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When Star Wars: The Old Republic launches its next expansion, you can say farewell to the old rules about gear progression. The Galactic Command...

Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood ought to have be the least interesting announcement possible. It was heavily teased before it actually happened, and we knew that...

It goes without saying that I am happy about Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood. But I am also kind of annoyed that the expansion's announcement...

If there's one thing that's sparked more speculation than any other part of the Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood announcement, it's the rather enigmatic Lady in...

Naoki Yoshida's catchphrase to the fans of Final Fantasy XIV is pretty much the perfect way to label a live question-and-answer session. The community team...

The end of DC Universe Online's Amazon Fury story is titanic. Ares, the god of war, has betrayed his co-conspirator Hades and teamed up...

To quote Douglas Adams, space is big. Really big. How in the world are you going to explore all of it, even in a...

Years of playing MMOs have no doubt left your slash key withered to a nub, scarcely fit for use except for the vitally useful...

It's time to get into the spirit of ghoulish glee in Overwatch with the new Halloween Terror event, and it's bringing more than just...

There's never really a good splitting point when discussing Final Fantasy XIV patches. They always cover so much ground with features and additions that...

Ever since I considered the responses to a Massively Overthinking article in which a developer asked if a prestige system to encourage replaying an...

There are things I really like about The Secret World; the combat has never been one of them. However, if I could somehow mix...

For everything, there is a season, and in the case of Diablo III, there are several seasons. One of those seasons is coming to...

Legion is humming along nicely as we near the two-month mark. It's still got that decent balance of having enough to do that you're...

The end of the Dual Universe Kickstarter is just a couple of days away, and the project has a little bit further to go...

The next major update for TERA is dubbed Spellbound, and it's bringing two new dungeons and two new armor sets to go along with...

What's next for Overwatch? Well, not a version of Symmetra that heals, that's for darn sure. The latest video featuring director Jeff Kaplan covers...

No one respects the mentor tag in Final Fantasy XIV. It's applied via an automated process, and the idea is that you're supposed to...

Here in the real world, your options with a motorcycle are more or less limited to "riding it." You can't really whip into a...

Eco's Alpha 5 brings in its comprehensive ecosystem mechanics, but as a result of polishing those mechanics, it's going to take a little longer...