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Forbes characterizes Star Citizen’s development as ‘incompetence and mismanagement on a galactic scale’

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If you have only the faintest idea what has gone on with Star Citizen since its initial Kickstarter, a new Forbes piece on the game...

EVE Online begins CSM14 election season as Chinese corp plots takeover of Tranquility

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Following the drama surrounding the EVE Online's Council of Stellar Management during its 13th season - which was capped off with the very public...

City of Heroes’ rogue servers nerf AE farms, boost XP, but can’t do character transfers

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If you were planning to abuse the Architect Entertainment system on City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue servers, we hope you already got your...

Blizzard decides to skip Gamescom 2019 as part of cost-cutting efforts

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The con circuit has always been a sort of expected course for games companies to run, like the Tour de France except with less...

The Daily Grind: What silly little change has ever gotten you all excited to log in to an MMO?

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It doesn't always take a massive content drop to make this short gamer giddy and excited. Sometimes it's the silliest of little things, like...

Matchmaking problems plague Anthem as its playerbase dwindles

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Poor, poor Anthem. Even as BioWare continues scrambling to perform triage on the ailing online shooter, it appears that the game is continuing to...
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KurtzPel early access starts today

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There are a lot of MMOs that pit two teams against one another, but the new game KurtzPel is different from most of them insofar...

Star Wars Galaxies Legends rogue server teases upcoming Cloud City and Bespin content

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Back in February, we covered Star Wars Galaxies Legends' intent to include Bespin - that'd be the gas giant where Lando's Cloud City is...
Gotta protect that shoulder.

Star Wars: The Old Republic outlines the plans for upcoming reveals surrounding the Onslaught expansion

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A lot of stuff is arriving in Star Wars: The Old Republic with its next expansion, Onslaught. There's a new playable race (Nautolans), two new planets...
The elf is superfluous in this scenario.

The Daily Grind: Are you a murderhobo in MMORPGs?

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I am not sure who first coined the term murderhobo, but I know I personally picked it up from Massively and MOP alum Jef...
Costume sir.

A Hat In Time adds in multiplayer with the arrival of the Nyakuza’s felonious felines

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Those of you familiar with Cat Twitter will be very familiar with calling particular cat behaviors crimes, like knocking things off of tables and shelves...

Torchlight Frontiers player releases online fort-planning tool – time to map out your base

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One of the features that rocketed Torchlight Frontiers to the top of my watch list last year was the promise of a type of...

Chronicles of Elyria details the trials and tribulations of preparing for domain and settlement selection

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As Chronicles of Elyria's ambitious domain and settlement selection process kicks off today, the folks at Soulbound Studios have released a new dev diary...

Classic PlanetSide fans keep their favorite MMOFPS alive

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While we have heard a lot about a certain superhero MMO recently that the community is attempting to resurrect, there are several other sunsetted...
Up.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood in review – side stories, part two

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If I'm being entirely honest, I could probably stretch this series out even further from having two columns on side stories in Final Fantasy...

Two weeks in, City of Heroes has four rogue servers and heartwarmingly massive queues

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Two weeks after we first broke the story confirming the City of Heroes secret private server leak, the game has turned 15 years old...
Was there a guy? I thought there was a guy.

World of Warcraft backpedals on recent banwave

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Blizzard has announced that it's rolling back its recent wave of suspensions for World of Warcraft accounts found to be operating third-party software "that...
Ah, no.

Lord of the Rings Online devs tease an ‘ambitious’ year ahead

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Strap yourself in to the ride that is Lord of the Rings Online, because 2019 is only getting started with this MMO. In the...
No galaxy brain here.

The Daily Grind: How do you explain MMORPGs to non-gamers?

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Last week, I did an interview trying to explain exactly what was going on with the whole City of Heroes drama. Almost immediately, the...
Oh no, manchildren!

Final Fantasy XIV is retiring its GARO collaboration with patch 5.1

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The GARO collaboration with Final Fantasy XIV has lasted a long while. It's still ongoing right now, even; if you want to pick up the...

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