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Jukebox Heroes: Exploring World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth’s patch music

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One of my favorite modern trends of MMORPGs is that studios are no longer saving the entirety of a soundtrack for the base game or expansion releases. Oh sure, those usually get a great album push -- especially if it's one of the bigger games -- but for a while now, many studios have also been releasing new music on a steady basis with significant content patches.

EverQuest II asks players to keep raiding without custom UIs for server lag test

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I dunno about you, but when my heavily customized UI stops working, I tend to want to just not play the MMO. That's the...
It's already dead.

PlanetSide 2 brings the Nanite of the Living Dead event back for more spooky shooting

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Fans of PlanetSide 2 probably had lots of reason to be scared following the latest round of Daybreak layoffs on Friday, and not in the...
Catch.

EverQuest II kicks off Gear Up, Level Up to get people ready for its next expansion

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So you aren't really prepared for the next EverQuest II expansion because you haven't done all your leveling and your gear is outdated. Shh, it's...
It knows you sinned.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 242: And then Blizzard said, ‘Hold my beer’

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Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss the Blizzard boytcott and fiasco, the Daybreak layoffs, Shroud of the Avatar's sell-off, the Guild Wars 2 hacker piece, and a few happier stories too.

Flameseeker Chronicles: Is it time for Guild Wars 3?

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Earlier this month, ArenaNet announced that President Mike O’Brien, former game director on both the original Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, was leaving...

Champions Online and DC Universe Online bring back their Halloween events

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How, exactly, does a superhero -- a person who has to wear a costume -- celebrate a holiday when people wear costumes? By wearing...

SWG Legends teases new dances, flourishes, guild halls, houses, and Halloween

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The SWG Legends rogue server of Star Wars Galaxies is ramping up for its October update, and what better way to show off the...

Daybreak confirms yesterday’s layoffs and ‘realignment of the company into separate franchise teams’

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Yesterday, we reported on the sad news that MMORPG company Daybreak Games had suffered yet another round of layoffs. As developers began weighing in...
This was a thing.

It looks like Daybreak’s been hit with yet another round of layoffs

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Former H1Z1 Technical Director and PlanetSide Arena dev Josh "Autenil" Kriegshauser posted a tweet this evening suggesting that Daybreak has once again undergone layoffs. "Sorry...

Global Chat: One MMO gamer is trying to finish Fallen Earth before it’s gone

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When you know that your beloved MMORPG is about to be shut down, what do you do? If you're the blog 24 Hours in...

Perfect Ten: Kickstarter MMOs that raised the most money

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The rise of crowdfunding in the mid-2010s swept a large wave of MMORPGs our way that might never have happened otherwise. For a while...
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EverQuest II outlines this year’s festivities for the Nights of the Dead

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It's time for things to get super spooky in EverQuest II as the Nights of the Dead arrive once more; if you can't celebrate the macabre...

Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid’s recent dev blogs cover everything from PvP to instancing

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Pantheon fans, if you haven't swung by the official site in a few days, you definitely should. Visionary Realms' Brad "Aradune" McQuaid has been...

The MOP Up: KurtzPel is getting a dash of Lime

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KurtzPel is getting its newest hero, Lime, very soon, and to lead up to her release the game is winging a CP and AP...
Don't worry, something will happen any day now.

Jukebox Heroes: Exploring EverQuest’s official soundtrack

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It is fairly rare for an MMORPG to sell an official soundtrack these days unless the game is fairly prominent (i.e., Final Fantasy XIV...

SWTOR’s Powertechs and Vanguards get lethal new toys

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The parade of Star Wars: The Old Republic class changes marches on, with BioWare thrusting the Powertech and Vanguard advanced roles into the spotlight...
There is a metaphor here somewhere.

Battle Bards Episode 154: Death and decay

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Get an early jump on Halloween with the Battle Bards, as they grab the nearest shovel and start unearthing all sorts of morbid and...

Raph Koster’s new MMORPG will be more than ‘just hack and slashing your way through levels’

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Yesterday, we reported on something pretty thrilling for long-time MMORPG fans: Raph Koster, one of the brains behind classic MMORPG sandboxes Ultima Online and...

PlanetSide Arena’s next update will dynamically tweak safe zones and pain fields for low population matches

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When your battle royale game is designed for 1,000+ player fights but nowhere near enough players show up, you've got to make some adjustments....

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