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MMO Week in Review: Blizzard returns to China, WoW makes a mix tape

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Blizzard and NetEase finally confirmed long-running rumors that they're putting the band back together: The companies agreed this week to renew their partnership more...

MMO Week in Review: Season of the Guardian

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New World finally limped its way to Season of the Guardian, which frustratingly launched with a long list of bugs - but also player acknowledgement...

MMO Week in Review: Awaiting Guild Wars 3, accounting World of Warcraft

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If you were prescient enough to put Guild Wars 3 on your predictions post from last year, congratulations: an NCsoft exec defending another NCsoft...

MMO Week in Review: Dawntrail, Plunderstorm, and the Riot MMO

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You gotta love weeks stuffed so full of MMORPG news that we can't even decide what to focus on! This week, Final Fantasy XIV...

MMO Week in Review: Scions of Ithelia, Building a Foundation

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It was a week of big updates for the MMORPG genre, as Elder Scrolls Online released Scions of Ithelia and Star Wars The Old...

MMO Week in Review: Beta testing Cataclysm like it’s 2010

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World of Warcraft Classic is on the edge of its next big thing: WoW Classic Cataclysm slipped into beta this week, and though we...

MMO Week in Review: Fippyfest’s fancy fifteen-hundred fee

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How much would you pay to attend a fanfest for your favorite MMORPG? If you said $1500 plus airfare and accommodations on top, then...

MMO Week in Review: From Nightingale to Fippyfest

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It was a weird but packed week for MMORPGs and not-so-massively titles: Gearbox announced it's bringing back fan-favorite Gigantic, Nightingale sailed into early access,...

MMO Week in Review: PlanetSide 2 up in the air

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EG7-owned Daybreak Games, the company formerly known as SOE, admitted it's sold off the entire PlanetSide IP as of January; apparently, it was worth...

MMO Week in Review: Skull & Bones departs drydock

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Skull & Bones finally drifted into its soft launch open beta after eleventy billion delays and do-overs, and... it's actually not terrible? And it's...

MMO Week in Review: Blizzard’s brand-new boss

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Meet the new boss, same as the... well, actually we don't know how samey Johanna Faries is going to be just yet. She's replacing...
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MMO Week in Review: The Activision-Blizzard and Riot layoffs

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Two of the biggest gaming congloms chose this week to lay off a combined total of 2500 people, as Riot Games and Microsoft-owned-Activision-Blizzard shed...

MMO Week in Review: Elder Scrolls Online paves the way for Gold Road

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Elder Scrolls Online fully unveiled its Gold Road chapter this week, letting players peek into the region, the city of Skingrad, and a tantalizing...

MMO Week in Review: MMO peregrinations with Pictomancers, phasers, and PSO2

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Bad news, everyone: Some dude on Reddit says there's not enough MMORPG news, so you're imagining Star Trek Online announcing its 31st season, Vindictus...

MMO Week in Review: Strong and pretty

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We're sorry, but Bree can't come to the Week in Review right now; she's too busy playing City of Heroes, whose Homecoming servers were...

MMO Week in Review: Dragging MMOs kicking and screaming into 2024

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The last MMO Week in Review of the Year on the last day of the year... convenient, eh? Well, it is for me, anyway,...

MMO Week in Review: MMO players, please do not punch the Christmas tree for logs

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Happy holidays, everyone! Bobby Kotick departs Activision-Blizzard this week, The Day Before announced an official sunset, Guild Wars 2 is plotting expansions into at...
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MMO Week in Review: I’m as out of clever The Day Before titles as the game is out of money

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The Day Before utterly imploded this week after just a weekend online, admitting on Monday that the game had failed financially and that the...

MMO Week in Review: No Man’s Skyrim

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'Twas a juicy week for MMORPGs, as we got a tease for Hello Games' new survival MMO, Light No Fire, plus Throne & Liberty...

MMO Week in Review: Season of (Queue) Discovery

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So it turns out that everyone wanted WoW Classic Plus! Who knew? Oh, everybody knew? Literally everybody? Right on. Well, you've got a version...

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