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Massively Overthinking: Does the MMO genre have too many games for its own good?
Last month I saw a video from YouTuber Josh Strife Hayes with an eyebrow-raiser of a thesis: He essentially argues that we have too...
Cheaters who were banned from a $30M Fortnite tournament win their way back in
How does one who was banned for cheating in a Fortnite esports event make their way back into that same tournament? By having a...
Choose My Adventure: A debriefing for Star Wars The Old Republic
We're ending our run in SWTOR with a roleplay sendoff as we prepare to head into the next game you voted for in Choose My Adventure: TERA.
Guild Wars 2 temporarily disables map completion key rewards over teleport exploit
This is why we can't have nice things: ArenaNet was forced to disable some map rewards in Guild Wars 2 last night thanks to...
US Senator takes aim at lockboxes and pay-to-win with ‘Protecting Children From Abusive Games Act’
The gamblebox issue isn't dying down any time soon, it appears. As Kotaku first reported, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley has announced he plans to...
Desert Oasis: How AFKing in Black Desert is more productive than you think
You know what I enjoy doing in MMOs? Not doing anything. I fancy myself an AFK enthusiast. Finding a nice, scenic spot to park...
Perfect Ten: Disney movies are all MMO experiences
As a general rule, I feel about Disney films the same way other people feel about the MCU films: They're fine, I'll watch one...
City of Heroes’ rogue servers nerf AE farms, boost XP, but can’t do character transfers
If you were planning to abuse the Architect Entertainment system on City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue servers, we hope you already got your...
World of Warcraft backpedals on recent banwave
Blizzard has announced that it's rolling back its recent wave of suspensions for World of Warcraft accounts found to be operating third-party software "that...
The Survivalist: Why I love survival games but refuse to touch Atlas
I love survival sandboxes. They give me that virtual world experience I'm missing from most MMOs. And I can build! So, why won't I...
Albion Online’s free-to-play relaunch is going well in spite of lag, queues, and duping
We don't get a lot of buy-to-play or subscription-based MMOs going free-to-play anymore, chiefly because most of the ones likely to make the jump...
The Division 2 mops up exploits and announces a PTS in its latest state-of-the-game
With launch and its first big patch under its belt, The Division 2 team has delivered a state-of-the-game address about what it's doing next.
Notably,...
TERA is rolling back all progress since yesterday’s patch thanks to a nasty economy exploit
Yesterday's TERA Skywatch: New Heights update brought along a bit more than En Masse bargained for, and now the servers will see a rollback...
Guild Wars 2 is working on multiple fixes and features for the new warclaw mount
It's a big week for Guild Wars 2 since Super Adventure Box today. But that's not all the studio's working on. MMO gamers will...
Reddit is aflame over the ban of a popular bug-exposing YouTuber from ARK Survival Evolved
Since this article's publication, Wildcard has walked back the ban. We've updated with the whole story at the very end.
Not quite a year ago,...
The Division 2 fixes the Castle bug, offers wildly confusing preload chart ahead of launch
It's not quite launch for The Division 2 (that's tomorrow), but the game has dropped in a nice solid patch to fix lingering issues ahead...
Choose My Adventure: New tools, same flailing in Legends of Aria
So, full disclosure here: This edition of Choose My Adventure is going to come from a perspective of limited play time. My "real" job...
The MOP Up: Space Engineers jury-rigs a release
Everyone knows that engineers are the unsung heroes of civilization, and space engineers doubly so! So join us in saluting Space Engineers, the survival...
Atlas signals an incoming official server wipe along with a major milestone update
Hope you didn't get too comfortable in Atlas' early access, because these pirates are getting ready to swab the decks clean. And by that...
Funcom previews Anarchy Online’s fresh start server on latest stream
It's called "Rubi-Ka 2019." That's the official designation of Anarchy Online's fresh start server coming our way in the near future. The announcement of...
