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Massively Opinionated: What’s the next big MMO buzzword?

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In this episode, Larry, Brendan, and Tina debate next-gen MMOs, unfinished games, and MMO buzzwords.
Screw you, trees.

MechWarrior Online talks map design and tree destruction in a new video

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Trees are awful. They are the actual worst. MechWarrior Online lets you stomp around in a war machine, but for too long it has...
Ominous? Does that have the same root?

Daybreak overrules EverQuest progression server vote

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Part of what keeps the community engaged with progression servers like the most recent EverQuest pairing of Ragefire and Lockjaw is the idea that...
HAPPY CELEBRATIONS

Star Wars: The Old Republic has a resurgence of rakghouls

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Well, Star Wars: The Old Republic fans, we've got good news and bad news. The bad news is that another upswing in rakghoul activity...
Beneath.

The Secret World plots its third anniversary

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Can you believe that it's been three years since the release of The Secret World? It's even more surreal if you're a developer who...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO is aging the best?

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While we demand and expect playing perfection from MMOs on launch day, that's a pretty hilarious stance to take when one looks at all...

Global Chat: Are fellowship maneuvers due for a comeback?

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Lord of the Rings Online hasn't been en vogue in MMO circles recently, but that doesn't mean that the game and its systems are...

Hyperspace Beacon: The SWTOR community divide over Knights of the Fallen Empire

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The past couple of weeks have been kind of strange for me. For five years, I've written about Star Wars :The Old Republic. I've...
To be fair, it's this way all over.

Trion shuffles community managers for ArcheAge and its secret project

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There's a new name on the community team for ArcheAge this week. Evan "Scapes" Berman has posted his farewell letter on the game's official forums, announcing his...

Sword and Bored: Troll bridge

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Mo's favorite antagonists, the underwear ninjas, demonstrate how to properly guard the exit from the PvP zone.
Earth below us, drifting, falling, floating weightless, coming home.

Wisdom of Nym: The 60 climb in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward

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As of this writing, I'm not quite 60 yet in Final Fantasy XIV. Thanks to real life, I'm a bit behind the curve, to...
If your answer about how to play is to just wait for a while, I don't think we'll be friends.

Player analyst believes EVE Online concurrency is at its lowest point since 2008

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It's really difficult to be sure about how EVE Online is doing, since CCP Games has stopped releasing subscription numbers on a regular basis....
Forum rejoinder attack!

Skyforge introduces the new Aelinet Portal on June 30th

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Nowhere is Skyforge's sci-fi/fantasy setting blend more evident than with the in-game access to a specialized network meant for other aspiring deities. The portal...

The Daily Grind: Would you play a dinosaur MMO?

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Our ARK: Survival Evolved server seems to be going over well, and as such I got to thinking about dinosaurs in a more traditional...

EVE Evolved: Is EVE becoming less emergent?

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I've often heard it said that EVE Online is more fun to read about than to actually play, and for the vast majority of...

One Shots: Gazing at potential

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Major props to reader John, who somehow managed to finagle screenshots from his PlayStation 4 to bring us this stunning Destiny vista. Back when...
Appreciable?

The Daily Grind: Do you make friends in MMOs or bring them with you?

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I've mentioned before that my most stalwart MMO partner is my wife, who has stuck by me through thick and thin. When we move...
Everyone was wearing matching towels.

WRUP: Someone was really hungry edition

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I don't know how we got to the point of eating lobster, exactly, but someone must have been really hungry. Like, insanely hungry. Someone...

The Daily Grind: Is SWTOR 2.0 a good move by BioWare?

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I'm not going to lie to you: I'm almost equally divided between excitement and nervousness for Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the...

Welcome to MassivelyOP’s ARK: Survival Evolved server

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I'm still enjoying ARK: Survival Evolved quite a bit, and as such I figured I'd set up a dedicated server for the MassivelyOP community. It's been...