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Mortal Online 2 bans hundreds of accounts for an exploit that avoided full loot on death
You can possibly understand why players of Mortal Online 2 would be attracted to an exploit that allowed you to play the game and...
Tower of Fantasy adds a new area and new challenges with today’s 2.1 update
Who wants to go underground in Tower of Fantasy and explore a dangerous collapsing structure filled with things that want to kill you? What...
World of Warcraft’s Morgan Day addresses class tuning and design for Dragonflight
Class tuning in World of Warcraft is something that has been argued about basically since the game first launched and continues to be debated,...
Neverwinter’s latest patch fixes bugs and oversights while making Bards slightly more helpful to NPCs
Imagine being a Bard, singing a jaunty tune to help everyone recover some health, and then find yourself staring at allied NPCs around you...
Final Fantasy XI releases its November update with more story and more Sortie opponents
You there! Do you play Final Fantasy XI? If not, go play it until you're ready to do Sortie content! We'll see you for...
World of Warcraft shows off the Evokers ahead of the second half of the pre-patch next week
Next week will let players turn on the dragon-related firehoses in World of Warcraft, at least insofar as letting players make their very own...
Old School RuneScape adds in diversity and inclusion improvements along with speedrunning updates
After long being fixated on heterosexual relationships in Old School RuneScape, Princess Astrid has come out as bisexual and can be romanced by characters...
Blade & Soul un-delays its Wind Chasers update originally delayed over critical crash bug [Updated]
(This article has been updated with NCsoft's latest decision at the end.)
All the nice Blade & Soul players just wanted to have a nice...
Final Fantasy XI previews more Voracious Resurgence story and new Sortie opponents
We're about halfway through the Final Fantasy XI 20th anniversary celebration at this point because the developers have really put all their eggs into...
Destiny 2 outlines the current areas of balance concerns and planned adjustments for Season 19
Sometimes a five-point change makes a big difference. The latest development dispatch from Bungie regarding Destiny 2 moving into Season 19 is all about...
RuneScape previews new nature-loving druids for you to help and/or rob incessantly
Remember defeating the Elder Gods in Gielinor? It turns out that this means nature is healing in RuneScape, and it is in fact healing...
Path of Exile answers player questions about the upcoming Ruthless mode
Despite the name, Path of Exile's upcoming Ruthless mode will in fact allow you to have a character named Ruth, or Ruth-Anne, or Ruthie....
World of Warcraft highlights Exile’s Reach starting experience for Dragonflight
When you start a new character in World of Warcraft at this point, you are expected to go through the Exile's Reach starting experience....
Day of the Dead returns to World of Warcraft through November 3
Celebrating with the dead might seem a little less unusual in World of Warcraft than it does in some other games, since that can...
War Thunder celebrates a decade of operation with special vehicles, events, and sales
Can you believe it's been an entire decade since players were allowed to start hundering warts? Wait, sorry, that's wrong; the game isn't Wart...
Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.28 arrives with an assortment of damage buffs for various jobs
It's a nice day today to be a Black Mage, or a Machinist, or a Warrior in Final Fantasy XIV. The game's latest patch...
World of Warcraft gets pre-patch hotfixes, Solo Shuffle leaver penalties, and more maintenance
So thus far, the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight pre-patch has been... well, let's go with "tumultuous." There has been tumult. Tumult has ensued. Things...
Final Fantasy XIV’s next live letter is scheduled for November 11
The time of Final Fantasy XIV's next major patch is drawing closer, and you can find that out for yourself by looking at the...
Neverwinter prepares some major buffs for Wizards for the Northdark Reaches module
It's hard in Neverwinter for a Wizard. You try your best to cast destructive spells, but you have to deal with the jocks of...
The Daily Grind: How do you handle weekly capped content in MMOs?
Over the years, I have noticed that there are three basic approaches to a situation wherein there is a weekly cap for certain content...
