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Lineage II shows off plenty of buffs and promotions for its 15-year anniversary

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Going for a decade is a nice milestone for any MMO, but Lineage II passed that milestone a while ago. About five years ago, in...

World of Warcraft begins testing Patch 8.2: Rise of Azshara

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Ready, set, test! A week after Blizzard unveiled the full offerings for World of Warcraft's next major content update, the studio rolled the 7.1...
Everything old is... well, it's actually still old.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 216: Star Wars frenzy

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Justin and Bree discuss big SWTOR expansion news, plus news from WoW, Blizzard, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, TERA, Albion, Blade & Soul, and DDO, with a mailbag question on MMO expansion difficulty.

LOTRO hosts a Yule festival encore before its anniversary

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An interesting -- and somewhat strange -- thing that Lord of the Rings Online routinely does is bring back seasonal festivals for short-term "encore."...

Villagers & Heroes announces A Tale of Earth and Sea expansion and new Shaman class

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Indie MMO sandbox Villagers & Heroes did not have the best winter, what with the game being hacked and all back in February. But...

Snag a MU Online, MU Legend, C9, Flyff, or Rappelz gift bundle in Webzen’s 10th anniversary giveaway

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Webzen is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week with a big round of bonus events across its whole catalogue of MMOs, including including MU...
Boom.

CCP Games thinks EVE Online is about to make it big in China and Korea

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We've previously covered CCP Games' Hilmar Petersson's comments on not giving up after all EVE Online's unsuccessful spinoffs, including most recently Project Nova. But...
I SHOWED YOU DECORATION PLEASE RESPOND

Shroud of the Avatar opens up a player decoration contest with a player-owned town as the top prize

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Who likes playing interior decorator in Shroud of the Avatar? A new contest for the game's community is asking you to do just that, with...

Gamigo is offering 100,000 loyalty to RIFT players who join this afternoon’s PTS test

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Pssst. Hey you. Want some free stuff? There's a catch: It's in RIFT. Maybe I should've led with that, yeah. Anyway, Gamigo is asking for...
Good car, bad game.

Hop behind the wheel of Prince Noctis’s Regalia in Final Fantasy XIV’s latest crossover event

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The latest Final Fantasy XIV collaboration event, A Nocturne for Heroes, is revving up to go live tomorrow. Final Fantasy XV's heroic and totes...

Be one of the first to visit Elsweyr on the Elder Scrolls Online PTS right meow

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Elder Scrolls Online fans were hoping this came sooner rather than later: Elsweyr launched on the Public Test Server! ZeniMax Online Studios has teased...

Overwatch assigns a new co-op mission today, code-named Storm Rising

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Despite what you may think, Overwatch's heroes aren't always at each other's throats while endangering the populace around them. Not always. Once in a...

City of Heroes spiritual successor Ship of Heroes confirms beta by the end of 2019

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One of City of Heroes' multiple spiritual successors, Ship of Heroes, has come out with a statement of its own following yesterday's confirmation that...
Too bad, so sad.

EverQuest II is merging its Fallen Gate progression server to its live Antonia Bayle server

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It'll soon be time for EverQuest II players to bid farewell to the Fallen Gate server. As a time-locked expansion server it offered players a...

Leaderboard: Where do you stand on the ‘secret’ City of Heroes emulator?

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Last night, we covered the emerging scandal in the City of Heroes community and broke the confirmation that yes, there is in fact a...

‘Secret’ City of Heroes emulator operators address SCORE leak drama, rebut personal info database rumor

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If you've been around the post-sunset City of Heroes community long enough, you've probably heard the rumors that there's a secret City of Heroes...

Gather eggs and earn goodies in RuneScape’s Easter event

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It's time for that most eggcellent spring holiday, Easter, and the world of RuneScape is celebrating with an eggcitingly eggstravagant in-game event. It involves...
The problem might not be the trying itself, guy.

CCP discusses trying, failing, and trying again in the wake of Project Nova’s demise

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The history of CCP Games is one of EVE Online continuing on even while the developer watches every other project stutter and collapse. Project Nova was...

Population Zero dishes on three of its planned player factions

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Enplex Games' upcoming survival MMO Population Zero has thus far distinguished itself from other multiplayer survival titles with features including a hand-crafted world, factions,...
Bye Felicia.

Final Fantasy XIV’s North American data center split requires maintenance on April 22

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April 23rd is the official date for the split of the two North American data centers for Final Fantasy XIV into three, but players on...

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