Grind: What’s your worst MMO guild drama horror story?

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Guild Wars 2's raiding guild drama earlier this week naturally made me think of guild drama I've experienced myself. I mean, if you've been...

Guild Wars 2 Quaggan holiday merch available to pre-order tomorrow

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Every MMO seems to have its breakout race, and for many Guild Wars 2 players, it's the lovable and squishy Quaggan. So what if...

Perfect Ten: MMOs you forgot existed (but are still running)

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No MMO can be in the spotlight eternally. Even some of the biggest names out there -- your World of Warcrafts, your Guild Wars...

Funcom to announce three new games in 2016

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Watch out world: Funcom is cranking up its game factory for 2016. In the studio's Q3 2015 report, Funcom said that it would be announcing the...

Guild Wars 2 had a five-hour Heart of Thorns launch megastream

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If you've got five-plus hours to kill and you're a fan of Guild Wars 2, you might enjoy checking in with the Heart of...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s enhanced Squad UI factsheet

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I've already brought you my initial impressions of the Gorseval raid encounter followed by a quickfire interview with Guild Wars 2 Associate Game Director Steven...

The Secret World welcomes new community manager

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The Secret World has a new face in its community management team, as Funcom has promoted Andy "Odonoptera" Benditt up from GM to CM. Benditt...
We had a bet running that it would take longer.

Guild Wars 2’s introduction of raids is followed shortly by the introduction of raid drama

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Guild Wars 2 introduced the first wing of its new raids to players yesterday. To make these new raids as good as they could...

The Daily Grind: What’s your preferred style of MMO combat?

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A passionate WildStar discussion-slash-debate in my guild the other day on the subject of MMO combat styles had us all taking sides on what was...

Global Chat: Gearing up in WildStar

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If you're anything like me, when you get to the max level in a game, there's a general flailing of hands and a feeling...

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