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Activision-Blizzard Q3 2022: Blizzard MAUs and revenues are up as NetEase dispute looms on the horizon

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Welcome back to our trimonthly coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials. As of this afternoon, we have Q3's results, comprising July, August, and September 2022....
Crowfell.

Crowfall is going offline on November 22, supposedly for further development work

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Since Crowfall was purchased in December of last year, the news coming out of the game has been minimal at best. So today's announcement...

Vitae Aeternum: Tackling New World’s endgame as a solo player

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After nearly a year of stopping to smell the roses, I finally made it to level cap in New World shortly before the launch...

This past weekend saw New World hit its highest player concurrency all year

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Last week, as we saw New World's concurrency creeping up and up and up, we suspected that it would not only blow past the...

PlanetSide 2 breaks its own world record two times over and begins public testing its next update

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Yesterday, players of PlanetSide 2 were asked to be a part of the game's history as Daybreak rallied fans to try to break its...

LOTRO Legendarium: What class should you pick in LOTRO?

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Hunter. Thanks for coming to the column! See you in the next one! What, you want a bit more than that? Sheesh, fine. I'll stop amusing...
da fuq did I just read

Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida sparks backlash over a bad answer to questions on diversity in Final Fantasy XVI

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Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida has long been held up as a shining example of what can be expected of someone...

SSG has delayed Lord of the Rings Online’s Before the Shadow to November 15

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Well, it's not exactly an impossible-to-fathom move given that it's baked into preorder verbiage, but it's going to be irritating nonetheless: Standing Stone Games...
Herp to the derp.

WoW Factor: Breaking down the ‘third era’ of World of Warcraft development

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We are, at the time of this writing, less than a week out from the second part of the Dragonflight pre-patch for World of...

New World’s fresh start concurrency soars to 119K as Amazon adds 33 new servers

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Well, if you were wondering whether fresh start would boost New World even more than Brimstone Sands, wonder no more: It definitely did. Yesterday afternoon's...

New World’s fresh start servers are about to officially begin their launch rollout

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If you've been holding out to return to New World for a fresh start, then today is your day, as (some of the) fresh...
Ominous.

Guild Wars 2 players re-live the Battle for Lion’s Arch next week as S1E5 returns

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Since End of Dragons' big rollout, Guild Wars 2 has been rereleasing remastered and reimagined versions of every episode of its original living world...
Slightly disappointing context.

WoW Factor: The Dragonflight pre-patch talent trees fix a lot of problems in WoW

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If you don't want to read an entire column in which I talk about the new talent trees in World of Warcraft... good gosh,...
Hey-nonny-nonny

Perfect Ten: 10 things to understand about MMO Bards

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In the past four installments of this pseudo-series, I have done columns on archetypes that exist in every single game. Every game has a...

Halloween fun across the MMORPG genre, 2022 edition

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Halloween officially began October 1st (or September 1st, by some calendars), and we've been collecting all the spoopy events in MMORPGs and MMO-adjacent titles...

World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight era gets off to a shaky start with buggy pre-patch

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It was the end of the Shadowlands era for World of Warcraft -- and the beginning of Dragonflight... sort of. Last night's delayed rollout...

Vitae Aeternum: First impressions of New World’s greatsword and world revamp

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We come now to part two of my early impressions of New World's sprawling Brimstone Sands update. Previously in our Vitae Aeternum column, I...

Vitae Aeternum: First impressions of New World’s Brimstone Sands and Nightveil Hallow

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It's finally here: New World has launched its fall update, and the Soulwardens of Aeternum now venture into the wastes of Brimstone Sands. This is...

LOTRO Legendarium: 10 reasons to get psyched about Before the Shadow (that aren’t the new zones)

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Standing Stone Games went and pulled a classic case of misdirection on all of us -- and I'm not complaining. While the studio had...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO haunted houses to explore – if you dare….

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Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It'd be the best of...

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