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From castles to conservation to content, I had a ball at Black Desert’s Heidel Ball 2024

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It may have been a bit since the end of Pearl Abyss' Heidel Ball 2024, celebrating 10 years of Black Desert Online, but it's...

The Soapbox: Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail, mortality, remembrance, and last chances

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Earlier this week, at least at the time of this op ed's writing, I completed the main story for Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail, and...
in awe of the size of this lad

Vague Patch Notes: The stuff that has me excited about Stars Reach

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Raph Koster is a smart guy. Not just an experienced one (he's that, too), but a smart one. The man knows his stuff front...

Four Winds: Wuthering Waves, Genshin Impact, and the burgeoning gacha gaming industry

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In the early days of the pandemic, I spent a lot of time covering the then newly released Genshin Impact. The first piece was...

Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s July spread is basically just marking time until Go Fest

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It's not particularly surprising that, once again, Pokemon Go isn't really sharing a lot of details about what's in store for the month of...

Raph Koster’s new MMORPG is called Stars Reach, and yes, it’s basically Star Wars Galaxies 2

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It's June 26th, Star Wars Galaxies' 21st birthday, and I'm sitting on Google Meet talking to none other than MMORPG founding father (and SWG...
Dragonball Z jokes get you banned.

Vague Patch Notes: Many kinds of challenge and many kinds of fun in MMOs

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Earlier this week, MOP's Bree and I were discussing my plans in Final Fantasy XIV as part of the Dawntrail early access launch. Now,...

First impressions of ASKA, Sand Sailor’s brand-new colony-building survival sandbox

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Thanks to the press preview hosted by Thunderful and Sand Sailor, I recently had the opportunity to play around with survival sandbox ASKA a...

SGF 2024: Hands-on with The First Descendant, plus a chat with the Nexon devs

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You thought our Summer Game Fest coverage was over, didn't you? Well, in all fairness, Nexon not only brought The First Descendant to SGF but provided...

First Impressions: Tarisland’s interesting gameplay isn’t enough to surmount shoddy temport quality

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When we issued our 2024 predictions for the MMORPG genre during our annual year-end articles, I said that Tarisland would be a sleeper hit,...

SGF 2024: Previewing Funcom’s Dune Awakening, from PvP philosophy to the survival MMO label

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I must admit I went into Summer Game Fest with pretty low expectations. I was MOP's "E3 guy" back when E3 was a concern,...
Pretty sure seeing this attack coming for you means nothing but good things.

Vague Patch Notes: Have a seat for your MMO

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I could play Final Fantasy XIV on my PlayStation 5, but I don't want to. And as weird as it might sound, the reason...

SGF 2024: Hands-on with NCsoft’s long-awaited Throne and Liberty, launching September 17

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Most of the games I played at Summer Game Fest were more enjoyable than I expected - including Throne and Liberty, which was probably...

Second Wind: Final thoughts on returning to World of Warcraft in 2024, from community to dragonriding

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At long last, we've reached the fourth and final part of my series detailing my experiences returing to World of Warcraft after six years...

Massively on the Go: Splatoon 3’s Big Big Run highlights the big problem with its PvE

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As I shamelessly teased in the WRUP last week, I managed to make some time for Splatoon 3's new Salmon Run event, the Big...
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Vague Patch Notes: Housing is really back in MMORPGs

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I haven't really had anything to say about Guild Wars 2's upcoming Janthir Wilds expansion thus far because... well, I'm not our GW2 columnist,...

SGF 2024: Hands-on with PvE-centric sci-fi horror survival shooter MMO Once Human

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For those who saw Once Human and thought, "Gee, that kind of looks like a mix of H1Z1 and The Secret World," you're not wrong based on...

SGF 2024: Hands-on with New World’s controversial Aeternum reboot, which is still an MMORPG

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How's everyone recovering from all this New World Aeternum news coming out of Summer Games Fest? It's been kind of a confusing time for me, as...

SGF 2024: Amazon discusses New World Aeternum on console, swimming, solo content, and archetypes

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In case there's anyone out there still confused: New World Aeternum is not a single player or co-op game. I know the Summer Game Fest announcement of...

Hands-on with V Rising: PC vs. PS5, multiplayer, and progression impressions

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You might think given the last few pieces I've written that I might have a thing for vampires. I vehemently deny this. It is...

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