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World of Warcraft Q&A will be hosted by popular YouTubers, but the question format is still unclear
Let's start with the good news: If you're familiar with Taliesin & Evitel, you are also familiar with the pair doing a long-running series...
The Daily Grind: Are you still on board the Kickstarter MMO train?
An interesting thing happened when Justin put out his list of Kickstarted MMOs that raised the most money; the comments pointed out that the...
Final Fantasy XIV elaborates on the additions to housing for patch 5.1
Updates to housing for Final Fantasy XIV are coming in patch 5.1 beyond the addition of new wards. Sure, the addition of three new wards...
EVE Online brings out its Halloween horrors for the spooky season
It's time for EVE Online to get spooky. You may wonder how scary a game can really make itself when being blown up for no reason...
World of Warcraft will be locking down corruption values on the test server
The new Corrupted item system being tested for World of Warcraft has already received a fair amount of feedback, generally in the negative. The...
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...
Legends of Aria is halting taxes and auctions ahead of its next patch in November
Citadel Studios is clearly hoping that the next update for Legends of Aria brings people to the game to stay, but there's a bit of...
World of Warcraft: Classic layering, Corruption, and the BlizzCon Q&A
Layers! Huh! Good God, y'all, what are they good for? Keeping player populations in early phases of World of Warcraft: Classic at manageable levels (say...
Final Fantasy XIV updates its patch 5.1 site with Blue Mages, PvP, and challenging fights
It's less than a week until Final Fantasy XIV has its first major update for its current expansion cycle, and the update site just got...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio does the best job of apologizing?
Every MMO studio screws up sometimes. It's inevitable. And we can all think of times - sometimes very recent ones - in which a studio...
Project C explains the studio’s philosophy behind the in-game economy and its business model
MMOs offering a currency pegged to real money that can also be converted back into real money aren't particularly common, but Project C is...
Albion Online kicks off its Allhallows event with a themed dungeon and an upcoming death race
You may not be afraid of any ghosts, but that won't help you with Albion Online's new Allhallows event kicking off today with the inclusion...
TERA delivers the Unmasked update to console players on October 29
Players on TERA's console version will be taking to the skies on October 29th as the game's Unmasked update arrives with new flying missions. A...
A gamer was killed after witnessing a robbery whilst playing Pokemon Go
So, yes, let's just open this story by acknowledging that this is horrible. Nobody wants to be murdered over a video game, but Cayla...
Heroes of the Storm adds a cataclysmic new challenger, Deathwing
It's time to just ruin everything in Heroes of the Storm with the addition of the game's newest hero, Deathwing. Yes, everyone's favorite world-shattering dragon has...
Kingdom Under Fire 2 gets a November 14 launch date
The MMORTS subgenre has never really taken off, but Kingdom Under Fire 2 is certainly hoping to change that fact. The last game in the...
World of Warcraft brings its Recruit-a-Friend program back to life
If you find yourself running low on friends in World of Warcraft lately (possibly due to outside reasons), you'll be happy to know that the...
Overwatch now has a Tetris version thanks to the player workshop
Yes, that headline really is what it looks like. Reddit user Ochotonida decided to take the multiplayer shooter that is Overwatch and use it to...
TERA encourages players to beat up a pumpkin monster for Trick or Treat
There's a familiar face roaming the world of TERA, a pumpkin-headed monster known as... Gourdo. (Of course he is.) Gourdo is out roaming the world...
BlizzCon 2019’s schedule is finally live on the official site
After what feels like a much longer wait than usual, the official schedule for BlizzCon (which, you may recall, kicks off in less than...