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Hearthstone leaps onto smartphones

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Today, Hearthstone made the jump to its smallest platform yet: the smartphone. After releasing the popular card game on the PC, Mac, and tablet,...

Hyperspace Beacon: Five things you should know about Ziost before SWTOR Update 3.2

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Shortly after Star Wars: The Old Republic launched, I was a part of a group of players asked which planet they would like to see...
I don't know what's going on in this picture and I honestly don't wish to.

Salem isn’t dead! It’s launching June 17th

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Salem might have slipped off of your radar over the past few years. It's a permadeath, open-PvP sandbox that fell into the perpetual beta trap....

Destiny’s House of Wolves expansion launches May 19th

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Destiny fans ready for a new expansion after last December's The Dark Below have to wait until only May 19th for the release of...
Running toward the blue sky.

Wisdom of Nym: What we now know about Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward

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I honestly hadn't expected to learn quite this much about Heavensward this soon. I don't know why I hadn't expected this, to be fair;...
All the things.

Betawatch: April 10th, 2015

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Would you like to talk about Black Desert? Stuff's happening with the game. You can learn how to hunt whales, white or otherwise, and...

The Soapbox: The trap of the I-win button

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This guest Soapbox was commissioned through Massively Overpowered's Kickstarter campaign and is authored by a longtime reader named Syndar. The opinions here represent the views of...

Previewing Path of Exile’s mind-blowing Act IV

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If you thought Path of Exile's previous three content updates would be hard acts to follow, you clearly haven't heard enough about the upcoming...
ArcheAge

Lost Continent: Looking ahead to ArcheAge’s Dread Prophecies patch

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Did you miss the latest ArcheAge livestream featuring the Trion dev team? It was a biggun, and it contained quite a lot of information relative to the...
Yes, this assuages my nervousness, you bet.

EverQuest Next offers a new piece of fiction for fans

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While news has been a bit quiet on the development front for EverQuest Next, the game is still producing lore for its fans if...

Windward sets sail on May 12

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If the sea is calling to you yet you lack the bouyancy to be a truly successful marine conquerer, then it would probably be...
What you are chasing and will not get.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you turn real money into MMO money

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Two days ago, World of Warcraft launched the WoW Token service, which will kill the game forever. It thus joins the list of every...
Elder Scrolls

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO fantasy setting?

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I've been fooling about in Elder Scrolls Online this week, and in some ways it's like coming home. I wrote Massively's ESO column for...

Fantasy city-builder Elvenar launches

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Sometimes you reach a moment in your life where you have to take a side. With the launch of the fantasy city-builder Elvenar today,...
This is what happens when you give guns to plants.

Guild Wars 2 hopes to reinspire interest in story

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It's hard to be a Sylvari in Guild Wars 2 at the moment. After all, the plant people have an undeniable tie to the...

EVE Evolved: Four lessons sandbox MMOs can learn from EVE

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The past few years have seen a resurgence of support for sandbox MMOs, both of the trying-to-be-minecraft creative kind and the hardcore nuke-it-from orbit...

Music Man Online beckons players to dance and date

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Music Man Online -- a game that has a delightfuly confusing acronym, by the way -- has very little to do with 76 trombones...

LOTRO Legendarium: Why you need to read the books if you play the game

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While my Kindle is loaded with so many new books I've yet to read that I really should take a few months off to...
No word on whether or not you can also sketch a bunch of stuff in your spiral-bound notebook after playing.

Betawatch: April 3, 2015

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Good news, ladies and gentlemen looking forward to Ghost in the Shell Online. Not only is the game nearing its first Korean closed beta...
Prettier than this.

Codemasters CEO leaves company to join Jagex

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There's a new boss in town at Jagex. Rod Cousens, previously the CEO of Codemasters, has moved shop to be the new CEO of...

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