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Battle Bards Episode 123: Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire

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With eagerness in their hearts, the Battle Bards rush toward another Guild Wars 2 soundtrack, ready to bask in the aural glory of this...

Perfect Ten: The best MMO debuts by year, 1997-2006

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By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...

Lord of the Rings Online plans a ‘perfect picnic’ with this week’s summer festival

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Lord of the Rings Online's summer festival is coming back on June 28th, and this year the event has a couple of exciting surprises...

Fortnite: Pollsters and academics examine purchases, pay-to-win, and motivation vs. addiction

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Remember the old adage that less than 10% of a free-to-play playerbase pay for the other 90%? A poll conducted by LendEDU and Pollfish...

Worlds Adrift postpones this week’s patch, The Guardian compares it to Fortnite

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Don't expect a patch this week in Worlds Adrift: Bossa's delayed it to July 3rd. In its latest dev blog, the studio says it's...

Trion throws open Defiance 2050’s gates for another beta round this weekend

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Trion is running yet another beta round for Defiance 2050 as the reboot heads to open testing on PC this weekend, starting tomorrow afternoon...

Global Chat: The fallout of Fallout 76

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Bethesda's E3 reveal of Fallout 76 had many gamers and franchise fans talking, no more so than out among MMO bloggers. After all, taking...
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The Daily Grind: Do you prefer ‘work’ simulation MMOs to more fantastic game worlds?

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In the comments of my piece on Raph Koster's book last week, a commenter brought up the idea that mimicking the real world in...

Global Chat: The best of both worlds

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If you have ever played more than one MMORPG, the thought has probably crossed your mind that you would love to see your favorite...

Dual Universe’s latest pre-alpha patch adds markets, scanning, and mining

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Let's all take a moment for an appreciative round of applause to any studio that is considerate enough to post monthly round-ups of games...

Legends of Aria makes combat more sensible and nerfs fast travel in its latest update

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It's a big day for Legends of Aria and its beta testers, as the game is undergoing some pretty meaty changes to combat and...

Blade and Soul throws the kitchen sink into next week’s patch

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You know it's a really good and meaty content patch when a studio can get more than two blog posts out of it. Blade...

‘Magic through serendipity’: Raph Koster on the glorious mess that was Ultima Online

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I was a wide-eyed, naive kid when I first stepped into Ultima Online in 1997, and as it turns out, the developers were too. That's...

Lord of the Rings Online continues to fine-tune class adjustments

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How many number twos can Standing Stone Games put after a Lord of the Rings Online patch before it collapses from the sheer decimal...

Battle Bards Episode 122: Happy town

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In peaceful villages and bubbly burgs, you just know that there’s bound to be an abundance of happy music! Whenever the Battle Bards regroup...

Steam’s new chat system just hit beta – will it pull you away from Discord?

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Steam's new chat client has gone into testing this week, with major overhauls to the friends list and group chat system. I gave it...

E3 2018: PUBG will launch Sanhok map June 22, plans snow mechanics and map for this winter

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During yesterday's pre-E3 Xbox conference, Bluehole didn't trot out Brendan Greene himself to talk PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, but it did confirm what Reddit has apparently...

SCUM shows off pre-alpha character creation footage

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Who is better suited to survive a horror-filled island than a bunch of hardened convicts? Running for your life and shooting anything that displeases...

Global Chat: FFXIV re-reborn, State of Decay 2, and Dungeons and Dragons Online

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With the rollout of Patch 4.3, Final Fantasy XIV is offering its players a nice big slice of content to enjoy as we head...

Neverwinter’s art team builds Castle Ravenloft block by block (and using a few tricks)

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Now that you've seen (or maybe you haven't) Dungeons and Dragons Online's version of Castle Ravenloft, you can check out Neverwinter's vision of this...

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