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Academics assess Pokemon Go’s value to conservation and education

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Let's cap off the evening with some feel-good, sciency stories about Pokemon Go, shall we? Zoologists at Oxford University are studying Pokemon Go to determine...
Dinosnores.

ARK: Survival Evolved passes certification with its PlayStation 4 version

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Good news today for dinosaur fans with a PlayStation 4; it looks as if the PS4 version of ARK: Survival Evolved has successfully passed...
Oops?

ArcheAge accidentally implies that it’s a pay-to-win game

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"Pay-to-win" is a really tricky term to nail down; everyone has different definitions of winning, and while the broad strokes of the concept are...

Project Genom is back on Steam after DMCA meltdown [Updated]

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"We are pleased to announce that Project Genom is now once again available on Steam." That's the news from a new press release this...

Mark Kern renames Ember to Em-8ER, picks up Nostalrius programmer

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Earlier this month, Mark Kern's "massive planetary wargame" shooter Ember got a new name and logo: Em-8ER. "While still pronounced 'Ember,' we changed the official...
WE... STILL... FUNCTION (maybe)

Betawatch: The unexpected drama of Project Genom (November 25, 2016)

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Sometimes, stories are just so weird that you can't help but find them fascinating. Take the unexpected removal of Project Genom from the Steam...
Nice shot.

Crowfall is running its biggest test to date this weekend

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The Crowfall team is not taking Thanksgiving off but is instead running its biggest to date. Doesn't that make you feel like a slacker...

PWE is running big sales for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Livelock, and more

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For those of you folks who you somehow have money still burning a whole in your pocket at noon on Black Friday, here comes one...

Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMO internet spaceships fanatic

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While some of us are toiling away on the ground in plate armor while fighting furry monstrosities, there's a whole world of internet spaceships...
Confusion.

Project Genom assures fans it will be back on Steam soon

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If you've been following the news swirling around Project Genom, you know that the game got removed from Steam recently over a storm of...
Price shark.

RIFT steps up its DDoS countermeasures

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While RIFT players have been sallying forth in Starfall Prophecy to combat the forces of Ahnket, Trion Worlds has faced a much tougher fight of...
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Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMO peripherals junkie

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As an MMO player, you presumably already own a computer. You're also reading this post on some sort of electronic device! But you might be...

Three-year-old Warframe broke its concurrency record after The War Within

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GIbiz has an interview out with Digital Extremes VP of Publishing Meridith Braun today, who sheds light on how Warframe is doing. It turns...

Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMORPG bookworm

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Hey you! Yeah, the player who actually reads quest text and lore entries when all of the other hooting madmen are furiously clicking past...

The best Thanksgiving and Black Friday MMORPG deals

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Getcher credit cards ready, folks. It's time. (New additions are at the bottom!) The Secret World is part of the Humble Bundle this week; you can...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 92: A talk with RIFT: Starfall Prophecy’s devs

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Justin and MJ interview RIFT's Starfall Prophecy devs and discuss EverQuest and EverQuest II's expansions, their shared love for The Secret World, and G-Star 2016's reveals.
Thaaaaaaanks.

Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the Blizzard fanatic

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The holidays are almost here! Seriously, they're rushing forward at a rate of two seconds per second, or something. Which means that it's time...
WHAT AM I

Guild Wars 2 AMA covers lockboxes, old dungeons, and economy quirks

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Last night, ArenaNet's Mike O'Brien and 16 other members of the Guild Wars 2 live team hopped on Reddit for an AMA coinciding with...

What is Blizzard’s secret first-person game project?

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There is always a fierce curiosity among the gaming community to know what Blizzard is cooking up in its secret labs. Considering that the...
And this is why that's not a blobby mess!

Conan Exiles announces January 31 early access launch with new trailer

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Back in June, Funcom announced a big delay of Conan Exiles' early access launch plan, from September 13th to a vague January 2017. Today,...

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