Opinion

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Perfect Ten: Ten well-known voice actors behind SWTOR’s characters

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When it launched, Star Wars: The Old Republic was one of the biggest video game voice-over projects that BioWare or any studio had ever...

The Daily Grind: Will you play Bless or Black Desert?

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I'm looking forward to both Bless and Black Desert. I typically like Korean MMOs, for one thing, and for another they're both gorgeous in...

Choose My Adventure: Pointy sticks and lunacy in Trove

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Hello, friends, and welcome once again to Choose My Adventure. This week, our time with Trove is drawing to an end, but we're not...

Massively Opinionated: Which MMO would be the most innovative if launched today?

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In this episode, Larry, Troy, and Jason debate underrated games, MMO development cycles, and the most innovative MMOs.

Flameseeker Chronicles: Understanding Guild Wars 2’s Mordrem Guard

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If you pay attention to the images I use throughout my Flameseeker Chronicles articles, you'll notice that one of my favourite characters to include...

The Daily Grind: What details do you want to know about World of Warcraft: Legion?

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World of Warcraft's newest expansion will undoubtedly be a major topic of conversation at November's BlizzCon. While Blizzard has unveiled the larger brush strokes...

Global Chat: The death of hope for Pathfinder Online

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Pathfinder Online might not be completely dead, but hope for it has certainly gone down the drain following the announcement of the studio's mass...

Hyperspace Beacon: Six things to do before SWTOR’s Knights of the Fallen Empire launch

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When Knights of the Fallen Empire launches for Star Wars: The Old Republic, certain activities will not be available in game anymore -- specifically, quests...

The Daily Grind: What’s the grindiest MMO?

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Allow me to butcher a phrase: MMO grind is in the eye of the beholder. A few hundred architect entertainment missions in City of...

Stream Team: 12 days of TOR, day one

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With the new expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic hitting the live servers in a little less than a month, our streamers Larry...

Sword and Bored: To the rescue

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Mo deals with the effects of a PvP flag while trying to evade players and NPCs during his escape from town.
Why must you disappoint hopes?

Wisdom of Nym: The state of Final Fantasy XIV’s ranged DPS

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Honestly, ranged damage is a field that's never quite appealed to me as much as other options for doing stuff. Not just in Final...

The Daily Grind: How organized is your MMO inventory?

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I just spent an hour organizing folders on my media hard drive, which has nothing to do with anything other than it gave me...

EVE Evolved: New roles for capital ships

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In the past two editions of EVE Evolved, I looked at the Aegis sovereignty warfare overhaul and how it played out in a recent...
Can't we go back to mushroom people? That'd be keen.

The Daily Grind: What MMO do you doubt you’ll ever play?

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I never cared about EverQuest. The first game came out before I was even remotely interested in an online game, and the sequel wasn't...

The Game Archaeologist: Anarchy Online

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"The future in your hands." This was Funcom's promise to gamers in the early days of the 2000s. Even as the MMORPG genre slowly took...

The Daily Grind: What are your favorite MMO NPC quotes?

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"You are wrinkly manager man. It's your job to be old and die so we can learn and be sad. Also you pay for...

Leaderboard: Do you like MMO developer livestreams?

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I'm not a big fan of livestreaming. I get why it's popular: people gravitate to magnetic gaming personalities the same way they gravitate toward...

MMO Burnout: Star Wars Uprising

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When I heard that Disney's first foray into the new Star Wars gaming universe was a mobile-only RPG, it made me sort of angry....

The Daily Grind: Should MMO studios host their own forums and wikis?

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Massively OP Kickstarter donor DPandaren wants to talk about something every MMO player likely uses but most of us take for granted: forums and wikis. "Do...