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Shards Online: Proposing the ‘persistent online world’ game

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Last week, our comments erupted over some game studios' haphazard use of the term "MMO" -- and how that overuse and misuse has possibly tainted the...

Heimburg: Project Gorgon is ‘the most ambitious thing I’ve ever attempted’

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It seems like half the Massively staff has been playing Project Gorgon here lately, so we figured it was time to seek out the...

The Daily Grind: What would entice you back to WoW?

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While a number of our writers and many of our readers are fans of World of Warcraft, it's no secret that a lot of...

Massively Overthinking: The first VR MMO

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In this edition of Massively Overthinking, Kickstarter backer Yinta wants to talk about virtual reality. "When will we see the first VR MMO?" So let's tackle...
What're you doing here?

Black Desert’s western community manager is interviewed, doesn’t say much

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Are you interested in Black Desert? If so, a new interview with the game's western community manager might be worth a read. Or it might...

German tech tree is coming to World of Warships in October

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Wargaming has announced that the German tech tree will set sail in World of Warships this October. If you're visiting Gamescom this week, you...

Gamescom 2015: Defiance is getting new baddies, supreme weapons

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The fourth and final Trion blurb from today's Gamescom press release involves Defiance, the sci-fi shooter with Syfy transmedia synergy. An upcoming patch will...

Gamescom 2015: Trion talks upcoming ‘significant’ ArcheAge updates

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Trion just took an info dump at Gamescom, with "major" updates scheduled for all of the firm's MMOs. ArcheAge is getting something called Heroes...

Gamescom 2015: Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts dismisses Derek Smart

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Line of Defense's Derek Smart has made it quite clear what he thinks about Star Citizen and its creator, Chris Roberts, by calling for...

SMITE previews a new joust map

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Hi-Rez published a video diary today featuring SMITE lead designer Scott Zier and various artists, who spend the brief running time explaining how the...
All this and more dinosaurs besides.

Gamescom 2015: ARK gets a brief new trailer

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ARK: Survival Evolved got a new trailer at this week's Gamescom. It's super short, but it also manages to capture just about all that's awesome...

ARK: Survival Evolved is coming to Xbox One early access this winter

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If you want to play ARK on a console for whatever reason, you've only got to wait a few more months. We've known for a...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Imperial City is kinda like Oblivion’s

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Elder Scrolls Online's Imperial City DLC is a few weeks away, but you can whet your appetite via a new dev diary that looks...

Bungie blows up Destiny’s progression system and Peter Dinklage

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Big things are afoot with Destiny, and by big things we mean that Bungie is basically changing how the whole game works while trading Tyrion...

WildStar starts testing free-to-play patch

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WildStar's free-to-play transition is just around the corner, as testing commenced today on the fall patch. The public test realm update includes the new...
If at first you don't succeed, etc.

ArcheAge mobile game will use Unreal Engine 4

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Remember ArcheVille? No, probably not; it was an ArcheAge mobile game that was shut down rather quickly back in 2013. The important thing is...
And in the distance, the call of payment.

DayZ associate producer talks cheaters and how to stop them

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DayZ associate producer Eugen Harton spoke to a GDC Europe crowd earlier today about how Bohemia Interactive handles cheaters in its open-world zombiepocalypse survival...

DC Universe’s Episode 15 content arrives this week for subscribers

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Daybreak has announced the official launch date for DC Universe Online's Episode 15 update. Members can take the new content for a spin on...

Hi-Rez is making Paladins, a team FPS with deckbuilding

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Hi-Rez has been hinting at its new project in recent weeks, and while we were expecting to get an eye full of it at...

Visionary Realms adds three Pantheon devs

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Brad McQuaid's dev team for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen just got a little bit bigger. A post on the game's forum welcomes senior...