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The final story update of Final Fantasy XI sends players to the Far East
The final story update for Final Fantasy XI approaches swiftly, and it’s letting a long-awaited shoe drop in the process. The Far East has been a land of mystery and speculation since the game first...
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Take a walk on the abomination side in EverQuest II’s Kralet Penumbra
The various residents of EverQuest II‘s Terrors of Thalumbra expansion are not necessarily pleasing to the eye. That having been said, the Abominations of Kralet Penumbra are a step beyond usual...
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Diablo III previews Greyhollow Island for Patch 2.4
There are lots of different flavors of creepy in Diablo III. Obviously, players are dealing with a world of the demonic at all times, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be scarier things than demons in...
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Skyforge previews the new Usuni Valley region
Being a deity in Skyforge is really a demanding task, isn’t it? If it’s not one invasion, it’s another, and you are constantly set upon by various sorts of marauding creatures. Maybe it’d be nice to...
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Black Desert Online gets the second half of Valencia in Korea
The testing for Black Desert has only just begun over on western shores, but players in its native Korea have been enjoying the game for some time now. Another update has recently landed which adds...
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Skyforge examines the lore of Darnic Village
If you were asked to list the most obviously important places in Skyforge from a lore standpoint, Darnic Village wouldn’t be on that list. The new entry on the locale’s lore all but says that...
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Shroud of the Avatar previews the towns of Resolute and Aerie
The new year is here, and it brings with it the promise of more content and options in Shroud of the Avatar. Not in the abstract sense wherein you know there will probably be content, but in the sense...
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Skyforge previews the new hostile territory of Ontes Valley
Being a god in Skyforge doesn’t simply mean getting lots of power; it also means you need to face challenges and deal with greater risks over time. You need more power to ascend further, and that...
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You’re stuck in Manhattan for The Division’s launch
What’s the best borough of New York City? If you said Queens, Brooklyn, or the Bronx (no one ever says Staten Island), you’re going to be a wee bit disappointed when The Division launches in March....
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Shroud of the Avatar previews structures, templates, and regions
The Shores of Malice are currently being designed for Shroud of the Avatar, but they don’t look particularly malicious on a whole. Unless you find evergreen trees and lovely coastal vistas malicious,...
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The Division is datamined out with a bit more Brooklyn than expected
The Division is almost here full-time, all the way live, and so forth. Don’t want to wait until tomorrow, though? You can just jump in and see everything in the game right now. Perhaps not everything,...
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Gloria Victis patches in bosses and a larger world
The world of Gloria Victis has gotten larger with the most recent patch, a great deal of additional space available for players to tromp about. This is partly in an effort to make sure that the game...
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Lord of the Rings Online gives players the first taste of Update 18
The next update to Lord of the Rings Online is not here just yet, but it is in its testing stage, and that means players can start exploring the update in its test state. The fine people at LotRO...
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Blade & Soul’s Silverfrost Mountains patch brings new areas, new dungeons,...
Here’s hoping you didn’t get too comfortable at the level cap for Blade & Soul because it’s going up. Today, even! The massive Silverfrost Mountains patch is bringing a boost in the character...
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Gloria Victis adds new exile islands and smoother new player experience
Being a griefing jerk is an option in Gloria Victis, but it’s not supposed to be a terribly attractive one. The most recent update to the game’s test client adds a new set of islands north of...
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Elder Scrolls Online previews Dark Brotherhood DLC’s Anvil and Kvatch
The Dark Brotherhood DLC for The Elder Scrolls Online will feature new areas for players to explore, which is a good thing. No one wants a new DLC that compresses everything into a single closet, even...
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Albion Online previews the resources and environment of the steppes
Do you need to grab some hide in Albion Online? Then you should probably head out to the steppes, a biome with a new preview on the game’s official site. The steppes are filled with hide-bearing...
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The Black Death’s new update adds in the Beggar and the bounty system
In every game, you run across the person begging for a handout. The player who always asks for gold, armor, runs, items, weapons, and anything else that can be traded. Isn’t it high time that player...
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World of Warcraft shows off its Legion leveling experience
The leveling experience of World of Warcraft: Legion is going to be rather different from previous expansions, starting with the fact that the answer to “what level is this zone” is always “your...
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World of Warcraft previews two of the dungeons of Legion
A lot is changing when World of Warcraft: Legion launches, but dungeons will work the way they always have. Of course, they will be new dungeons, necessitating new approaches for players who jump in...
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World of Warcraft previews the max-level zone of Suramar
Four out of the five big new zones in Legion can be entered at any level and will scale up or down appropriately. But World of Warcraft players who wish to enter Suramar will need to be level 110...
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WoW Factor: Assessing the zones of WoW Legion’s Broken Isles
I’ve now made my way through all of the zones in World of Warcraft: Legion twice. There’s something to be written about that, which I think is at once a success and a failing of design. Zones never...
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RIFT’s Starfall Prophecy open beta begins October 13; Trion shows off Ashenfell
Update! Trion has just announced that Starfall Prophecy’s open beta will begin in just a week on October 13th! Looking for a vacation spot for your antics in RIFT: Starfall Prophecy? Why not visit...
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The Daily Grind: Which MMO expansion has the blandest setting?
Expansions are not all created equally. World of Warcraft went from the surreal alien landscapes of Outland and the frozen tundra of Northrend to... the old world, but with some parts of it on fire....
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City of Titans shows off the creations of the Builder
Making a city is hard work. This is true even if you're working on City of Titans and your main focus is upon making a city which is sufficiently plausible as a superhero playground. The latest...
