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Grab a new-player starter pack key for mobile MMORTS Viking Rise

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When we first stumbled into IGG's mobile MMORTS Viking Rise earlier this year, we noted that the game is not being shy about its...

MMO Week in Review: Season of (Queue) Discovery

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So it turns out that everyone wanted WoW Classic Plus! Who knew? Oh, everybody knew? Literally everybody? Right on. Well, you've got a version...
It's not illegal!

WRUP: Bones I have stolen edition

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The bone that the schnauzer next door was playing with When it occurred: About half an hour ago Why I did it: If I can't be...
Doomsday Survivors

Grab a new-player survivor pack key for IGG’s zombie survival MMO Doomsday: Last Survivors

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If zombie survival games are still tugging at your nostalgia heartstrings, you might point your brainssss at IGG's Android-and-iPhone Doomsday Last Survivors. The company...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 447: MMO hackers, headstarts, and proliferations

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Justin and Bree discuss the hackings of Ethyrial and Fractured, Palia's beta update, City of Titan's test launch, World of Warcraft's paid expansion headstart, and Guild Wars 2's weapon proliferation beta, with adventures in Project Gorgon, LOTRO, Fallout 76, and WoW.

MMO Week in Review: A Feast for MMOs

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Thanksgiving and Black Friday week may have been a short one for MMO studios, but there was still news! We took a long hard...
HaSOMETHINGken!

WRUP: No, it’s the children who are wrong edition

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And now, a special message from our favorite writer, Brick Moneyshield: Recently, I have invited a great deal of controversy from my article in which...

Grab a Lords Mobile new player bundle in celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend

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IGG's seven-year-old multiplayer mobile-and-PC strategy MMO Lords Mobile has arrived for your after-Thanksgiving coma daze to offer up some freebies on Black Friday in...

Massively Uplifting: MMO gratitude, goodness, and giving, from Elder Scrolls Online to Guild Wars 2

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Today is a big day for your belly! If you celebrate Thanksgiving, chances are you'll have/have had a table overflowing with delectable dishes today...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 446: Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of MMOs

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Chris and Justin discuss Tarisland's beta, Perfect New World's beta, Pantheon 247 cancelation, SWTOR's Aussie server, EVE Online's Havoc, World of Warcraft's Seeds of Renewal, WoW Classic Hardcore, and WoW Classic Season of Discovery.

MMO Week in Review: Tripping into Tarisland

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The week before the week before Thanksgiving is prime time for pushing out major MMO patches and news, and this week delivered: Pantheon axed...
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WRUP: Which members of the high school science department can be beaten with the Ice Beam edition

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Mr. Palmer: You're wondering if you can beat a 60-year-old man who hasn't walked all that well since he got hit by a car...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 445: Rally for Project Gorgon

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Justin and Bree discuss Project Gorgon's community, Wayfinder's layoffs, LOTRO's Corsairs of Umbar, WoW's Guardians of the Dream, and Guild Wars 2's Through the Veil, with adventures in WoW, Fallout 76, LOTRO, and Project Goron, plus a mailbag topic on why more MMOs don't use contemporary real-world settings.

MMO Week in Review: How to help Project Gorgon and its devs

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This week in MMO land, we covered distressing news: Eric Heimburg and Sandra Powers, the husband-and-wife duo behind beloved indie MMO Project Gorgon, admitted...
Speculation.

WRUP: Lizardman Ronald owes me more than a thousand dollars edition

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This is not a joke. Ronald of Oceanside, NY, also know to his friends as "Lizardman," officially owes me $1,280 due to services...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 444: The return of BlizzCon

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Justin and Bree discuss BlizzCon 2023, World of Warcraft The War Within expansion, the Worldsoul Saga, WoW Classic Cataclysm, WoW Classic's Season of Discovery aka don't call it Classic Plus, with a few bits about Overwatch 2, Hearthstone, and Diablo IV, plus adventures in Warcraft Rumble and My Time at Sandrock.

MMO Week in Review: BlizzCon 2023 highlights

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If you weren't paying much attention to BlizzCon this weekend, you missed out on some big reveals: World of Warcraft announced a three-expansion content...
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WRUP: Pizzazz edition

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dang it hold on, hold on, hold on we need some kinda expansions announcement let me fish in my pocket. Got some stuff in...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 443: Endless adventures in cyberdreams

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 Through the Veil, WoW Emerald Dream, BlizzCon 2023, Fractured early access, and Elder Scrolls Online Endless Archive, with adventures in LOTRO, New World, Fallout 76, and Garden Galaxy, plus a mailbag question on the best money sinks in MMOs!

MMO Week in Review: This is (MMO) Halloween

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It's Halloween-eve-eve in the real world, which means it's Halloween in just about every MMORPG - for a few more days, anyhow. Meanwhile, Guild Wars...