San Francisco. A beautiful city forever made famous by the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz and its iconic cable cars. However, for me, it's shaping up to be remembered as the place where I first played WildStar. That's right, I was finally lucky enough to get my hands on what is one of the most highly anticipated MMOs to come across the ZAM news desk in quite some time.

Not only was I treated to an enjoyable frolic through Nexus, but our wonderful hosts from NCSoft and Carbine Studios also rolled out all sorts of fresh, never-before-seen, content and goodies for us to feast our eyes upon. I was pretty blown away by some of the things I saw and I assure you that I wanted nothing more than to tell the world about it. But, sadly, they kidnapped my first born in order to ensure that I wouldn't spill the beans, so I had no choice but to bite my tongue for the last two weeks. But at long last the time has come.

Intrigued? Well then by all means read on...

(Disclaimer: No first borns were harmed in the making of this article. In fact I made that whole part up in a shameless attempt to make this article seem more sensational. The PR staff at NCsoft is actually really nice. They bought me hot dogs.)

Logitech G and Riot Games are working together to make laning and jungling even more pleasurable and easy on the eye.

After sponsoring League of Legends Season 2 and the continuing, tremendous growth of Riot's MOBA behemoth, it's no surprise that Logitech will be the official Season 3 mouse and keyboard sponsor.

With excellent overviews of each match and interviews with the expert summoners involved, RheingoldRiver brings fantastic insight into the events that enthralled millions as part of the League of Legends Championship Series.

RheingoldRiver is a valued member of the terrific LolKing community; the site for all of your League of Legends tools, guides and information. You can also find additional, regular LoL insights at Rhein’s own blog, right here.

With excellent overviews of each match and interviews with the expert summoners involved, RheingoldRiver brings fantastic insight into the NA Spring Playoffs that enthralled millions as part of the League of Legends Championship Series event this past weekend.

RheingoldRiver is a valued member of the terrific LolKing community; the site for all of your League of Legends tools, guides and information. You can also find additional, regular LoL insights at Rhein’s own blog, right here.

Well that escalated quickly-World of Warcraft’s newest patch, “Escalation” hits live servers today!  One of the biggest mechanics altering patches of Mists of Pandaria, 5.3 is adding a ton of new content, and making some big changes to already existing systems.  For detailed information, you can check out Blizzard’s official content page for 5.3 here, and for all of your guides, details, and answers to your questions, heading over to WoWhead’s 5.3 guide is also a must. 

Not only is it another great year in the MMO calendar, with many high profile games making headlines this year, but it is also the year everybody will be shoving MOBA games in your face. Today it is EA's turn with its new title Dawngate, from the studio Waystone Games.

ArenaNet wants you to journey to Tyria and the company thinks that now is the ideal time.

There have been a barrage of content updates recently that show no sign of slowing down. The last three patches have seen a lot of new changes to give new things for players to do and have arrived in brisk two week intervals.

Now Guild Wars 2 is also getting a 10 dollar price cut, making the standard Digital Edition available for $49.99 and the Deluxe Edition for $69.99.

Is a 10 dollar difference enough to make you want to buy the game if you haven't before? Let us know below.

I'll be speaking to Colin Johanson about the recent ramping up of content and the price change later today so keep your eyes peeled for more Guild Wars 2 news.

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In most MMOs I’ve played, the gallant hero is asked by a desperate kingdom to slay the wicked dragon. Not so for upcoming MMO Dragon’s Prophet. In this latest free-to-play creation from Runewaker and published by Sony Online Entertainment, you get the chance to tame, train and ride dragons of your very own.

For all those eagerly anticipating raising a clutch of magical reptiles, the good news is that open beta starts in North America on May 30. Founders with VIP access will get a 24 hour head start, giving them early access into the world of Auratia. Closed Beta testers will also be pleased to know that the NDA has been lifted from today, freeing them to share their tales of daring draconic deeds with friends.

During the weekend I dived back in, mainly to see how development had progressed since my first look last month. Joined by ZAM regular Chris Rainey, we livestreamed our progress (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) from character creation to the giddy heights of level 20. As an extra bonus, I’ll be streaming a special session on ZAM's Twitch.TV channel from 4pm Pacific on Thursday May 23, where I’ll be joined by senior producer Todd Carson to answer all your Dragon’s Prophet questions.

All U.S. servers will come down on Tuesday, May 21, at 7:00 am Pacific Time for an update. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will come down on Wednesday, May 22, at 5:00 am London Time, with an estimated downtime of two hours.

The full patch notes are available below.

Newly added to Kickstarter, 8 Bit Studios’ Skara, is a new MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena), that looks to combine some of our favorite things about all gaming genres and mesh them into an arena game like no other.  Skara’s own creators describe the game by saying “Imagine an experience with the action of Street Fighter inside a story and land like World of Warcraft, all blended into a fast-paced Call of Duty style arena.”  From watching the video, I can get a feel for what they mean by that.  The game really has a solid, fantasy basis to work off of.  The speed at which the player’s character moves through the world is similar to that which might be found in a game such as Call of Duty.  The Street Fighter comment has more to do with their directional combat, but I’ll get to that shortly.