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I swear I've been waiting all year to say this: Heart of Thorns hits this Friday, everyone! Cue the massive in-game parties, mass orders of junk food and energy drinks, and a chorus of cheers, cries, and happy tears from fans and devs alike. From the moment I picked up the Flameseeker torch, I knew that one of the...

Daybreak has always been a huge proponent of Halloween, and this year is no different. Returning, new, and revised events are happening in pretty much all of the MMO studio's games, including those that have yet to officially launch. EverQuest and EverQuest II continue the long-running Nights of the Dead celebration, while PlanetSide 2 has its cheeky Nanite of the Living...

Last week, the Massively OP podcast hosted guest James Hicks, the developer behind impressive indie space sandbox MMO Ascent: The Space Game. You won't be surprised to learn that the kind of insane dev who takes on a sandbox MMO solo -- and prospers to grow his team and lead a successful Kickstarter -- is also the kind of...

Everyone has preferences about classes and playstyles in MMOs, and if you're the sort of player who plays only characters built like trucks wielding separate, smaller trucks as weapons, you'll be quite happy with the new preview of Crowfall's Champion. Yes, that's the Champion's deal: being enormous with an enormous weapon, and crushing everything. Several elements of design combine...

The western world is about to get its first hands-on experience with the gorgeous Black Desert. The fantasy MMO will be debuting its public demo on October 28th at Paris Games Week. If you happen to be in the area, you can check Black Desert out in Hall 1, booth J010. In addition to the demo, Black Desert will be...

You - yes, you - are the most perfectly creative player in Trove. You know it, your friends know it, and your enemies pretend they don't know it but they do. So you can make use of the new player marketplace to sell your unneeded junk to other players, make like four million dollars, and kick back to an...

Decisions, decisions. When you are invited to a special sneak peek of The Park, the upcoming single-player game based on The Secret World's own Atlantic Island Amusement Park, guided by Joel Bylos, the very guy who created said park, it is hard to say no! On one hand, you really want to be completely surprised by every little detail...

Defiance (the TV series) is no more, but Defiance (the MMO) lives on for now. The question on the table here is what does this mean for the future of the game? Sure, Trion Worlds is projecting confidence in the future of its game, because why would it not? But pragmatically speaking, it's got to at least sting to lose some...

Hey MMO developers, have you ever wondered why players are driven away from your games? Two bloggers took a stab at a list of features repulse them personally when they encounter them in-game. "Oh man, the pain… the cringe that shoots through my body whenever MMO devs talk about adding more jumping puzzles to their game as if that was somehow...

October is most definitely a time for events, and EverQuest II upped the ante with three at one time! Not only is the Halloween-inspired Nights of the Dead happening but there are elementals and vicious killer rabbits roaming the land. And MassivelyOP's MJ is setting out to rid Norrath of both evils! She'll start by showing off both the...