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WRUP: Apparently I am excited about Demon Hunters edition
If you had asked me a week ago, I would have said that I don't have any particular need or desire for Demon Hunters...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO studios discriminate against character races?
Call me silly if you like (or call me maybe), but I do believe that studios consciously discriminate against some of their very own...
Shards Online: Proposing the ‘persistent online world’ game
Last week, our comments erupted over some game studios' haphazard use of the term "MMO" -- and how that overuse and misuse has possibly tainted the...
Perfect Ten: Clever features that should be in more MMOs
MMOs are built on the backs of many interlocking systems, some more crucial to the experience than others. While I have great appreciation for...
Camelot Unchained launches community modding effort
The team behind Camelot Unchained wants the game to have a solid, modifiable interface. That's a commendable goal, but it's also something that's hard...
The Daily Grind: What would entice you back to WoW?
While a number of our writers and many of our readers are fans of World of Warcraft, it's no secret that a lot of...
Black Desert’s western community manager is interviewed, doesn’t say much
Are you interested in Black Desert? If so, a new interview with the game's western community manager might be worth a read. Or it might...
League of Legends adds defensive items in patch, rejects sandbox mode
An upcoming League of Legends patch will be giving players more options for defense while smoothing out power levels of items across the board.
"We'll...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO festival event is your favorite?
Lord of the Rings Online's summer festival ends this week, and I'm kind of glad. I've been partaking, of course, but it's a grind...
Skyforge expands Pantheon functionality with its first major patch
Pantheons are a pretty big deal for gods. You get your own worshippers, but you also get to sort of time-share worshippers with the...
Choose My Adventure: A whale of a time in FFXIV Heavensward’s Sea of Clouds
Hello again everyone, and happy August. It's happy for me, anyway; this past weekend marked the first time in recent memory that I could...
Marvel Heroics: Fighting the inventory blues
Diablo-type games balance on a see-saw of distribution and acquisition; the games explode with loot while giving you limited space to store all of...
The Daily Grind: What have you regretted doing in MMOs lately?
I did a dumb thing.
A week or so ago, I splurged with real-world cash to pick up the new Yavin stronghold in Star Wars:...
Hyperspace Beacon: Ten SWTOR sites worth visiting
As regular readers surely know, I really enjoy the Star Wars: The Old Republic community. And I don't mean the community team led by...
Camelot Unchained newsletter discusses combat philosophy and developer status
The Camelot Unchained test phases had to be delayed, and that means that the latest newsletter for the game is in an odd place,...
EverQuest II plans server ‘consolidation’ in August
It's all well and good to prefer lower-population servers, but you can also reach a point when the population is so low that you can...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever run an event in an MMO?
Long ago, I used to live for player-run MMO events. In old-school MMORPGs, people judged a guild's quality as much on what it did for...
DayZ associate producer talks cheaters and how to stop them
DayZ associate producer Eugen Harton spoke to a GDC Europe crowd earlier today about how Bohemia Interactive handles cheaters in its open-world zombiepocalypse survival...
Visionary Realms adds three Pantheon devs
Brad McQuaid's dev team for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen just got a little bit bigger. A post on the game's forum welcomes senior...
An exclusive talk with RIFT’s Chris Junior on the Nightmare Saga and more
RIFT is starting to make more noise as 2015 marches on, particularly with its recent Patch 3.3. This newest update added a major saga...
