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The Daily Grind: Which musical act do you wish would show up in your core MMO?

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Last week, we saw no less than three announcements of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles collaborating with musical acts and pop stars in their worlds....

Global Chat: Would it be easier than assumed for World of Warcraft to do housing?

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Piggy-backing on our column on World of Warcraft's lack of housing, MMO blog GamingSF argued that the game actually has a lot of the...

One Shots: Amnesia and shipwrecks at level one

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Utakata's shot of a "quiet earth" in Blade and Soul here is not from the starting area (I'm assuming!), but it definitely makes me...
This wasn't it, Chief.

The Daily Grind: What has your biggest MMO Kickstarter disappointment been to date?

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The complete non-starter of Pathfinder Online did not surprise me. It was about what I expected, and it always struck me as one of those...
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WRUP: How the articles get made (a look behind the magic) edition

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First and foremost, you need to find a bird. Are you writing this down? You find a bird. You find a bird. You. Find....

The Daily Grind: Do you like pop-up objectives in MMOs?

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Thinking back to my first days in WildStar, I think my brain went on sensory overload due to all of the Stuff that kept...
Mr. Anderson, welcome back.

Betawatch: Crucible keeps working on the Heart of the Hive

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Ah, Crucible, you entered our lives so quickly and then exited equally quickly... but only back to beta. You might think this is unnecessary...
As above, so below.

Wurm Online teases UI and mission changes ahead of next week’s roadmap reveal

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The most recent dispatch from the Wurm Online team does not actually contain a full roadmap for the game's development updates; that's expected to roll...

City of Heroes players have released a security-centric, server-inclusive launcher called Sunrise

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Back in 2019, when the City of Heroes community was still squabbling over who got to be in charge of what once a copy...

EVE Online’s unpopular ‘resource distribution’ plan, plus the messy 49u battle and Japanese localization

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Earlier today, EVE Online studio CCP Games released a dev blog on the next leg of its resource distribution plan. The studio aims to...
All over again.

WoW Factor: The stuff I’m genuinely excited for in World of Warcraft Shadowlands

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For the first time in the past three expansions, I am not in the beta for World of Warcraft's next expansion. This is fine. It's...

Leaderboard: Are you tempted by Ultima Online’s New Legacy server?

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So here's a fun fact for you: While vanilla, legacy, and progression servers have been all the rage for the last five years or...

Whatever happened to Population Zero?

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A month ago, we checked in on Population Zero, a survival MMORPG that hit early access back in May. It was a rocky launch,...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most useful crafting profession in your MMO?

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While I'm never much one to craft in MMOs, that's usually because I don't see most crafting professions as beneficial in relation to how...

Massively Overthinking: MMO voids that haven’t been filled

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I swear, so many of the posts I bookmark on Reddit to muse on later wind up deleted, and today I've got another one,...
Gun or run.

Crucible’s latest beta patch brings major improvements to characters and the Heart of the Hive

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The latest beta patch for Crucible is all about delivering on one of the game's stated major design goals when moving back into beta with...

MUD network and roleplaying repository Skotos celebrates 20th anniversary with retirement

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While many old-school MMORPG players came from MUDs, I didn't: I didn't even know they existed until several years into playing Ultima Online and...
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

World of Warcraft shows off customization changes coming with the Shadowlands pre-patch

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Every World of Warcraft fan knows that the Shadowlands pre-patch remains locked in a future of indeterminate date, forever happening "soon" without an actual announcement....

Broadsword just announced Ultima Online: New Legacy on its 23rd birthday

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We're updating this post with the big news down at the bottom! All year, Broadsword's been teasing something big for Ultima Online, which we've been...

City of Heroes rebuild project SEGS expects to have an alpha by the end of the year

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Back in the long long ago, before last year's City of Heroes revival, there was a group trying to bring back the game not...

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