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The Daily Grind: Have you ever written off an MMO early on and been proven totally wrong?

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When The Elder Scrolls Online first launched, I did not have high hopes for it. Indeed, I figured it was trafficking hard on the...

The ESA says a crapton of game companies are finally embracing lockbox transparency

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Under pressure from no less than the US Senate, the FTC held the first of its planned video game monetization workshops today, and while...

Perfect Ten: MMOs of the apocalypse

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It's the end of the world as we know it -- and for some reason, we are still gaming. I guess that your investment...
Sans daunts.

The Elder Scrolls Online brings back the Orsinium Celebration on August 8

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It's been too long since you've been back to Orsinium in The Elder Scrolls Online. Or perhaps you're in Orsinium now and you'd like...

Elder Scrolls Blades patches in new enemies, challenges, and other adjustments

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Since Elder Scrolls Blades is making inroads at being a bit more successful recently, it would stand to reason that the devs of the...

The Elder Scrolls Online is changing Undaunted Keys, guild trader bidding, and crafting

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A number of pursuits in The Elder Scrolls Online are going to be seeing some tweaks in Update 23, the free update to the...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 231: EverQuest and Secret World prognostications

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Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online, Pagan Online, EverQuest 3, Guild Wars 2, and Worlds Adrift, with adventures in WoW, SWG, and Villagers & Heroes, plus mailbag topics on The Secret World and MMO fashion.

Tamriel Infinium: Everything we learned from Quakecon 2019’s Elder Scrolls Online panel

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On Saturday, president of ZeniMax Online Studios Matt Firor and creative director of The Elder Scrolls Online Rich Lambert took the stage at Quakecon...

QuakeCon 2019: Fallout 76’s private servers and new battle royale map

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During the Fallout 76 panel at QuakeCon this weekend, Bethsoft dished on some of the content upcoming for the game. Perhaps most excitingly, the...

MMO Week in Review: Wouldn’t it be awesome if Guild Wars 2’s next season were Cantha

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It was a surprisingly solid week for Guild Wars 2, not so much because of one specific thing but because of the deluge: ArenaNet...

The Elder Scrolls Online’s Scalebreaker launches August 12 – check out the QuakeCon 2019 roadmap

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At QuakeCon this evening, ZeniMax dropped some juicy info for Elder Scrolls Online fans. The big news, of course, is the launch date for Scalebreaker,...

The Soapbox: The counterproductiveness of limited-time content in online games

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While thoroughly enjoying playing Astroneer's special event in honor of Apollo 11's moon landing 50th anniversary that's happening now through August 31st, I was...

Tamriel Infinium: What comes after champion points in The Elder Scrolls Online?

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During the Elsweyr release announcement stream for the Elder Scrolls Online earlier this summer, ZeniMax made an announcement that was somewhat buried within the...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Why Guild Wars 2 is the ideal starter MMO

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When I met my wife, she was a console gamer, but she had never played an MMO. She was interested in giving some of...

One Shots: Playing favorites

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Oh sure, we all say that we're impartial and we love all our alts the same... but admit it, there is one race that...
Cool, we'll meet the meat.

Fallout 76 promises quick fixes for the latest patch’s bugs ahead of Meat Week

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So, the latest patch for Fallout 76 was... well, let's just charitably say that it had some major issues and leave it at that....
Hey, I duped that fair and square!

Fallout 76’s latest patch hit like an A-bomb (and not in a good way)

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With an improved new player experience, balance changes, and better power armor, you would think that Fallout 76's latest patch would be received warmly...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO offering is filling your summer hours?

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We're only now in the middle of July, but so far it feels as though summer 2019 has been a non-stop rollercoaster of great...

The Soapbox: Hoping for Amazon to succeed where Lord of the Rings Online failed

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It's not often I really get excited about an upcoming MMORPG. Partly this is because of the industry slowing down, and partly this is...
Hello and goodbye.

Fan-built Fallout Online projects are happening in the classic game style

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So, are you of the mind that Fallout 76 didn't really capture what you wanted from an online game in the franchise's universe? Perhaps...

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