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EverQuest offers a refresher course on Planes of Power progression and impact
Once upon a time, Planes of Power was the fourth expansion for EverQuest and it focused more upon alternate advancement for max-level players. The expansion has...
The Daily Grind: How useless does an MMO drop need to be before it’s vendor trash?
Vendor trash is a weird idea in lots of games. There are usually even specific categories of it; any gray item in World of Warcraft...
Riot says it will allow arbitration opt-outs, eventually, but it probably won’t stave off the walkout
The continuing fiasco that is League of Legends' Riot Games continues today, though today's update is a good sign for workers at least. As...
Lost Ark unveils its latest Korean roadmap – including a new continent
Sad news for Lost Ark fans; not only does the latest roadmap not include any definitive information about when the game will be localized for...
Destiny’s Sword rolls out its official site with a mission statement
We took a look at Destiny's Sword at this year's PAX East and found it to be an interesting project in the early stages of...
World of Warcraft Classic will allow up to 50 characters, regardless of your existing character count
Imagine for a moment that you have 50 max-level characters in World of Warcraft right now. However, you also need to have 50 alts in World of...
Anthem appears to have lost several prominent upper staff members
When Anthem players wanted some more news, what they probably wanted was good news, not hearing that several bits of senior leadership were no longer working...
Vague Patch Notes: MMOs are not the same as your single-player games with servers
Recently, I've been trying to get into Bloodborne. This isn't a result of my disliking the Souls franchise as a whole, just that it's never...
The Daily Grind: What do you think about ‘gear peacocks’ in MMOs?
Every so often, usually when it comes to World of Warcraft, I hear what I've always thought of as the Peacock Defense for making raid...
DC Universe Online GU94 is live with spring content and level streamlining
Spring has sprung, or more accurately it sprang a while ago and it's finally springing into DC Universe Online today. After a lengthy downtime earlier...
Path of Exile rolls out patch 3.6.4 with performance improvements and bug fixes
The team behind Path of Exile is hard at work on the game's next expansion, but that doesn't mean that no one is paying attention...
Forbes characterizes Star Citizen’s development as ‘incompetence and mismanagement on a galactic scale’
If you have only the faintest idea what has gone on with Star Citizen since its initial Kickstarter, a new Forbes piece on the game...
A Hat In Time adds in multiplayer with the arrival of the Nyakuza’s felonious felines
Those of you familiar with Cat Twitter will be very familiar with calling particular cat behaviors crimes, like knocking things off of tables and shelves...
Riot Games acknowledges employees planning walkout over company culture
Over the weekend, we once again covered the continuing fiasco that is League of Legends' Riot Games, when as Kotaku first reported, two of...
Final Fantasy XIV is retiring its GARO collaboration with patch 5.1
The GARO collaboration with Final Fantasy XIV has lasted a long while. It's still ongoing right now, even; if you want to pick up the...
The Daily Grind: How much preparation do you do for big MMO updates?
There has never yet been an MMO expansion for a game I'm playing that has not prompted an elaborate plan to prepare from me....
MapleStory 2 sums up Project New Leaf and promises a summer expansion
The entire overarching Project New Leaf update involved a whole lot of changes for MapleStory 2, changes aimed at almost every aspect of the game....
World of Warcraft Classic will be using up-to-date items, but not all items at once
Itemization is more of an issue than you might think of in World of Warcraft: Classic. Sure, there's a pretty clear progression of gear in...
The Crew 2 is open for a free test drive this weekend
Do you remember The Crew 2? Are you currently playing The Crew 2? Because Ubisoft would like you to do so, and to that end the...
Jukebox Heroes: Diving back into Aion’s soundtrack
While the game itself never fascinated me, Aion's soundtrack is easily in my personal Top Five in terms of quality and variety. The game...
