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We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into 2018!
In March, NCsoft astonished MMORPG players by announcing it was resurrecting City of Heroes character Statesman… in MOBA Master X Master. It didn’t go over well, particularly among gamers still nursing grudges over NCsoft’s sunset of (and refusal to sell) CoH itself.
Meanwhile, Funcom finally revealed that the Secret World reboot it had been teasing would actually mean the death of the MMO and a reboot as more of a multiplayer RPG.
Read on for the whole list!
TOP NEWS STORIES OF MARCH 2017
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FAVORITE EDITORIALS OF MARCH 2017
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ALL 2017 MONTH-IN-REVIEW POSTS TO-DATE
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