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Flameseeker Chronicles: Quality-of-life upgrades Guild Wars 2 still needs
Today, ArenaNet is finally launching the long-awaited build and gear template features in Guild Wars 2. While it has brought with it its fair...
Camelot Unchained reviews its pathfinding code and makes happy accidents with armor
Bob Ross, in his infinite wisdom, would sometimes make "happy accidents" while painting where he took a mistaken attempt and made it something new...
Bethesda says Fallout 76 scrapbox bug is a ‘top priority’ as ‘class warfare’ griefing claims surface
Ah, Fallout 76. Fans went from eagerness for "Country Roads" to using that same song as a backdrop for a year in review video...
The Daily Grind: What MMOs do you play ‘wrong’?
On the MOP podcast a few weeks back, Justin and I chatted briefly about playing MMOs all wrong, and not really caring what anyone...
The MOP Up: The Division 2 places the Pentagon under siege
A pair of new narrative missions are coming soon to The Division 2, tasking players with liberating the Pentagon and exploring the DARPA research...
Final Fantasy XIV posts the preliminary patch notes for patch 5.1: Vows of Virtue, Deeds of Cruelty
Do not try to read the patch notes for Final Fantasy XIV's latest patch out loud in one breath. You will run out of oxygen...
Massively Overthinking: Niche MMOs vs. everythingboxes
Earlier this month, veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster announced that he's finally making a new MMORPG, with a suite of top devs and a...
OrbusVR will let players become Tinkerers on November 5 and customize their house on November 19
OrbusVR has been hinting at its new crafting profession and house customization features for a little while now, but only recently have we gotten...
‘Unique social roleplaying experience’ Book of Travels begins Kickstarter
If you've often promised that you would support online RPGs that broke from tropish traditions and took risks, well, it's time to put your...
The Fallout 76 community is storming over the Fallout 1st sub
Yesterday's announcement that Fallout 76 is getting a "Fallout 1st" subscription plan that locks private world ownership behind a paywall and grants very Elder...
Bless Unleashed devs say they’ve ‘drastically reworked the entire crafting system’
As Neowiz and Bandai Namco march onward toward the open beta of Bless Unleashed in November, the teams have once again penned a dev...
Trove’s Halloween events begin on PC and console as Shadow’s Eve arrives
If you thought the voxel sandbox Trove couldn't possibly get weirder than it normally is, then you've clearly never seen it during the Halloween...
Desert Oasis: First impressions of Black Desert’s Great Expedition
One of the most difficult things I've had to deal with in my time with Black Desert is sailing and boating. I've never been...
Fallout 1st is a new Fallout 76 sub that locks private world ownership behind a paywall
"Do you think all these developers got together and were like, 'October 2019. That's the month we are all going to collectively sh*t the...
MMO sandbox Boundless patches in new build items, teases Halloween
Fresh off its first birthday, Square-Enix backed voxel interplanetary survival-crafting MMO Boundless is already pushing on with more updates. Builders and hoarders are going...
Choose My Adventure: The poisonous hell of the Hyvid Frontier in Torchlight Frontiers
The Goblin Frontier of Torchlight Frontiers isn’t exactly boring per se so much as just… blasé, I guess is the word I want to...
Star Citizen Q&A livestream touches on mining, caves, quality-of-life tweaks, and more
It's Q&A time for Star Citizen's developers in the most recent Star Citizen Live livestream that took place. As one would expect, this Q&A...
Crowfall’s ACE Q&A talks War of the Gods as the game readies up Decapathon 2
October's ACE Q&A for Crowfall is up and online, and to perhaps nobody's surprise, it's all about the upcoming War of the Gods milestone....
Fight or Kite: Albion Online has the potential to be the perfect mobile MMO
You know, I am regularly sitting in a waiting room for my turn to be called back to the doctor or at the lube...
Villagers and Heroes re-opens Halloween zone with Blighted Isles expansion
The latest update to Villagers & Heroes is offering a whole lot of goodies for players if these patch notes are any indicator....