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The World of Warships Transformers promotional event is live

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Do you like World of Warships? Do you like Transformers? If the answer to both of those questions is "yes," you are the reason why...
glargh and suchlike

Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning offers a special title for taking part in its anniversary events

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Can you believe that it's been 12 years since the launch of Warhammer Online? Because it absolutely has. Of course, the game hasn't been consistently...
How we make the mess.

Torchlight III promises a date for final data wipe and launch ‘soon’

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So the last patch for Torchlight III took a little while to arrive, but you can rest easy knowing that launch approaches! A date...
See! It's a robot in a jacket.

Disintegration is shutting its multiplayer servers down after less than five months

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In what will no doubt be a non-surprise to pretty much anyone who has paid attention to the industry over the past decade, it...
Nothing else has worked.

WoW Factor: No, Shadowlands is probably not going to be terrible

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I've noted many times at this point that World of Warcraft does not seem to have done a great job with Shadowlands, at least from what we've...
It ensues.

The Daily Grind: How important is player-generated content to you in MMOs?

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When I look at the current crop of top MMORPGs, I'm dismayed to realize that not a single one of them has anything significant...

Massively Overthinking: How to deal with cheater scum in MMORPGs

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I'm sure it was a random coincidence, but last week two different Star Wars Galaxies emulators posted about steps they were taking against cheaters...
This. Is. Exhausting.

World of Warcraft caps off its Afterlives with a look at Revendreth

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Despite the appearance, the Venthyr of Revendreth in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands do not really vant to dreenk your blud. They vant to make you a better person because you...
Busy town.

Final Fantasy XIV’s final anniversary story closes the book on the origin of the Crystal Exarch

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Every year, Final Fantasy XIV has a quartet of anniversary stories to shed more light on the characters of the game's story. But this year,...
It's actually fine.

Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on the newly announced Final Fantasy XVI

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So, uh... hey! Final Fantasy XVI! That's a thing we learned about yesterday, huh? I'm sure we're all shocked that Naoki Yoshida's very specific dismissal of...
Boosh.

The Daily Grind: What common MMO developer reassurance doesn’t reassure you at all?

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At one point, I was tossing an idea around for a Perfect Ten column about a Kickstarter drinking game. It didn't go anywhere, ultimately...
That just happened.

Final Fantasy XVI is announced with Naoki Yoshida of Final Fantasy XIV as producer

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Surprising absolutely no one, Final Fantasy XVI is going to happen! Yes, it turns out Square-Enix is continuing its flagship series, we're all shocked....

EVE Online’s Depths of the Abyss is live as CCP updates policies and World War Bee 2 endures

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EVE Online has lots going on this week, from patches to policies to drama. Let's dig in: First, this week's patch, Depths of the...
Ahem.

Whatever happened to the Final Fantasy XI mobile remake?

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Do you remember ages ago, when Final Fantasy XI first announced that it was scaling back to a maintenance mode and a new mobile remake...
You were hoping for a picture of Tgek'dmal, I know.

Wikipedia is now an MMO (according to Wikipedia itself)

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Anything online with a community can be considered an MMO if you play it correctly. That might sound like a joke (due to it...
Here we go with this nonsense again.

TitanReach starts its Kickstarter with a target goal of $430,000

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You may recall a while back when we highlighted Titan Reach as a game that you might not have heard of before. The game's Kickstarter...

Crowfall just picked up former SWG comms director Diane ‘Tiggs’ Migliaccio as its new community manager

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There's a fresh face over at Crowfall, though it's one long-time MMORPG veterans will remember: Crowfall has picked up a new community manager, Diane...
Nah, you're gonna make it, buddy!

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands prepatch is up now on the game’s background downloader

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If you are one of the many, many people who were ready for World of Warcraft's current expansion to be over and done with on...

Lord of the Rings Online says it’s ‘close’ on re-opening server transfers that have been offline since 2019

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For players who have characters stranded on dead or undesirable worlds in Lord of the Rings Online, the question of when Standing Stone Games...

The Daily Grind: What is your favorite MMO for pure grinding?

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I have a few MMOs that I go to when I want traditional questing or dungeon hopping, but when I'm in the mood for...

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