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Al Jazeera’s Start Here program recounts the growth, demands, and problems of the gaming industry

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Video gaming, as we all know by now, is a huge industry. It has grown by leaps and bounds since its very first iterations...

MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2019: Gamer goo

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Today we're continuing our countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2019! Coming in at #2 on our list is... Gamer-oriented 'Gamer Goo' lotion vows...

Mirage Online Classic brings back an original top-down MMORPG from 2001

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This one's for our genre vets or those who like a bit of gaming history in their diet. If you remember old Visual Basics...

Occupy White Walls releases an art-searching website and adds new features in the State of Mind update

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The curious art curation MMO Occupy White Walls has released another update over the holiday season full of new features, a new website to...

RIFT players sponsor an elaborate contest to build cave dimensions

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Yesterday, we watched in bemusement as our piece about MMOs people want to play in 2020 blew up on Twitter, specifically with former RIFT...

Corepunk addresses game speed concerns and thanks content creators for their positive feedback

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The upcoming MMORPG Corepunk has been busy in front of the camera over the past couple of weeks. On December 24th and 29th, the...

The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2019

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Last year, I counted it up: The first Daily Grind on Massively was written on November 3rd, 2007, one day after Old Massively was...
Hashtag maybe some changes.

SpatialOS boss Herman Narula believes multiplayer gaming could overtake social media

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The methods we interact with one another digitally have grown by leaps and bounds, to be sure. We've moved from AOL IMs to social...

Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2019

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The good news is that our sunsetted MMO list from 2019 is shorter than in most years. The bad news, of course, is that...

YouTuber examines why vanilla World of Warcraft dungeons were so long

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For the old and grizzled World of Warcraft vets, dungeon delves were a longer process than they are nowadays. Why was that, exactly? A...
Not riding a dinosaur.

Fun fact: Google search trends don’t tell you bupkis about MMO popularity

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You know what the surest sign of an MMO's popularity is? Whether or not World of Warcraft fans are defensive about its popularity. That apparently...

SuperData says the premium games market took a ‘gap year’ in 2019

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If you tire of all the end-of-the-year content and roundups on our site and many others, then you're not going to like SuperData's either,...

Neowiz takes another stab at the Bless IP with mobile MMO Bless Eternal

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Will we ever find time to properly process our grief and mourn the late Bless Online? Not bloody likely, as the necromancy team at...

Elite Dangerous clarifies a misunderstanding regarding its Arx cash shop currency

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Cash shop currency purchases are always a pretty sensitive thing, understandably, so when an Elite Dangerous player reported that deleting a character wiped out...
A moon ride to the... er... also moon.

Trove kicks off the Renewus event through January 14

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It's been a busy couple of months in Trove since the latest patch dropped toward the end of November, followed by Snowfest 2019 last month....
Boom, crash, new year, explosions.

TERA runs bonus reward events as its winter events wave farewell

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Gosh, we really hope you got everything taken care of in TERA's holiday events. The Yule War has concluded. Wintera has concluded. The Golden Beetle...
FAT CHOCOBO DOT DOUBLE U EMM VEE

MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2019: Fat chocobos and daddies

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Today we're working through our countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2019! Coming in at #3 on our list is... FFXIV players stuff themselves...
When the light

NCsoft follows up City of Heroes code copyright filing with fresh trademark application

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Do you folks remember last summer when we learned that NCsoft had filed copyright documentation for the City of Heroes game code? The June...
It's neverending.

Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI offer new year’s greetings

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The new year has arrived once again, and for fans of Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI that means letters from the producers of both...

See City of Titans’ Alexandria beginner zone in action

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After stumbling a couple of years ago when it had hoped to hit alpha testing, City of Titans and its team are projecting confidence...

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