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World of Warcraft answers player questions regarding the new Legion companion app
World of Warcraft players can now make use of the Legion companion app, allowing players to manage missions and followers remotely. It's the best...
Tree of Life turns PvP into a factionalized affair
If you're not a fan of open PvP, you'll probably be quite happy that Tree of Life has waved farewell to open PvP as...
Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan on team size and development time
There are around 100 developers working on Overwatch right now. That number comes from director Jeff Kaplan directly in a thread on the game's...
Final Fantasy XI adds new item rewards, new mount areas, and easier crafting
You're probably tired of hearing at this point how Final Fantasy XI's maintenance mode is more active than many game's live-with-normal-updates mode. Is you...
Shroud of the Avatar’s release 33, Richard Garriott’s AMA and new book
The final wipe is receding into the horizon for Shroud of the Avatar, but the game is hardly finished patching and adding in big...
The Daily Grind: How should long-running MMOs help new players catch up?
Expansions for MMOs are really made for the veteran player. A bump of the level cap from 60 to 70 seems reasonable if you're...
First impressions of World of Warcraft: Legion, part three
One of the things that bothered me about Warlords of Draenor was how bad it felt to play. It was unexpected. I don't inherently...
TERA’s next big update is all about guilds
Guilds are a pretty big deal in TERA, but let's be fair, they're a pretty big deal in most games. Of course, they're going...
Albion Online introduces the Hell artifacts
A new batch of artifacts is arriving in Albion Online, and it's hellish. These are literally called the Hell Artifacts, you see, and are...
The Division is opening a public test server
There's nothing quite like putting a patch out into the wild. Sure, you can do your best to test something internally, but until players...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs have long-term consequences for nonsensical actions?
On some level, I'm still amused by the fact that someone got held back in World of Warcraft: Legion as a direct result of...
Wizard101 looks back at its updates this year and teases the future
The summer is just about over, as hard as that may seem to believe. Wizard101's producer, Leah Ruben, has taken the passing season to...
Wild Terra adds blacksmithing and more metal items
Did you dig up a whole lot of metal when Wild Terra introduced mining with no thought to what you'd do with it? We...
First impressions of World of Warcraft: Legion, part two
When last we left off, the world was screwed. World of Warcraft: Legion doesn't tell you that you're facing a huge threat, it just...
EVE Online’s next patch is all about mechanical and visual redesigns
The next EVE Online patch is all about redesigns that cross several levels. Mining barges, for example, are due for a visual patch to...
Someone is already 110 in WoW Legion, plus faction roadblocks for old Druids
If you were a Druid eagerly looking forward to World of Warcraft: Legion who also had a particularly odd set of pre-expansion decisions, you...
EVE Online covers the upcoming Command Burst mechanics
There's more to winning fights in EVE Online than just showing up with the biggest guns. Well-deployed guns make a big difference, as does...
Atlas Reactor introduces players to Orion, the Empyrean
Most of the characters in Atlas Reactor follow predictable mechanics to generate and use Energy in battle. The game's newest character, Orion, does not...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s next major patch preview arrives
The anniversary has arrived, and to no one's great surprise, we started hearing about the next big Final Fantasy XIV patch. The fact that...
First impressions of World of Warcraft: Legion, part one
It was around the time that I was burning my way through drakes that I found myself nodding in appreciation. This was it, I...
