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The Game Archaeologist: The sad saga of Stargate Worlds
In 1994, a science-fiction movie called Stargate took the idea of alien portals that allowed people to travel instantaneously across the universe and turned it...
The Secret World’s Issue 14 will be in Egypt, releases in March
Today's Streaming Ones dev livestream announced that The Secret World's Issue #14 will take place in the familiar sands of Egypt -- and that...
Hearthstone’s next expansion is Whispers of the Old Gods
The next Hearthstone expansion will drive you mad. It's all about madness. It turns out that all of the rumors whispered in dark places...
Perfect Ten: What your MMO racial pick says about you
In real life, we can't (usually) pick our race; we kind of get assigned one at birth, thanks to our parents, and we go...
WoW Factor: Levels and legends in the Legion alpha
The alpha testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion rolls on, with the vague hope that we might actually have a beta tag by...
Blizzard deploys a Diablo II patch after more than four years
There is not a typo in that title. Blizzard Entertainment has released an unexpected patch for Diablo II. Yes, the second game in the...
Massively Overthinking: The state of WildStar
This week's Massively Overthinking focuses entirely on WildStar, out of whose devs we've been trying to get answers -- never mind reassurance about the game --...
EverQuest brings out drunken Gnomes, a raid, and an expansion for its 17th birthday
EverQuest Producer Holly Longdale is officially sounding the party horn for the start of the game's 17th anniversary festivities. In a new producer's letter,...
Rumor: Hearthstone’s next expansion is Whispers of the Old Gods
A Redditor believes he's found an advertisement for Hearthstone's next expansion -- a giant painted wall mural in Brooklyn. The name appears to be...
New and tweaked class specs arrive in WoW’s latest Legion build
The testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion is almost finished adding new specs for players to try out as the latest Legion test...
Final Fantasy XIV explores the team behind the story of Heavensward
Final Fantasy XIV continues offering players a look behind the scenes of the game's development with a second video today. The first one explored...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Slothasor and the Guild Wars 2 AMA breakdown
It's been a bit of a whirlwind week for ArenaNet, especially with a jam-packed Reddit AMA that contained the announcement that Colin Johanson has...
Old Hearthstone leak hints at upcoming expansion cards
Back in November 2015, a Hearthstone player discovered a Japanese article on the game listing the voice acting credits for the Japanese localisation of the...
Wisdom of Nym: Odds and ends from Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 3.2
I spent all of the last column talking about Final Fantasy XIV's most recent patch, but boy, there's still more to talk about. Who...
Guild Wars 2 is not going back to biweekly updates: ‘When we’re shipping every two weeks, we just have to ship’
There's no way that the Guild Wars 2 AMA on Reddit could possibly top the big bombshell about Colin Johanson's departure that started the...
Path of Exile expansion popularity causes multiple realm crashes
The good news from this past Friday's Ascendancy expansion in Path of Exile? Apparently it broke the record of player numbers for the first...
Mobile MU: Origins starts second closed beta
For the next three days, the upcoming mobile version of MU Online -- called MU: Origins -- will be running another closed beta. This...
A look at the loot due in Neverwinter’s Maze Engine expansion
Neverwinter's latest dev blog zeroes in on the most important thing in any MMORPG: the players. Just kidding! It's loot.
The Maze Engine expansion will...
Path of Exile posts Ascendancy patch notes, preps Friday launch
The Ascendancy expansion for Path of Exile is on track to be released on Friday, but what are you supposed to do today? Stare...
EverQuesting: A guide to EverQuest II leveling zones
One of the reasons new players find it so difficult to get into older games is because there is so much to do that...