You may remember Khadgar from such World of Warcraft quests as Khadgar's Task, The Dark Portal, and Entry Into Karazhan. I remember Khadgar from the words: "Follow me, stranger. This won’t take long." It was the spring of 2007. A Coke bottle had just spilled onto my mother's carpet, an old flower-patterned creation from the seventies. I was in Shattrath, [...]
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On July 19th, Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward introduced patch 3.35 featuring the Palace of the Dead: Deep Dungeon. For years, players on the game’s official forums and elsewhere asked the developers for content with random elements and a sense of progression. The Palace of the Dead delivers on both counts—up until the second-to-last floor, to a point. The fifty floors [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! 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 NA LCS Recap and Standings The ninth and final week of the NA LCS regular season has finished! Day [...]
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Game: Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ Platform: iOS/Android Release Date: Sept. 2015 (Japan)/Apr. 2016 (North America)/ June 2016 (Europe) About damn time I wrote this. Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ is available worldwide as of June 16, 2016. I have been playing the first MMO mobile port in the franchise since its North American release on April 7, 2016. Every day. Seriously. [...]
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I recently had the chance to sit down with Marc Thompson of Ub3rgames to discuss his company's upcoming Darkfall reboot, Darkfall: New Dawn. We discussed what inspired them to pick up the license, what changes are being made to the original Darkfall, the Title System, and more. [singlepic id=56769 w=600 h=338 float=none] Me: I saw in the FAQ that there [...]
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Leveling up in an MMORPG is often met with an over-excited firework and the chance to customize your character: new skills, gear, and stat allocation. It's the time to refine what kind of Hunter or Mage or Warrior you want to be. Do I put points into intelligence to increase my healing skills? Maybe I should choose the talent tree that [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! 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 NA LCS Recap and Standings The eighth week of the NA LCS has finished! Day 1: Immortals vs NRG Esports (2-0) [...]
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Whether you watch or not, eSports has become a huge part of gaming, an industry every publisher and major company has their eyes on. Lucky for us, SuperData has released their latest report highlighting the current state, and future, of eSports. Below I examine some of the report's highlights and speculate based on what information we have available at the MMOs.com team. While [...]
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Anime shows where characters are trapped in an MMORPG universe are almost a trope. The premise has even spawned a number of popular books. But there aren’t many anime inspired by existing MMORPGs, series that expand upon universe’s inhabited by players in our world. It seems like a given on-paper. I’ve compiled a list of some MMORPG-inspired animes with a [...]
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I tend to gravitate towards a class archetype as I bounce from one MMORPG to the next. When I was an edgy teen wearing a black shirt with "Ramones" splashed across the front, I played Rogues: the surreptitious rebels of virtual worlds. Regardless of the game played I chose classes with moves labeled something like "sneak," "cloak," "invisibility." During my [...]
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