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Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s July events start with Bidoof and ends with a mystery

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Pokemon Go’s previously mentioned Bidoof events in June are actually spilling into July with Bidoof Breakout event. While Bidoof will be taking over all levels of...

Book of Travels explains its no-quest design philosophy

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In case you never really clocked this, one of the many reasons that Book of Travels will be different than your typical MMO is...
It has a sense of humor!

Swords of Legends Online puts out a trailer for its minigames

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Did you know that Swords of Legends Online has minigames? Because it totally does, including what apparently is just Bomberman for those of you...

Former BioWare GM Casey Hudson announces the opening of a new development studio

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Readers will recall back in December 2020 that Casey Hudson, the general manager of BioWare, left his position after 20 years with the studio....

Here’s what to expect from LOTRO’s new progression servers launching today at noon

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Play LOTRO Now As promised, Standing Stone Games is launching two new progression servers for Lord of the Rings Online subscribers (yes, you have to...

So what happened to Funcom’s Conan Chop Chop? Because it’s well past ‘early 2021’ now

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Funcom news is making the rounds this morning, as the company, which is wholly owned by Tencent at this point, announced that it's picked...
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Kingdoms of Elyria colony sim alpha test starts on July 6

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As it hopes for some shot at redemption in the wake of its cancelation, legal battle, and hurried resurrection, Chronicles of Elyria is putting...

The Magic Legends layoffs at Cryptic hit a lot more people than we thought

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Following yesterday's awful news that PWE and Cryptic were canceling and sunsetting Magic Legends even before it had ever left beta or landed on...

Genshin Impact offers trailer previews of the game’s latest roster addition

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Did you think you were done with character collecting in Genshin Impact? Well, no, you probably didn't because adding more party members to the...

Perfect World International’s Dawnlight update adds a new instance, new region, new weapon tier, and HD character visuals

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Here's one we haven't heard from in a while: Perfect World International, the free-to-play MMORPG that has been trucking on for over 10 years...
The stuff that you have, does someone have a claim on it?

Final Fantasy XI kicks off multiple reward campaigns for the middle of summer

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In Final Fantasy XI this summer, it's time to get more for doing less. Well... sort of. Actually, when you look at all of...

Elite Dangerous plans an Odyssey development update post tomorrow ahead of the expansion’s next patch

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Elite: Dangerous' has been cranking out the fix-filled updates for its Odyssey expansion all month as Frontier Developments stated, but that statement also seemed...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 328: SOLO? YOLO!

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Justin and Bree discuss Aion Classic's messy launch, SOLO's launch date, LOTRO's legendary servers, and Anarchy Online's 10th birthday, with adventures in WoW Classic, FFXIV, and Albion Online, plus a mailbag topic on zombie MMOs. (Not real zombies.)

Guild Wars 2’s Out of the Shadows is this week’s season 3 freebie

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After a week's break from repromotes thanks to the launch of Dragon Bash last week, Guild Wars 2 has returned to doling out free...

Magic Legends taps out: PWE and Cryptic are shutting it down before it even fully launched

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Bad news for fans of Magic Legends: PWE and Cryptic announced this afternoon that they're sunsetting the game in October. Steve Ricossa broke the...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s latest producer’s letter recounts development updates, outlines its next test objectives

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's producer and creative director Chris "Joppa" Perkins has a lot of progress to mark for the developing PvE sandbox,...

NEO 2045 is a new kid-oriented sci-fi MMO for PC and mobile

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It's not every day that we hear about a brand-new MMORPG that's already out, but today is one of them: It's a Roblox-esque kid-centric...

Choose My Adventure: The long road to starting a Star Wars Galaxies crafting empire

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Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither will Wolfy Starflight Concern. The time I spent this week on the Legends rogue server of...

Saga of Lucimia rebrands as Embers Adrift, abandons Lucimia IP

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Just a week ago, we checked in on Saga of Lucimia, the group-centric MMORPG that’s been in development since 2015; its most recent launch...

TitanReach attempts to put its controversies in the past with new details on early access development

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Indie MMO TitanReach has had a strange run to date. It caught our attention in 2020, when it launched a $430,000 US Kickstarter, which...

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