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Wow Factor: Welcome the desert of the real Blizzard

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This entire column came about because our team was discussing World of Warcraft at work and I observed something kind of odd: The Dracthyr...

First impressions of Marvel Snap, an addictive mobile card game by Hearthstone’s former director

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Feeling the effects of the "superhero movie fatigue syndrome" that's going around these days, I wasn't overly eager to check out Marvel Snap when...
More like Crystalline Annoyance

Final Fantasy XIV previews the upcoming patch ‘Gods Revel, Lands Tremble’

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No, Final Fantasy XIV's patch 6.3 is not coming out tomorrow. Or the day after. Or even the day after that. In fact, patch...
Hmm.

Vague Patch Notes: Alas, poor Crowfall, you’re gone now

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Dusty dusty, ashy ashy, Crowfall's plane went crashy crashy. Yes, we are now talking about Crowfall very strictly in the past tense. You could...

SWTOR is launching Showdown on Ruhnuk with new planet and PvP overhaul by the end of the year

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During its livestream last night, BioWare revealed Star Wars The Old Republic's next big thing: Game Update 7.2, Showdown on Ruhnuk, launching "winter 2022."...

Flameseeker Chronicles: How the Elementalist saved Guild Wars 2 for me

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First off, I know I'm not the usual writer for Flameseeker Chronicles, and I'm not ousting Colin or Tina from their spot; in fact,...
This was a television show.

Perfect Ten: 10 metrics to check to gauge MMO success or failure

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There are a lot of MMOs out there. How do you know which one of them is the most popular and therefore the best...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Wrapping up Guild Wars 2’s S1 reboot with episode 5, The Battle for Lion’s Arch

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It's finally here! The most memorable, most important part of Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 1 story. The moment we've all been waiting...
We're still here, yes.

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...
This is shameful even by your standards.

Vague Patch Notes: The art of picking winners and losers in MMO design

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There's a meme that's gone around the Final Fantasy XIV community sphere for a while, and I'm going to try my best to explain...

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...

Perfect Ten: 10 great reasons to revisit older MMORPGs

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When one MMO dies, it forces us to look at the rest of the bunch through the sunglasses of mortality. The finite nature of...

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