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Today in why we can’t have nice things: Roblox players were banned after ‘raping’ little girl’s avatar

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Please note, this article covers a sensitive subject - please skip it if the title is already crunching up your stomach. If you've got kids,...
RuneScape

Economy-breaking Old School RuneScape bug results in unprecedented server rollback

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Old School RuneScape had a bit of a hiccup this week as the game was suddenly taken offline to allow Jagex to investigate a...

Exploring Pokemon Go’s real-life communities: MOP staffers revisit the game from opposite corners of the world

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It's year two of Pokemon Go. While there's always room for improvement, enough has changed that I feel comfortable recommending the game to at...
Don't camp here.

Black Desert takes nodes and conquest offline for a new ruleset

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When Black Desert updates on July 18th, new rules for Node and Conquest Wars will be getting rolled out along with the other changes....
This has less dramatic impact than hoped.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth pre-patch arrives on July 17

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Say goodbye to your artifacts and hello to War Mode, because World of Warcraft's expansion pre-patch is almost here. When July 17th rolls around,...

Battle Bards Episode 124: Old MMOs, new music

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It’s a catch-all, catch-up episode for the Battle Bards as they dig through new soundtrack releases from MMORPGs that they’ve covered in the past!...
Try again

TERA launches the Phantom’s Keep update with more challenges to test your might

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The newest update for TERA encourages you to revisit old things to test yourself anew. Have you made your way through the Dreadspire before?...

Trove celebrates three years with the interplanetary Sunfest event

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If you were looking for a reason to get back into Trove to check out Geode, this week is it. Trion's voxel sandbox is...
smacks

Crowfall explains its new Vivox chat integration

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The chat system in Crowfall was developed in-house for chatting within the game, and it had only one problem insofar as it didn't actually...
John Jacob Jinkleheimer RIFT

Choose My Adventure: Starting fresh in RIFT

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When RIFT first came out, I had very low hopes for it. The game already was launching into a crowded field, and it was...

Black Desert launches a cross-regional ‘Global Lab’ test server

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So many games have test servers of one form or another that we seldom even need to spell out the acronym PTS - and...

Interview and excerpt: The ‘Braving Britannia’ book preserves Ultima Online’s oral history

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Earlier this week, we wrote about the launch of a new book that's right up MMORPG fans' alley. Dubbed Braving Britannia: Tales of Life,...

Star Wars Galaxies book takes fans back to this late, great MMO

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Unless you're willing to venture out onto the wild space of emulated servers, you won't be getting Star Wars Galaxies back. That doesn't mean...
This seems like more of a half-move.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO would benefit from a character creator upgrade the most?

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It's a pity that World of Warcraft hasn't really updated its character creation in a long time, because the game direly needs it. The...
The most powerful moves.

The Elder Scrolls Online introduces the driven huntress, Hanu

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We only get a small peek at the character of Hanu, one of the major NPCs in the upcoming Wolfhunter DLC for The Elder...
Place after place.

Crowfall talks about test patch 5.7 and the horrors of zoning

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The latest community Q&A video from Crowfall is actually not that at all. It's supposed to be that, of course, that's what it claims...

Former Guild Wars 2 developer criticizes ArenaNet boss for ‘solicitation of harassment’ and minimization of her work

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Former ArenaNet developer Jessica Price has just made a string of new statements on Twitter discussing some of the issues surrounding the ongoing Guild...
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Black Desert patches in a new tag system for on-the-fly character swaps

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It's always nice when your army of characters on a given MMO can be useful for you at all times, and Black Desert's latest...
Mortal Online

Mortal Online warns of data breach, advises users to change passwords

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If you've been playing Mortal Online this spring or summer, you should probably be aware that a troubling data breach that happened last month...
You can't play me!

Wild West Online plans ‘soft relaunch’ to boost playerbase, says playable women are a ‘cosmetic feature’

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The latest Wild West Online patch landed on July 5th, and it brings in some changes like a full Sheriffs vs. Outlaws faction setup...