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WoW Factor: World of Warcraft is just coasting down the mountain

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In November 1994, Marvel Comics launched a new comic book spin-off from the main X-Men series. Generation X, written by Scott Lobdell, was in...

Perfect Ten: 10 small Guild Wars 2 details that make it special

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I find that there's this special window of time that happens when you return to an old favorite MMO that shouldn't be missed. It's...

Meet Pax Dei, a well-funded open-world social sandbox built to ‘true MMO scale’

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Back in 2021, we caught wind of a new Microsoft-backed MMO called Pax Dei from studio Mainframe Industries, which had been busy raising huge...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s What Lies Beneath, the next End of Dragons story, has launched

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Happy anniversary to Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons expansion! Can you believe it has been a whole year? In some ways I feel...
Whoops.

WoW Factor: Does World of Warcraft need more classes?

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So how many classes are there in World of Warcraft? There are wrong answers, but there's more than one right answer. If your answer was...

Wayfinder begins closed beta next week, plans no-wipe early access for May

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MMO-inspired but smaller-scale co-op PvE hack-and-slasher Wayfinder wormed its way into our hearts last year with its familiar visuals and splashy combat, and now,...
FEAR ME FOR I AM IMPORTANT

Vague Patch Notes: MMO events are not for the high-level playerbase

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Let me start with a statement of fact: I actually really like limited-time events in MMORPGs. I don't like them as a means of...
Zone!

Perfect Ten: 10 things I really dislike about Final Fantasy XIV

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Sometimes, when I have a series of columns planned, I start off by saying, "Hey, here's a series of columns I plan." And sometimes...

Vitae Aeternum: Previewing New World’s first season and updated 2023 roadmap

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Last week, Amazon Games invited members of the press to a presentation where it unveiled its plans for a new seasonal content model for...
thiberty and lone

Amazon Games will publish NCsoft’s Throne & Liberty in the Americas, Europe, and Japan

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The rumors were true: Amazon Games is publishing NCsoft's Throne and Liberty in the west. The companies announced the partnership early this morning. "Amazon Games...

Gamigo is granting 15 free days of sub time to new and returning RIFT players

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Has Gamigo abandoned RIFT? Given the lack of updates and massive layoffs and tiny population, you might think so, and we've certainly been wary...

EG7 Q4 2022: Revenues are up thanks to mobile as LOTRO sees ‘mainstream resurgence’

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Enad Global 7's Q4 2022 investor report dropped over the weekend, with a recap of the year for Swedish games corp EG7 and its...
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Blizzard preps two Diablo IV betas for March – including an open beta

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Well, we can't exactly call it a surprise since Blizzard had already telegraphed its intentions about Diablo IV at IGN's Fan Fest this weekend,...

LOTRO Legendarium: Why flying would have ruined LOTRO’s Middle-earth

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Despite the title up there, this column isn't really about flying. I'm just getting that out of the way right here. I actually have...
fscking bnuuy

Final Fantasy XIV opens Fan Festival 2023 tickets registrations through a lottery system

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Square-Enix is flippin' on the hype machine for this year's Fan Festival in Las Vegas, which'll mark not just the first event for the...
Ogre, without layers

Design Mockument: In which we do not design World of Warcraft 2

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Over the course of my professional writing career on this site and that site we used to run before AOL screwed us all over,...
We have Thanos at home.

Blizzard’s Mike Ybarra stuns devs with demoralizing bonus-slashing and return-to-work meeting

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Earlier this week, we noted that Activision-Blizzard was preparing to end more of its COVID-induced work-from-home policies and that some of its studios that...
aw hell

Vague Patch Notes: The three kinds of sunset in the MMO space

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Not all sunsets are the same, no matter how much you may like a given game. This is one of the things that tends...
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Tamriel Infinium: How Elder Scrolls Online’s quests go above and beyond the MMO norm

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There are some MMOs you play because of and some you play in spite of, if you catch my drift. These titles have great...

Perfect Ten: Ranking 10 MMORPG map designs from worst to best

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When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...

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