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Flameseeker Chronicles: Expanding into Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns
When Guild Wars 2's expansion was announced, most of the questions on our lips were permutations of "What's the new level cap?" and "What...
The World of Warcraft selfie scavenger hunt is on
You laughed when they brought the selfie camera to World of Warcraft. You rolled your eyes at friends who spammed your Twitter feed with...
CCP Games buys back $20m in bonds, drops Legion trademark
News is circulating in the EVE Online blogs and forum that developer CCP Games has just bought back $20 million in publicly traded bonds....
EVE Evolved: Building your own empire
When CCP announced its far-reaching plans to overhaul EVE Online's territorial warfare gameplay, players were cautiously optimistic but understandably guarded. EVE's old sovereignty system...
Heroes of the Storm World Championship coming to BlizzCon
With the well-fought Heroes of the Dorm tournament out of the way, Blizzard is preparing an even larger community event for Heroes of the...
Ubisoft delays The Division until Q1 2016
A couple of months ago, we reported that The Division was on track for a 2015 release. Not so fast, according to Ubisoft, which...
Daybreak’s John Smedley: EverQuest Next isn’t ‘vaporware’
Even though the big SOE-to-Daybreak transformation happened three months ago, the entire ordeal still feels fresh to many fans. An air of uncertainty permeates speculation...
EVE Evolved: Seven years of EVE Evolved
When I started writing about EVE Online for Massively back in 2008, the MMO genre was really hitting its stride, and emerging sites like...
SWTOR ‘Fallen Empire’ teaser prompts expansion rumors
The team behind Star Wars: The Old Republic posted a single image with a simple hashtag: #FallenEmpire. No further explanation or extrapolation was offered....
EVE Evolved: How many subscriptions does EVE have?
Two weeks ago, a mathemagician over at The Nosy Gamer published some interesting calculations showing that EVE Online's subscriptions may have dropped by around...
First round of BlizzCon tix sells out
Within a few minutes of going on sale yesterday, the first round of $199 BlizzCon tickets completely sold out. The good news is that...
BlizzCon tickets go on sale this week
For many gamers, the hardest ticket to get this year is to November's BlizzCon 2015, as you have to be fast and a little...
Star Wars: The Old Republic hosting double XP for Star Wars Celebration
So let's assume for the purposes of this discussion that you're a really big fan of Star Wars, but you can't quite make it...
Chaos Theory: Six tips for new Secret World players
Now that Blingzilla is no longer roaming the lands tempting everyone with goodies galore (or turning movement into a stroll through a mire of...
EverQuest II cuts expansions, debuts DLCs with Rum Cellar
With everything that has happened over the last couple of months, players are understandably curious and concerned about of the future of Daybreak Games'...
EVE Online’s Sleepers are stealing corpses to rebuild their bodies
When unstable wormholes began opening all across EVE Online back in 2009, players cautiously ventured forth into the unknown and discovered the ruins of...
World of Warcraft gears up for WoW Tokens and arena championships
Can you part with real money more easily than you can part with hours of time to farm up gold in World of Warcraft?...
Big changes are in the works for EVE structures
CCP has released a giant dev blog that covers EVE Online's new structure system. Much of it is "highly theoretical," and the company says...
EVE Evolved: CCP’s Andie Nordgren on new structures and sovereignty
I've been pretty critical of EVE Online's upcoming sovereignty and nullsec revamp, calling the constellation-wide battle fake and its use of reinforcement timers unnecessary....
EVE Fanfest 2015: Project Legion may be in development limbo
At last year's EVE Online Fanfest, developer CCP Games announced Project Legion, a complete reimagining of failed console MMOFPS DUST 514 for the PC....