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  Elder Scrolls Online: "You can compete with your friends to catch the biggest fish"

  It's got a better-looking lockpicking mini-game than Skyrim. 53

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  Rift finally capitulates and turns free-to-play as well

  Launching alongside patch 2.3 in June. 35

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  Defiance second series confirmed, and telly tie-in game patch goes live

  It's been a hit for Syfy. 36

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  A Camelot Unchained recap: what's been funded, at an average of $150 a head

  And some things you might have missed along the way. 9

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  Camelot Unchained demo shows 500 characters fighting at 90 FPS on a 2011 MacBook Pro

  UPDATE: Passes funding goal with 19 hours to go. 46

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  Neverwinter open beta begins, opening cinematic released

  Long queues already formed. 27

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  Eve Online TV series announced by CCP

  With storylines based on real player experiences. 19

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  Shining a light on CCP's World of Darkness

  The waiting sucks, its first gameplay footage doesn't. 34

  PC Mac

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  Can Camelot Unchained kickstart MMOs?

  With Dark Age of Camelot Mark Jacobs sent the genre on a brave new direction - and he's about to do it all over again. 43

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  New Lord of the Rings Online expansion Helm's Deep raises level cap again

  Making a hobbit of it. 19

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  CCP: players' attempt to destroy Eve Online economy is "f***ing brilliant"

  The Mittani returns from ban to "Burn Jita". 139

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  Guild Wars 2: The Inside Stories

  To Seattle and back again: what it's like on the inside. 23

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January 2013

• Funcom closing Beijing studio, laying off staff in Montreal and North Carolina

  Rejigging AO, AOC, TSW live teams to all be under one roof. 12

• Pirates in your browser: swashbuckling MMO Kartuga sets sail for beta

  Avast world to explore. 9

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  Dust 514's new frontier

  As CCP's trailblazing online shooter goes live, we visit a developer on the edge. But of what? 41

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  Stunning Elder Scrolls Online cinematic sets the three-way battle scene

  Beta signs-ups are now live. 43

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  Dave Brevik doesn't see a problem with Marvel Heroes' £130 Ultimate Pack - he's spent over $1000 on League of Legends already

  "Fundamentally it is a free-to-play game. You don't have to pay us anything." 61

• Survarium, from the former developers of Stalker, goes into open beta at the end of 2013

  Alpha version nearing release. 4

• The Secret World has Christmas success after sub-drop

  That's the good news. 33

• Fantasy MMO Tera goes free-to-play nine months after launch

  New content to mark switch. 30

• F2P action RPG MMO Marvel Heroes out spring 2013 on PC

  Founders Program grants early access. 10

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  Rebooted Final Fantasy 14 beta details and glamorous new video

  Rather have a bowl of Chocobopops? 45

• First beta event for sci-fi MMO Defiance

  Fancy Trion it out? 17

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  The War Z review

  Rotten. 135

  PC

December 2012

• Rise of the level cap in first SWTOR expansion Rise of the Hutt Cartel

  Jabba! 18

• Seven years later, Asheron's Call 2 returns

  MMOMG. 23

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  The Secret World drops subscription fee but isn't free-to-play

  But didn't Funcom say... 48

• What's going on at Trion? Rift team now hit by lay-offs

  Follows End of Nations restructuring last week. 19

• Roll up roll up, get your £79 Eve Fanfest 2013 tickets now

  Add a "Pub Crawl with a Dev" for an extra £31. 7

• End of Nations not cancelled but moved from Petroglyph to Trion

  UPDATE: 19 employees laid off. Over 90 remain. 5

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  As Eve Online Retribution expansion launches, CCP reveals master plan to make its famously impenetrable MMO accessible

  John Lander lays the foundation for the next decade of Eve. 27

• BioWare quickly rethinking, improving F2P SWTOR restrictions

  "We want you to know that this is an ongoing dialogue." 32

• 30 lay-offs at Petroglyph, End of Nation's future questionable

  Couple with indefinite open beta delay and it doesn't look good. 10

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  The final hours of City of Heroes

  Heroes holding out 'til the end of the night. 41

November 2012

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  PlanetSide 2 review

  Auraxis to grind. 72

  PC

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  Waiting for the end of the world: City of Heroes retrospective

  Hero today, gone tomorrow. 30

• Square Enix: another mistake like Final Fantasy 14 could destroy the company

  A Realm Reborn won't be released until it's ready, director insists. 42

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  Star Wars: The Old Republic re-review

  Little new hope. 166

• Blizzard swoops on Heroes of Warcraft domain

  But what the snot is it? 20

• Guild Wars 2 players upset at the apparent arrival of an end-game armour grind

  Has ArenaNet contradicted itself? 51

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  Dreamfall Chapters will be a single-player adventure game for PC and Mac

