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Tera M is not friendly to free players in its Korean version
Eager to have all of the gameplay of TERA in the palm of your hand with TERA M? You might want to be a...
Dungeons & Dragons Online launches the Mists of Ravenloft
There's a chill in the air through December under normal circumstances, but the chill rushing through Dungeons & Dragons Online is unrelated to the...
Star Wars: The Old Republic is holding a Thursday livestream with author Timothy Zahn
Timothy Zahn is kind of a big deal for Star Wars fiction. Yes, he helped develop the most recent bit of Star Wars: The...
Fortnite settles one of its anti-cheater lawsuits out of court
If you'd forgotten, Fortnite wound up bringing a lawsuit against two people for cheating software being used in the game. One such suit hit...
Jukebox Heroes: Kritika Online’s soundtrack
It's kind of a sad commentary on 2017 that Kritika Online is one of the most significant MMORPGs to launch during the calendar year....
EVE Online’s Arms Race update offers more ships to free players today
Before you get too excited, let's note that today's update for EVE Online is not simply handing out ships like space travel-shaped candy. Free...
Project Gorgon releases an experimental launcher for Linux
There has never been an idea so offbeat and weird that the Project Gorgon team will not give it a shot. That does not...
Final Fantasy XI prepares its last anniversary year update for December
At this point, we would like to point out to our readers that Final Fantasy XI is in maintenance mode and has been for...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs have enforced naming standards?
For some players, "enter a name for your character" might as well read "insert the best joke you can within the character limit." As...
Dauntless previews the mechanics of cells
The next major Dauntless patch will bring new ways to play with the help of cells. Other games might call them sockets, but here...
Paladins tests a new card system that attracts cries of pay-to-win
Let's review. Paladins, as it stands now, has a system wherein characters get cards that can be used to power up playable characters. You...
WoW Factor: Why are we going back to factional squabbles after the end of Antorus?
Antorus is out now, and if you want to see the cinematic that ends the very long-running story about the Burning Legion and Sargeras,...
World of Warcraft’s 7.3.5 begins testing as allied race, environment, and zone scaling spoilers abound
So the latest raid for World of Warcraft is out now, but perhaps you don't have a regular raid group. What will you do...
City of Titans shares details on creating its mission lines
There's already a lot of lore floating around for City of Heroes-inspired indie MMORPGÂ City of Titans, but all of the lore in the world...
Crowfall takes a skittering look at spiders
If you're the sort of person who runs screaming from a room and vows to burn the whole house down over the barest glimpse...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs with PvP-focused factions allow cross-faction interaction?
I'm on-board for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth focusing on the factional conflict, but there's a side of the factions in WoW that...
Skyforge is out for the Xbox One
Who says that Sony fans get all of the good exclusives for this particular console generation? After all, you can now play a god...
The Soapbox: Inconvenience is not immersion in MMOs or anywhere else
Inconvenience is not immersion.
This strikes me as something rather ridiculous to type; to mildly paraphrase Dan Harmon, it seems like should be one of...
Clicker Heroes dev on abandoning the free-to-play model for the sequel
If you've never played Clicker Heroes, you can pick it up for your phone or on Steam right now; it's a lightweight little idle...
Revelation Online: ShadowBlade brings Assassin, new class training, and class changes
Do you want to skulk in the shadows in Revelation Online? The new ShadowBlade expansion for the game lets you do just that with...