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Vague Patch Notes: No Man’s Sky is the real reboot success story

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Whenever an MMO of any type has a launch that resembles the Nedelin catastrophe, people start talking about what the studio should do to...

Perfect Ten: Ten reasons Fallout 76 is good, actually

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Here's the thing about criticism: It isn't mutually exclusive with appreciation. You can like something that you also criticize -- and your head won't...

Choose My Adventure: Accidentally going to Hell and other Dungeons and Dragons Online misadventures

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I’m only level 3 and already Dungeons and Dragons Online has elected to whup my ass. By the barest margin, the polls said to pick...
Sure. That sounds right.

Not So Massively: Online ARPGs are the pizza of gaming

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I spend a lot of time thinking about online ARPGs these days. It's always been a genre I've enjoyed, and since taking over the...
Cars!

Wisdom of Nym: What content in Final Fantasy XIV is optional?

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So here's an interesting question with an answer that continually shifts: What content is optional in Final Fantasy XIV? If you're a big fan of...

Warframe of Mind: A history of TennoCon reveals, from The War Within to Heart of Deimos

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I don't know about you, but there was a certain sadness hanging in the air on July 11th as I sat home instead of...
How near, how far.

Into the Super-verse: Seven tips for designing amazing MMO superhero costumes

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While we all know that the real endgame in any MMORPG is fashion, superhero titles take this much further than the rest of the...
I'm going to master letting this play instead of me.

The Soapbox: Where does WoW need to go beyond Shadowlands?

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This expansion hype cycle, I've heard more about how to customize your character and less about raids than any other WoW expansion in recent memory, and I can't see that as anything other than good.
It tracks.

Vague Patch Notes: New World delays to add the game into the game

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All right. Someone has to ask it, and it doesn't need to be me but it's still going to be me because I feel...

Lawful Neutral: No really, who owns Jagex and RuneScape?

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RuneScape is one of those games that always seems to fly under my radar. It's not intentional, and I don't have anything especially against...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: Classic alt challenges for MMOs

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When you start up your first character in a new MMO, it's all fresh and novel. But if you're the sort of tedious weirdo...

Choose My Adventure: Exploring the Caves of Chaos in Dungeons and Dragons Online

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I’ve heard you loud and clear, Dungeons and Dragons Online friends. There were a number of comments on last week’s column espousing the virtues...
oh no skellingtons

World of Warcraft: Shadows Rising is a solid book stuck in an uncomfortable midspace

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My long-standing policy for the prequel novels for World of Warcraft expansions has been to not read them. We've gotten these things for a...

The Survivalist: Astroneer adds automation (and it’s awesome)

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Astroneer is already an awesome game. Even as a survival game, it is my go-to for chill fun. It scratches the mega harvesting or...
Classy.

Wisdom of Nym: What to do in Final Fantasy XIV during the 5.3 patch delay

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Here we are in July, and we're not going to get our next patch for about a month. Normally, this isn't such a big...

Fight or Kite: Examining Crowfall’s newbie systems, from God’s Reach to Awakening

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Despite the current pandemic we are all living through, one thing you absolutely have to give the team at ArtCraft credit for is continually...

The Game Archaeologist: World War II Online

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The 1990s saw the rise of flight simulators that thrived on detailed, complicated controls and handling. Such games threw out accessibility and casual-friendliness for...
KITTY! AGAIN!

Vague Patch Notes: Don’t alter MMO systems for people who never liked them to begin with

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Here's a concept that just would not leave my mind thanks to World of Warcraft, but it's not a bad thing. But in order...

Working As Intended: Decorating MMORPG houses in SWG Legends and beyond

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I've been mulling over how to do a piece about MMO housing for a while now, spurred on by colleagues and readers who've said...
It just keeps happening.

WoW Factor: Dissecting the drips and drabs from the Shadowlands reveal stream

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All right. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands kicks off its beta next week. I would kind of like to be involved in that! I am...

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