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Final Fantasy XI launches the January version update in all its debatable dog glory

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Is Carbuncle a dog in Final Fantasy XI? What does it even mean if Carbuncle is a dog? Maybe it's a sort of fox?...
Oh, this... keeps my feelings where they were before, really.

CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 shows signs of life

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It was the beep heard 'round the world. Cyberpunk 2077's Twitter account, which has laid dormant since December 2013, suddenly came alive today with a...

Albion Online’s Christmas event is better late than never

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Hey, why are you taking down those Christmas lights and hauling your browning tree to the curb? There's still some life left in this...

Saga of Lucimia widens its testing pool while hoping that its community will ‘play nice’

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Fresh off of its "largest" alpha test to date, Saga of Lucimia and its team are gearing up for a busy 2018. In a...

Black Desert kicks off New Year’s event, adds outfit mixing feature

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Move over, winter - Black Desert is done with you. But the New Year's festivities are just getting started! As part of today's patch,...

Hi-Rez Expo 2018: Hi-Rez’s new game Bot Smashers isn’t an MMO, but it’s fun

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After a few days of playing Bot Smashers at Hi-Rez Expo 2018 this past weekend, I sat down and talked shop with Rory Newbrough, Bot...
Is this the ugly one or the pretty one, it's hard to tell.

Otherland previews a big upcoming UI redesign

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Here's the short rundown on Otherland's UI: It's terrible and the developers know it. Unfortunately, for a long stretch of the game's current management,...
Healing girl.

Overwatch’s Mercy is shown none by Blizzard, plus news on Overwatch League

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Mercy just can't catch a break. The Overwatch healer is due for another round of brutal nerfs, the latest in a long, long line of...
No, it's still not.

Why developers believe abusive vitriol is the cost of doing business with games

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When is it appropriate to send verbal abuse to someone you don't know personally? When is it appropriate to tell someone that you hope...

Here’s how one high school teacher uses Lord of the Rings Online in her English class

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What do you say that we all go and enroll at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics? Hear me out here: It's at this...
This is something less than heroic, perhaps.

Check out the dubbed cinematic for Ascent: Infinite Realm

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If you're looking forward to Ascent: Infinite Realm when it arrives on these shores, you're probably also looking forward to learning about the world...
Catching up!

Elder Scrolls Online datamining reveals possible expansion prologue

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Ready to head to new lands in Tamriel? A dataminer discovered some evidence that seems to confirm the long-running rumor about the location of the...

Smed’s secret Amazon game is hiring a level designer

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It looks as if John Smedley's new game is about to begin hiring in earnest. "We are going to be looking for an experienced...

Lineage 2 Revolution counts 5 million players in 2 months

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Still scoffing at the idea of mobile MMOs? They're catching on anyway. Netmarble announced this week that five million people globally have signed up...
Things!

Blade & Soul improves items with its anniversary update

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The anniversary update for Blade & Soul brings with it, well, an anniversary event. But it also brings a number of other system changes...
drigdrag

OrbusVR passes 8,000 total players

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Good news for OrbusVR: It might not be doing great numbers for "not a VR game," but it's doing very well for a game...
I suppose this is a problem I'm happy to complain about.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 152: Allied races and superhero sprints

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, ARK, Portal Knights, World of Warcraft, Champions Online, Fractured, Ship of Heroes, Black Desert, Elder Scrolls Online, and Life is Feudal, with mailbag questions on teaching MMO teamwork to kids and lockboxes vs. advertising.
Domestic rampage!

Closers rings in the new year with the Rampage Cube

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Welcome to the new year, Closers fans! Have a Rampage Cube! What's a Rampage Cube? It's a big challenging... cube. Full of rampages. Look,...

‘X’ marks Sea of Thieves’ closed beta on January 24

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A bottle just washed up on the shore of Massively OP's treasure island, and tucked inside of it was a note that informed us...

Creditors lay claim to nearly $700,000 in Gazillion assets in bankruptcy case

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We named the sad death of Marvel Heroes the greatest MMO disappointment of 2017, and it appears it's not even over yet. Redditors noticed that on...