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Whether or not you're tired of Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch in World of Warcraft, those two battlegrounds are old. They're the oldest ones in the...

Bad news first for fans of in-dev survival sandbox The Cycle. The game's sixth alpha test has been pushed back by two weeks, so it'll...

Pretty much no one has really been made happy by World of Warcraft putting most major cooldowns on the global cooldown, one of the many...

It's the Year of the Boar everywhere, including in Dark & Light, and that means it's time for this year's Chinese new year event to...

The other day I saw a comment on an MMO subreddit that I quite liked; to paraphrase, it basically stated that the system designers...

It's time to head into the Battle of Dazar'alor in World of Warcraft, so long as you've got a regular group to head into a...

The latest producer's letter from MapleStory 2 describes Toad's Toolkit as an experiment, an attempt by the designers to address a clear issue with...

The latest patch for Diablo III is currently available, and it adds the game's sixteenth season to the game. Of course, that's not all...

Do you like melting lots of good but unnecessary items to get your best item to have slightly better stats? If so, you are...

Everything has hidden depths. Anthem definitely does. Literally, it's got a mission named Hidden Depths, and today's latest burst of gameplay footage from IGN covers...

With every Path of Exile league, the designers take the time to dissect the overall balance of classes found throughout the game in various permutations,...

The update train for Lost Ark keeps rolling on in the game's beta. The most recent patch (which has translated notes here, if for some...

You move 16 tons (of asteroids), what do you get? Another hour of skill training and a whole lot of destroyed asteroids, plus a...

Next week sees the opening of a new raid in World of Warcraft on Normal and Heroic difficulties, which means you'll be getting some more...

We don't yet know all of the content that will be available for Anthem, as previews thus far have showed off open-world questing and the...

It's time to say the words that everyone in a party wants to hear in Final Fantasy XIV: "Don't kill this guy yet, wait for...

The developers behind the very reliably updated Final Fantasy XI talked a great deal about how this month's version update would bring balance changes for...

To celebrate the third year of Blade & Soul in the west, players are getting the chance to getting some far futuristic-looking costumes and weapons....

Each of Anthem's four Javelins is meant to support a different playstyle, and the Interceptor is for those who feel the need... the need for references to...

It's a brand new year, and Fallout 76 is encouraging everyone to party like it's 2077, which would make the title a bit of a...