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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...

Battle Bards Episode 143: Rappelz

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It may see itself as an “old school fantasy MMO,” but Rappelz’ soundtrack is a great mixture of old and new, traditional and experimental....

One Shots: Cruising in the Batmobile

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Nothing gives me genre whiplash more than seeing technology that's vastly more advanced from anything in our world existing alongside of an otherwise-medieval realm....
Fwoosh.

The Daily Grind: How much preparation do you do for big MMO updates?

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There has never yet been an MMO expansion for a game I'm playing that has not prompted an elaborate plan to prepare from me....

WRUP: Further firsts for the Marvel Cinematic Universe edition

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All right, so now Avengers: Endgame has proven that not only could this franchise survive for a decade, it can successfully reach a satisfying...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most creative array of classes?

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If I log into one more MMO that I'm trying to see the class selection limited to "Fighter, Mage, Thief, and Priest," I might...
Blessed not be.

Betawatch: Bless Unleashed enters beta testing on the Xbox One

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If you own an Xbox One and would like Bless Online Without Quite So Much Bless Online In It, you're in luck! Bless Unleashed is testing on...

Nearly 30K people have rolled City of Heroes rogue server accounts as the game turns 15 years old

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The City of Heroes community's live rogue server, Torchbearer, came online yesterday thanks to player developers and continues today with a new record: over...
Oh, cool.

Kritika Online’s last day up in the west is April 30, but TERA and Closers are offering incentives to refugees

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Next week, the lights go down on Kritika Online. As announced back in March, En Masse is shuttering the game on April 30th after...
Leaf it up.

MapleStory 2 sums up Project New Leaf and promises a summer expansion

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The entire overarching Project New Leaf update involved a whole lot of changes for MapleStory 2, changes aimed at almost every aspect of the game....
Kate, we have to go back!

World of Warcraft Classic will be using up-to-date items, but not all items at once

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Itemization is more of an issue than you might think of in World of Warcraft: Classic. Sure, there's a pretty clear progression of gear in...
IN CARS~

The Crew 2 is open for a free test drive this weekend

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Do you remember The Crew 2? Are you currently playing The Crew 2? Because Ubisoft would like you to do so, and to that end the...
Actually call it a comeback.

WoW Factor: What could win back the crowd for the next World of Warcraft expansion?

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So the conclusion to the Azshara raid has been mined out, and I'm just going to link it to you here. I don't want...

Star Citizen swaps Around the Verse for Inside Star Citizen as it deep dives its own Cloud City

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Around the Verse is back this week for Star Citizen fans, although it's gotten a bit of an overhaul: It's now called Inside Star...

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