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Sandbox MMO Boundless celebrates a year since launch – and 30 total updates

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Hey, happy birthday, Boundless! It's been a couple of months since we checked in with this adorable Square-Enix backed voxel interplanetary survival-crafting MMO. Back...

EverQuest community server Project 1999 is launching a new shard next month

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Tired of WoW Classic already? Feeling ready to take off the training wheels from your MMO bike and pedal with the hardcore kiddies? Then...
angry.rar

WRUP: What’s in the Forgetting Closet edition

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Last week's car bill: This is how I save so much money on my car loan. The company forgets they sent it and then...
roar?

The Daily Grind: What MMOs are in your backlog?

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Most all gamers know the bittersweet feeling that is to have a huge backlog of unplayed games thanks to seasonal sales and impulse purchases....
It's a real laugh.

Betawatch: Chronicles of Elyria shows off its pre-alpha gameplay

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It's easy to be a bit on the cynical side with Chronicles of Elyria as the game continues to... well, not be a game, but...
Cool, we'll meet the meat.

Fallout 76 offers up another Meat Week for cleaning up Appalachia

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Appalachia is kind of a mess in Fallout 76. To be fair, so is the world as a whole since nuclear conflicts tend to end...
Break on through to the other side.

Champions Online’s third anniversary week brings back Dr. Destroyer and his Destroid robots

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It's been some time since Champions Online launched, but we've finally learned a great truth about the game's major villain: Despite his grammatically ambiguous name,...
Uh... huh. Is that what this game is about?

Aion celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a plethora of in-game events

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It's Aion's birthday! The game has been running for a decade now, which means that various proclamations that the title was dead over the course...

EVE Evolved: EVE Online is losing players, and no one can agree on why

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Nobody wants to think that a favourite MMO is losing popularity, but with EVE Online now being over 15 years old, it's a possibility...
Dragon Age: Colonialism is Bad

MMO Burnout: Greedfall is a pretty interesting swing for the fences, even when it misses

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It's been said by me many times before now, but here it is again: I really appreciate a game that swings for the fences....

Blizzard is spinning up another WoW Classic server, this time for South America

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It looks as though Blizzard is still cranking out the WoW Classic servers, as yesterday the company announced it'll add a new server for...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most obscure MMO you wish were still around?

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I bet you thought this post was gonna be about Zentia, since I loved that game and almost no one remembers it. But it's...
SHOUT!

World of Warcraft: Classic is nerfing threat generation on Demoralizing Shout

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Demoralizing Shout has numerous effects in WoW Classic; it reduces the attack power of nearby enemies, gives you a nice shouting animation, and generates...
Oh, look over there! It's MELT DISNEYWORLD.

DC Universe Online is going live with its most Metal update today

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Yes, today is the day when DC Universe Online truly goes metal. Not because the update brings with it new headbanging mechanics and a surfeit...
Lewt. LEWT!

The Division 2 is adding in targeted loot in its sixth major patch

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In any game with gear, we've always had the one piece of gear that just does not seem to show up no matter what....
We're going to be here for a very long while, princess.

Vague Patch Notes: Timesinks, sunk time, and MMOs

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Here's a fun question I asked myself a lot back in the day: Why, exactly, did leveling take so long in Final Fantasy XI? The obvious mechanical...
Take with one hand and give with the other hand.

A player is leveling Priest in WoW Classic entirely by phone

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In 2004 when World of Warcraft initially launched, leveling your character by phone presumably meant calling someone up from a land line and sitting there...
It's a good plan, Bront.

Guild Wars: RPG Maker is currently available in demo form

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It's time to go back and play the original Guild Wars, but in far more single-player format than before! If you'd forgotten about the Guild Wars: RPG...
I've looked at clouds form one side now.

The Daily Grind: Do DPS numbers help you improve your play in an MMO?

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Let's be perfectly clear here, this question is not meant to be theoretical but personal. Whether or not DPS numbers should be in World of Warcraft...

TonyV leaves City of Heroes NCsoft negotiations, resigns from Titan Network

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Over the course of the last few months, following the revelation of working City of Heroes server code out in the wild and the...

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