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Final Fantasy XIV previews the upcoming patch ‘Gods Revel, Lands Tremble’
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...
Vague Patch Notes: Alas, poor Crowfall, you’re gone now
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
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
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,...
Perfect Ten: 10 metrics to check to gauge MMO success or failure
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
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...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2022: Blizzard MAUs and revenues are up as NetEase dispute looms on the horizon
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....
Crowfall is going offline on November 22, supposedly for further development work
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
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
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
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?
Hunter.
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What, you want a bit more than that? Sheesh, fine. I'll stop amusing...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida sparks backlash over a bad answer to questions on diversity in Final Fantasy XVI
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
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...
WoW Factor: Breaking down the ‘third era’ of World of Warcraft development
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...
Vague Patch Notes: The art of picking winners and losers in MMO design
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
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
When one MMO dies, it forces us to look at the rest of the bunch through the sunglasses of mortality. The finite nature of...
New World’s fresh start servers are about to officially begin their launch rollout
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...
Fight or Kite: Galahad 3093 turns the knights of the round into mech fighters in a cyberpunk future
What’s that sound I hear? Or is it just a feeling? It might not be a super power, but something in the back of...
