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The Daily Grind: What’s the most expensive MMO to play at the start of 2019?

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2018 was an odd year for MMO monetization. Oh sure, we saw Star Citizen offer things like $27,000 ship packages, but obviously most people...

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2019

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With nearly all of our end-of-2018 content finally and blissfully behind us - seriously, I always breathe a huge sigh of relief when it's...
But it worked all of the time before!

Activision is transferring Destiny publishing rights back to Bungie

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Still more big changes are afoot at Activision: Bungie just announced that Activision is transferring publishing rights for Destiny back to Bungie. "We have enjoyed...

What Destiny 2 could’ve learned about community puzzle gating… from Star Wars Galaxies

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Say you're the developer of an online shooter, but you really want to add something that challenges the players in a world where they...
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Vague Patch Notes: The fads and the curious (and why Overwatch’s star is fading)

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So it's beginning to look a lot like the Overwatch fad has faded. It was a crazy couple of years there, but the fact that...
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Epic and Improbable pledge $25M to rescue MMO studios affected by Unity’s SpatialOS license suspension

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We've continued updating this post at the end as more events unfold, including Unity's rebuttal and Unreal's intervention. The original post from 9:55 a.m....

Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime will leave planned advisory role in April

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Back in October, Blizzard announced that Mike Morhaime was stepping down as president of the company after 27 years working there. While World of...

Shroud of the Avatar loses player services lead to Star Citizen’s Cloud Imperium Games

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Shroud of the Avatar Community Manager Serafina announced today that she is moving on to greener pastures, stepping down from her role as Portalarium's...
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The Division 2’s Steam landing page is nuked as Ubisoft joins team Epic Games Store

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The Epic Games Store vs. Valve (vs. Discord vs. GOG, we suppose) showdown just got a bit more interesting. Readers will recall that in December,...

Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2018

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While we lost several painful MMOs in 2016 and 2015, 2017 was noticeable chiefly because we lost a large number of small MMOs, perhaps signalling a...

No, Funcom is not losing the Conan IP, but it did just invest in a Portuguese studio

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Earlier this week, Marvel's website released a post positively crowing about the "return" of Conan to the ubiquitous superhero label. "Gather 'round, followers of...

Robot Entertainment is shutting down multiple online games, including Orcs Must Die! Unchained

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They weren't big games on MMO websites, but online multiplayer fans will still be sad to see them go: Orcs Must Die! Unchained, Hero...

Richard Bartle reveals the secrets and history of MUDs

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If you know even a little bit about the history of the MMORPG genre, you'll be aware that these games didn't start with World...

Black Desert is launching a battle royale mode called Shadow Arena as part of a year focused on systems clarity

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Pearl Abyss spent 2018 busy busy busy with its projects, among them Black Desert. To sum all that up and tease the future, Executive...
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Ashes of Creation introduces new community manager, promising better communication

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The whole Ashes of Creation issue with the game's website and forums involved no small number of people pointing out that Intrepid Studios is...
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Overwatch releases a new short story and confirms that yes, Soldier 76 is gay

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Poor Ana, she got a bit short-sold on her own short story. Yes, Overwatch's healing sniper gets her own bit of short fiction, but...

Revisions to Japanese law make console and save data modding illegal

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Japan's Association of Copyright for Computer Software is going after console modders in some recent revisions to the country's Unfair Competition Prevention Law. According...

You’re never too old for esports, Swedish competitive team with an average age of 67 suggests

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MMO players often joke about wanting to make sure the retirement homes of the future have decent internet to facilitate our MMO playing in...

MapleStory 2 interview: The Soul Binder, PvP, music, the western front, and battling pay-to-win

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MapleStory 2 charmed our previewer, our podcasters, even our writers when it came time for picking out the underdog MMO of 2018, thanks in...

The Daily Grind: Which game made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2018?

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So here's a fun-slash-depressing annual Daily Grind we've been running for the past few years thanks to DK, who originally proposed it. The knee-jerk answer,...

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