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Blizzard’s Steve Danuser talks about the story development in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth
Very few people are trying to defend the story of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth at this point, with one of the more...
Ashes of Creation shares the lore and the development of the Scalerunner mount
Ashes of Creation is adding a new mount, and as is often the case when this happens, there's a big ol' lore dump that...
Tamriel Infinium: The lore behind The Elder Scrolls Online’s Falmer
If you’ve played through the Elder Scrolls series, particularly The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you’ve no doubt encountered a bleached-skin underground foe more akin...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.2 in review – the story
The funny thing about big Final Fantasy XIV patches these days is that because the smaller material gets a bit more spread out, we...
Desert Oasis: Understanding Black Desert’s Black Spirit
When Black Desert first released stateside back in 2016, I wasn't interested. At the time, I was deeply invested in running Guild Wars 2's fractals,...
A LinkedIn profile adds more fuel to the Diablo animated series fire
The rumor about a Diablo animated series has been running for ages now, and the latest bit of evidence that this is a real thing comes...
Desert Oasis: Finding the plot in Black Desert’s story
In our preview of Black Desert's new Guardian class, one of the more surprising conversations to come out of the comments was the opinion...
World of Warcraft kicks off the last season of Battle for Azeroth item level increases
We're all still up to date on the fact that World of Warcraft's Visions of N'zoth patch is a bit of a mess, right? Well,...
World of Warcraft launches patch 8.3, Visions of N’Zoth, today
Who's feeling downright crazy today? It's the day for crazy in World of Warcraft with the launch of patch 8.3, Visions of N'Zoth, concluding the Battle for...
Dual Universe shares its latest narrative Tale and shows off community creations
Sure, Dual Universe is mostly about building neat stuff and surviving the sandbox world of its sci-fi space, but it's also got some lore...
WoW Factor: What Warcraft’s Old Gods were and how we lost it
At one point, I loved the Old Gods of World of Warcraft. At this point, they disappoint me. And since we're not that far away from the game's next raid that brings them into center focus again, it seems like it's time to talk about them a little bit and why the dang things have not just become so endlessly boring but so misused.
Magic: Legends starts showing off with two classes and two worlds
All right, you've seen some more footage, you've got some idea of how the game is going to be... now, if you're done with...
A very World of Warcraft Christmas
Vallin stroked his beard absently for the dozenth time. Just like the first several times, he had forgotten about the rings of his glove,...
The Daily Grind: What MMO grievances would you like to air at a title you enjoy?
Tomorrow is December 23rd, which means that it's time to celebrate the holiday of Festivus! And as many of you already know (being people...
Vague Patch Notes: Why don’t we have more MMO psionics?
Seized by what I can only describe as an incomprehensible fit of pique, I've spent a decent chunk of my free time over the...
The Daily Grind: What bit of MMO lore bothers you more than it probably should?
Pandaren in World of Warcraft have always bothered me. Not because the expansion that introduced them was bad (it was certainly better than the expansions...
Star Wars: The Old Republic plans eighth anniversary and Life Day festivities
It is perhaps mildly ironic that Star Wars: The Old Republic is now getting rather old in and of itself, since the game is passing...
Editing tags may reveal the identity of a character in the Diablo IV cinematic trailer
It's going to be a long while before we have any sort of release date for Diablo IV or anything more than scraps of...
The Alliance has a fully staffed and functional spaceship in World of Warcraft and never uses it
Who doesn't like a nice big spaceship? The Alliance in World of Warcraft, apparently. A recent article on Polygon points out that in Battle for Azeroth,...
New Overwatch short story details what brought Mercy back into the field
The original Overwatch still has a bunch of heroes who never got a whole lot of further exploration, such as the almost ubiquitous healer Mercy....
