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Chaos Theory: Seven reasons I am thankful for The Secret World

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It is definitely no secret that I like The Secret  World. I mean, I really like it. OK, so I adore it in a...

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for the shooter and console MMO fan

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Well, I'm still playing the hell out of Star Wars: Battlefront, despite its many (many) faults! It may just be the Star Wars feels, but this...
What can I say except ''you're welcome''

Perfect Ten: Ten MMOs to be thankful for by type

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It's been a while since I wrote a column that comes out on Thursdays, which means that it's also been a while since I've...

The Daily Grind: Are you playing MMOs on Thanksgiving?

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It's Thanksgiving in the States, which means that I'm about to get fatter. It also means that a few hours from now, I'll be...

Jukebox Heroes: Ragnarok 2’s soundtrack

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Game soundtracks like this are the reason why I scrounge outside of the well-known MMOs for hidden gems. As I've often said before, the...

Choose My Adventure: Rising through the ranks in Guild Wars 2

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Hello, friends, and welcome yet again to another installment of Choose My Adventure. Over the course of last weekend, I've continued my journeys in...

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for Guild Wars 2 players

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It's been a glorious, if very long and busy, year for Guild Wars 2, so I'm sure ArenaNet is eager to see Wintersday approaching at...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite World of Warcraft memory?

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Eleven years is a long time to cast one's recollection lines back into the memory pool, but several moments from the initial launch of...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 39: Giving thanks

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Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert, Blade & Soul, SWTOR nerfs, Funcom, and gratitude, plus mailbag questions on other podcasts, the quest for sandboxes, F2P restrictions, and custom races.

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for total MMO newbies

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If you're anything like me, you probably have a tough time deciding what kinds of gifts to buy all of your totally real, not-at-all...

Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s Veteran Ranks take center stage again

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This week, I really wanted to talk about Orsinium. There are some really great things happening in Elder Scrolls Online in the DLC that I’d...

The Daily Grind: What are the basic rules of conduct for an MMO community?

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If there's one thing I've learned from 18 years of playing MMOs, it's that games train us to abide by some pretty weird codes...

Sword and Bored: Alt

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Thanks to his friend Amilya, Mo has finally rolled up an alt -- but has he really?
Great big world.

Wisdom of Nym: Much ado about Final Fantasy XIV’s Diadem

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There's a whole lot to be said about the Diadem. Let's start: It's kind of a mess because it's a really solid idea lacking...
Full of sound and fury. Sadly.

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for the MMO peripheral junkie

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I'm not going to lie, folks: I love peripherals. Love 'em. As soon as I was introduced to the idea that you could have...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite Camelot Unchained class?

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Camelot Unchained has been revealing its classes for a few weeks now, and the fantasy RvR sandbox has no shortage or interesting archetypes. So...

MMO Mechanics: Three game-changing movement mechanics

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In order to create the most truly challenging MMOs that connect players with the specific virtual environments they're traversing, developers have always worked on...
I gots to bag it up.

The Daily Grind: What do you do while you’re waiting in MMOs?

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Let's face it, MMOs are not always filled with new stuff happening every minute. You wait for queues, you wait for enemies to spawn,...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO support class?

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Seeing Camelot Unchained roll out its vision for its trio of support classes brought a smile to my face the other day. See, I...
I guess?

Leaderboard: Would you play Space Engineers on a MOP private server?

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I love me some Space Engineers, even more so now that Keen Software House has added huge, destructible planets to its space sandbox. I've mostly...