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First impressions: New World has the foundation of what could be a great game

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Like a lot of people, I've been hotly anticipating Amazon's New World, one of the first truly big name new MMOs we've seen in...
Surprised? Really?

WoW Factor: World of Warcraft has no good excuses for not having housing

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We are past 15 years on now, and World of Warcraft still lacks housing. This is, frankly, really dumb. And it comes up a...

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is launching on October 27

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And we have a launch date, fam! It's been announced at the start of gamescom's digital incarnation this year that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands...

Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons expansion takes us to Cantha in 2021

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There's gobs of addenda to this post as the stream rolled along today, so scroll down to the bottom for the big news! There's a...
Let's set up shop.

Hands-on with New World’s war mode: All the fun you can have blowing up a fortress of lumber

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It's really hard to look at the general progress of New World and not get the sense of a game that's struggling to sort...
The other side.

Wisdom of Nym: Impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Reflections in Crystal storylines

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All right, let's make something very clear right off the bat: There will be spoilers in this column. If you have managed to not...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Stonethorn dungeon DLC and update 27 are live for PC and Mac today

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It's patch day for Elder Scrolls Online, and this is no ordinary patch: It's the Stonethorn DLC and update 27, which as we've been...
Leaving port.

Did Amazon just sign on to be Lost Ark’s western publisher?

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Last night, Amazon announced that it's signed on to an exclusive publishing agreement in North America and Europe with Smilegate, specifically to publish a...
Boom, crash, new year, explosions.

TERA and Closers studio En Masse Entertainment is closing its doors (but the games will survive)

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I kinda can't believe I'm typing this, but it appears that En Masse Entertainment, which has run TERA here in North America for the...

First impressions and hands-on with Razer’s left-handed Naga MMO mouse

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A little-known fact: I am one of the less than 10% of the world’s population who are left-handed. It’s not always convenient (those chairs...

Into the Super-verse: Early impressions of Valiance Online

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When I heard that Valiance Online was going to be running an open beta this week to coincide with the PlayNYC convention, I knew...

Flameseeker Chronicles: How Guild Wars 2 can improve underwater combat

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Way back in the lead up to Guild Wars 2’s launch in 2012, I remember the community being all abuzz about the addition of...

ArtCraft on Crowfall’s beta release today, Eternal Kingdoms, the newbie experience, and much more

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Crowfall, the PvP-centered MMORPG originally Kickstarted back in 2015, announced last week that it had finally arrived at its beta milestone and would begin...
This was a thing.

Daybreak has acquired Cold Iron Studios and its Alien MMOFPS [Updated]

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We've updated the end of this post with the confirmation and press release; we've left the original reporting intact. For the last year, it seems...

Superhero MMO Valiance Online’s beta is opening up for PlayNYC this week

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City of Heroes-inspired superhero MMORPG Valiance Online surprised everyone when it announced a few weeks back that it'd be opening up its beta for...
This is what we were really missing.

New executive order could ban US transactions with Tencent – potentially bad news for gaming [Updated]

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File this one under "I was about to go to sleep when the internet erupted in an absolute panic over Tencent": Late this evening,...

LOTRO Legendarium: The pros and cons of Rohan housing

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To my knowledge, this past week's Update 27.2 for Lord of the Rings Online may well be the biggest housing patch that's hit the...
Everything hurts.

Blizzard staffers confirm ‘honor point system,’ further exposing the company’s wage disparities

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This week we've been following Bloomberg's reports on Blizzard employees' attempts to secure pay and equitable pay for the gaming industry. Early in the...
But no badger.

‘Our mentors are leaving in droves’: Blizzard staff are organizing to demand better compensation

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Yesterday, we covered Bloomberg's report on how Blizzard employees were circulating a spreadsheet of their wages and raises in an effort to determine whether...

Activision-Blizzard Q2 2020: Year-over-year revenues are up for the first time in six quarters

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We're back with another dip into Activision-Blizzard's financials, this one Q2 2020, the first report since shareholders lambasted the company for excessive executive pay...

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