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Chinese World of Warcraft players beg NetEase to rescue them from RMT bot infestation
How is World of Warcraft doing in China? If one player's collected account is anything to go by, not well at all. A Chinese...
Wisdom of Nym: What awaits in Final Fantasy XIV’s relic battleground?
We don't know just how long it's going to be before we're all chilling out in the battlefield for Final Fantasy XIV's next relic weapon...
Bungie confirms a sharp rise in Destiny 2 cheating, explains what it’s doing to mitigate it
While this week's update from Destiny 2 has plenty of things for fans to read over, one of the bigger topics is about cheaters....
Massively Overthinking: Would you play a housing-only MMO?
Last week, MOP's Justin put up a neat post on his personal blog about the potential for bringing back just the part of WildStar...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s Loyalty to Lowsec update shakes up Faction Warfare
Between the relative safe haven of EVE Online's high-security star systems and the lawless depths of nullsec where alliances play ping-pong with titans, there...
World of Warcraft adds in Legacy Loot mode for Legion raids and dungeons
As the saying goes, it's better late than never. Adding in Legacy Loot for World of Warcraft's prior expansion (Legion) certainly feels late at...
Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the time he was a gold farmer in World of Warcraft (for research)
Apparently, Gabe Newell -- you know, the billionaire president of Valve who has enough money to, say, throw it into the bonfire of rejiggering...
The Daily Grind: Why is it annoying to group up in MMOs?
I know that MMORPGs are really big on the whole social aspect, but for some people, it seems like "social" only means "grouping up...
Wisdom of Nym: Impressions of the second set of Ishgard Restoration in Final Fantasy XIV
All right! So this is not actually the column topic that I announced last week, but in my defense, I legitimately did not know...
Global Chat: Don’t mess with my GeForce Now
The titanic struggle going on right now between cloud-based game streaming platform GeForce Now and studios who are pulling their titles from it is...
Survival sandbox Population Zero outlines its new 168-hour cycle and account progression
You arrive to the wilds of Population Zero. You have seven days to live. Go. That's, in an extremely unrefined nutshell, the basic gameplay...
Desert Arena: First impressions of Shadow Arena, the Diet Black Desert of battle royales
Did someone just cast Arcane Echo? Because this'll be our second piece on Shadow Arena this week, following its deep-dive by our PvP columnist...
Players claim to be hitting rank 1000 in Red Dead Online
Big numbers are impressive, and thus it's something of a milestone that a player in Red Dead Online has hit rank 1000 for what he...
Interview: Pearl Abyss on Shadow Arena’s Black Desert origins, esports, audience, and more
Along with battle royale fans and Black Desert players, we've been keeping an eye on Pearl Abyss' Shadow Arena, the one-time battle royale mode...
The Daily Grind: Does an MMO’s economy ever stop you from going back?
I've written before about MMO economies and how badly handled inflation can wreck them because it's one of my pet favorite topics, but the...
LOTRO Legendarium: Revisiting Riders of Rohan in Lord of the Rings Online
It's finally time: We're heading back to Rohan. On Lord of the Rings Online's progression servers, at least -- the live servers have hosted...
The Daily Grind: Is there a thing you secretly love in an MMO you hate?
Let's give credit where credit is due: Just because we dislike a game doesn't mean we dislike every last thing in it. Most of...
Upcoming MMORPG Corepunk highlights its world and races in new artwork
Back in December, we got a peek at a new Unity MMORPG from Dutch studio Artificial Core called Corepunk. Even newly announced, it got...
Warframe previews Odalisk, promises to improve Kuva Liches
Warframe's Devstream 136 was once more packed with plenty for fans of the action shooter to soak in. There was survey results to share,...
Desert Oasis: First impressions of Black Desert’s new Guardian class
Remember that Futurama episode where Fry, Kip, and Zaf Branbigan got stranded on a planet full of amazons and were sentenced to death by...
