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Gloria Victis is doubling its world size, selling naming rights

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Fantasy sandbox Gloria Victis aims to double its world size with its next patch. It's scheduled to hit the pre-alpha server sometime in the...

Leaderboard: Have you gotten married in an MMO?

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TERA patched a wedding chapel into the lands of Arborea yesterday, and the occasion got me to wondering about holy matrimony in various other...

Why individual MMOs and MOBAs are their own market

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There's an interesting think piece on Medium that tackles misconceptions when it comes to trying to pigeonhole players and games into categories. The crux...

The Soapbox: These three MMOs deserve a do-over

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Wouldn't it be cool if every MMORPG that failed to reach its potential were granted some sort of do-over? We've seen it happen once, with...
Goal: murder.

Final Fantasy XIV boasts 5 million registered accounts

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Let's start this news item with an important caveat - we don't know how many actual active subscribers Final Fantasy XIV has at the...

Vendetta will test supply-chain economics in its next update

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Guild Software says that the next major version of long-running sci-fi sandbox Vendetta Online will debut "in a month or two." Version 1.9's biggest...

Camelot Unchained shows off terrain, new animation vid

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Is it Friday already? It feels like it because Mark Jacobs has checked in with a Camelot Unchained afternoon update. Today, he reports on...

TERA gets new world event, wedding chapel, and more

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TERA got a new update today that introduces a world event called Dreamstorm. It's set in Northern Arun and it's designed for level 65 characters...

Asta is heading west after failing in Korea

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Free-to-play publisher Webzen has announced that it will localize Asta: The War of Tears and Winds for the western market. The company's press release...

Guild Wars 2 will demo ‘challenging group content’ at PAX

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Guild Wars 2 fans heading to PAX Prime later this month will find a lot to do with their favorite MMO. ArenaNet said that the...

Trion’s Trove has a million monthly users

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Could Trove be the sleeper hit of 2015? Signs are looking good already. While the sandvox title lingered in open beta for quite some time,...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best aquatic gameplay?

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There are very few things that I miss about ArcheAge. One of them is the title's aquatic gameplay. Whether we're talking about its vast array...

World of Tanks’ new global map is live

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World of Tanks' new clan wars global map is now live in Europe, North America, Asia, and Korea, according to a company press blurb....

SMITE has officially launched on the Xbox One

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Hi-Rez has officially launched SMITE on the Xbox One. The firm says via press release that its mythology MOBA is in fact the first...

Psychochild on what it’s like to make a crowdfunded MMO

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Camelot Unchained senior engineer Brian "Psychochild" Green has published a blog post examining his experiences on CityState's crowdfunded RvR title. While he doesn't offer...

EverQuest II’s prison server is a ‘one-way trip for an entire account forever’

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Are you an EverQuest II troublemaker? You could find yourself exiled to a server called Drunder if you're a habitual rule-breaker. In a new...

TERA closing in Taiwan and Hong Kong — at least for the time being

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TERA fans in Taiwan will soon find themselves out of a virtual world come November. MMO Culture is reporting that the publisher, OMG Digital Entertainment,...

More layoffs for ZeniMax (Update: Confirmed)

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The end of this post has been updated with confirmation from Bethsoft as of August 20th. Comments by a gaming industry recruiter and tech consultant have sparked...
There's really only one mode, when you get down to it.

Final Fantasy XIV launches in South Korea to solid internet cafe stats

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Final Fantasy XIV's launch in South Korea happened too recently to make any declarations about its long-term fate. What can be said with certainty,...
Just whenever you get around to us, it's cool.

World of Warcraft weathers an assault from the DDoS legion

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Last night was not a fun time to be playing World of Warcraft. Various game servers started going offline, and while the initial statement...