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Black Desert’s Warrior awakens with a greatsword next week
Last month Pearl Abyss announced the Awakening system for Black Desert, which is basically a weapon-swapping mechanic that allows traditional sword-and-board classes like the...
Shroud of the Avatar highlights zones, player-made music
Shroud of the Avatar's latest weekly update is a meaty deep dive into everything from the fantasy sandbox's musical system to its zones to...
The Daily Grind: Can you ever forgive MMOs?
The other day I was watching through a YouTube channel of an MMO player who loves lists as much as I do. And while...
The Stream Team: 12 Days of SWTOR, companion bonus day
Even when the audience can't stick to light side or dark side choices throughout the 12 Days of TOR, there is one thing everyone...
GTA Online’s Lowriders patch gets a trailer
Did you miss yesterday's announcement about Grand Theft Auto Online's forthcoming Lowriders patch? That's OK, because Rockstar has announced it again today, only this...
The Stream Team: Playing Sword Coast Legends with devs
If you've been wanting to see what Sword Coast Legends is all about, now is the perfect opportunity! Not only are MassivelyOP's MJ and...
Echo of Soul update brings in the Warlock
The soft-launched Echo of Soul has a new player on the scene today, as Aeria Games introduced its six class, the Warlock.
Warlocks can specialize...
The Stream Team: Celebrating Pirate101’s birthday with free gifts
What's better than a birthday? A pirate birthday, arrrrrrrrg! Pirate101 is celebrating another year, and MassivelyOP's MJ is headed back in to party. And...
Star Citizen publishes a starmap Q&A
Cloud Imperium has published the first part of a Q&A session with the designers behind Star Citizen's starmap. Last weekend's CitizenCon saw the first...
The Stream Team: 12 Days of TOR, Day 10
We can see the finish line fast approaching! Today's adventures in Star Wars: The Old Republic will lead MJ to the end of Belsavis...
H1Z1 adds female zombies and a bloody hospital
H1Z1 has become an equal opportunity undead employer.
The zombie sandbox patched in female zombies yesterday, expanding the variety of the walking dead that players...
Elite: Dangerous shows off how to create realistic planets
The planets of Elite: Dangerous are procedurally generated, like most of the game. But how does the game pull that trick off? How can...
Perfect Ten: MMO systems that could be great (but I haven’t seen it yet)
Before I start this column, I want to say two important things. First, my experiences do not extend outward to the limits of the...
Take a look at RuneScape’s NXT client and the client’s design goals
With 15 years of history under its belt, RuneScape can't help but show its age. But there's a new client on the way, and...
How WildStar’s soundtrack is intensely personal for its creator
Loving those WildStar tunes? Then it's high time you met the man behind the game's enormous and beloved soundtrack, Composer Jeff Kurtenacker.
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The Stream Team: Taking on WildStar’s first dungeon
MassivelyOP's MJ and her group had quite a bit of fun blasting through WildStar's first expedition last week. It was actually the first time...
WildStar offers up a free-to-play feature trailer
The fact that WildStar is free-to-play means that people who've never bought the game can try it out, and the people who were already...
Massively Opinionated: Which is the best open-world PvP, WvW or FFA?
It's a real battle to the death when Larry Everett invites Tina Lauro and Brendan Drain to debate WvW and FFA PvP.
The Stream Team: Duty calls in Final Fantasy XIV
Now that Massively OP's MJ has been back in Final Fantasy XIV for a bit, she's gotten back into the swing of using her...
ArcheAge has been live for 1,000 days in Korea; here’s a trailer
ArcheAge recently celebrated its 1,000th day as a live game in Korea. Developer XLGAMES published a trailer to mark the occasion, which is pretty slick...
