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IGN Live joins a long list of games industry events filling the June E3 hype void

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The death of E3 has left quite a spring and summer hype vacuum for the games industry to try to fill - and Geoff...

The Stream Team: Heading into Nightingale’s multiplayer Watch hub

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MOP's Chris has come pretty far in his climb through Nightingale. After lots of crafting and hunting and trying to find one tree beast,...

Stick and Rudder: So let’s talk about those Elite Dangerous pre-built ships

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Over the past couple of days, I've been watching and writing about the fun little tire fire that Elite: Dangerous ignited when it announced...
Forever and ever.

Into the Super-verse: Why the resurrection of 20-year-old City of Heroes is worth celebrating, even if you don’t play

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There's a certain poetry to the fact that this year, on the 20th anniversary of City of Heroes, we can all play the game...
This is who you are.

Escape from Tarkov causes firestorm by locking PvE mode behind $250 special edition

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Battlestate Games has decided that access to a PvE mode for its otherwise PvP-centric shooter Escape from Tarkov is worth a whole lot of...
Would you like to see something unsettling?

WoW Factor: Exit BlizzCon, for good this time?

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Back in 2021, we learned that there was not going to be a BlizzCon 2022. This did not surprise me, and I penned a...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most frustrating misperception the general public has about MMORPGs?

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MOP reader Orca7 tipped us a funny piece from The Onion from last week that reminds me MMORPGs are still not regarded in the...

Massively Overthinking: Is there a feature or item in MMORPGs you won’t play without?

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I was jolted into a near panic earlier this past weekend when I saw a tweet from Lord of the Rings Online in which...
It's all fine.

Embers Adrift puts a stop to its content compression plans after player feedback

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Last week saw Embers Adrift begin testing of a "content compression" adjustment that would see the MMORPG's max level lowered in order to get...
don't you have phones

World of Warcraft is retiring the Companion App as it looks forward to the Cataclysm Classic conversion

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If you're still salty about being asked this ages ago, don't worry, World of Warcraft fans. Blizzard no longer cares if you have a...

Lost Ark disqualified and punished Thaemine The First race cheaters

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File this one under "this is why we can't have nice things": Apparently, some Lost Ark players thought they'd faff around with cheating the...
See, not all things are the same.

As Warcraft turns 30, Blizzard has preemptively canceled BlizzCon for 2024

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Well, you can read the headline: There's no BlizzCon this year after all, in spite of the fact that this is Warcraft's 30th anniversary...
happy birthday to me

ArenaNet shifts more resources to Classic Guild Wars as it turns 19 years old

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Just a few weeks ago, the MassivelyOP team gathered round to speculate on what the Classic Guild Wars anniversaries might look like (and what...

Here’s how EverQuest and EverQuest II 2024 progression servers – Anashti Sul, Teek, and Tormax – will work

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When Daybreak dropped producer letters for EverQuest and EverQuest II earlier this month, the MMORPG fanbase immediately started buzzing about the new progression servers...

Elite Dangerous shares additional details on engineering updates and pre-built ship bundles

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Yesterday saw Frontier Developments enrage the Elite: Dangerous playerbase when it announced plans to sell pre-built ship bundles in its cash shop, with many...

Homecoming celebrates City of Heroes’ 20th anniversary with a Paragon Studios dev Q&A

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Believe it or not, this week marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the original City of Heroes - and naturally, the officially...

Kakao’s western version of ArcheAge is sunsetting in June

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I'm sorry to report this morning that the western version of ArcheAge is apparently shutting down: While we were sleeping, Kakao announced that it...
is that a monkey?

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG with level scaling handles it worst?

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Considering the fact that every MMORPG is in a war of content basically forever, I say it makes sense that they would embrace level...

The Stream Team: Map clearing and exploration with a friend in Cat Quest II

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MOP's Chris and his best friend are once again coming together for some more Cat Quest II adventuring! When we last left our cat...
Hopefully this leads to better things.

The Wagadu Chronicles has released its Dungeons & Dragons 5E-compatible tabletop rulebook

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You may or may not feel that The Wagadu Chronicles as it currently exists in its playable state is delivering on its premise. We're...

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