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Perfect Ten: Ranking the Guild Wars 2 professions from best to worst
There are a lot of times when this column is not in any way a ranking, when it is just a list of things...
Diablo II Resurrected has officially launched with yet another live-action trailer
Diablo II: Resurrected is officially live as of now as the remastered version of the original 2000 roguelike from Blizzard North. Resurrected, of course,...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Test driving Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons’ Vindicator, Bladesworn, and Catalyst elite specs
It’s time again for another End of Dragons elite specialization beta! It’s an exciting time for Guild Wars 2 players, who are learning what elite specs...
Activision-Blizzard is now being investigated by four state and federal regulators as its top legal VP departs
Yesterday, we covered the news that the US Securities and Exchange Commission is now investigating Activision-Blizzard in the wake of its ongoing sexual harassment...
The feds are now investigating Activision-Blizzard as the SEC subpoenas execs including Bobby Kotick
Early on in our coverage of the Activision-Blizzard sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit scandal, we noted that the company's response took some ineffective swipes...
Wisdom of Nym: Reactions to Final Fantasy XIV’s job changes from the live letter
One of the things that excites me every time about Final Fantasy XIV is the way that the game can tell you up-front exactly...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why do we know so little about Fate of Gundabad?
Over the past few months, my general sense of rising hope for Lord of the Rings Online has been tempered by a nagging disquiet...
Mortal Online 2 has shifted its launch to 2022, scraps early access plans
It's the story of 2021 so far, that so many MMOs have seen delays, but hey, here's one more: Mortal Online 2 has bumped...
Vague Patch Notes: Returning MMO players need tutorials too
One of the nice things about Final Fantasy XIV is that it is explicitly designed by someone who thinks that it's not just reasonable but expected...
Guild Wars 2’s sixth End of Dragons elite spec is the Elementalist’s Catalyst
ArenaNet has just unveiled its sixth End of Dragons elite spec for Guild Wars 2, the third this week: It's the hammer-wielding Elementalist known...
Perfect Ten: Shapeshifting classes in MMOs
After my wife and I saw an X-Men movie a while back, we got into a discussion about what mutant power we'd pick for...
The Soapbox: Single-player open worlds will never equal those of MMORPGs
These days it seems like sprawling open worlds are becoming an ever more popular choice for single-player games, from the newer Assassin's Creed titles...
LOTRO Legendarium: Analyzing the first look at Brawler and Legendary Items 3.0
Friends, I am genuinely so excited to be a Lord of the Rings Online player these days. It feels like this year in the...
The Epic v. Apple ruling permanently stops Apple from blockading third-party purchasing
Happy Friday, and happy one more entry in the longrunning Epic-Apple feud, as today, the judge in the Epic v. Apple lawsuit, Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers,...
Elyon delays launch to October 20th to swap to a free-to-play model
Remember back when Elyon locked in a launch date of September 29th? It turns out that this was more of a soft-lock, really, giving...
Vague Patch Notes: The taxonomy of liars in the MMO development space
We have talked before in this column about lies and the lying liars who tell them. Those rotten, rotten liars. But the other day,...
New World’s open beta officially begins this morning – are you playing?
Here we go, folks: There's one more New World test event before the launch on September 28th, assuming we don't see another last-minute delay,...
Lord of the Rings Online tests Brawler and Legendary Items 2.0, reveals fall expansion name: Fate of Gundabad
It's as big of a week for Lord of the Rings Online as possible without an actual release. That's because Standing Stone Games finally...
Crowfall studio ArtCraft has apparently suffered a round of layoffs
We've got some bad news for fans of Crowfall: It appears that the team behind the game, ArtCraft, is going through some layoffs. The news...
WoW Factor: What’s behind the turning of the tide in World of Warcraft’s patch 9.1.5?
There's some interesting stuff going on right now when it comes to World of Warcraft's next major patch, due in no small part to the...
