Our latest coverage of Columns.
While I'm not in any rush to get hitched there are plenty of benefits to getting married in Revelation Online, and today's guide will tell you how. It's not as easy as sharing a best friends heart bracelet. Marriage takes work. Players seeking romance need to build Intimacy points with another player, aka wine and dining. There are a number [...]
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Diablo 3's Necromancer is not ready for release but Blizzard has revealed a few of the classes' abilities, with stylish GIFs to match. Many of the moves will be familiar to Diablo 2 players. Though I'm disappointed I don't see Raise Skeletons on the list yet. I loved rolling up to Deckard Cain with my undead crew—who could be part [...]
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When I see players complaining that game X is boring, and they’re met with the response “Well, the game doesn’t begin until you reach the endgame,” I have to pour myself a drink. It’s one of those consensus statements I find baffling, in the same way I find “The Earth is only 2000 years old,” or “Transformer 4 is a [...]
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Sometimes dungeons can be so hectic and involved that it's hard to type to your group members. Not that it matters. In most MMORPGs, group content is a snore, with no need to communicate. Does that mean we shouldn't talk at all? A part of me thinks an in-game voice chat (VOIP) would let people talk nonsense during a dungeon—or [...]
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Who needs GDC when you have the MMOs.com Podcast? The louder we talk, the right[er] we are. Where: https://www.twitch.tv/mmosdotcom When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST On tonight's episode we're talking Albion Online's latest update—and maybe one of the last before full release, how Dean Hall moon-walked away again, TERA's console gamble, and more! If you [...]
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Korean eSports website Sports Seoul is reporting that Blizzard is gearing up to release a graphically overhauled Starcraft 1, called StarCraft: Remastered around May or June of this year. The re-release would include the original RTS along with Brood War (the right choice). Blizzard may make an official announcement in Korea next week. The game wouldn't change beyond making higher-resolutions [...]
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At long last, Blizzard announced today that Overwatch's latest hero, the robotic Orisa, will be going live on March 21st. The announcement was made in the description for the New Hero Preview video embedded below. Orisa's abilities are as follows. Her main weapon is the "Fusion Driver," which is "an automatic gun with good range and accuracy even at a [...]
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Revelation Online is giving players the opportunity to win prizes for creating propaganda posters designed to sell their guild. Who doesn't love some good old-fashioned exaggerated advertising to promote the war effort? Guilds are a central focus of Revelation Online's gameplay: players undertake dailies and fight in territorial wars to make a name for themselves and their guild. And what [...]
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Sometimes I log out of a game and wonder what MMOs famous figures in our culture and throughout history would play. Would Darwin frag scrubs in Natural Selection 2? Would Patton be the world’s best World of Tanks player? Could Socrates stop questioning long enough to let the raid leader detail everyone’s role in the World of Warcraft dungeon? It’s [...]
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It feels like it's been ages since I first started keeping up with The Repopulation, way back in the days before it was even open to the public and the promise of sandbox gameplay with a housing system was what had intrigued me. After several years of development, the company developing it, Above and Beyond Technologies, ran a successful Kickstarter [...]
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