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Guild Wars 2 kicks off a week of mounts and a month of weapons

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Are you ready to ride around in style when Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire rolls around? Of course you are; Tyria is filled...

Secret World Legends fan recreates Franklin Mansion in The Sims 4

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Today we want to give a shout-out to Massively OP reader Katriana for a really neat project that she shared recently! A Secret World...

Raph Koster on roleplaying consent and emotes in Star Wars Galaxies and WoW

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MMORPG designer Raph Koster has a fun piece out today, ostensibly about what he's dubbing "consent systems" in multiplayer games that include roleplaying --...
Book 'em

Wisdom of Nym: Four years since Final Fantasy XIV’s relaunch

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I find it kind of wild to think that when I wrote my last Final Fantasy XIV anniversary column, we hadn't yet actually heard...

Guild Wars 2 preps PAX West party, sound panel, and video teasers

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If you're heading to PAX West in Seattle this weekend, you've got only two opportunities to gather with Guild Wars 2 fans. The first is...
The boys are back.

World of Warcraft shows off the Seat of the Triumvirate dungeon on Argus

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When players land on Argus in World of Warcraft's next major patch, they will be walking through a place with plenty of history and...
It's clear now.

Relive the final moments of Tabula Rasa

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February 28th, 2009, was a dark day for MMO players, as crowds flocked to Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa in the hopes of hitting level...

Guild Chat: Enacting change in an MMORPG guild

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Welcome along to Guild Chat, the online spot for all things guild-related where we band together to tackle a submission sent in by a...

One Shots: Alien sunset

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I will admit that I've been craving a good space exploration sim lately -- the burn to "explore strange new worlds" is rising inside...
If you doubted this before, well, don't.

The Daily Grind: Should expansions change the core of an MMO?

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Those of us playing Final Fantasy XIV have had about two months with Stormblood now, which has prompted one complaint to come out as...
Yes.

WRUP: We want bones edition

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Hello and thank you for calling the Bone Collectors, Thomas and Edward Bone. We want bones. To be absolutely clear, our last name is Bone,...
Look better.

The Daily Grind: Have you ever gotten kudos on your MMO characters’ outfits?

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Let's not lie among ourselves: We all enjoy showing off to others in-game. About half of the reason why we spend so much time...
store

Betawatch: Star Citizen chatters about the still-absent 3.0 (August 25, 2017)

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The team behind Star Citizen is on the floor at Gamescom talking about 3.0, which would be pretty awkward if that update wasn't already...

Bring your own popcorn to the Gamescom Star Citizen stream

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The capstone to Star Citizen's Gamescom hoopla is slated for this afternoon at 3 p.m. EDT, when Cloud Imperium's Chris Roberts takes the stage...
It delivers something very much like what it promises.

Choose My Adventure: Finding the fun in Shroud of the Avatar

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One of the things that I believe is utterly vital to writing about games in general and MMOs in particular is finding the fun....
Options.

Final Fantasy XIV celebrates another anniversary with The Rising

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Once more, a year has passed in Final Fantasy XIV, and once more the Wandering Minstrel is back around to prompt adventurers to join...
Unbreak my heart.

The Daily Grind: Are there any failed IPs that deserve a second MMO try?

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Am I still upset about what happened with Transformers Universe? Well, it's a day, so yes. I'm upset. But what makes me even more...
Oh no problems.

Star Wars: The Old Republic has launched Crisis on Umbara

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You didn't like having to wait unexpectedly for the next major update for Star Wars: The Old Republic. We totally understand that. But you...
YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!

WildStar’s Homecoming update arrives on September 6

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When you play WildStar, you have a house. It's pretty much automatic. But wouldn't you like to be able to have that house be...

Chaos Theory: Funcom can still fix Secret World Legends’ Aurum fiasco

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Mere days after the exciting news about Secret World Legends being made into a television show, we finally hear about the game's long-awaited Aurum...

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