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ArcheAge spawns fresh Reddit drama over pay-to-win
Third time's a charm with Reddit! Remember back in March when a Skyforge moderator threatened to ban anyone using the term pay-to-win and was...
The Daily Grind: What MMO gets you exploring?
You want to hear something weird? For as much crap as WildStar got about its path system, I actually do love to explore in...
Rumor: Blade & Soul might be in internal testing for US release
Hey, you all remember the guy causing a whole kerfluffle about the fact that WildStar is supposedly going free-to-play? Good times! But the Redditor...
Rumor: WildStar coming to Steam as a free-to-play title in August [Updated]
WildStar is coming to Steam, according to third-party scraper site SteamDB.info. When and for how much is less clear, given that Carbine and NCsoft...
NCsoft Q1 2015: Growth for Guild Wars 2, further deflation for WildStar
NCsoft's first quarter financial report is out, and... you know, let's start with the good news. Guild Wars 2 is making the company more...
WildStar subreddit mod bans F2P and B2P discussions
Hope you didn't have plans to talk about WildStar's possible conversion to a new business model on Reddit because one of the game's subreddit...
Tamriel Infinium: A guide to Elder Scrolls Online’s combat basics
I was looking back through some of my posts about the Elder Scrolls Online, and I noticed that I've mentioned combat quite a bit....
MMO Mechanics: Three favourite action combat systems
Virtually every MMO contains dangerous places that are filled with other players or NPCs that will attack characters on site, and many also feature...
Global Chat: What happens to original MMOs when they get sequels?
Telwyn at GamingSF asks a question that I've contemplated from time to time: When an MMO gets a sequel, what happens to the original...
WildStar’s massive INVASION: Nexus patch is live
Do you want a pet? Do you want to take on some contracts? Are you excited to play around with an expanded wardrobe? Is...
WildStar outlines its PvP seasons as the first season ends
The next major patch for WildStar is bringing the end of a season of PvP. Did you know you were taking part in the...
WildStar’s Zero to Fifty livestream goes on hiatus
Carbine is closing down WildStar's Zero to Fifty livestream show, at least temporarily. Community and creative content manager Tony Rey posted briefly on the...
Here’s a quick preview of WildStar’s new Star-Comm Basin zone
WildStar's getting a new zone and it's called Star-Comm Basin. Carbine senior game designer Scott Hafner has penned a dev blog that previews the new...
Perfect Ten: The 10 things every MMO’s official site should have
Are you ready to have you mind absolutely blown open? Because I have an astonishing truth to lay at your feet: While doing this...
WildStar is now on clearance at Best Buy
So... you all remember how yesterday saw WildStar boxes being yanked in Australia, combined with that promotion encouraging players to buy more boxes of...
WildStar deep-dives in the Bay of Betrayal
The Bay of Betrayal is another piece of content being added in WildStar's next patch, and it adds in a few more new ideas...
Rumor: WildStar box recall and promo might herald free-to-play
The last time the retailer yanked boxes of a game from the shelves and returned them to the distributors, it was The Elder Scrolls...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you turn real money into MMO money
Two days ago, World of Warcraft launched the WoW Token service, which will kill the game forever. It thus joins the list of every...
WildStar shows off its next raid, Initialization Core Y-83
WildStar is bringing a new raid into the game, Initialization Core Y-83, and it's pretty different from its previous raids. Not fond of attunement...
WildStar is adding a laser tag minigame
WildStar is getting a new Laser Phaser minigame, and it's currently on the sci-fantasy title's public test realm. It's currently scheduled to go live...
