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The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives

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When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...

Chaos Theory: Guide to Secret World Legends’ first Krampusnacht

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While many games go festive for the holiday season, no one does it quite like Secret World Legends. Cutesy doesn't quite fit here, but...

Chaos Theory: Exploring Secret World Legend’s anima allocation and other QoL improvements

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Remember that big quality-of-life update that Secret World Legends launched mid-November? Chances are your quality of SWL life did indeed improve with a number...

EVE Evolved: Three top tips for staying safe from gankers in EVE Online

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EVE Online is renowned for its cold, harsh universe and relatively few rules, and we've all heard the horror stories over the years of...

Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2017

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Stately resting between the gaudy purple and orange of Halloween and merry red and green of Christmas is the earth tone-saturated Thanksgiving. While no...

EVE Evolved: Three tricks to maximize your free-to-play EVE Online account

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It's now been almost one year to the day that EVE Online officially got a limited free-to-play option, and it's certainly been a boon...

Here’s what to expect from Star Citizen’s CitizenCon this weekend

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Star Citizen's annual CitizenCon event is almost here, kicking off in the Capitol Theater in Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday, with plenty of player panels,...

EVE Online launches Lifeblood expansion, now with a new and improved PvE activity hub

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Time to update your space spreadsheet because EVE Online is coming at you with a brand-new expansion today. Lifeblood has launched, bringing with it...

Chaos Theory: A guide to Secret World Legends’ first Halloween

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Hello Samhain my old friend! It's so good to see you again. It's been such a long year, and so much has... wait, where...

Star Citizen helps players find the right spaceship for them

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With all of the many spaceships designed (and sold) for Star Citizen so far, it might be a little confusing which might be the...

EverQuesting: Celebrate everything Nights of the Dead with our EverQuest II guide

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I may be disappointed with the lack of caring I feel is being shown to EverQuest II players by Daybreak/Columbus Nova, but that doesn't mean I...

Halloween events in Path of Exile, Master X Master, RIFT, EverQuest, Ultima Online, and AQ3D

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It's almost a full-time job to stay on top of all of the MMO and MOBA Halloween events popping up all over the place!...
It also featured fewer Dwarven Shaman, simply because the WIldhammer just did their own things.

How one YouTuber navigates World of Warcraft burnout

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Feeling a little singed and toasty after playing World of Warcraft so long? When you log into Legion these days, is it a case...

Hyperspace Beacon: Outside-the-box features to look for in a SWTOR guild (or any MMO guild)

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On my server in Star Wars: The Old Republic, there are more guild advertisements than chatter in the general channel on the starter planets...

Guild Wars 2 races to fix Path of Fire login and instance creation issues during launch weekend

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With the popularity of this month's Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, the pressure is on for ArenaNet to keep the game running as...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Our Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire launch countdown checklist

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I can't quite believe that around 18 months of Guild Wars 2 development is about to drop in our laps this week through the Path of...
And now, the next chapter.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s Stormblood dungeons in review

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Have I really not talked about the dungeons of Stormblood yet? That's unexpected. Usually I would have mentioned them by now, I talk about...

Conan Exiles makes a bold appeal to builders: Just play in god-mode

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Lest you think that Conan Exiles is just about crushing your enemies and all that, Funcom has a new dev diary out today elucidating...

Hyperspace Beacon: The 10 best places to find SWTOR content outside the game

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Just this week, a long-running Star Wars: The Old Republic fan-made website mentioned that it was shutting down, one among many that have come...

Revelation Online offers tips on battling carp and laying carpets

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Has Revelation Online's fishing system reeled you in yet? Does it captivate your life hook, line, and sinker? Do you live for that moment...