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The Stream Team: Searching spooky subterranea in Content Warning

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MOP's Chris and his best friend are coming together for a spooky and silly good time, as today they're going to be playing Content...

The Daily Grind: What percent of your MMO gaming should be combat?

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MMO combat is fun. It is. I love trying out combat skills, grouping with friends to take down bosses, and hearing the sound of...

New World talks tradeskill overhauls, makes pudding, and kicks off a cooking contest

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The latest New World Forged in Aeternum is here, and it's no secret recipe: The team said last week that this update would dive...
Delay!

Corepunk delays Alpha 2 until the end of May

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So we've got some good news and bad news for Corepunk fans. The bad news is that the second alpha test which was originally...
Whee.

World of Warcraft brings the Cataclysm Classic pre-expansion patch on April 30

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Do you remember back in the day when you were very excited to have Deathwing blow up a good chunk of World of Warcraft?...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the worst localization?

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Back in March, Chris covered a Mad World patch that had the both of us scratching our heads: The English translation of the game's party system UI was using the term "mob" for "party" or "group." While you can kind of see the logic, it's not something an actual professional localization team would ever do, as the word mob means something entirely different in English-language games.

Can’t see the eclipse in person today? Here’s how to watch it with online with some gaming flair

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As we noted on Friday, there's a major celestial event happening for North America today: A lot of you are about to see an...

The Daily Grind: Do you ever cringe at stuff you used to do in MMORPGs?

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I've probably told this story before, but a whole lot of my early gaming characters from when I was younger, including in MMORPGs, were...

The Stream Team: Grabbing Final Fantasy XIV’s greatest rewards ever

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While there are plenty of awesome goodies to get in Final Fantasy XIV, the recently added crossover event with Final Fantasy XVI arguably has...

One Shots: Infinity pool of Tamriel

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Bree's steamy overdose of hot tubs last week drew out one commenter to share another cool-looking pool in an MMO. If you thought infinity...
So, fine.

The Daily Grind: Who’s the MMO NPC you love to hate?

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I will never stop making fun of Prince Rurik in the original Guild Wars. It will simply never happen. No one else is going...
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Chronicles of Elyria shifts development roadmap of its six different pieces based on feedback

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Back in January, Chronicles of Elyria began an alpha test of a feedback form, then started to process some of that form's responses a...
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V Rising has sold a whopping 4 million copies during its two-year early access

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With V Rising poised for launch on May 8th - just over a month away, for those of you who are not so good...
Tubthumping is 25 years old now.

WRUP: Justice for Glort edition

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Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about bad haircuts.

The Daily Grind: What’s the first thing you do when returning to a long-neglected MMO?

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I admit that I have a weakness to MMOs that woo me back into playing them. So when SWTOR changed hands to Broadsword and...

The Stream Team: Peering into an all-new realm in Nightingale

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MOP's Chris has made his way further into Nightingale since the last time he played the survivalbox for OPTV - far enough that he's...

NASA teams up with Epic’s Fortnite and Microsoft’s Minecraft to stream the April 8 solar eclipse

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If you somehow don't know about the solar eclipse this coming Monday, then you're probably not in the US since that's all anyone here...

Multiplayer medieval fantasy brawler Warhaven has officially sunsetted

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Pour one out for the medieval warriors who were fighting it up in the fantasy world of Warhaven, including but not limited to Crud...

Classic EverQuest announces two new time-locked progression servers, Teek and Tormax, launching May 22

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It'd be tempting to assume that EverQuest's producer's letter would just mirror EverQuest II's earlier this week, as Darkpaw head of studio Jenn Chan...

The Daily Grind: Are you looking for drama in your MMOs?

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The other day in Lord of the Rings Online chat, the topic of guild drama came up and took one hell of a twist....

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