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Path of Exile shows off the music and environments of the Fall of Oriath
Path of Exile is not a game where you are likely to stand around admiring the scenery very often. That's not because it's bad; it's just the nature of the beast when you are knee-deep in monsters and...
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Valiance Online previews City Hall and the hospital
The team behind Valiance Online wants to show you everything there is to be seen within the game. Of course, you can’t see it yourself at the moment, but that’s all right; the development team is more...
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The Daily Grind: Which MMO zone would be the worst place to live in?
There are parts of every MMO that look lovely, like the sort of place you’d love to live. But that’s definitely minority. I mean, let’s look at Final Fantasy XIV’s Mor Dhona, a blasted hellscape...
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Gloria Victis massively increases the size of the world
It’s a great big world out there, full of opportunities for adventure. It’s also a great big world in Gloria Victis, made even bigger when you consider that the most recent patch has added more than...
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Revelation Online offers a quick tour of Sidus Ur
Most of the world of Revelation Online is not safe to explore. It’s a dangerous place, and there’s battle at every turn. But Sidus Ur is one of the few places that manages to keep battle almost...
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Revelation Online takes a tour of Ersich Forest
We promise the population of Revelation Online that Ersich Forest is, in fact, a lovely and benevolent area. Sure, it seems nice on the surface, but most players have probably been hard-wired to...
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Diablo III previews the lore of the Necromancer and new patch 2.6 areas
You may well not need the lore behind Diablo III’s Necromancer to enjoy the class. All you need to know is that it’s a class that revolves around dealing with the dead or dying, and since...
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Path of Exile previews the upcoming Harbour Bridge area
Players testing Path of Exile’s upcoming The Fall of Oriath are going to be hit with a beta server wipe later this week when Act 8 lands for testing. That means new content to play, including the new...
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Albion Online is so popular it had to add emergency teleporters to its main hub
People are playing Albion Online, which is a good thing for the game. However, it’s less good when Caerleon has more than a thousand people trying to get in it, since that’s the point at which no one...
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The Daily Grind: Do you like being lost in MMOs?
In Final Fantasy XI, my first MMO, maps were few and far between, often blindingly unclear, and offered as many opportunities to be hopelessly lost as they did for finding your way. Pretty much...
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Old School RuneScape is getting a new exclusive area, Fossil Island
It seems just the slightest bit off to call an area in Old School RuneScape Fossil Island, doesn’t it? Like an insult that isn’t meant as one. But it’s also an exclusive area for the old variant on...
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Wizard101 sends players to adventure at the heart of the Spiral with part one...
At the center of the Spiral in Wizard101 sits Empyrea, which was made to keep the Chaos Heart safe. It accomplishes that goal by, well, keeping pretty much everyone out. But player characters are...
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Pantheon shows off the process of making a city with its latest video
If you wanted to catch the newest Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen stream live, we’re sorry to inform you that you’re too late. It already happened. But luckily, you can watch the archived video down...
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Valiance Online previews its maps as it hunts down bugs
Hunting down bugs in a video game is not the same as hunting down enemies. That’s true even if the bug is a severe one, like the one that Valiance Online is currently trying to fix up wherein...
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Final Fantasy XIV releases the patch notes for patch 4.2: Rise of a New Sun
Calm down, Final Fantasy XIV fans; the actual patch doesn’t release until Tuesday next week. But the patch notes are available right now, covering everything you’ll get with this particular update....
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Black Desert players take their first peek at the game’s next region, Drieghan
Yes, players have finally gotten a sneak peek at the next new land arriving to Black Desert, a vast and mountainous region to the south of the existing map. The bad news is that the page offering that...
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Dark and Light offers a video tour of the Mistvane Shrine
It’s funny how something as little as a name change can make a big difference. Dark and Light has been talking a lot about the Air temple, which is a rather generic name; however, the new video tour...
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Star Trek Online previews the rebuilt Deep Space Nine for the console launch...
If you were going to ask someone to identify the most iconic starbases in Star Trek Online, there’s really not much contest. Sure, Earth Spacedock is the “central” hub for most new players, but Deep...
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The Daily Grind: Where are the spots you most identify with in MMOs?
It’s going to be most relevant next week, but honestly I’m not even a little bit sad at the thought of Darnassus burning in World of Warcraft. Seriously. I’ve hated that city and the tree it’s sitting...
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The Daily Grind: What MMO area do you find most annoying to navigate?
I’d like to thank Final Fantasy XI for having some of the most obnoxious areas in any MMO to navigate ever. Maps that are difficult to read? Holes that you can fall through into lower regions? Paths...
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Aion shows off the new area of Lakrum arriving in Awakened Legacy
The next major adventure in Aion will bring players to Lakrum, a heretofore undiscovered land that also happens to be hosting sites of great power. Case in point, the fortress at the north end of the...
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The Daily Grind: Are there any zones in MMOs you’d like to call home?
My wife has long had an affection for Nagrand in World of Warcraft, and that makes sense to me. The gentle rolling terrain looks like the sort of place that would be a delight to live, at once wide...
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Tarisland looks at the Misty Forest in its latest map preview
Full marks to the Elves of Tarisland, they live in a place called the Misty Forest. That’s it. Most Elves, they’d be calling the place Milliulussorieth, and you’d have to look through four translation...
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The Daily Grind: What’s the oldest MMORPG zone that you think looks visually...
I’m really glad that Final Fantasy XIV’s first crossover raid with Final Fantasy XI will include an area based off of Tu’Lia, also known as “Sky” among fans, because it’s a really stunning zone with a...
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The Daily Grind: What’s an underappreciated MMO zone?
There are a lot of zones in World of Warcraft that deserve way more credit than they ever got. This probably doesn’t really matter all that much at this point; it’s not as if anyone is going to go back...
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