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MMO Week in Review: Palia’s beta, Baldur’s Gate 3’s big launch

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Multiplayer games rather than MMORPGs are capturing the gaming industry's heart this week as Baldur's Gate 3 exploded and Palia puttered into beta. Meanwhile, WoW...
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WRUP: 01001110 01101111 edition

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Well, folks, I'm back. Don't worry, this isn't a fakeout like last week, the What Are You Playing engine is no longer an issue....

Grab an Eternal Return character and skin duo key from Kakao and MOP

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Kakao's Eternal Return is just a few weeks out of the gate from early access to live, and already it's releasing its first big...
Does this remind you of anything?

Massively OP Podcast Episode 431: FFXIV Dawntrail and Path of Exile 2

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Justin, Eliot, MJ, and Chris discuss Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail at Fanfest and Path of Exile and Path of Exile 2 at ExileCon, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, FFXIV, AdventureQuest 3D, Astroneer, and Craftopia.
But where are the Transformers?

MMO Week in Review: Dawntrail and Path of Exile 2

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It's been a hell of a weekend for Final Fantasy XIV and Path of Exile fans thanks to Fanfest and ExileCon. CBU3 took the...
It's all fine.

WRUP: Back in control edition

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All right, we're back online. It's fine. Sorry about the zero couple of weekends where we had something going wrong with our What Are...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 430: A very Diablo drubbing

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Justin, Bree, and Carlo discuss Blizzard's bizarre financial report, Diablo IV's messy first season, Palia's early access, and Wayfinder's early access, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, Diablo II, Diablo IV, Black Desert, SWG Legends, and Garden Galaxy, plus a mailbag topic on the next generation of MMO players.
Yay, a thing we didn't want.

MMO Week in Review: Blizzard’s bountiful bungles

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Blizzard had a rough week, lurching from messy story to story, all tucked neatly under the arc of the FTC appearing to finally give...
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WRUP: Human readable edition

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MMO Week in Review: $69 billion

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The Microsoft buyout of Activision-Blizzard is likely to be inked early this week, thanks to a judge's decision not to block the duo from...
This is just getting so much more pleasant.

WRUP: TTTTT TTT TTTTTTT TTTT TTTTT edition

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Massively OP Podcast Episode 429: Push button, receive bacon

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Justin and Bree discuss New World, World of Warcraft, WildStar, EverQuest 3, and EverQuest 2, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and WoW, plus a mailbag topic on MMO systems we want simplified vs. complexified, which is too a word!

MMO Week in Review: Blood of the Sands

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New World's second season, Blood of the Sands, officially kicked off this week - just as datamining of non-English tooltips appears to have outed...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 428: Guild Wars 2 spills its secrets

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure, WoW Classic hardcore mode, Tarisland, and The Sims 5 multiplayer, with adventures in LOTRO, Diablo IV, SWTOR, and truck sims, plus a mailbag topic on starting out in LOTRO.

Perfect Tenception: Our ten perfectest Perfect Tens (since last year) – 2023 edition

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In the Beforetimes, I tried to start a tradition of rounding up my favorite Perfect Ten articles of the past year every year on...

Grab a new player gift code from spaceship MMO DarkOrbit, courtesy of Bigpoint

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DarkOrbit is a long-running sci-fi MMO we haven't peeked in on since 2021, when the Reloaded version of game announced 80M active users. Bigpoint...

MMO Week in Review: Private classified mysteries of the undisclosed esoteric enigma

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Secrets of the Obscure is Guild Wars 2's next big expansion, ArenaNet announced this week, and it's dropping August 22nd - with a low...
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WRUP: Aggregating edition

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Massively OP Podcast Episode 427: The promise of Palia

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Justin and Bree discuss Palia, SWTOR, Fractured, The Realm Online, Star Wars Galaxies, and Second Life, with adventures in LOTRO, Diablo IV, and SWTOR, plus mailbag topics on the future of WoW post-Dragonflight and over-the-top characters in MMOs.