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A Starter Guide to PvP

The game’s latest expansion, Stormblood, has gotten players to give the game’s PvP features a look (or second look), if for no other reason than it just so happens to be a great way to level up Jobs. But we know PvP in FFXIV can be a bit confusing, so we’ve got you covered with a guide to the basics to help you get started.


Slicing and Dicing Across the Heleus Cluster Insanity Guide

While I did spend most of the earlier bits of the game sniping (boring!), I had plans to explore a melee build I was theorycrafting. Thankfully, that build turned out to be as awesome as I’d hoped, and I wanted to share it with all of you this week. Keep in mind, this isn’t a build you can jump into right away. I would suggest you have 84 skill points at a bare minimum to begin exploring this build.


Multiplayer Starter Guide

Mass Effect Andromeda may be divisive as a single player game, but its multiplayer component, at least so far, is living up to the expectations set by its predecessor ,Mass Effect 3. Whatever your issues with Andromeda as a whole, it’s fairly safe to say that most gamers are at least enjoying the combat, and that awesome combat is in full focus in multiplayer.


A Primer for SAVAGES

Like Fallout’s SPECIAL acronym for attributes, you’ve got your SAVAGES in Conan Exiles: Strength, Agility, Vitality, Accuracy, Grit, Encumbrance, and Survival. These are the seven attributes you can allocate points to when you level up in Conan Exiles and your experience in the game can vary significantly depending on how wisely you spend those points.


Tips for Starting Out in Conan Exiles

Given all of the connectivity and stability issues going on with Conan Exiles, I’ve not been able to make it too far into the game, but after many restarts, you tend to pick up a few things! This week, we’ll be sharing some tips for starting out in Conan Exiles.


Biggest Update Ever: Guide to X-23

She was sort of playable in the past, but I felt this massive update was her one critical opportunity to get some attention from the developers. She’s just not super popular. Luckily, the update was actually quite good to Laura, so I want to take this week’s column to share what I’ve put together to get the most out of the character.


Tips for Starting Out in Star Wars: Force Arena

Last week, we wrote about an addicting new Star Wars game called Star Wars: Force Arena. We noted that the game was still in soft launch at the time, but the game has since released worldwide on Android and iOS, so this week we’re back with some tips for starting out in the game.


20th Anniversary Guide to Pets & the Elusive Godly Plate of the Whale

The Diablo 3 20th Anniversary event "The Darkening of Tristram" is in full swing. With just over two weeks to go before it ends, it's worth taking a visit for nostalgia's sake and to collect a pair of companion pets, a few achievements and some banner cosmetics. We've got all the info you need to make your time both profitable and fun so head on in to learn more.


How to Access New Legion Content

World of Warcraft: Legion received a major update this week in the form of v7.1. Players will find a lot of new content including the Mythic-only Karazhan dungeon, the Trial of Valor mini-raid, the continuation of the Illidan and Suramar storylines and much more. However, not all content will become available right from the get-go on launching WoW for the first time after the update’s launch. Most will require a bit of legwork on behalf of the player.


Sealing Familiars and You

Nexon’s Riders of Icarus makes familiars, or tamable creatures, a central focus of the game. But it’s not only possible to tame creatures for use as mounts or pets, creatures can also be “sealed” in order to improve the stats on your gear. Today, we’ll be walking you through how to seal familiars in Riders of Icarus.


Basic Tips for Competitive Play

Now that season 2 is live, I’ve been spending a lot of time playing competitive Overwatch. While I’m not a top tier player, I do understand the best practices for how to play Overwatch, even if my mechanical skills aren’t as high as they could be.. This week, we’ll be sharing some easy tips on how to improve your Overwatch play no matter what tier you’re in.


Legion Pre-Event Mini Guide - 1 to 100 in a Week or Less

With exactly a week until World of Warcraft: Legion makes its debut as a fully-released expansion to the venerated game, some may be starting to panic as the pre-event that has been running for the past two weeks is drawing to a close. The Legion pre-event is designed for altoholics and achievement hunters. With huge XP gains during the demonic invasions, this is the right time and the right place to dust off those lowbies and get crackin'! Find out how in our mini guide.


Getting Started with The Elder Scrolls Legends

With The Elder Scrolls Legends now in open beta, we thought it might be useful to put together some helpful tips for getting started with the game.


Community Class Builds - The Hidden Viper

As a part of our ongoing Inside ESO content, we've begun a new regular column devoted to the community's own creativity: the Elder Scrolls Online Community Class Builds. This week, we asked you all to submit your best ideas for an assassin-themed build, and while we received a load of great entries, one truly stood out: TheLegitFreeman's Hidden Viper.


A Guide to Support

Overwatch is set to launch in just a couple of weeks, so we thought it might be a good idea to get you all prepared for the game’s chaotic battles by putting together a rundown of all the game’s heroes, broken down by archetype. In our third of four guides, we’ll be looking at the game’s support characters.