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Wisdom of Nym: Your last-chance checklist for Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood

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Friday, folks. Friday is when Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood enters early access, which means heading to Gyr Abania, heading to Othard, unlocking Red Mage...
The nightlife.

Revelation Online offers a quick tour of Sidus Ur

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Most of the world of Revelation Online is not safe to explore. It's a dangerous place, and there's battle at every turn. But Sidus...

E3 2017: Elder Scrolls Online announces Horns of the Reach and Clockwork City DLC

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The Elder Scrolls Online already spent its big ammo last week when Morrowind actually launched, but it's part of Bethsoft's E3 production all the...

The Daily Grind: Have you picked up any bad habits from MMORPGs?

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Star Wars Galaxies came close to wrecking my typing skills. Because semicolons functioned as linebreaks in macros and in chat in SWG, I got...

Global Chat: Getting a hit of that EverQuest nostalgia

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Ahh... smell that? Smells like a new batch of EverQuest nostalgia, served up to us as a fresh progression server. For some of the...

One Shots: Walk of shame

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From Zulika Mi-Nam's Adventures in Tale of Toast: Log into a game to do some play testing. "Hey, look at these cutsie graphics and...
We've done this before.

The Daily Grind: What leveling experiences do you dread in MMOs?

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If you talked to Final Fantasy XI players, the Valkurm Dunes were the most dangerous place to be in the game. Really, it was...
It's hurtful.

WRUP: Don’t act all high and mighty because you have a face edition

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Carol, listen to me, I'm tired of having this argument. We keep going back and forth over it, and it always comes down to...

The Daily Grind: Do we deserve better damage models in MMOs?

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For all of the changes, iterations, and evolutions that MMORPGs have undergone over the years, it still feels like we're back in the 1990s...
Who knows any more?

Betawatch: Secret World Legends opens the beta doors (June 9, 2017)

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If you're an active player of The Secret World, you can get into the Secret World Legends beta at this point. Really, you can!...
Weird dog.

Final Fantasy XI deploys its June update and starts a new login campaign

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Another version update has landed in Final Fantasy XI, but this one is actually relatively small. Yes, surprisingly enough, it's almost just a regular...

Blizzard has been ‘doing a lot of research’ to thwart Overwatch toxicity

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You can easily count me among those who've been historically unimpressed at the way toxicity is managed in Blizzard games; the studio has a...
TEAM GO

Revelation Online details all manner of guild-exclusive activities

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If you want to treat your guild in Revelation Online as nothing more than a chat channel, you're missing out on a lot of...
She has ideas.

Massively OP chats with Star Trek Online Kuumaarke actress Kipleigh Brown

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If you haven't yet played the most recent Star Trek Online update on consoles, you might not be aware that you're going to be...

Star Citizen Around the Verse: Manchester’s work on 3.0 and ship migration progress

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This week's Around the Verse has arrived for Star Citizen fans, helmed by both Chris Roberts and Sandi Gardiner. This episode has a crapton...

Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok

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Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...
I've got to get gone, I've got to get going.

Cryptic’s CEO discusses taking an IP and making it work for an MMO

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At this point, Cryptic Studios has a stable of games based off of existing IPs, most notably Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and the upcoming...

Pokemon Go Fest unleashes summer events in the US, Europe, and Japan

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Can you believe Pokemon Go is almost a year old? Remember back when there was so much PoGo news that we gave up and...
But why though.

Choose My Adventure: My frustration with Neverwinter’s lockboxes

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If you thought I was enjoying my time with Neverwinter as a whole, you would be right. I am enjoying my time with the...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that died too soon

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Your favorite game is going to die. I wrote about that. Some games are never even going to get to launching in the first...