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EVE Evolved: Video highlights from EVE Fanfest 2017
For a few days each year, hundreds of EVE Online players from across the world flock to a frozen volcanic rock at the top of the world for...
Star Trek Online offers a broad overview of upcoming space combat balance changes
The space combat of Star Trek Online is pretty much the crown jewel of the game. It's intriguing, diverse, engaging, and pretty much everyone...
Paragon celebrates a year of early access with a big patch
Has it really been a year since Paragon first went into early access? It certainly has according to the developers, and they would know....
Jeff Kaplan chimes in on the power of Overwatch’s bird-watching robot and metagame balance
Do you think Overwatch has made Bastion too powerful? The good news is that yes, Jeff Kaplan agrees with you, as he's outright said...
Heroes of the Storm balance update tunes down Tychus, Varian, Malfurion, and Murky
The latest Heroes of the Storm balance patch isn't going to give anyone a bunch of satisfying new tricks. It's actually taking a lot...
Path of Exile explains its rebalancing philosophy for patch 2.6
When The Fall of Oriath goes live, Path of Exile will undergo quite a bit of balance adjustment. But why wait until then? The...
Eternal Crusade makes loadouts more flexible with widespread balance changes
It's been a bit quieter than normal on the Eternal Crusade front this month, but that was due to a large-scale rebalancing patch being...
World of Warcraft’s Hazzikostas discusses the goals for future Artifact Power implementation
There has been some back-and-forth about World of Warcraft's Artifact Power system. The problem that people have run into, essentially, is that the game's...
Perpetuum rolls out the final wave of Syndicate robots
The final robots are arriving in Perpetuum. The last four Syndicate robots are being rolled out with the game's newest patch, allowing players four...
The Daily Grind: What form of balance is best for MMOs?
I've been thinking about balance a lot. We all say that we'd like a balanced game, but there are a lot of different potential...
DC Universe Online adjusts abilities to have a little more impact
The stat revamp for DC Universe Online is an ongoing process with a lot of moving parts, and that means that none of those...
Overwatch explains the goal of the PTR to players, and it’s not about balance
D. Va has taken a bit of a drubbing in the most recent Overwatch patch on the test server. Her guns do less damage...
Atlas Reactor opens up its public test server with a new Freelancer
Do you want to test out Brynn the Skywarden in Atlas Reactor? You can do that right now on the game's test server. You...
Wisdom of Nym: The state of Final Fantasy XIV’s Machinist
About a year and a half ago, I first put (digital) pen to (theoretical) paper about Final Fantasy XIV's Machinist. At that point, Heavensward...
World of Warcraft’s secondary stats are dropping in power; here’s why
Players who log on to World of Warcraft's 7.1.5 test realm will no doubt have already noticed that secondary stats just aren't what they...
Armored Warfare is revamping every aspect of gameplay with ‘Balance 2.0’
A casual glance at the information available seems to indicate that Armored Warfare has not lit the world on fire. But the development team...
Shroud of the Avatar delivers Release 35 to everyone
Remember back when Shroud of the Avatar's releases contained mostly line items like "implemented the most basic form of crafting" and "included a single...
Jeff Kaplan discusses the future of hero balance in Overwatch
Are all of the heroes in Overwatch balanced? Probably not. Some heroes are a bit more powerful than others. But is that actually a...
World of Warships ships out a new batch of British boats
The British are coming! Their ships are, at least, in World of Warships. The game's most recent update adds in ten British warships, ranging...
Guild Wars 2 warns of incoming balance adjustments
Will Guild Wars 2 ever attain perfect balance with all of its classes and skills? Probably not, but such is the way of all...
