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Chaos Theory: The Secret World’s enhanced player experience

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Amazing story, awesome cutscenes, phenomenal atmosphere, compelling missions, incredible NPCs... The Secret World definitely has a lot of good things going for it. It...

Flameseeker Chronicles: The Guild Wars 2 legacy

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Flameseeker Chronicles is back, now under new management! I can't tell you how thrilled I am to write the fortnightly column about all things...

Choose My Adventure: Diablo of Exile

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This month's Choose My Adventure is like no Choose My Adventure that has come before. Instead of deep-diving one game for four weeks, we're...

Tamriel Infinium: Dealing Elder Scrolls Online justice

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When The Elder Scrolls Online launched, many people had high expectations for the game. Of course, given the number of people who loved the...

Not So Massively: PAX East 2015 MOBA roundup edition

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It's been a huge week for online gaming, with GDC drawing to a close and PAX East being packed full of reveals. We heard...
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s Heavensward has a release date

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I'm going to be totally honest and say that I expected more revelations for PAX East for Final Fantasy XIV. Yes, I realize that...

PAX East 2015: Recapping the ‘Where Did Multiplayer in MMOs Go’ panel

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The last time I was asked where the social aspects of MMOs went, I was pretty directly snarky: They're still there. And it's true, but...

EVE Evolved: Sovereignty 2.0 Needs Some Work

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When CCP Games announced last year that a complete nullsec revamp was coming to EVE Online, the playerbase breathed a collective sigh of relief...
Let me show my pokey... oh, you know the gag.

PAX East 2015: Hands-on with Undead Labs’ Moonrise

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I wasn't sure exactly what to expect when I first laid hands on Moonrise at this year's PAX East so I suppose that "fast-paced party-based Pokémon" should...

One Shots: The face of doom

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What would you do if you went up against a giant face intent on bringing forth your personal doom? I don't know about you,...

LOTRO Legendarium: Five off-the-beaten path locales you must visit

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Lord of the Rings Online is a big, big game that has grown over the years to encompass a wide swath of Middle-earth. One...
Back when it all began.

Final Fantasy XIV’s Heavensward launches on June 23

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The expansion releases on June 23rd, early access begins on June 19th, and pre-orders open up on March 16th.Since the original launch of Final Fantasy...
If you forget the fact that it was during the day and there were only the two of us and it wasn't outside by a wooden table it was exactly like this.

PAX East 2015: A chat with SOTA’s Richard Garriott

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Richard Garriott casts a long shadow in the MMO industry, with Ultima Online serving as the first fully graphical MMO and ushering in the genre...
When leveling alts was already the plan...

WoW Factor: A self-defeating genre

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Remember when World of Warcraft launched? I sure do. I remember when the game's developers strapped into a helicopter and broke into the building...

Chaos Theory: The Secret World experience blurs the lines of reality

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When Funcom recently teased an upcoming forum-only event for The Secret World, my interest was immediately piqued. Though we have scant details right now,...

Perfect Ten: The Secret World moments that freaked me out

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I wouldn't say that The Secret World is a scary game. It's a game that has scares in it, to be sure, but you're...

Choose My Adventure: Right-Click Sampler Platter Edition

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It's been a crazy month. Since writing my farewell Choose My Adventure on Massively-X-Joy-Gadget--vs-Capcom-Turbo, I've sent a few hundred emails, helped raise a huge...
A BLOO BLOO BLOO BLOO A BLOO BLOO

Jukebox Heroes: Glitch’s soundtrack

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As we continue to discover in the years after Glitch's closure, this was one underappreciated, unusual, and quirky MMO that deserved a lot better...

Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR took its first step into competitive gaming and fell on its face

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Just when you think that Star Wars: The Old Republic will change things around and actually do something that will appeal to the Killer-type...
So long.

Strongholds and the Jungle in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns

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While I was taking my test drive of the Revenant class at ArenaNet's recent press event, I wasn't just playing through old familiar portions of...

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