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The Stream Team: Dousing Silk’s spider marriage delusions in Path of Exile
While Massively OP's MJ is still enjoying the Blight League, she can't help but feel the (self-imposed) pressure to finish Path of Exile's story...
Path of Exile offers some stats on which enchantments are the most popular in the Blight League
I love pie, which is why I probably can grasp pie charts the easiest out of all of the graphs, and there's lots of...
Vague Patch Notes: Copies, blatant copies, and plagiarism in MMOs
So... this was honestly not the story that I had expected to have wound up coming out of Eternal Magic. I'd been expecting that "beauty...
Grim Dawn previews new areas, story, and rebalanced items for its next major content update
The next major update for Grim Dawn is apparently so large that the only way for the developers to discuss it is in tones similar...
Choose My Adventure: Torchlight Frontiers and the mindless catharsis of ARPG gaming
Sometimes, you’ve just got to run around and blow up hordes of enemies with big flashy skills and hoover in the goodies. You have...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs, challenge, and flow
A couple of weeks ago, MMO developer Mark Kern tweeted a controversial claim about how challenge and interactivity is the point of games (and...
The Daily Grind: What constitutes a ‘classic’ MMO to you?
Earlier this week, a job posting on Blizzard's career site made it clear that the company considers Diablo III one of its "classic" games....
The Stream Team: Battle of the Blight in Path of Exile
Bring on more Battle of the Blight! Massively OP's MJ has tasted Path of Exile's Blight league and she likes it -- no, not...
Choose My Adventure: Diary of a Legends of Aria desert wildman
The desert sun rakes its fingers over my bronzed skin like I am the coals of a forge. Indeed, I am the forge: the...
Path of Exile’s devs say its performance issues are down to ‘calculation complexity,’ not the engine
The word "performance" is being kicked around the Path of Exile community kind of a lot lately, but lest you think Grinding Gear Games...
Path of Exile makes a number of tuning adjustments to the Blight league with its next patch this week
The Blight league in Path of Exile will spawn fewer monsters when the game's next patch arrives this week. It was just spawning too many...
Torchlight Frontiers brings back its fame and contract system
Early Torchlight Frontiers testers might recall a previous version of the fame and contract system that experimented with a daily quest-and-reward format. Echtra Games...
Path of Exile lays out its expansion plan for the next year, through the 4.0.0 release
Path of Exile studio Grinding Gear Games is already hard at work shoring up the remaining issues in the Blight league launch. But what...
Path of Exile cancels new lockboxes-within-lockboxes after ‘intensely negative’ feedback
So let's play a little round of bad news, good news with Path of Exile. Yesterday, with the Blight expansion not even a week...
Path of Exile announces a patch to address several Blight League bugs on PC
The Blight League update has arrived to Path of Exile, though it would appear that it has not done so completely unblighted if a...
The Stream Team: Beginning Path of Exile’s Blight league
Sorry Silk, your rescue will have to wait! Path of Exile released its latest big update this past weekend, and the Blight league has...
Battle Bards Episode 152: Main Themes 3
Back for a third round, the Battle Bards examine a slew of main themes from MMORPGs! Considering how essential these themes are in making...
Path of Exile’s Blight expansion is just about to go live for PC players
Path of Exile's brand-new Blight expansion and league is officially live later this afternoon, approximately one hour from the publication of this piece. The...
Torchlight Frontiers’ ninth alpha update will introduce item enchanting and a lucky tree
Luck doesn't grow on trees, except for the world of Torchlight Frontiers. The in-development MMOARPG has shared some features of its next alpha update,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you wish had an emulator – but doesn’t?
A few weeks back, when The Matrix 4 news hit, I spent some time digging around The Matrix Online's community so that I could...
