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Massively on the Go: Why Nintendo and Pikmin make sense in Niantic’s hands

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With the recent news that Nintendo and Niantic will work together for more AR games based on Nintendo IPs, I thought it might be...

PAX East 2021 has been canceled and replaced with PAX Online 2021 in July

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PAX East has effectively been canceled for 2021, to no one's surprise, I'm sure, given the continuing global COVID-19 pandemic. "While we hoped PAX East...

Chronicles of Elyria on the purpose and mechanics of Kingdoms of Elyria’s fog of war

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To read the latest dev blog from Chronicles of Elyria's side project-cum-parallel dev title Kingdoms of Elyria, you'd think they invented the fog of...

Massively of the Go: Pokemon Go’s April events bring snakes, trash, and mysteries

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Pokemon Go's St. Patrick's Day "had no effect" on at least one snake: Snivy! But fortunatelt, the Gen 5 pokemon is getting its own...

Battle Bards Episode 189: Spooky and Magical 3

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Is that a chill creeping down your spine? Did your ears just perk up at the hint of fae music in the trees? Is...

One Shots: Past your curfew

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One lesser-known fact about the life of adventurers is that they all have to submit to a daily curfew. By the time the sun's...

Choose My Adventure: The point where Wizard101 blends in with other MMOs

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I feel like I’ve got the general thrust of Wizard101. For the most part, anyway. This week it was all about trying to clear the...

MMO game studio comedy Mythic Quest debuts its second season on May 7

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Back in January of last year, we reported on the comedy series Mythic Quest, which comes from many of the creators and writers of...

Choose My Adventure: Fizzle frustration, boss beatdowns, and slowly forming strategies in Wizard101

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Remember last week how I wrote about being surprised at the depth of Wizard101’s combat? This week I learned that the game’s combat can...

Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s ‘Balance’ chapter, launching today

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Another month, another round of Dragon Response Missions. Balance is part three of four chapters in Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga, and things are...

Whatever happened to superhero MMO Valiance Online?

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As one of the original community-led "Plan Z" superhero MMORPGs that sprung up in the wake of City of Heroes' original demise, Valiance Online...
If you look to your left, you will see a sad person.

Leaked internal email suggests that The Burning Crusade Classic will be in beta testing this month

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If you can't wait to go through the Dark Portal in WoW Classic, you can take heart that you may not be waiting all that...

Choose My Adventure: The combat is the sauce in Wizard101

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It’s only been a little bit of time, but I am already mightily impressed with Wizard101. The game has a pretty rich and involved following,...

Massively Uplifting: Love and generosity in Sea of Thieves, Guild Wars 2, SOTA, and more

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February is often known as the commercialized month of love (Happy Hallmark Day!), but that doesn't mean there wasn't genuine love abounding throughout the...

Absolver developer Sloclap unveils an upcoming single-player kung fu adventure game

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Last month, we wondered aloud what had happened to Absolver, the kung fu action multiplayer title developed by Sloclap. Readers will recall that active...

MMO Business Roundup: CDPR’s misery, Gamestonk revives, Riot’s Game Changers

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Console shortages: You probably saw all kinds of headlines this week about how President...
Smoke on the water

Leaderboard: So, is RIFT next?

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Gamigo, which just bought the studio behind Wizard101 and Pirate101, cleaned house yesterday, purging multiple MMORPGs that it acquired during its past acquisitions of...

Eden Eternal becomes the third MMORPG Gamigo killed off today

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Right about now, a whole bunch of Gamigo MMORPGs are wishing they had to deal with only server merges. That's because Gamigo's now axed...
A journey into complexity.

Perfect Ten: MMOs of the ‘internet spaceships’ genre

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It's at once the most important and most underserved genre in MMOs, aside from gigantic robots - it's the valuable genre of internet spaceships. They're...

One Shots: Even adventurers like to be tucked in to sleep

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Slaying a bajillion creatures, hauling around blood-splattered loot, and going through a repeated death-resurrection cycle sure does take it out on the intrepid adventurer....

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