Everyone was wearing matching towels.

WRUP: Someone was really hungry edition

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I don't know how we got to the point of eating lobster, exactly, but someone must have been really hungry. Like, insanely hungry. Someone fished up that thing, and rather than deciding that it was proof that there were no loving deities in the world, the fisher thought "let's boil that and eat it." And then it was drenched...

The Stream Team: Life on MassivelyOP’s ARK: Survival Evolved island

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There's something quite addicting about ARK: Survival Evolved. MassivelyOP's MJ can't quite decide whether it's the craving to explore more of the island, the need to tame all the dinosaurs, or the burning desire to exact revenge on whatever just killed her. Most likely it's a combination of all that and more! In the end it doesn't matter: She...

The Daily Grind: Is SWTOR 2.0 a good move by BioWare?

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I'm not going to lie to you: I'm almost equally divided between excitement and nervousness for Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire. I'm still not quite sure why BioWare feels it necessary to all but jettison the game it's built up to this point and perform a story reset of sorts. I also have no...

The Stream Team: Soaring Wander’s skies

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The exploration-centric Wander is not all about meandering through the trees (as a tree, no less) on the ground; it's also about soaring through the skies. And boy, does MassivelyOP's MJ love to fly! The twist here is that can be done either on a griffon or as a griffon, and she's going to show off both! Tune in...
Open the door, get on the floor, fly on a pterodactyl, you are doing this wrong.

Betawatch: June 26th, 2015

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Is there anything as marvelous as finding out that your game got so heavily exploited that the whole game needs to be wiped? If you're playing Ark: Survival Evolved, let us know what that's like. Fortunately for players, there's now a bounty system in place for hacks and an official server for folks from the site, so that's awesome. Other...

Villagers & Heroes’ Slye on the new Reborn overhaul

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In case you missed it, Villagers & Heroes got a facelift earlier this month. The fantasy sandbox from Mad Otter Games is now known as Villagers & Heroes Reborn, the better to illustrate its transition from browser title to full-fledged MMO territory. V&HR "focuses on the interaction between different kinds of activities, combat and crafting," explains Mad Otter CEO (and...

Camelot Unchained has made progress on performance, procedurally generated terrain, and more

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It's Friday, which means there's probably a Camelot Unchained update floating somewhere around my inbox. Yep, here it is. Let's see. Head honcho Mark Jacobs says that CityState has made "significant progress" on the rubberbanding and performance issues that have been focused on for the past few weeks. There's also a blurb about procedurally generated terrain, which is "moving along...
OFF WITH HIS KNEES

Gloria Victis delivers whopper of an alpha update

It may just be one of Gloria Victis' biggest updates yet. The pre-alpha fantasy sandbox patched in several new and improved systems to the game, starting with (of course) achievements. Can't have an MMO without achievements in this day and age, right? Gloria Victis might only have around 20 to start with, but players can level them up to earn...

Ascent’s James Hicks: ‘We really are onto something unique here’

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Ascent: The Space Game is one of the MMO genre's most ambitious titles. Whether it's the seamless transitions between the vastness of space and the vastness of its planetary environments, or whether it's the emergent gameplay made possible by Ascent's NPC AI, this particular PvE sandbox is doing things that other games can't (or won't). MassivelyOP recently interviewed Fluffy Kitten Studios founder...

The Stream Team: The quest for more Wizard101 powers

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After that really fun Battle of the Bands dungeon in Wizard101, MassivelyOP's MJ knew she had to return to fight those musical miscreants again. However, she needs to level up before diving back in so she has more spells at her disposal. Tune in live at 2: 00 p.m. EDT as MJ completes as many quests as she can...