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Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 just lost another great dev in Bill Freist

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Not a week ago, we reported on the loss of two developers from Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet, a lead game designer and a...

Blade & Soul’s Storm of Arrows update is now live – here’s the trailer!

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The patch notes for today's update to Blade & Soul are online, and it's forecasting a rain storm. The kind you can't really bring...

Elite Dangerous’ new tutorial and new shop currency are live today

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My own experience with getting started in Elite: Dangerous went pretty smoothly, but I contend that the tutorials I went through could have been...

Korean mobile MMORPG TERA Classic adds the Elin Lancer

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The Korean-only mobile MMORPG TERA Classic has decided to give the game's tiniest race one of its biggest weapons. Or maybe they misheard the...
Hmm. Appears I'm still alive.

PUBG is adding survival mastery to its progression system

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Weapon Mastery is a thing in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, a progression track following your ability to inflict significant harm upon your opposition over time and...
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RuneScape patches in changes to player-owned farms

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Changes to player-owned farms are in the air today for RuneScape; the game's patch this week implements changes announced recently. Experience gained for individual...
Set sail for bees.

World of Warcraft posts its patch notes for 8.2.5, somehow not titled the Rise of Bees

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New models for Worgen and Goblins! New Party Sync features! The end of the War Campaign! And lest we forget, bees! Yes, World of Warcraft...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 238: Ten years of free-to-play

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Justin and Bree discuss DDO, Bless, Book of Travels, Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, WoW Classic & Retail, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag topics on static endgames and genre labels.

World of Warships marks four years with new Directives, freebies, and bonuses in Update 0.8.8

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Another year has come and gone for the online ship battler World of Warships, so it's high time to celebrate with its players. The...

Harvard Business Review uses EVE Online corps for a study on country of origin and company structure

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When the Harvard Business Review wanted to run a study on how people's place of origin affects how they structure a company, it homed...

Anthem launches Cataclysm’s final week, abandons Acts structure for future updates

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Today marks the final week for the Cataclysm event in Anthem, so if you've among the few who have been playing along, you're entering...

Antares Open World is an outrageously ambitious new MMO sandbox being built with SpatialOS

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Let's take a quick break for what's fast becoming MMO Anniversary Week around here for a peek at a brand-new MMO still on the...

E3 2020 wants more consumers, more celebrities, and to pay major media outlets to ‘control the message’

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E3 is looking to be a completely different show in 2020 if the plan slides distributed today mean anything. Pitch slides and details shared...
Your stuff, can I have it?

Ultima Online’s publish 106, Forsaken Foes, is live on the eve of its 22nd birthday

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Would you believe we're just a week away from the seminal game of the MMO genre's 22nd birthday? We are indeed, and Ultima Online...
A bunny must jump.

Final Fantasy XIV’s final anniversary story casts a gaze toward its antagonist

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Well, last week Final Fantasy XIV's anniversary fiction was just full to the brim of spoilers for those who have not yet finished the...

MMORTS Travian Legends turns 15 years old with its Victoria Codex event

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You folks remember Travian Games, right? At one point, the company was designated as the European publisher for both Crowfall and Shroud of the...

Ryzom turns 15 years old with events and an emerging story

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September historically has been a crazy busy month for MMO launches, and so it should come as no surprise that many titles are celebrating...
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World of Warcraft previews its clever new party sync system

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By all indications, World of Warcraft's Patch 8.2.5 is on the horizon, and when it arrives on the servers, it's going to bring one...

Dofus celebrates 15 years of operation with a meta event and plans to launch a retro server

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One of my favorite things about this genre is how the "lesser-loved" titles can keep on truckin' thanks to an established and engaged playerbase...

Blizzard’s Pat Nagle on the first quests he designed for World of Warcraft

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The fjord pining that is WoW Classic certainly drums up lots of nostalgia for folks, whether they're players of the game itself or developers...

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