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Flameseeker Chronicles: One week into Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire
I've had my hands on Guild Wars 2's second expansion for a week and some change now and have built up a more solid picture...
Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire launch diary: Initial impressions
My initial impressions on Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire launch are rather late to the table, owing to some fairly significant connection issues...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Clockwork City DLC is aimed at explorers and mystery buffs
ZeniMax has a new dev blog up on The Elder Scrolls Online's Clockwork City DLC today, teasing the update and explaining just why it...
Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire has launched; get caught up on the expansion here!
Update: It's live now! Have fun!
Guild Wars 2 officially launches its second B2P expansion, Path of Fire, today. In just two hours in fact....
Tamriel Infinium: First impressions of Elder Scrolls Online’s Clockwork City DLC
It's hard to know where to start with these impressions because the upcoming DLC for Elder Scrolls Online is significantly more complex, more extensive,...
Choose My Adventure: The return to Guild Wars 2
Many moons ago, when I was first hired on Massively-that-was, my fellow hire at the time was a lady by the name of Rubi...
Dark and Light vows to squash early access bugs
Early access or no, players expect their games to work right when they're shelling out money for them. The developers of the reworked Dark...
Hyperspace Beacon: A happy accident in Star Wars The Old Republic gives us hope for the future of CXP
The last couple of weeks have been really rough week for Star Wars: The Old Republic from a technical standpoint. The Umbara update itself...
PAX West 2017: Hands-on with Amazon’s Breakaway
When I first went for my hands-on appointment to try out Amazon Game Studios' upcoming mythological sports brawler Breakaway at PAX West, I didn't...
PAX West 2017: Dual Universe demos its persistent, seamless, sandbox universe
If you were hoping that another title would pick up the idea of a voxel world and run with it, you're getting your wish....
Hyperspace Beacon: Impressions of SWTOR’s Crisis on Umbara update
I questioned BioWare's delay of the latest update for Star Wars: The Old Republic. According to a post on the official forums, the team...
Global Chat: World of Warcraft’s wild frontier
How is World of Warcraft like the wild west of American history and legend? Something about Barrens chat might come to mind, but blog...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 Elite Specialization preview weekend impressions
Over the weekend Guild Wars 2 players had the chance to get to grips with the new Path of Fire elite specializations in a PvP setting,...
Deep-diving Gloria Victis’ swordplay and siege warfare
We’re in the midst of a sort of sandbox renaissance, with numerous sandbox titles under development and more seeming to scuttle out of the...
Choose My Adventure: Finding my way in Shroud of the Avatar
Heading into Shroud of the Avatar for the first time was a bit of a strange experience for me, right from the start. Usually,...
The Elder Scrolls Online’s Horns of the Reach DLC is live
Horns of the Reach is live in The Elder Scrolls Online today as ZeniMax's first major update since the Morrowind campaign/expansion rolled out in...
Massively Overthinking: Is the popularity of small-scale co-op games hurting MMORPGs?
Gamasutra has an unusual piece from an Ubisoft developer this week arguing that co-op gameplay is the industry's rising midcore trend, one that he...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Cautiously optimistic about Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire expansion
ArenaNet chose to very cleverly stave off the post-season blues by teasing a long-awaited, much-anticipated, and very-spoiled Guild Wars 2Â expansion announcement as a close...
LOTRO Legendarium: First steps into Mordor
Victory.
It's a fascinating place to begin an expansion, really. Most games like to set up a new threat, pit players against impossible odds, and...
Elite Dangerous: A ground-pounding newbie’s perspective
Earlier this summer I wrote that Elite Dangerous' community events were something the MMO community should watch. Watch. I never said play, and I never ended...