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Ah, the crown store: the third leg of the business model (along with buy-to-play and subscription) that’s powered The Elder Scrolls Online to one...

Schadenfreude, a word many of us learned from The Simpsons, is a term meaning "shameful joy" that refers to feeling good about something you...

I don't have any particular attachment to Conan the Barbarian as a franchise. I'm barely even familiar with it, in fact. But I do...

Let Naoki Yoshida sleep, people. The man was visibly exhausted when I interviewed him on May 21st, not at all helped by the fact...

You all know by now that it's tradition for me to run my dungeon in these Final Fantasy XIV preview events as a new...

Tanking has changed forever for Final Fantasy XIV in Shadowbringers. Gone are threat combos, gone are DPS stances, and gone is literally any excuse that tanks...

Unlike with the melee DPS, magical ranged damage actually had one of its members that changed a whole lot. Hooray! But the other two...

As soon as I started going through the abilities added to Final Fantasy XIV's healers, I immediately muttered to myself "oh, some people are...

Honestly, out of all the roles in the game right now, the melee DPS was the most boring part of the Final Fantasy XIV:...

Huh. This is a really weird contrast in this batch. Obviously, there are only two ranged DPS to cover, but in Stormblood that didn't matter...

The two new jobs debuting in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers had a lot to live up to. For one thing, both of them were...

A new expansion is on the way for Final Fantasy XIV, with early access starting up in less than a month. But what if you...

I want to wax poetic about Warhammer Online for a moment here. While it never maintained the initial level of success that it saw...

Brendan joins Justin and Bree for a sponsored segment on EVE Online's upcoming expansion and Fanfest world tour, plus news from FFXIV, Dauntless, Astellia, Black Desert, and DCUO, with mailbag topics on Old School RuneScape and MMO cinematic trailers.

Here's a question for you: Should a game that eschewed random loot boxes at the request of players use RNG loot drops for rare...

Things have come to a head in my Star Wars: The Old Republic adventure, and it all wrapped in rather neat fashion for the...

When Guild Wars 2 announced that the central mechanic of its Path of Fire expansion was going to be mounts, a lot of people...

Last week, Kotaku put up a compelling piece about the online gaming industry's obsession with esports - specifically, how the esports bubble is about...

Between the disappointment of the current World of Warcraft expansion, the abandonment of Diablo III, and other... unpleasantness, I find my lifelong fandom of...

One of the nice things about the rules around the Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers media tour is that seeing the big job change video means...