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A special message of thanks from the EverQuest and EverQuest II teams
The year 2015 will go down in memory as a tumultuous time to be a fan of EverQuest and EverQuest II. Even disregarding all...
See what it’s like landing on a planet in Elite: Dangerous with Google Cardboard
People have the time to start playing around with their holiday gifts now, but what's the best use of those gifts? More apropos, is...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on Final Fantasy XIV’s 2016
I have high hopes for 2016. Higher hopes than I did for 2015, at least. 2015 also started out with my being fired for...
The Daily Grind: Do long localization delays make you less likely to play an MMO?
Having written about it recently, I found myself thinking that it might not even matter if Phantasy Star Online 2 even comes out in...
Jukebox Heroes: The 2015 Online VGM Awards
With another year coming to a close, I thought it would be an opportune time to go back and give out flippant awards to...
The Daily Grind: What gift would you like to receive tomorrow in a live MMO?
If we could all get whatever we wanted tomorrow, I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts we would all want the same fundamental thing:...
Diablo III previews the changes and improvements for patch 2.4.0 and Season 5
The season is nearly upon us, by which we of course mean the next season of Diablo III. The holiday season is already upon...
Gigantic developer Motiga discusses delays and future updates
People who were hoping for Gigantic to hit full retail release some time this year are no doubt a wee bit disappointed that the...
Tribes: Ascend creative director: ‘We made a lot of mistakes in a lot of different places’
The history of Tribes: Ascend is a strange one. Like the first few titles out of Hi-Rez Studios, it launched to decent reception, had...
Valiance Online releases screenshots and a promise of more to come
The team behind Valiance Online has been rather quiet lately, but a long string of silence was broken recently with a quartet of new...
Stormwind and Orgrimmar guards are excited for Star Wars in World of Warcraft
Being a writer for this particular outlet means getting to work from home, which means that the dress code rules aren't terrible restrictive. The...
EVE Online’s winter events are all about players fighting… with snowballs
You've been playing EVE Online long enough to know that it's rarely good news when another ship arrives nearby and starts heading toward you...
Darkfall developers considering freemium model
When Darkfall opened up its doors to community discussion, one of the major points mentioned by the developers was that free-to-play was completely off...
WoW multibox reporter banned for ‘breaking TOS’ [Updated]
Here's an interesting tidbit: Did you know that killing one player in a PvP area in World of Warcraft can get you banned? Not...
Black Desert’s first English closed beta starts today
The advent of Black Desert's first English-language closed beta test does not mean that the wait for the game is nearly over, since the...
Star Wars: The Old Republic celebrates Life Day
It may be a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but the residents of Star Wars: The Old Republic still know...
PSN users find level boosts for Destiny on the PSN store
Good news, Destiny players on the PlayStation with a desire to bypass a good chunk of leveling! You belong to a rather narrow subgroup,...
Trion compensates Devilian players for lost progress on the Seadrift server
There's nothing quite like logging in over the weekend to play some Devilian, logging out after a little while, and then logging back in......
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the best character hairstyles?
We talk a lot about systems for changing the look of what your character is wearing, but what we don't talk about nearly enough...
Jukebox Heroes: A very merry Christmas MMO mix
Now that we're into the thick of December, I've given myself permission to finally turn the radio station over to the all-Christmas-all-the-time channel for...
