Factions is a standalone expansion for Guild Wars that released on April 28, 2006. It may also refer to the combat module release of Origins of Malu.
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Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR, a roleplay community divided
Much praise and hatred have been tossed at Star Wars: The Old Republic for its decision to focus more heavily on the single-player aspects...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s A Star to Guide Us
We've had just enough time to digest that epic trailer, and now A Star to Guide Us is live. This is the fourth episode...
World of Warcraft works to improve warfronts and island expeditions while prepping for Patch 8.1
With an awkward rollout of warfronts and underwhelming island expedition rewards, World of Warcraft needs all hands on deck these days to course-correct Battle...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s starbase defense
With the Age of Discovery pack on its way this fall, players of Star Trek Online are probably curious what the studio has up its sleeve...
Perfect Ten: My favorite MMORPG names
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PAX West 2018: Survival MMO Rend’s surprising art, Dorito map, faction PvP, and inbound PvE
If this PAX West 2018Â was about one thing, it was about proving me wrong. I jumped into the Rend interview expecting a specific type...
Hyperspace Beacon: How BioWare could get SWTOR back on track
If you have yet to experience the conclusion to the traitor storyline from the latest story update to Star Wars: The Old Republic and...
PlanetSide 2 is rolling out some classic lore
This might astonish you, but there is actually more to the lore behind PlanetSide 2 beyond "our faction is good, the other two factions...
Global Chat: What MMO bloggers think about Battle for Azeroth
There certainly is no shortage of opinions concerning World of Warcraft's latest expansion out there lately. The blogosphere by and large turned its full...
The Daily Grind: Should all MMORPGs have EVE-style player councils?
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Perpetuum is back from the dead thank to the Open Perpetuum Project, all with the original developer’s blessing
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Rend’s Jeremy Wood on how Frostkeep borrows from Blizzard, Dark Age of Camelot, and PlanetSide
GameDaily has an interview with Rend's Jeremy Wood this week that covers a bunch of meta topics of interest to MMO players and watchers...
First impressions of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, part 1: Mechanics
Part one covers chiefly the expansion's mechanics: the basics of leveling, the Heart of Azeroth, level scaling, Azerite powers, combat, spec changes, War Mode, and the campaign.
Global Chat: Everybody’s burning up about that Sylvanas thing
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EverFeud’s Kickstarter has been canceled, but the devs say they’ll ‘pursue other options’
At the tail end of July, we covered the Kickstarter of EverFeud, a PvP-focused MOBA/MMO hybrid that sought $105,000 to fund development. Unfortunately, the...
The Daily Grind: Is it time to move on from PvP ‘factions’ in MMORPGs?
I'm think I'm over factions in MMOs. I get why RvR games need them, and I'll grudgingly concede that the average player is far better...
Interviewing the Bless team on the Assassin, merges, PvP, and concurrency as the patch goes live today
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Pathfinder Online promises free trial, open enrollment, and a marketing push
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Crowfall explains its new capture system with outposts
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Albion Online's enriched its sandbox self with another big update today, this one the long-awaited Merlyn patch. As we've been covering, the most interesting...
