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Massively Overthinking: The best and worst of BlizzCon 2019

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BlizzCon 2019 is behind us, finally, and we're winding down our coverage and trying to put a capstone on the experience. In this week's...
Mossy.

Final Fantasy XI offers up a dagger, a mount, and a lottery for players

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Welcome to Final Fantasy XI! Would you like some stuff? You can get some stuff! Seriously, the game is choosing November as the month to...
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Astellia Online’s newest patch adds in a new Astel for fighting dragons

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It is assumed by the writer of this piece that the newest Astel in Astellia Online's roster, added with today's patch, is quite adept at...

Fallout 1st subscribers have formed a clan of aristocrats to perpetrate Fallout 76 class warfare

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Whether the reports of Fallout 1st players being harassed in Fallout 76 are highly fabricated or not, a large cluster of Fallout 1st subscribers...

EVE Online will officially arrive to Korea on November 14

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Remember back in April when CCP Games CEO Hilmar Petersson said that the Korean and Chinese playerbase of EVE Online was due to expand...
Working from not-home.

Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.11 arrives on November 12th

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Another patch is coming, Final Fantasy XIV fans! It's been two weeks, you've had enough time to get everything out of patch 5.1, right? Probably...
Get back.

WoW Factor: Getting hyped for World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands

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That title up there isn't sarcasm, folks. I want to actually get hyped up about the next World of Warcraft expansion and talk about...
Here's Mei! You like mei, right?

China is really adding that youth gaming curfew and block on sex and gore in games

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Sometimes it's easy to forget that gamers over in China have it very different than we do in the west. If you need a...
Ah yes, teamwork.

The Daily Grind: What MMOs are you reluctant to do group content in?

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Some of our readers may believe that I am gregarious and outgoing. This is not true by any stretch of the imagination. Despite this,...
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US politician shades Blizzard over World of Warcraft toxicity

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Last week, the gaming world was a tad busy running Halloween events and watching BlizzCon, so it passed almost without notice that a US...

An Elite: Dangerous player has discovered a generation ship still full of living people

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It would seem there are still lots of mysteries to find in the void of Elite: Dangerous. One such discovery was made Twitch streamer...
Oh my.

Vague Patch Notes: Ethics, PR stunts, and the BlizzCon apology

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Are you all really tired of talking about ethics and Blizzard in the same sentence? I am too, but a large part of that...
Another one of these, but the art is more boring.

Diablo IV’s developers are hoping to get crossplay working for the upcoming Blizzard title

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You may or may not think that Diablo IV is going in the right direction overall (our Not So Massively columnist isn't a fan thus...

Legends of Aria’s Reddit AMA addresses thieving skills, crafting, and lessons learned

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Derek Brinkmann of Legends of Aria painted himself in blood and walked into the wolves' den of the MMORPG subreddit for that most time-honored...

BlizzCon protesters remain unmoved by Blizzard apology as industry groups propose unified esports principles

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If anyone was curious, no, many of the folks who protested BlizzCon live and in the flesh were not swayed by Blizzard President J....
Okay boomer.

Blizzard says Sojourn was left out of Overwatch for so long for ‘story reasons’

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There is no story in Overwatch. Even if you didn't know this before somehow, you probably picked up on this fact because the addition of a...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most boring content in an MMO you love?

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Recently I had the dubious pleasure of spending a week running through all of the Seventh Astral Era quests in Final Fantasy XIV. This...
Hey dude.

Conan Exiles details follower leveling and follower limits coming to the game alongside mounts

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Good news, Conan Exiles fans: Your pets and thralls (collectively known as "followers" now in game terms) will be able to gain levels. And...

Crowfall gets a nod in HBO’s comedy Silicon Valley

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Today in "weird crossovers that we really didn't expect to happen," the throne war MMO Crowfall was referenced in and even used for a...
Collaborate and listen.

Overwatch 2’s Jeff Kaplan opines about the demoralizing effect leaks have on a development team

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All of your leaks around Overwatch 2 made Jeff Kaplan very sad. You probably already know that, since he made a point out of...

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