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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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  Don't rule free-to-play MMO Neverwinter out

  It's "the best game Cryptic has ever made". 57

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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? 40

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  The final hours of City of Heroes

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

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

  Hero today, gone tomorrow. 30

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  A League of Their Own

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

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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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  MineZ: Zombie survival, Minecraft-style

  The discerning player's choice. 37

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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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  Guild Wars 2 Head Start Diary

  Read through Oli, Tom, Christian, John, Alec and Quintin's adventures in Tyria over the bank holiday weekend. 51

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  From panties to shorties: why the young anime girls of Tera were censored

  "I'm a flat chested girl, come... I won't say any bad words but you know what I mean." 147

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  A Week of Tera

  A report from the opening weekend of the MMO contender. Can it steal Guild Wars 2's thunder? 33

April 2010

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  The FarmVille Diaries

  Can 85 million people be wrong? 95

January 2010

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  Coming Attractions: MMOs & RPGs

  Level best. 61

November 2009

• 10 Moments That Made World of Warcraft

  Key events from WOW's first five years. 34

October 2009

• Disorderly Queue

  Queues and overcrowded servers are no way to welcome new customers to your game. 33

August 2009

• The Real Cataclysm

  Competitors hoping for WOW to decline should be careful what they wish for. 28

• The Making of World of Warcraft

  Part Two: Five years at the top. 47

• The Making of World of Warcraft

  Part One: From concept to launch. 42

July 2009

• The Free Trade

  Free-to-play is a concept that's either exciting, terrifying or both. 18

• Personality Crisis

  Conversations with MMO role-players. 23

June 2009

• Wurm Online

  Heal the world, make it a better place. 32

May 2009

• Ten years of EverQuest

  A veteran of five of them looks back. 25

• Making MMOs Massive

  The demand matches the challenge. 21

April 2009

• MMOs' wild frontier

  Think it takes a publishing sugar-daddy and big budget to make an MMO? Think again. 16

• Gold Trading Exposed: The Developers

  The Carrot and the Stick? 28

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  Conan's Second Coming

  Funcom bridges the content gap. 92

• Gold Trading Exposed: The Players

  Playing away. 15

March 2009

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  Gold Trading Exposed: The Sellers

  The Road to Eldorado. 29

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  Gold Trading Exposed: Introduction

  The elephant in the room. 77

• EVE Online: the new player experience

  Veteran and noob views on the new Apocrypha introduction. 28

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  Ten Level Test: Final Fantasy XI vs Lineage II

  Round two - Go East, and grind. 44

• World of Warcraft: Dragons Raid Guide

  How to smash Malygos, Sartharion and the Twilight Drakes in the face. 15

February 2009

• Ultima Online

  Kingdom revisited. 18

• Ten Level Test: EverQuest II vs Vanguard

  Round one - Western fantasy epics. 46

• RuneScape

  Run! Escape! 26

January 2009

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  Coming Attractions: MMOs & RPGs

  Taking 2009 to another level. 69

• EVE Online: Battle Reports

  War and woe, loss and lunacy. 28

December 2008

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  Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2008: 10-1

  We've already fled the country. All of them. 346

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  Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2008: 30-21

  Hideoh-em-gee? 297

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  Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2008: 40-31

  On we go. 67

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  Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2008: 50-41

  Fight! 75

• Warhammer Online: the new classes

  Meet the reinforcements new to the WAR effort. 15

• World of Warcraft: Naxxramas Raid Guide

  Approaching Lich King's starter for ten. 42

• Ryzom

  Five hours as a stranger in a strange land. 19

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  PlayStation Home

  Where the heart is? 237

• Geek Purgatory

  Trapped in an all-night manga cafe with Japanese MMOs. 24

November 2008

• WAR: Stories from the city

  Why the MMO's overlooked capitals are its heart. 13

• PVP in Age of Conan

  Crush your enemies (sometimes). 23

October 2008

• WAR Sports

  The ecstasy and agony of Warhammer Online Scenarios. 11

• EVE Online: Trade & Industry

  Pruning the virtual money tree. 9

September 2008

• A Public WAR

  A beginner's guide. 28

• EVE Online: The Politics

  The unpopular vote. 22

August 2008

• Fear and Levelling in Las Vegas

  Eurogamer goes gonzo at Sony Online Entertainment's Fan Faire. 5

• EVE Online: Alliance war

  The thousands, and the lag 5

• Coverage Index

  The mass media can seem like the enemy - but it desperately wants to "get" games. 29

July 2008

• EVE Online: combat basics

  The Art of (Space) War. 8

• Blizzard's Perfect Storm

  The industry's top developer knows the merits of the confessional. 21

June 2008

• Lord of the Rings Online: Class Guide

  From Captain to Minstrel, every LOTRO class explained. 4

May 2008

• Age of Conan Week: The Classes

  Every class in the new MMO explained. 31

• EVE Online's Player Council: The Big Vote

  Democracy inaction? 22

• Genetically Modified Gaming

  It looks like an MMO, but it isn't an MMO. Yet. 13

April 2008

• World of Warcraft: Questing Self-Help

  Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the grind. 35

• City of Dress-Up

  Why City of Heroes' character creator remains MMOs' finest hour. 21

• The Final Word

  Reactions to the Byron Report dissected. 22

March 2008

• Tabula Rasa: Getting Started

  Tough love for new recruits. 13

• MapleStory

  25 million Chinese teenage girls can't be wrong. Can they? 9

• Getting into EVE Online

  Scramble up that learning curve. 12

• Introducing the MMO channel

  Eurogamer goes massive. 33

• Gary Gygax: 1938-2008

  Looking back on the D&D creator's life and influence. 31

June 2007

• City of Heroes: Issue 9 Update

  Superman-size issues. 23

October 2006

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  Flight of Fantasy - Part 2

  The Sony Years. 51

May 2006

• 2005 UK Sales Review

  Part Three: PC, Xbox 360, and the year ahead. 50

October 2004

• NCSoft Europe

  World-wide web gets more worldly as NCSoft hits Europe. 12