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Lineage II Aden raises the drawbridge for castle sieges this week

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It's time for Lineage II Aden players to batten down the hatches, heat up the boiling oil, and prepare the diseased cattle for catapulting,...

RuneScape applies extra Treasure Hunter changes and releases the Croeseus Front

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The weekly update for RuneScape has once more arrived, but this time around there are some pretty sizeable changes going on. At the top...

The Elder Scrolls Online challenges players to earn community rewards in the Bounties of Blackwood event

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Earning rewards in an MMORPG is well and good, but earning them in a larger communal effort is even better. It's in that spirit...

City of Titans’ lead gameplay designer on combat engine progress and other developments

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The developers of City of Titans are talking among themselves. That's not to say they're trying to be gossipy; they're sharing some internal interviews,...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Fate of Gundabad launches November 10 – preorders have begun

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Standing Stone Games has finally taken the wraps off the Fate of Gundabad expansion for Lord of the Rings Online in today's big preorder...

Steam preloading for Amazon’s New World has begun

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MMO gamers, start your engines: You can now begin downloading New World on Steam ahead of the launch tomorrow. Amazon's been disapatching Steam codes...

First Impressions: Revisiting memorable locales in Diablo II Resurrected

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What a time to be alive. I can't believe I'm playing a remastered version of one of my all time favorite PC games. And...

Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends is hoping to release Bespin apartments by Christmas

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Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends posted its latest newsletter over the weekend, and the big news is Bespin part two and plans...

TitanReach turns off its servers to enter a multi-month ‘private development’ cycle

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When we learned that TitanReach got fully funded by one person after it announced plans to suspend development, Square Root Studios co-founder Unravel noted that...
Oh no still Blizzard.

Overwatch shares reworkings of Bastion and Sombra coming to Overwatch 2

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This past weekend during the OWL finals, Blizzard's remaining Overwatch team dropped some big reveals for the team-based shooter's sequel. Specifically, it shared planned...

Ashes of Creation shows off new mounts, discusses node interactions, and previews new rendering tech

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Intrepid Studios' creative director Steven Sharif and community lead Margaret Krohn have once again come together for another Ashes of Creation development update livestream...
Bear bomb!

MMO Week in Review: New World approaches, Blizzard faces the feds

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This week in MMOs, the feds opened investigations into Activision-Blizzard, we tested out Guild Wars 2's second batch of End of Dragons elite specs,...

Destiny 2 opens a public playtest of a new mode and continues turning the knobs for Trials of Osiris

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Are you tired of hearing about the Trials of Osiris in Destiny 2? Well, too bad there slappy, because this week's Bungie newsletter is...

The MOP Up: Shattersong Online binds a universe of worlds together

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Here's an interesting 2-D MMO project that's being made by some former Starbound devs. It's called Shattersong Online, and it alleges that it can...

Aion EU offers a sneak peek at new instances and features of update 8.0, Aion NA dates next content launches

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As per usual, the EU version of Aion is getting a forward look at the game's 8.0 update ahead of the NA version of...

Star Citizen dates its next digital CitizenCon for October 9

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For fans of Star Citizen, it's the most wonderful time of the year. It's almost CitizenCon time, which has revealed a number of details...

Lord of the Rings Online gets you up to speed on Fate of Gundabad’s story

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It wasn't that long ago that some columnist here at Massively OP was bemoaning the fact that Standing Stone Games had yet to actually...

Ship of Heroes shares a postmortem for its summer beta and future development plans

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The summer beta test for Ship of Heroes has officially wrapped up, and it's time for the devs at Heroic Games to take stock...
oh the pain

Guild Wars 2’s WvW world restructuring beta ends early over match-up issues

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It's been a long lead-up to a restructuring of Guild Wars 2's world-vs.-world system, but now it finally arrived. And then left just as...

Blizzard races to address Diablo II: Resurrected launch week woes

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It's fair to say there's been a whole lot more pressure on the launch of Diablo II: Resurrected than there would be during a...