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The Realm’s creator wants to remake this 20-year-old MMO

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MMO veterans might be familiar with The Realm (also known as The Realm Online), which was one of the first class of graphical online...

Destiny’s upcoming sequel may heavily feature the planet Mercury

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If you're one of the many Destiny players hoping to see more of the planet Mercury, you may be in luck. Destiny was reportedly supposed to...

MU: Origin starts mobile beta testing on January 25

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MU: Origin, the mobile spin-off of Webzen's MU Online, will start closed beta testing on Android devices later this month. Players can sign up on the...

Soak up new Division gameplay footage in leaked trailer

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Update: Ubisoft has released the trailer now; it's included below. You don't have to speak Italian to appreciate the new gameplay footage for Tom Clancy's...

Ninelives welcomes you to explore its darkly mysterious world

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Have you heard of this game called Ninelives? It's recently started to gain some recognition with the start of its open alpha test, even...

Wizard Online takes a stab at a full-fledged VR MMO

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With virtual reality headsets hitting the market, a hot topic in the MMO community has been over when we'll be seeing VR merge with...

Oculus Rift will begin accepting preorders this week

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All right! Who's ready to hand over what will likely be more than $350 for virtual reality equipment? Oculus announced today that pre-orders for the...

The Underground is a cute 2-D sandbox

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"Do anything, craft anything, be anything." That's the promise of The Underground, a 2-D MMO that harkens back to an earlier era of online game...
Why do you build me up, Buttercup, baby, just to let me down and mess me around?

NCsoft is hiring for a new shooter project

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If you were kind of sad when NCsoft shut down development on Project HON back in March, today's news is going to hit you...
Yeah, it's never happening.

The Daily Grind: Do long localization delays make you less likely to play an MMO?

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Having written about it recently, I found myself thinking that it might not even matter if Phantasy Star Online 2 even comes out in...
From this point it looks so easy.

Devilian takes a look at the successes and failures of its launch month

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The first month of operation is a tumultuous time for any new title. Devilian feels as if it were just announced, but it launched...

Retro-themed EverEmber Online launches today

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Just because an MMO is launching in 2015 doesn't mean that it is necessarily some ultra-gorgeous, physics engine-happy affair. Sometimes games look to the...

Leaderboard: What was the best new MMO of 2015?

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Yesterday, we announced our award for MMO of the Year -- it went to Final Fantasy XIV. But we deliberately expanded the category to...

Funcom announces new Conan game

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Funcom has just announced that it's creating a new video game based on the Conan franchise. Funcom is excited to announce that the company has...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 42: Starstruck

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Justin and Bree discuss Star Citizen, Devilian, WoW, WildStar, Landmark, Cube World, and Mytheon, with mailbox questions on multiboxing and MMO monogamy.

4force Online is a ‘raid action adventure game’

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You know how every once in a while, we all wonder why all the different elements of MMORPGs have been spun out into new...

It’s a Wipe! mimics online guild management

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How well do you fancy yourself a guild leader? If you've ever had a hankering to try it out without all of the drama...

The Ghost in the Shell online shooter is live now on Steam

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Say this one ten times fast: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - First Assault Online is live today on Steam's early access platform....
I am COMPELLED to SHOOT!

Trion compensates Devilian players for lost progress on the Seadrift server

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There's nothing quite like logging in over the weekend to play some Devilian, logging out after a little while, and then logging back in......

Star Citizen just dinged to 100 million dollars

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Crowdfunding efforts for Cloud Imperium's Star Citizen space sim have just crossed the $100,000,000 mark. Over a million gamers have contributed to the game, which...