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It's not quite so much of a model after all.

Camelot Unchained’s newsletter looks at the small parts building larger things

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If there's one theme to the latest Camelot Unchained newsletter (and as always, it's a lengthy newsletter), it's the reality that there are lots of...
Look better.

Ship of Heroes upgrades to Unreal Engine 4.21 for a plethora of features

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Upgrading versions of game engines is never terribly interesting. The one advantage for Ship of Heroes in this regard is that the nature of the...

Fallout 76 is now a gift with controller purchase in Germany as duping crackdown hits legit crafters. I am so tired.

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Last week, we ran a poll on Fallout 76 that picked up on rumors that stores across the globe, from the UK to Australia...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever been to a concert in an MMO?

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Slightly embarrassing story time: One of my favorite things to do in classic Star Wars Galaxies was sing. Yes, musicians and dancers were technically...

Massively Overthinking: The boring MMO development between bookends of hype

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If you watch MMOs being developed for long enough, one truth becomes evident: It's kinda boring. I started thinking a bit about this last week...
Theoretically there's a non-jerk version of this out there, but...

Battle Bards Episode 137: League of Legends’ hero themes

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What’s your hero’s theme? If you play League of Legends, you know the answer to that already, because every hero in that game has...
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City of Titans says it’s completed the rebuild of its alpha test server

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City of Titans had a rough 2018. The Kickstarted City of Heroes spiritual successor was meant to release its "issue 0" alpha by the...

Escape from Tarkov devs apparently abused DMCA to target more than one YouTube critic

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Back in December, we covered trouble brewing in the Escape From Tarkov community, as Russian developer Battlestate stood accused of abusing DMCA takedowns against...

Vague Patch Notes: How to recognize MMO lies from quite a long way away

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One of the most consistently weird elements of covering MMOs is that there's a very simple and yet incredibly odd metric of knowing if...

Legends of Aria players grumble over perceived pay-to-win items in new cash shop

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Yesterday, Legends of Aria players were startled to see the new cash-shop in the early access version of the game. Upsetting players even more...

Bethesda scrambles to deploy Fallout 76 hotfix in the wake of its botched patch debacle

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The last patch for Fallout 76 didn't go so well, to say the least, as it reintroduced a whole slew of previously fixed bugs...
THE LAW

The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs that turn you off just based on history?

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We were having an interesting discussion in work chat the other day about EVE Online involving Brendan and me. Brendan, obviously, is the expert on...
You couldn't have seen this coming, huh?

Albion Online teases its upcoming randomized PvE dungeons throughout the game world

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The next update for Albion Online is offering new paths to treasure just spawning in the world, although you're going to have to fight through...
ride eternal shiny and chrome

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds now has an app for tracking kills around streaming players

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If you're rushing into battle in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and shooting away, you may realize only belatedly that you gunned down a well-known streamer's character in...
Even-handed.

Perfect Ten: MMO arguments we need to put down

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You know what I hate? No, not just botting. No, not people with more cash to spend on game development than sense about whether...

Elder Scrolls Online players run extensive tests to highlight character race disparities

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Do you ever worry that you chose poorly when it came to picking an MMO race? For some Elder Scrolls Online players, this fear...

The Daily Grind: Do you play MMOs for ambient sociability?

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In my gaming time, I switch back and forth between MMOs and solo games (often adventure or RPGs) quite often. When I'm in the...
Oh, right.

Haven and Hearth prepares for a world reset on February 1

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The current iteration of the world for Haven and Hearth is the 10th version of the game world, and it's been running for quite some...

Guild Wars 2 compensates those suspended unjustly in 2018 spyware cheater purge thanks to victim’s GDPR sleuthing

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Last April, the Guild Wars 2 community was shaken by the news that over 1500 players had been suspended from the game after ArenaNet...

Star Citizen addresses crashes as testers recap the player-run Daymar Rally

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Star Citizen's alpha has been plagued with stability issues in its latest build, and you might be tempted to think, duh, it's an alpha,...

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