Sometimes you just want to kick back, relax, and absorb the great outdoors, but from the relative comfort of inside. Thoreau might be ashamed but he ain't around so who cares? Enjoy the peaceful zen of fishing MMOs, games where you're success is a mixture of luck, perseverance, and how expensive the lure you tacked on to the end of your [...]
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Action combat games are all about maneuvering around your enemies to keep them on the chase while you whittle down their health. It’s the natural next step after tab-targetting, creating an engrossing combat atmosphere, one where you feel an invested sense of skill-based gameplay. The following is a list of playable—or soon-to-be—games that emphasize action combat over traditional tab-targeting. TERA [...]
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Do you remember walking into town and seeing the onslaught of player-runs shops? AFKers showing off their wares to passerbys, hoping to snag some zeny for items they collect on their adventures. I miss those days. What happened to player run shops? Nothing says community like an economy. But so many games lately seem to undermine their economies by limiting [...]
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Sandbox games, the virtual universes with no hand-holding from the developers or on-rails progression. You're plopped into a world and told, "go do something, whatever you want!" Do you want to build a house? Go for it. You want to spend your days fishing? Sure. Want to sneak up on another players and steal all their stuff? It’s foolhardy but [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid. Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends All-Star Barcelona 2016 The All-Star Event is held by Riot Games every year in different [...]
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It's time to build up that credit rating and burn through all your money thanks to the Thanksgiving/Black Friday/"We're slashing prices cause 'why not?'" sales. And we've got you covered with our work-in-progress list of MMO-related titles. Steam Battleborn - $14.99 Strike 75% off Battleborn: now's the time to try the badass character-based MOBA, if you ever had an interest. The [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid. Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends 2016 League of Legends KeSPA Cup The 2016 LoL KeSPA Cup was a tournament organized [...]
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G-STAR 2016 has come and gone and a lot of announcements were made. It's time to put them all in one place so we wrap our heads around them. Bless Mobile Game Announced At G-STAR 2016 Not exactly one I expected to hear, considering we're still not entirely sure what's happening with Aeria Games' Western release of Bless. But there [...]
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There’s a notion that freedom to shape a game’s narrative is paramount to creating an immersive world. Players want to feel like they’re holding the pen: will I be good or evil? Will I slay the dragon or negotiate? Will I free the thief in the hope he becomes a better citizen of the Republic or turn him over to [...]
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