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Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers tour: The new jobs

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The two new jobs debuting in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers had a lot to live up to. For one thing, both of them were...
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MassivelyOP’s Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers media tour coverage

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A new expansion is on the way for Final Fantasy XIV, with early access starting up in less than a month. But what if you...

Warframe of Mind: Should Digital Extremes ditch RNG in endgame loot drops?

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Here's a question for you: Should a game that eschewed random loot boxes at the request of players use RNG loot drops for rare...

Choose My Adventure: The Agent, the Eagle, and the Sith in Star Wars The Old Republic

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Things have come to a head in my Star Wars: The Old Republic adventure, and it all wrapped in rather neat fashion for the...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Why Guild Wars 2 has my favorite flying mounts

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When Guild Wars 2 announced that the central mechanic of its Path of Fire expansion was going to be mounts, a lot of people...

Not So Massively: StarCraft II co-op is one of online gaming’s greatest hidden gems

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Between the disappointment of the current World of Warcraft expansion, the abandonment of Diablo III, and other... unpleasantness, I find my lifelong fandom of...
Toss me a cure, will you?

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers in benchmark and letter form

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One of the nice things about the rules around the Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers media tour is that seeing the big job change video means...

EVE Evolved: Getting ready for the Invasion in EVE Online

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EVE Online's Invasion expansion lands in just two days on May 28th, and there are plenty of things you can do now to make...

LOTRO Legendarium: How LOTRO does Lord of the Rings justice

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Oh. Oh no you didn't, Kotaku. You didn't just sit there, scratching your head for an easy post, and then write up an essay...

The Survivalist: What ever happened to the smaller survival sandbox MMOs? Part two

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Last week we learned what was up with a number of the smaller survival sandbox MMOs. Sadly, some have faded away, but others are...
This plan sure worked!

WoW Factor: Crazy speculation on turning back the clock for World of Warcraft

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There's a game I like to play - wait, no, that's a lie. There's a game I do play called "Oh, I Made Myself Sad."...
Sometimes the theme is just disappointment.

Vague Patch Notes: On fans and fanboys in MMORPGs

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When you play Final Fantasy XIV, you are going to be stuck playing one of an assortment of jobs, with no actual customization to distinguish...
This was once controversial!

Perfect Ten: Helpful tips for returning to City of Heroes in 2019

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With the (community-led) rebirth of City of Heroes in 2019, a rather interesting problem has arisen for this superhero title: Namely, players who never...

Desert Oasis: In praise of the charmingly chaotic Black Desert community

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One of my favorite dishes is dinuguan (dinu-goo-ahn). It's a pork dish covered in a sauce with the consistency of curry and the dark...

Not So Massively: Eden Rising provides a low-stress riff on survival games

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Somehow I hadn't heard of Eden Rising until it launched out of early access as a free-to-play title, so to me at least it...

Path of Exile’s blast-from-the-past Legion League revamps melee and crushes complexity creep on June 7

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It's time once again to learn about the next big update for Grinding Gear Games' popular MMOARPG, which will launch for the PC on June 7th, 2019, and hit both consoles on June 10th. I enjoyed sitting down with Producer Chris Wilson to learn the ins and outs of expansion 3.7.0, titled Legion.

Choose My Adventure: My story begins to twist in Star Wars: The Old Republic

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Who would have thought that two planets would bring change? I was wholly expecting some generally insular stories from Nar Shaddaa and Balmorra as...

MMO Cartographer: Climbing the Tree of Savior

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A friend of mine from one of my other hobbies recommended Tree of Savior to me a while back, but I was deep down...
Sing a song of madness.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood in review – the trials

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First and foremost, I freely admit that the title for this one is a bit of a misnomer, since we're covering a lot more...

Fight or Kite: Features MMOs could borrow from successful esports titles

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This week I wanted to try something a little different in our PvP-centric Fite or Kite column and take a look at a number...

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