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New Nostalrius PvP server goes live this weekend

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Just when you thought you were going to get through the new year without a single mention of Nostalrius, January 2017 kicks you in...
Yes, this assuages my nervousness, you bet.

The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2016

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Last week, we posted a rundown of the most popular MMORPG articles of 2016, calculated strictly by the number of pageviews they got. Today, we're going...

MMO Year in Review: Turbine gave the ring to the eagles (December 2016)

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This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...

MMO Year in Review: New Eden free-for-all (November 2016)

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This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...

MMO Year in Review: WoW’s legacy server snarl (April 2016)

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This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...
FEEL THE NOISE

The new Nostalrius emulator suffered six DDOS attacks on launch day

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Apparently some folks are taking the relaunch of the Nostalrius servers very badly: Team Elysium, the group behind the newest World of Warcraft emulator,...

Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Biggest MMORPG Story of 2016

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMORPG Story of 2016, which was awarded to the SOE/Daybreak formation drama last year. This isn't an...

25000 people have signed up for the new Nostalrius server so far

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According to a tweet by the original folks behind Nostalrius, the new version of the World of Warcraft classic emulator has already (or only,...

Elysium gears up for Nostalrius emu character transfers and relaunch

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Back before BlizzCon, the admins of the sunsetted illegal World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius issued a threat, demanding that the game studio create official vanilla...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 94: Play this expansion, meatbag!

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Justin, Bree, and Larry talk SWTOR KOTET, Elder Scrolls Online lockboxes, GW2, Black Desert, Daybreak, and Crowfall, with a mailbag question on the Nostalrius WoW emulator.
It also featured fewer Dwarven Shaman, simply because the WIldhammer just did their own things.

Nostalrius is resurrecting next week. Your move, Blizzard.

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After a yearlong saga that involved the shutdown of an illegal World of Warcraft emulator, fan outcry, Blizzard's high-profile meet-and-greet with the emulator's devs,...
Yes, yes it is.

Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG stories of 2016

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As we start to come to grips with the fact that we will be turning over the calendar into 2017 in one short month,...

Mark Kern renames Ember to Em-8ER, picks up Nostalrius programmer

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Earlier this month, Mark Kern's "massive planetary wargame" shooter Ember got a new name and logo: Em-8ER. "While still pronounced 'Ember,' we changed the official...
THIS IS ALL YOU GET

Massively OP Podcast Episode 90: BlizzConcerns

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Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss BlizzCon 2016, WoW's new cadence, Diablo III's content plans, the Nostalrius legacy server standoff, Funcom's financials, and Revelation Online.

Nostalrius releases WoW emu source code to community, Elysium plans Nostalrius shards

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Back before BlizzCon, the admins of the now-sunsetted illegal World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius issued a vague threat. "If Blizzard doesn’t make an announcement...

Mark Kern posts new WoW Legacy server petition ahead of BlizzCon

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There's yet another petition related to legacy World of Warcraft servers live this week, this one begun by Mark Kern himself. Kern (more on his backstory...

Blizzard isn’t announcing WoW legacy servers at BlizzCon

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Blizzard's J. Allen Brack has a post on the official forums tonight that ought to temper expectations players might have about World of Warcraft...
Are we doing the time warp?

The Daily Grind: Will Blizzard announce vanilla WoW servers at BlizzCon 2016?

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BlizzCon kicks off in just a few short weeks, and already expectations are high. Unsubstantiated Diablo 4 rumors have begun circulating, and the Nostalrius...

Mark Kern to Ember followers: ‘I feel a profound sense of responsibility for what happened to Firefall’

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In the wake of the apparent complete emptying of the Red 5 Studios offices this week, former Firefall founder Mark Kern is forging ahead...

Nostalrius team releases vanilla World of Warcraft survey summary

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The Nostalrius team's journey to Blizzard and back may be complete, but the details are still coming forth from the large player survey that...

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