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Phantasy Star Online 2 can be pre-loaded now for the open beta
The open beta for Phantasy Star Online 2 is finally arriving in North America at 9:00 p.m. EDT on March 17th. But you don't...
Wisdom of Nym: Impressions of the second set of Ishgard Restoration in Final Fantasy XIV
All right! So this is not actually the column topic that I announced last week, but in my defense, I legitimately did not know...
Crowfall details a quartet of its racial disciplines
Your choice of race matters in Crowfall. Not simply in the sense that it affects your options when it comes to character classes, although there's...
World of Warcraft is finally adding account-wide essences with its next server maintenance
Amidst all of the other things that players have been upset about during this expansion for World of Warcraft it can be easy to miss...
Revelation Online previews the City of the Demon Gods
You've got to be a pretty rough town to be dubbed the City of the Demon Gods, but the new dungeon being added to...
Albion Online works to limit alliances, ganking, and underwhelming loot in its latest patch
It'd be unfair to call the latest patch for Albion Online a course correction; rather, it's more of an ongoing course adjustment. Alliances, for example,...
Players claim to be hitting rank 1000 in Red Dead Online
Big numbers are impressive, and thus it's something of a milestone that a player in Red Dead Online has hit rank 1000 for what he...
Final Fantasy XIV brings in a new wave of Ishgardian Restoration content with patch 5.21
It's time to limber your saw, get your tree-chopping arm ready, and start scanning your recipe book, because a new batch of Ishgardian Restoration...
Bless Unleashed is hard at work fixing bugs and errors
As Bless Unleashed moves into the choppy waters of launch from the more placid seas of beta and headstart, it needs to address a number...
Today’s Warframe update brings a major overhaul of systems and mechanics across the board
Review, refresh, and revise. Those are the three words being used repeatedly for today's large patch for Warframe, and given the content of the patch...
Another World of Warcraft: Shadowlands encrypted alpha build is out now
When is the start of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands testing? Well, on a small scale it seems to have already happened, since the latest encrypted...
Black Desert patches in crossplay for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4
If you were hoping that today's crossplay patch for Black Desert would allow all platforms to group together under one banner, you would be wrong......
Black Desert Mobile adds in the North Mediah region
If you're going on a trip, you can bring Black Desert Mobile with you... and perhaps ironically, the game itself is bringing you on a trip...
TERA announces Kaia’s Anvil for PC in March, drops Forsaken Island and auto-fishing for console
TERA fans on PC are getting new dungeons and new rewards for running them with En Masse's March content update.
"Kaia’s Anvil’ will launch in...
Magic Legends details the design of the Beastcaller
Contrary to what the name might imply, the Beastcaller in Magic Legends does not sit around with a corded phone in hand talking with various...
Path of Exile outlines the changes coming to the Atlas of Worlds in Delirium
The last big update to Path of Exile made some pretty major changes to the endgame, but that was a starting point rather than a...
WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft expansion tour – Wrath of the Lich King
The downside to a project like this one, where I'm going through each of World of Warcraft's expansions one by one, is that it...
WoW Classic offers another guide to starting out as the WoW Token rolls out to China’s version
You there! Do you know about starting out new in WoW Classic? Probably yes, if you had an interest in it, but Blizzard has still...
Riders of Icarus releases its newest patch, Call of the Wild
The latest patch for Riders of Icarus is out now, allowing players to experience the Call of the Wild! No, this does not mean that...
Star Trek Online starts off another event campaign with a return to the Battle at the Binary Stars
The anniversary event for Star Trek Online has just about wrapped up, but starting on March 5th, a new year-long event campaign is kicking off...