  Ragnar Tornquist wants to fund it via Kickstarter. 41

• F2P SWTOR retroactively rewards old players, slows newcomers' XP gain

  UPDATE: Dated. 35

• New 9 minute Elder Scrolls Online video is packed with new gameplay

  Our closest look at the MMO so far. 41

October 2012

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  A League of Their Own

  Backstage in the League of Legends phenomenon, and front seat at its world championships. 15

• Planetside 2 release date announced

  Third continent unlocked on launch day. 25

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  BioWare reveals SWTOR free-to-play restrictions

  A bit like when Luke pulls back his hood in ROTJ. 59

• First major Guild Wars 2 content patch is Shadow of the Mad King

  Coming 22nd October and themed around Halloween. 9

• Robots smash it in first Transformers Universe gameplay video

  Beta registration open now. 6

• Underground Brawler's Guild fighting clubs for World of Warcraft

  Rise through the ranks to unlock rewards. 10

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  Behold the first Final Fantasy 14 PS3 screenshots

  They show the console UI but suffer compared to PC. 34

• Guild Wars 2 paid tournaments, rentable arenas are first steps towards eSports goal

  "Are we done working on it? Hell no." 5

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  Hackers massacre thousands instantly in World of Warcraft

  Players catch it all on camera. 69

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  Saturday Soapbox: The loneliness of the long-distance MMO

  WOW finally has real competition, but has it arrived too late to save the genre? 38

• Bethesda's new Battlecry studio building new free-to-play online game

  Fallout? 19

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  World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria review

  Endangered species? 80

  PC Mac

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  The Secret World post-mortem: "No, it's not going free-to-play any time soon"

  "We need to prove this business model has not gone the way of the dinosaur." 59

September 2012

• RuneScape's got a novel new way of dealing with bots

  It's Botany Bay. 13

• Funcom promotes Joel Bylos to game director of The Secret World

  He'll work with creative director Ragnar Tornquist. 9

• SWTOR servers merged: many fewer, but much bigger

  The road to free to play. 25

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  Guild Wars 2 review

  A new era. 103

  PC

• Guild Wars 2 Mac client announced and in beta

  Plus: today's scintillating game updates. 15

• Eve Online's Council of Stellar Management pays tribute to Vile Rat

  "One of the most well-known and respected" players. 15

• Guild Wars 2 profession balancing: ArenaNet waiting for stability, adopting considered approach

  It's the endless MMO debate about which class/profession is best. 16

• NCsoft bringing martial arts MMO to the west

  Blade and Soul boasts Crouching Tiger combat and no grinding. 21

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  US official killed in Libya was a senior Eve Online player

  UPDATED: "Our words are lost adrift amongst such a tremendous, soul-affirming outpouring from the EVE community" - CCP 99

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  Guild Wars 2: At the Frontlines of World vs. World

  Quintin makes a foray into the maddest, meanest feature of Guild Wars 2. 25

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  Guild Wars 2: a dramatic live action trailer by director of V for Vendetta

  Game goes back on sale, stock replenished. 37

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  MineZ: Zombie survival, Minecraft-style

  The discerning player's choice. 37

• Release date for Rift's first and meaty expansion Storm Legion

  Can it put the fantasy MMO back on the map? 20

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  Guild Wars 2 Trading Post/auction house now available for all

  Another hurdle cleared. 49

• UK chart: Guild Wars 2 top but sells less at retail than SWTOR

  Second largest non-Warcraft PC MMO launch. 59

• Ragnar Tornquist on The Secret World's "turbulent couple of weeks", and the future

  "We're not going to play it safe." 28

• City of Heroes and developer Paragon Studios to be closed by NCsoft

  "No longer fits with our long-term goals for the company." 28

August 2012

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  Guild Wars 2 interview: the boss O'Brien on launch, growing pains, reviews and patches

  "I'm talking to you with very little sleep right now." 35

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  Guild Wars 2: bans for first "widespread exploit", game sales suspended, status update

  ArenaNet reacting well so far. 65

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  Guild Wars 2 boss on the current matters that matter

  On stolen accounts, overflow, Trading Post, mail, botting, forums. 26

• MMO RuneScape being developed for tablets, smart TVs and other platforms

  Being transposed from Java to HTML5. 13

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  Guild Wars 2: The Five Races

  Do you know which you should play? Don't make our mistake. 75

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  Lost Humanity 10: The New World

  Rob Florence reflects on days where you spring to life in a place that's been built for you to discover. 12