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Choose My Adventure: Fractured Online offers a perfectly good PvE sandbox, so why am I not in love?
Here we are past the month of August (yes really) and I am left kind of conflicted about my feelings toward Fractured Online. On...
Flameseeker Chronicles: How to gear up in Guild Wars 2 in 2024 – without breaking the bank
Gearing in Guild Wars 2 is simultaneously really nice and also very frustrating. It's nice because there is no uber tier of stats locked...
The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO player who never does crafting?
This one goes out to all the non-crafters in the house. No, not you oddballs who opt out of the player economy on some...
You can get your free mini-expansion, mount, minipet, and dungeon in LOTRO now
Hey who wants some free stuff?! Lord of the Rings Online was supposed to drop a big patch and promo yesterday, but it got...
Dungeons and Dragons Online applies multiple fixes and hands out more Year of the Dragon goodies
Dungeons and Dragons Online's newest patch might not be a particularly thrilling one, but if you're the kind of player who likes free goodies...
Flameseeker Chronicles: 10 easy Guild Wars 2 builds for solo play in 2024’s Janthir Wilds
While most MMORPGs offer a variety of ways to play a character, Guild Wars 2 offers a huge variety of builds for each of...
LOTRO is giving everyone a free instance, mount, pet, portrait, and Before the Shadows content pack
Update: SSG has postponed this patch - full update at the end.
It must be some royal Hobbit's birthday today because gifts are flying out...
Fractured extends free-play through the weekend, drops short-term content roadmap
Fractured has a new dev blog out with a roadmap and some good news for folks who've been enjoying the free-play event: The event...
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria launches its co-op survival experience on PC and console
Channel your inner (or outer?) Dwarf and dig into the newly released Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, which arrives on Steam and...
Ultima Online’s New Legacy beta updates crafting content, gear durability, and tamer pets
Ultima Online just pushed through its fifth weekend of testing for the New Legacy mode that is still on deck for launch next month...
Corepunk wipes its Alpha 4 a second time, says it’ll keep this build online through the end of October
Following a second full wipe of its fourth alpha to address a character bug, Corepunk's Artificial Core said that it hopes to continually run...
The Stream Team: More work and less play in Planet Crafter
What does Planet Crafter expect? The survival game wants Massively OP's MJ to advance the terraforming of the planet, but all she wants to...
Fallout 76 video previews Milepost Zero’s features and confirms a September release
Fans of Fallout 76 likely already read about the features for the upcoming Milepost Zero update, but have you watched them told to you...
SkyVerse is a new Bohemia-pubbed Minecraft-esque multiplayer survival sandbox
Of everything that's been newly announced during Gamescom so far, Bohemia Interactive's SkyVerse caught my attention quickest as a the type of cute voxelbox...
Nightingale releases new Realms Rebuilt trailer and patch date at Gamescom
Tencent's Inflexion Games has been talking up a major new update for early access multiplayer survivalbox Nightingale over the last couple of weeks. Dubbed...
The Daily Grind: What are New World’s chances of recovering from this year?
Something that we in journalism (or in general fandom!) always have to be aware of is the danger of unfairly or inaccurately crafting ongoing...
Fight or Kite: Necesse is a cute retro survival game for Minecraft and Terraria fans
I’ve never been one to make very good use of Steam wishlists – or any wishlists, for that matter. I’m weird in that way,...
Choose My Adventure: Fractured Online starts off unremarkably but comfortably
I always start off with a lot of concern whenever I enter a sandbox MMORPG for Choose My Adventure. Mostly because these games are...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on Final Fantasy XIV’s Allied Societies for Dawntrail
We've gone through a lot of different names for what are now being called Allied Societies in Final Fantasy XIV, but I think this...
The Elder Scrolls Online takes a deep dive behind the scenes of crafting item sets
Item sets in The Elder Scrolls Online are pretty important if you want to reach your maximum potential in the game, but the creation...