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Massively OP Podcast Episode 168: MMOs all higgledy-piggledy

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Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, EVE Online, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Ragnarok, Elite, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, Trove, and City of Heroes' Paragon Chat, with mailbag questions on free-to-play entitlement and whether expansions need new classes.

World of Warcraft needs you to babysit again

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Oh great, you're here. We'll be out late, at least until 11, so make sure that the kids are in bed by 7:30 with...

Sea of Thieves splits dev team into three live teams, each working on loads of future content

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With Sea of Thieves' latest patch in and out of the way this morning, what's next for the game? Executive Producer Joe Neate is...
Fly away, fugu fish!

Riders of Icarus restarts development, but Icarus Mobile is likely doomed

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Hope you weren't holding out any great hope for Icarus Mobile, the portable spin-off of Nexon's Riders of Icarus. MMO Culture is reporting that...

You can invite people into your house with Closers’ Renovation update next week

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Renovation sounds like what I'm currently doing to my basement, but it's also the name of Closers' upcoming patch, due out next week, and...
More of this story, please.

Guild Wars 2’s balance update arrives next week – with ‘underwater combat’ revamp

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Remember back before Guild Wars 2 launched and its underwater content was touted as the most innovative thing in years? And remember when it...

State of Decay 2 rejects the battle royale genre for being already mined out

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Sick of battle royale? Yeah, it hit saturation levels in a hurry. Undead Labs is over the craze too, which might sound funny given...
and it smashes

TERA outlines its content plans for consoles post-launch

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If you have a console from the current hardware generation, you can play TERA on it right now. But there's also a lot of...
Smell bads.

Sea of Thieves adds new outfits and a special gun for a month of play

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After a month at sea, one can imagine your character in Sea of Thieves is more than ready to stop in to port. But...
Llook out, Llary! It's the llandlllord!

Guild Wars 2 players sponsor $2000 PvP tournament, ban Chronomancer spec

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If Guild Wars 2's abrupt pull-out of PvP e-sports and tournaments a year ago filled all your 20-slot bags with stacks of pure sadness,...
Money dollars.

World of Warcraft offers a guided tour of the Zandalari capital, Zuldazar

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The Zandalari trolls are allied with the Horde in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, but their society has long endured without outside interference....

Rumor: Daybreak may be building PlanetSide 3 and EverQuest 3, sunsetting Just Survive

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While Daybreak producers are spelling out their games' future, a now-deleted post over at Reddit by an alleged former employee of Daybreak Games purports to...

Comet crashes into Fortnite and launches season four

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Hope you didn't have any plans for the next week, because depending on where you were standing in Fortnite, you either have been pulverized...
No, this isn't quite the right place.

Final Fantasy XI welcomes back old veterans and new players this summer

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Have you never tried Final Fantasy XI but always wanted to? Have you tried it before and want to catch back up? Good news,...
I can see you now!

Saga of Lucimia previews its third-person camera perspective

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Do you want to see yourself in Saga of Lucimia? Or see your character, we should specify. The team is making progress on the...

Safecracking feature and tools are live for RuneScape’s thieves today

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Live today in regular flavor RuneScape is a brand-new update that ought to make thieves in particular happy. "Safecracking is a new training method, unlocked...

War Thunder preps Naval Forces update with new light cruisers, World of Tanks kicks off console Dream Machines event for May

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So many tank MMOs, so little time - but time enough to see what they're up to! War Thunder is actually working on everything but...
Weren't we in this game at one point?

Season four – and that pesky meteor overhead – are finally approaching Fortnite

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Players have been speculating a lot about what will happen when the meteor hanging in the sky over Fortnite's world finally hits, but we'll...

Chinese authorities arrest 15 more accused PUBG hackers, fining them over $5M

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Bluehole and PUBG Corp are apparently continuing their government-backed crackdown on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds cheaters. Last week, PUBG Corp told Steam players that it takes cheating...
Remember, you were the ones who couldn't wait for this game.

Bless Online previews the Guardian and Paladin classes with fresh videos

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Neowiz is following up its Bless Online class previews from last week with another round of videos, this time focusing on the different combat...

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