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War breaks out in WoW Classic as Horde players retaliate for Alliance Ahn’Qiraj Scarab Lord griefing

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It would seem that the factional drama over getting the Scarab Lord title in WoW Classic was simply the flashpoint for a major bonfire...

Trove has a celestial summer with the launch of the Lunar Plunge event

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It's about time to reach for the stars -- quite literally -- in Trove as the game kicks off the Lunar Plunge event where...

Shroud of the Avatar adds player town teleporters and previews new building block types

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Release 80 is now live in Shroud of the Avatar and with it are new ways for players to blip between player-created towns. The...

Activision-Blizzard Q2 2020: Year-over-year revenues are up for the first time in six quarters

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We're back with another dip into Activision-Blizzard's financials, this one Q2 2020, the first report since shareholders lambasted the company for excessive executive pay...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 282: Gate crashers

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, Dragon's Prophet, Warhammer Online's Return of Reckoning, Phantasy Star Online 2, and EVE Echoes, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, WoW, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on memorable MMO stories and the greediest games.

Rebirth Online makes its early access arrival to Steam

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Steam is now home to another free-to-play MMORPG from our friends in South Korea. This time it's Rebirth Online, which appears to be the...

Past Fate promises new spells and skill trees to alpha as its Kickstarter marches on

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As the second Kickstarter drive for sandbox MMORPG Past Fate rolls on, the devs at Icy North Games are still hard at work improving...
Planet of hates.

For Science: Meta-analysis of aggression studies shows no link between aggression and video games

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Do video games make people violent? The dispatch from the APA back in March certainly seems to indicate that it thinks so, which runs...
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Fallout 76 patches in a new public event and the communal Brotherhood of Steel base building effort

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I'll be honest, the only reason I enjoy the Brotherhood of Steel is that they have neat toys, which I suspect would be a...
Faires past

Final Fantasy XIV will be down for 24 hours for patch 5.3 maintenance

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Get anything you need to have done in Final Fantasy XIV done before August 10th. Anything you want done before the patch, at least,...

Yet another Ubisoft executive is out of a job in the wake of ongoing sexual misconduct allegations

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Ubisoft is still feeling the effects of sexual harassment allegations at the executive level as Tommy Francois, VP of editorial and creative services, is...
Holiday road.

Phantasy Star Online Director on working on the original: ‘The pressure was intense’

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We wouldn't have Phantasy Star Online 2 without the original Phantasy Star Online - not just because numbers work like that, but because a...
It's on my list of 'things you did wrong,' yeah.

Blizzard staffers agitate against poor worker pay as Activision-Blizzard rakes in billions

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Blizzard's labor practices have been under scrutiny over the last couple of years, propelled in large part due to mass-layoffs at the top of...

New World wraps up ‘density test,’ and the community is impressed

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With all the activity flitting about Amazon's New World these days, you wouldn't think that the upcoming MMORPG has been delayed all the way...

Lord of the Rings Online opens the doors to Rohan housing and Helm’s Deep

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It's always a momentous occasion in Lord of the Rings Online when a brand-new type of housing is added to the servers, and today's...

Massively Uplifting: Good deeds don’t take the summer off for Bungie, Niantic, and Trolls in WoW

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When summer comes, some lucky folks get to take the season off. Even those who continue on their regular labors often head out on...

Lord of the Rings Online community reschedules Weatherstock for September

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In hindsight, Lord of the Rings Online's greatest annual player concert series couldn't have picked a worse time to try to host the event....
We all haven't memory-holed The Sims Medieval so deep that we forgot the town called Crafthole, have we?

Closed alpha testing results see survival sandbox Craftopia delay its early access launch

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MOP's Bree and I -- and probably some other staffers here -- are pretty eager to see what Craftopia is all about. For those...

Black Desert addresses caster-heavy Conquest Wars, new regions, and gear progress walls

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We're back once again with another set of Black Desert Heidel Ball player questions. Who knew that we'd be getting so much mileage out...

Fortnite’s receding water level reveals a new Atlantis-like location known as Coral Castle

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As the water level recedes in the battle royale island of Fortnite, more locations are revealed, yet those who have been exploring the area...

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