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Ice cold.

TERA is getting region-locked on Steam

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If you want to play TERA in Russia, you certainly can, as the game has a Russian publisher. The game is also available on...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite unusual MMO weapon?

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Maybe I've been around for a little too long and have become jaded at the same-old weapons that we see in every MMO, but...
So it goes.

Reddit’s Button is over

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On April 1st, Reddit's big gag for the year was "The Button." It was a button that started a 60 second countdown, and when...

EU team disqualified from Guild Wars 2 world tournament

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One aspiring Guild Wars 2 PvP team will be sitting on the sidelines when the world tournament comes to a conclusion later this year. ArenaNet has...
Crower peep.

Hearthstone teases a new mode via Twitter

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When you first fire up Hearthstone, the little title screen offers you three options. That hasn't changed and no one has really expected otherwise;...

The Daily Grind: Is truly dynamic content still possible in MMOs?

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This morning's Daily Grind comes to us from a Kickstarter donor at fivefingerdiscount.org (who by the way is still linking to Old Massively! Gasp!). The donor...

Tweet your way to victory in Final Fantasy XIV’s Twitter chocobo race

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Square is hosting a Final Fantasy XIV chocobo race... on Twitter. You can compete with thousands of FFXIV fans around the globe in an event...
This must have been some party.

Shroud of the Avatar on mines and minigames

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Having the ability to move things in a game world usually leads to player inventiveness. It's how Shroud of the Avatar community member Bambino...

Sword and Bored: Ranged Class

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Mo learns that ranged classes make the best kill-stealers.
You get to celebrate these in betas now, apparently.

HEX celebrates its second birthday

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A lot has changed for HEX since the game first went to Kickstarter a few years ago. The anniversary letter to the community touches...

The Daily Grind: Did you do anything noteworthy in MMOland this weekend?

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I didn't game as much as I would have liked this weekend, but I did manage a smidge of Elite: Dangerous, a bit of...

One Shots: The infinite summons

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One of the stranger Final Fantasy tropes is that the more powerful a summoned creature is, the longer it would take for any given...
Does this happen in the game? I seriously don't know.

The Daily Grind: Have bugs ever killed your enthusiasm for an MMO?

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With a sale on Steam and a bit of curiosity, I decided that I would pick up and play some Fallout 3 over the...
Boy, the angry emails I'm writing for myself.

WRUP: Fallout Seven or whatever edition

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Folks, the big video game news this week was confirmation that Fallout Something is going to be released! Through powerful kung fu focusing mostly...

The Daily Grind: Is swimming really that important in MMOs?

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One of the big brouhahas that arose back in Star Wars: The Old Republic's development was the game's lack of any type of swimming....

The Soapbox: The fallacy of ‘F2P insight’ in the MMO market

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I read with disgust a recent GI.biz piece about free-to-play and its supposed coming of age. The business model has of course run amok...

Infinite Crisis fan organizes last hurrah

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When faced with the end of a game that you love, how do you use those final days? While some might grieve over Infinite...
Can't imagine why.

CCP financials for 2014 continue their downward slide

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It's become a cottage industry for EVE Online fans to try to figure out whether CCP Games is doing well or not. Gone are the days...

Massively Overthinking: The language barriers of MMORPGs

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This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes from Kickstarter donor XanadoX, who wants us to talk about "playing MMOs in another language: Korean, Japanese, or even...
Wub wub wub wub.

Defiance devs on the next season and the future of the game

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The third season of the show Defiance starts up on June 12th, which is likely of particular interest to fans of Defiance the game....