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Jukebox Heroes: The best of Blade & Soul’s soundtrack

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Pretty game, strong story focus, really not for me. That's the impression I got from dipping into Blade & Soul a few months back....

LOTRO Legendarium: Ranking LOTRO’s expansions from worst to best

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Every once in a while, it's a lot of fun to sit down and rank things in your favorite geeky franchises. A while back,...
Surprised? Really?

WoW Factor: World of Warcraft has no good excuses for not having housing

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We are past 15 years on now, and World of Warcraft still lacks housing. This is, frankly, really dumb. And it comes up a...

Massively on the Go: Everything we know about Pokemon Go’s new mega evolutions

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In another new twist, Pokemon Go has just released Generation 6's big feature, Mega Evolutions, before Generation 6 pokemon themselves. While we've had mega...
Cap.

Into the Super-verse: Marvel’s Avengers feels like Marvel Heroes by way of Destiny

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This past weekend, I finally had a chance to actually try out Marvel's Avengers because the game was running its open beta. Certainly I'd already...

Choose My Adventure: Determining the strengths and weaknesses of AdventureQuest 3D

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So it’s my final week here in AdventureQuest 3D and things ended with not a bang nor a whimper so much as with a...
Let's set up shop.

Hands-on with New World’s war mode: All the fun you can have blowing up a fortress of lumber

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It's really hard to look at the general progress of New World and not get the sense of a game that's struggling to sort...
The other side.

Wisdom of Nym: Impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Reflections in Crystal storylines

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All right, let's make something very clear right off the bat: There will be spoilers in this column. If you have managed to not...

Fight or Kite: Early thoughts on Crowfall’s lively beta, necromancy, and alts

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Anyone who’s been following Crowfall over the years since its original Kickstarter has likely at one point or another felt like the game’s development...
what wait what

Jukebox Heroes: Great tunes from Destiny’s first soundtrack

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Is there any MMO soundtrack that arrived with such incredible expectations and baggage as Destiny? If so, I can't recall it. We have not...

The Game Archaeologist: Flagship’s Mythos

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Whenever the topic of Flagship Studios comes up, usually it's in conjunction with Hellgate: London. And while Hellgate certainly was a huge and ultimately...
Everybody dies.

WoW Factor: All I want from Shadowlands is the pre-patch

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Folks, I am tired. It is a deep sort of tired, the one that seeps down to the bone. And it's the kind of...
WRONG KIND OF SHINE

Vague Patch Notes: How platform considerations impact MMOs

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It wasn't until I had been working in this field for a while - and as a result playing a lot of different MMOs...

Perfect Ten: 10 great tropical areas to visit in MMOs

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Probably a lot of us aren't getting that fantastic summer beach vacation that we had hoped to get this year. But instead of getting...

The Soapbox: Stubborn MMO players are sleeping on autoplay mechanics

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Autoplay, huh. What is it good for? Absolutely something! I'll say it again: There is value in autoplay. It's got such a bad reputation...
Holla back.

Wisdom of Nym: Impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Reflections in Crystal content

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All right, this format worked well last time; let's go for it again and talk about Final Fantasy XIV's latest patch. But to start...

GDC Summer 2020: Better living, climate awareness, and citizen science through games

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Way back during GDC 2018, I covered several panels relating to gaming for good. Things like citizen science projects, games as medicine or for...

Into the Super-verse: Early impressions of Valiance Online

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When I heard that Valiance Online was going to be running an open beta this week to coincide with the PlayNYC convention, I knew...

GDC Summer 2020: Creating kinder digital communities outside of online games

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I don't know about the rest of you, but I've found that being familiar with online communities and tech has really helped me survive...
I half-see.

Vague Patch Notes: Balance in MMOs is overrated

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Earlier this week, we did a post all about balance in Crucible. It was a detailed post explaining all of the ways that the...

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