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One Shots: Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got
At the end of a busy and exhausting day of clobbering kobolds and cleaning up after dragons, the need to crash at a comfy...
WoW Factor: Potential destinations for the next World of Warcraft expansion
We have a BlizzCon coming up in November. This strikes me as a phenomenally bad idea, like someone proposed it in a meeting to...
Global Chat: Fresh voices on the MMO blogging circuit
It's August, which means that it's also Blaugust -- an annual celebration of blogging! For this month, experienced bloggers and newbies alike are joining...
Diablo Immortal launches a PvP event, temporarily changes gem drop rates, and makes its PC release
Today marks another update for Diablo Immortal that brings a host of events and updates for the mobile OARPG. Or at least the formerly...
Guild Wars 2 previews Secrets of the Obscure’s skyscale skills and implementation
One of the key highlights of Guild Wars 2's impending Secrets of the Obscure expansion is easily the overhaul of the skyscale mount, the...
Some Assembly Required: A trip around the world in Craftopia for materials and exploration’s sake
One of my favorite things to do in survival sandboxes is explore. Now, I admit that I don't get to feed that need very...
Genshin Impact releases a new nation, new characters, and underwater exploration August 16
There's a whole lot of water-based stuff headed to Genshin Impact on Wednesday, August 16th. That's when the single-player/multiplayer RPG will introduce Version 4.0...
The MOP Up: AdventureQuest 3D players spend five billion gold… in a weekend
A recent gold boost event led to a record-breaking level of transactions in AdventureQuest 3D as players splurged on augments.
"This was a new record...
Destiny 2 deep-dives Season 22 as Bungie pursues cheat seller ring in court
With the current Season of the Deep now having roughly three weeks left to it, Destiny 2 is looking to the season ahead to...
One Shots: Yet not as messy as my teen son’s room
Some weeks we begin our One Shots tour with breathtaking vistas that leave you an emotional wreck as you silently cry at your computer...
LOTRO Legendarium: Ranking LOTRO’s forests from maddening to awesome
J.R.R. Tolkien famously loved nature, and that passion seeps into his creation of Middle-earth. To him, the great outdoors was not something to be...
Nexon’s The First Descendent pushes crossplay beta to September – but it’s an open beta now
So we've got some good and bad news for Nexon's next-gen third-person looter shooter The First Descendant today - mostly good, though. Let's start...
Singularity 6 interview: Palia is the cozy cottagecore sandbox to beat as it begins closed beta
The label "cozy" is in increasing danger of becoming a watered-down label thanks to how much it's being used in culture these days. Yet...
Some Assembly Required: Building and fighting to the Industrial Age in Craftopia
As I've written before, I'm pretty much stuck in on Craftopia. The seamless world update has done a lot of good for the sandbox...
ARK Survival Ascended finalizes the player-created creature coming to its Aberration map
The community engagement continues in ARK: Survival Ascended. Readers might remember that Studio Wildcard kicked off a mid-July player-created creature contest that offered a...
Wisdom of Nym: Analyzing the Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail fan festival
So that was a thing! You know, I'd honestly been kind of chill moving into the Final Fantasy XIV fan festival, probably because I...
Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival Las Vegas: Keynote takeaways, Dawntrail, and Xbox X|S
The Final Fantasy XIV fan festival is upon us yet again, and as we all expected, we now know the name of the next...
New World talks PvP balance, blunderbuss cheesing, and weapon performance
Earlier this week in New World's Forged in Aeternum, creative director David Verfaillie slipped in a little teaser at the very end, suggesting that...
Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis details guild housing, new quests, and new gear coming in August
The August update arriving to Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis is looking to be pretty full if the MMO's latest NGS Headline video...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming takes a ride through the city streets of Assetto Corsa
Backseat Streaming is once more riding shotgun for some automobile racing fun! Tonight, MOP's MJ and Chris will be riding along in Assetto Corsa...
