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PAX East 2018: Catching up on Legends of Aria’s improvements since the last PAX
When I saw Legends of Aria last year, right after it had dropped the Shards Online name and expanded to be a full-fledged MMORPG,...
PAX East 2018: Frostkeep’s MMO Rend has come a very long way in just one year
My experience with Rend last year felt a bit like stepping into a faerie circle and slipping into another world, sneaking up to a...
BlizzCon 2018 has a date: The weekend of November 2nd
Blizzard fans, this year's BlizzCon has a date, and that day is November 2nd and 3rd, almost three months after the launch of World...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV and the horror of the Live Letter
It's easy to miss one of the worst bits of news about the next Final Fantasy XIV Live Letter because it's tucked in the...
PAX East 2018: Hands-on with the surprisingly solid combat of Ashes of Creation
This year's PAX East featured a lot of games early in their testing phase, but Ashes of Creation was one that had splurged for...
PAX East 2018: Hands-on with The Elder Scrolls Online’s Summerset
One of the fun parts of this job - or one of the odd parts, depending on how you prioritize things - is how...
PAX East 2018: Talking superhero MMOs with Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever
At this year's PAX East, I discovered that my mental picture of Casey McGeever did not match the actual man in person, but that...
PAX East 2018: Guild Wars 2 game director Mike Zadorojny on Path of Fire, monetization, and more
It's not every day that you walk into a building dominated by an enormous griffon, the enormous statue replicating the mount in Guild Wars...
PAX East 2018: Final Fantasy XIV’s main scenario writing and localization
It's easy to have little to no idea about how Final Fantasy XIV is localized. Obviously the localization team has advanced beyond the days...
PAX East 2018: Blizzard offers more details on World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth encounters and raids
So if we'll no longer have tier sets in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, what motivation will you have for continuing to raid...
PAX East 2018: State of Decay 2 debuts a gory gameplay trailer
Before we had zombies to beat up without remorse in games, what did we used to kill? White dots and angry little mushrooms, mostly....
EVE Online preps for Fanfest 2018, puts a bounty on the head of Twitch streamers
Twitch streamers are ready to rumble in EVE Online! "Twitch vs. EVE 2" is taking place today at 5:00 p.m. EST, as four fleets...
PAX East 2018: Ashes of Creation will launch alpha one this year
Ashes of Creation will hit alpha one by the end of the year, Intrepid Studios announced today during its panel at PAX East. The...
Hearthstone enters the Witchwood on April 12
Is it Halloween already? In Hearthstone, it might as well be, as Blizzard is about to unleash the game's creepiest expansion to date in...
Defiance 2050 puts out the call for beta testers
With Defiance's reboot scheduled for this summer, Trion Worlds needs as many testers as possible to help run the game through its paces.
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Choose My Adventure: Warframe in review
It's funny how presentation problems can have such a huge impact on the same product.
Warframe, as a game, is almost crippled by its lack...
Pantheon offers special PAX pledge tier worth $1000, gives five of them away in contest
Among the more unusual business model setups for the incoming wave of indie MMORPGs is Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's. As we've previously covered,...
World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion launches August 14
Who had August in the poll? Anybody have August 14th specifically? Because that, my friends, is precisely when World of Warcraft's Battle for Azeroth expansion...
GDC 2018: Bridging and embedding cross-platform online communities
As this year's GDC coverage is winding down, I am finally coming to the topic I saved for last: community. MMOs are more than just...
GDC 2018: Games can help humanity, be profitable, and get support from gamers
Games alone won't make the world better. They won't even make gamers better. We publish some articles that certainly seem pretty pro-games, but we're...