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John Smedley talks smack to nearly 25,000 banned H1Z1 players
Do you like people who cheat in online games? Daybreak president John Smedley does not. After 24,837 H1Z1 accounts were banned for cheating (7,000...
Dungeon Fighter Online promises gifts for all if ‘Jerry’ loses weight
Sometimes there are stories that come across our desk and elicit an immediate response of, "What is this I don't even." This is one...
Jukebox Heroes: How Elite: Dangerous’ music put me into a mild coma
You know what gets me righteously angry? I shall tell you. I shall tell you, and then you shall share in my anger, you...
WildStar subreddit mod bans F2P and B2P discussions
Hope you didn't have plans to talk about WildStar's possible conversion to a new business model on Reddit because one of the game's subreddit...
An all-Death Knight party downs the current apex of World of Warcraft raiding
So, what's the best group composition for endgame raiding in World of Warcraft? It looks like it's Death Knights. Just a bunch of Blood-spec...
The Daily Grind: Have you bought real-world memorabilia for an MMO?
I don't think it's going to surprise anyone that I'm a pretty big fan of Final Fantasy XIV. Despite that fact, it may surprise...
Star Wars: The Old Republic cracks down on RMT ring
In the MMO community, shady websites selling game currency for real currency are considered especially heinous. In Star Wars: The Old Republic, these operations...
Hearthstone hits 30 million players
All right, bear with us here. We're not great at math at Massively Overpowered. But as it stands, Hearthstone has apparently hit 30 million...
Watch One Piece Online get torn apart by an angry player
Not every online game can be a winner, but even losers have their purpose as comedy fodder for the tongue-in-cheek player.
YouTube comedian TheHiveLeader took...
Crowfall’s store is (partly) up and running
You have not played enough of Crowfall to form an opinion on how it plays. You haven't. It isn't playable yet. But that doesn't...
ArenaNet strips, kills, deletes, and bans Guild Wars 2 cheater
Today's lesson is that you shouldn't cheat in online games. Alas, a Guild Wars 2 character had to die to provide this valuable information...
Elite: Dangerous generates its galaxy with NASA data
Elite: Dangerous is a work of science fiction; that's not under discussion. So as in all science fiction, the developers just created a galaxy by selecting...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has benefited the most from free-to-play?
Back in the day, it used to be a running joke among the staff about which game would go free-to-play next. We don't make...
World of Warcraft guides players to the jungle, enters the hall of fame
The opening moments of World of Warcraft's most recent expansion involve an assault on the Iron Horde's base of operations, the Tanaan Jungle. Now,...
Jukebox Heroes: Mists of Pandaria’s soundtrack
I've always had mixed feelings about Western games putting out Asian-themed expansions and conjuring up a soundtrack to match. On one hand, we already...
The Daily Grind: What character look are you most proud of?
The image above was used as a header elsewhere, but other than the fact that I never fixed her belt (it was a placeholder...
Warcraft movie delayed once again
If you were making plans to head to theaters in March of next year to see the Warcraft film as soon as it opened,...
Shroud of the Avatar has its very own comic now
Do you want more supplemental material to round out your Shroud of the Avatar experience? Do you occasionally walk into your local comic store...
Disney’s Club Penguin suffers layoffs
Club Penguin may not be one of the first games you think about when it comes to virtual worlds, but that's kind of a...
EverQuest test server accidentally discounts cash shop items to pennies
Let's try to walk through this particular sequence of events; it isn't pretty. EverQuest puts a new patch update on the test servers with...
