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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...

For larger mining operations in EVE Online, you need a foreman. Not just because you need someone to complain about to your fellow mining...

It's the most wonderful day of the week for fans of Blade & Soul because it's patch day. Not only does this patch include...

One of the big centerpiece features of TERA's most recent patch was the Civil Unrest event, with players teaming up to take on other...

We live in an era when most designers have noticed that we like to control what our characters look like as well as how...

Don't be nervous about entering Riders of Icarus' Rift of the Damned; as a recent development diary shows, it's just a name. The eponymous...

The World of Warcraft community was in a bit of a tizzy yesterday when it collectively discovered that you couldn't complete a quest chain...

The lack of a queue option for Mythic dungeons in World of Warcraft hasn't sat well with many people, but it appears that's not...

You don't have a permanent Arena team or the most solid possible grasp of raid mechanics in Allods Online. That's not pleasant, is it?...

The next European Aion patch is bringing some new instances for you to challenge. Not one, not two, not three, but six new instances...

When Riders of Icarus first introduced its multi-sided Manastone battles, it was without any sort of automated matchmaking, with the assumption that players would...

Oh boy, here comes patch day! And to my surprise, it's coming way earlier than I expected. It shouldn't be surprising - we're just...

Want to play with the next Overwatch patch before it's live? The game's next patch is currently up on the test server for PC...

If you're one of the few people who really enjoy messing around with bag space, Skyforge's revamped equipment system will strike you as a...

I've still been having a blast in Legion over the past few weeks. Nithogg might have been unkind to me by offering me no...

It's a bit unnecessary to note at this point that Final Fantasy XIV tends to have huge patches. We all know that by now....

The new prehistoric dragon mounts of TERA are decidedly draconic, indisputably iconic, likely quite laconic, and sending players into understandable histrionics. After all, when...