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Pay-to-win in free-to-play games ain't what it used to be – and that's a good thing.

There's a problem, the elephant in the room, that nobody wants to address.

Death was waiting for me. No sooner do I spawn into H1Z1 for the first time than I’m set upon by a pair of zombies, looking to turn me into their personal hors d’oeuvre. Hor d’oevres? Whatever.

The last time I went to SOE Live/Fan Faire, in 2011, PlanetSide 2 was all the hotness.

Cool classes and flashy combat only get you so far.

After a year of mostly silence, SOE finally opened up about EverQuest Next, and it looks and sounds better than ever.

SOE's got three games in the works right now (that we know of, at least).

"Landmark started out as a way to build Norrath together with fans", Director of Development Dave Georgeson told fans during the Landmark keynote speech Friday morning at SOE Live 2014.

Having only started playing MMOs in 2004, my “old-school MMO gamer cred” résumé is a little light.

Virtual reality has been a hot topic in gaming almost since its inception.

We talked a fair bit about Black Desert Online in the latest F2PCast., and our early opinions were a mix of eager anticipation and worrying doubt.

The creator of Doom sees...

I don't usually start a discussion of a game by analyzing its trailer, but I do feel that's appropriate here.

I suppose the sign of a good game is one that you wish you could play more.

Behaviour Interactive's Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade isn't a free-to-play game.

Forget everything you know about FireFall.

It makes for a good headline: “Free-to-play has a half life,” especially when it comes from someone as renowned and respected in the online gaming world as Richard Bartle, co-creator of the first MUD. (Side note: There are ...

Like it or not, Perfect World Entertainment is looking to carve out a major chunk of the free-to-play marketplace. Last week's news regarding PWE's intended purchase of Warframe developer Digital Extremes raised quite a f...

The word for the day was “Hossim,” a portmanteau of “awesome” and the new continent of Hossin, which was released for PlanetSide 2 last week. Well, it was mostly released.

Last week, Robot Entertainment found itself in a bit of hot water regarding their attitudes toward so-called “toxic” players in their upcoming MOBA-not-a-MOBA Orcs Must Die!...

Every man has his breaking point.

Defiance is what The Elder Scrolls Online should have been.

Dungons & Dragons is going free-to-play. Not Dungeons & Dragons Online.

I didn't want to keep making comparisons between War Thunder's Ground Forces expansion and World of Tanks, but it was impossible not to.

The hope of the next sandbox generation, ArcheAge, is finally here!...