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That map is big? Yeah, yeah, yeah! It's not small? No, no, no!

Neverwinter demos its biggest map ever

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The more things you want going on in a single map, the bigger the map needs to be. If all you want is for...
Sorry I'm late, but you know I can't log in for about two hours.

Wisdom of Nym: The highs and lows of Final Fantasy XIV’s early access

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Thursday was a long day. So was Friday, but in very different ways. Playing Final Fantasy XIV over the past few days has been a...
This image actually makes me not want to inflict this on my friends, but...

TERA introduces recruit-a-friend rewards

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Are you playing TERA? Do you have friends who are not playing TERA? Are said friends also swayed by the thought of both of...
You can't really go back again.

Character name reclamation is coming to World of Warcraft

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With a decade of popularity and lots of people playing, World of Warcraft does not have a surfeit of names available for players. As...

Tree of Life dev explains crime system, prefers ‘2:8 wolf/deer ratio’

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Take heart, sandbox PvE fans. Tree of Life developer OddOneGames is on your side and has added a crime system to its early access sandbox so as to...
Oh, thanks for the promise to eventually answer in the future.

Trion addresses Defiance players’ requests for more content

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The newest set of answers from the Defiance developers to player questions is available now. The bad news (always start with the bad news)...

City of Heroes is returning… as a chat client

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The dream of seeing City of Heroes reborn is still just that -- a dream. But through the hard efforts of fans of the...

LEGO Minifigures Online goes buy-to-play on June 29 with limited availability now

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While Funcom would like to market LEGO Minifigures Online's upcoming June 29th event as a launch of the game, in reality the move is...

MMO Week in Review: The E3 2015 roundup (June 21, 2015)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review! After...

Gloria Victis inviteth thee to dump burning oil on the heads of thine enemies

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I can't imagine anything more disheartening than going over to a friend's house, knocking on his door, and being coated by burning pitch as...

Guild Wars 2 unloads a dump truck of expansion dev blogs

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Beep... beep... beep. That's the sound of a gargantuan Guild Wars 2 info truck that's preparing to unload its sizable cargo into your cortex....

Salem ends ‘beta,’ adds animal husbandry and more

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Salem's "beta" officially ended this weekend, according to a post by Mortal Moments project lead John Carver. "Salem has been designed from both a business...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: June 20, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Voxelnauts pulled the plug on its own campaign. Not to worry, though, as the sandbox virtual world "will...

EVE gets a new art director, Dominix redesign

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CCP's latest dev blog talks up the forthcoming Dominix redesign, but put away those pitchforks, Gallente fans, because the ship isn't morphing into something...

Shroud of the Avatar’s update talks taming, player towns, and more

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Shroud of the Avatar released Update of the Avatar #130 yesterday, and there's quite a lot to cover as it's a typically lengthy look...

DDO’s Update 26 introduces the Warlock class

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Are you still playing Dungeons and Dragons Online? If so, you might want to know about the Update 26 release notes that were published...
Let's go into a room with danger.

Brevik’s Cow King will be dropping rewards in Marvel Heroes today

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How would you like to play Diablo with David Brevik? Well... you can't! You might be able to do the next best thing, though,...
It lives!

Betawatch: June 19th, 2015

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You could be forgiven for sort of forgetting about The Division. No matter how much it might have interested you at first, the game...

Eternal Crusade reveals Belial, gears up for sub-faction vote

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Did you catch the Eternal Crusade livestream earlier today? If not, you missed the reveal of Belial, the new Space Marines leader and the...

Landmark devs: Respawning is working as designed

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Addressing complaints that respawning mobs and resources are broken in Landmark, Daybreak came out today to say that, on the contrary, everything is working...