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World of Warcraft offers a free weekend as the Radiant Echoes event gets revised and pre-patch bugs continue
The good news for World of Warcraft fans - or perhaps we should say lapsed fans - is that if you're curious about how...
The Daily Grind: Do you see your MMO characters as characters or as playing pieces?
There's an interesting element to a lot of games where you have places where the layers of gameplay break down. Your character in World...
Guild Wars 2 runs down the essentials of Homestead gameplay in the Janthir Wilds
Your house (in Guild Wars 2) can be a very very very fine house (fine house), with stray cats in the yard. Unlocking them...
World of Warcraft starts up The War Within’s pre-expansion event and finally turns on Warband banks
A week after the patch that was meant to turn on most of the features for World of Warcraft's next expansion, one of the...
Final Fantasy XIV adds in time-limited tomestone along with its new Savage raid tier
The time has come for Final Fantasy XIV players to start collecting time-limited tomes once again with the most recent patch, which adds Allagan...
Final Fantasy XIV shares insight into the singer behind the Arcadion’s final fight song
It's hard to miss the fact that the Arcadion raid series in Final Fantasy XIV features bespoke tracks for each of the raid's four...
EverQuest II introduces the Norrathian Armory for sharing valuable items across your whole account
Is there anything worse than getting a really cool item on one character in your roster only to realize that you have to repeat...
RuneScape renames Underworld Area Tasks and adds harder versions for players
Whether you're an aspiring Necromancer or just like wandering the realms of the dead in RuneScape, it's time to take on a bigger challenge...
Bitcraft explains the precise mechanics of starting and maintaining an Empire
A SCENE UNFOLDING IN BITCRAFT POST-LAUNCH:
Exemplar: "Good people of this settlement, I am Exemplar, your emperor!"
Costello: "Well I didn't vote for you."
Exemplar: "I -...
World of Warcraft launches the pre-patch for The War Within on July 23
On July 23rd, World of Warcraft will be patched with the prelude to the upcoming The War Within expansion, and players will immediately experience...
Players are building a multiplayer mod for Cyberpunk 2077
We all remember how at one point Cyberpunk 2077 was meant to have a multiplayer mode, right? It's the only reason we covered the...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Dawntrail peak player concurrency has apparently topped even Endwalker’s
In case you were still wondering whether Final Fantasy XIV's Dawntrail was a hit with MMORPG gamers, wonder no more, as apparently the game...
Villagers & Heroes opens up the Twilight Vale for its midsummer event
It's time for players of Villagers & Heroes to take a trip to the Twilight Vale because the zone is open once again. That...
Sand studio explains the extraction shooter’s premise in a new official post
Do you greatly enjoy sand's relative coarseness, its rough texture, and its ability to get everywhere? This is the correct way of thinking! No...
Embers Adrift adds a Ley Pylon to Newhaven City and fixes damage effects
Players in Embers Adrift have long wanted a Monolith in Newhaven City. (It's a specific game structure, not the monolith from 2001: A Space...
Final Fantasy XIV posts the preliminary patch notes for Dawntrail
There are just a couple of days remaining before Final Fantasy XIV players will be heading on a boat to reach the land of...
Final Fantasy XI rolls out a new version update with new commands, new icons, and a new shield
For far too long, Final Fantasy XI has suffered from the fact that you can log into the game and not be immediately granted...
Kickstarted tiny MMO Book of Travels has launched its promised combat revamp
What is the best thing in Book of Travels? Is it to break your enemy, see him driven before you, and hear the lamentations...
Black Desert adds lifeskill gear upgrades while the mobile version gets a new region
For players of Black Desert Mobile, today's update is going to provide a whole lot of fun stuff within the new Donghae Province. Are...
BitCraft outlines the Empire system coming in its second alpha as a main source of monetization
The good news is that anyone can be the emperor in BitCraft's Empire system, which will be available for testing within the game's second...
