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Nexon’s Q3 2021 financials tease ‘virtual worlds’ from Embark Studios

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Nexon this week released its Q3 2021 financials, which were down 4% year-over-year, largely thanks to the fact that Q3 2020 was so lucrative...
Yep, we're going here, too.

Final Fantasy XIV reminds players of numerical value drops and the mid-experience value reset

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The arrival of Endwalker is just under three weeks away, and that means changes for Final Fantasy XIV. For example, it means that a lot of...

Guild Wars 2 postpones second WvW beta, preps Echovald Wilds preview

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I'm afraid there won't be a Guild Wars 2 WvW beta test this weekend, so rearrange your schedules. ArenaNet let everyone down gently on...
I circle the waterfront, I'm watching the sea.

WoW Factor: WoW Classic’s Season of Mastery is starting to gall me

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So here's a column that might be a bit more woolly than recent installments of this particular column. One of the thing that I've...

New World isn’t adding a minimap, but it’s tentatively allowing third-party map mods

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Yesterday, we covered claims by the New World community that Amazon was banning players for using minimap mods - claims that Amazon strongly denied....

The Daily Grind: What is your favorite MMO’s greatest untapped strength?

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Earlier this fall, MOP's Tyler said something that resonated with me: "Guild Wars 2 is a great game that is wholly ignorant of its...

Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?

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This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...

Blade & Soul’s Demonsbane update is live with more story, events, items, and a dungeon

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Blade and Soul players can face some new story or a new dungeon and its challenging layers of increasing difficulty thanks to the Demonsbane...

Albion Online outlines headquarters hideouts and power core mechanics coming with Lands Awakened

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The information parade for Albion Online's upcoming Lands Awakened update keeps on rolling. With this new update primarily about encouraging guild warfare, it's perhaps...

EverQuest activates dual giant and dragon raid events

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Good omens come in threes, a trend that EverQuest likes to piggyback for several of its sporadic events. This month, Daybreak is combining two...
Birb is the worb.

Final Fantasy XI adds in more Voracious Resurgence and the new Master Level advancement system

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The newest patch to Final Fantasy XI is a big deal. No, not just because there's a new installment of the Voracious Resurgence, although that...

World of Warcraft has unveiled its 9.2 update: It’s called Eternity’s End

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Blizzard abruptly announced yesterday that it would be unveiling the next content update for World of Warcraft Retail's Shadowlands expansion arc today at 1...

Lost Ark to debut ‘Heroes of Arkesia’ animated series next week

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While Lost Ark's fairly successful beta test wraps up today, fans won't have to wait until launch next year to get their next jolt...
You are bad and you should feel bad.

Vague Patch Notes: NFTs in gaming are a bad, dumb idea

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This is going to be a little more ranty than usual. Apologies for that in advance, but... well, we're talking about NFTs. NFTs are...
Over and over.

Season of Mastery in World of Warcraft: Classic will not have spell batching or same-faction battlegrounds

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When WoW Classic first launched, it included spell batching. Not the same way that the original game had it, of course; no, this was a...

NCsoft Q3 2021: Guild Wars 2 just had its best quarter in years

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NCsoft's Q3 2021 financials are a story of good news, bad news. Let's do the bad news first: The Korean gaming giant reported a...

New Zealand’s Grinding Gear Games ramps up hiring for Path of Exile 2

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Grinding Gear Games took the wraps off Path of Exile 2 earlier this year, when it admitted that the game has been taking longer...

RuneScape’s new illustrated book recounting its 20 year history is released

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If you're a fan of RuneScape who likes coffee table books filled with concept artwork and tales of the game's 20 years of development,...
Trab?

Lineage 2M is launching on December 2 in North America and Europe

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Those of you who were lamenting that there might be some small portion of your gaming day spent not playing some version of Lineage II will...
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World of Warcraft will be revealing the next Shadowlands content update tomorrow

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Playing World of Warcraft at the moment has involved a whole lot of staring at the sky and waiting for rain, metaphorically speaking. So it's...

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