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World of Warcraft: Free game time, race to raid first, and hotfixes
Curious about World of Warcraft's latest content update, but you are on the fence about whether to resubscribe or not? You may have the...
Expansion into the Witch Head Nebula is the next community goal for Elite: Dangerous players
Commanders who are extremely active in all things Elite: Dangerous have likely been looking forward to the space sandbox's next community goal. Yesterday gave...
The MOP Up: DayZ gets ready to test GameZ battle royale
DayZ might well have helped to spawn the crazy popular battle royale genre, but its slower survival style of gameplay hasn't been able to...
Global Chat: Sucked into Shadowbringers
It's hard to deny the fact that this July, half of the online gaming population seems to be immersed into FFXIV's Shadowbringers expansion. And...
Sea of Thieves video previews Black Powder Stashes event, upcoming balance changes
Shiver me timbers, it's time for another weekly Sea of Thieves developer update. This time, Executive Producer Joe Neate gives players a taste of...
One Shots: How to lose a staring contest
I suppose we all need to accept the new reality, which is that we're only starting to see the tsunami of Final Fantasy XIV...
Isometric co-op OARPG-ish fun: Grim Dawn, Pagan Online, and Darksburg
If isometric online games that aren't quite true MMOs are your thing, then this is a good week for you. We've got so many...
Fallout 76 confirms a July 16 launch date for Patch 11 and provides preliminary details for a summer event
After a bit of a delay, the next update for the blasted Appalachian landscape of Fallout 76 has its release date. Tuesday, July 16th,...
Destiny 2 discusses the Tribute Hall, recaps GuardianCon, and readies for its Steam migration
Bungie's weekly devblog is online once again, and Destiny 2 fans once more have an eyeful of stuff to bask in. This week, the...
Grab a TERA Fists of Velika consumables pack key for console courtesy of En Masse and MOP
Last week, TERA's console versions got a punchy new toon, literally, when human male Brawlers went live as part of the Fists of Velika...
Lawful Neutral: Dance studios, canvas bags, and ‘false advertising’ in the MMO industry
As I was writing our Lawful Neutral expose of Nerd Kingdom a few weeks ago, I was pretty bothered by the conduct of the...
No Man’s Sky may be on the verge of its massively multiplayer update
Can you feel that? That is the eerie calm right before No Man's Sky explodes with its biggest update ever. Or it could be...
WoW Factor: What would a factionless World of Warcraft look like?
You know, part of me honestly figured that the speculation around World of Warcraft abandoning the faction split would have died out months ago...
Final Fantasy XIV announces maintenance for its first noteworthy Shadowbringers patch
Yes, it's time for the first patch to Final Fantasy XIV since its most recent expansion, and... oh, stop staring in dumbfounded shock and...
World of Warcraft: Classic outlines the Hunter issues that are being worked on for the game’s launch
Ah, the endless dance of issues and things which are not actually issues in World of Warcraft: Classic. Let's recap quickly. The fact that...
Massively Overthinking: What would you want out of a potential WoW sequel?
It's a rare MMO player who's never played World of Warcraft, which makes this particular summer an interesting one for the whole genre. Even...
Heroes of the Storm’s latest balance patch buffs everyone’s movement speed
The latest balance patch for Heroes of the Storm has arrived, and it starts by making everyone faster. No, really, everyone has gotten a...
Overwatch’s latest development update promises summer games sooner and the next hero later
If you think you can predict what Overwatch will do next with its updates, the latest development update from Jeff Kaplan is here to...
Bless Unleashed has kicked off another closed beta for Xbox One testers – check out the patch notes
Bless Unleashed's latest closed beta on Xbox One is now officially underway. While preloading for the beta was originally supposed to begin last night,...
Vague Patch Notes: Why live MMOs struggle to onboard new players
There are, at the time I write this, two basic approaches for getting new players up to speed in existing MMOs. Both of them...