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Bless Online patches in a new battlefield while weakening attacks and buffing defense
Players of Bless Online seem to be a little upset due to the whole lack of PvP at the top level. It's only one...
EVE Evolved: Getting ready for EVE Online’s Abyssal revolution
If you've seen the news recently coming out of EVE Fanfest 2018, you've probably heard of EVE Online's upcoming expansion: Into the Abyss. Pockets...
Here are all of the class nerfs and buffs coming with SWTOR’s 5.9
Just like a certain farmboy looking wistfully up at twin suns and thinking of his future, Star Wars: The Old Republic fans are looking...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s March balance update has players excited
The EVE Online community came down pretty hard on CCP Games at the start of the year, with podcasts, blogs, and the Council of...
Guild Wars 2 previews upcoming PvP/WvW skill splits
A skill is going to have the same general effect in all arenas of Guild Wars 2, but there are a lot of things...
Fortnite outlines a new roadmap for Battle Royale and removes submachine guns
The designers behind Fortnite's Battle Royale mode have plans. What are those plans? You'll need to go on a dangerous mission to retrieve them...
EVE Evolved: A matter of balance in EVE Online
Throughout its almost 15-year lifetime, EVE Online has walked a fine line between developing new features and iterating on existing gameplay. Development has to...
Just Survive brings construction improvements to the test server
The next update for Just Survive is up for testing, and it's all about raiding bases. Not just in the sense of encouraging you...
Destiny 2 makes it look like experience requirements for engrams had increased, Bungie apologizes
Let's just start with the good news here: Destiny 2 actually didn't screw over players by pretending it had reduced experience gains while actually...
Diablo III’s latest patch tweaks class balance and set balance
While Diablo III is getting a bit long in the tooth, there's still plenty of space for the game to have its balance tweaked....
The Daily Grind: What one character option would you remove from your favorite MMO?
Good news, MMO fans! You're getting to redesign your favorite MMO's entire combat system. The bad news is that you're doing so by removing...
EVE Vegas 2017: EVE Online’s free-to-play option is getting a huge boost
When EVE Online added its free-to-play alpha clone account option, it felt more like an infinite trial than a truly viable free tier. Alpha...
SWTOR plays the nerf-and-buff game with Assassins, Shadows, Sages, and Sorcs in 5.5
The latest set of class changes for Star Wars: The Old Republic are like the circle of life. Deception Assassins and Infiltration Shadows? You've...
Blade & Soul is revamping crafting in the Rise of the Gunslinger patch
What are you expecting for Blade & Soul's Rise of the Gunslinger patch? Probably mostly gunslinging, possibly a strained Stephen King reference or two?...
Neverwinter is going to refine the art of refinement
Are you a fan of Neverwinter's current system of refinement? The developers certainly aren't, which is why the system is being massively overhauled from...
Kritika Online patches Starhenge adjustments and Green Leaf damage decreases
Sometimes you go a bit too far. It happens. Kritika Online made some changes to Starhenge with its last patch to make the content...
Wisdom of Nym: The numbers game in Final Fantasy XIV
It's not really hard to figure out the best stats for melding in order to do the maximum damage in Final Fantasy XIV. You...
Final Fantasy XIV details some of the balance changes coming to the game on Tuesday
The next patch for Final Fantasy XIV arrives tomorrow, and everyone who has been following the game knows that it's bringing the new weekly...
RIFT opens up patch 4.2 on the test servers
The 4.2 patch for RIFT (Celestial Storm if you're on a first-name basis with patches) is heading to the live servers on July 19th....
EVE Evolved: The controversy over EVE Online’s capital ship nerfs
EVE Online players have been up in arms this week over sweeping nerfs that are about to hit to high-end farming gameplay styles in the...
