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Did you catch the latest dev Q&A from Skyforge? It's about the game's take on guild-vs.-guild battles, otherwise known as Pantheon Wars. The announcement elicited a bunch of questions from the fantasy MMO's community, which Skyforge's devs have printed and answered. "All battles in the Pantheon War take place simultaneously, across multiple battlegrounds before leading up to a final struggle...

Here's a treat for MMO history buffs. Dave Wilson, who works at Blizzard doing recruitment marketing, posted a series of captioned pictures on Twitter showing the earliest stages of development on World of Warcraft. The pictures include the oldest screenshot of WoW using the Warcraft III engine, a placeholder town called Valguard circa 1999, the first character selection screen, Onyxia's...

Justin and Bree discuss Infinite Crisis' sunset, Heroes of the Storm's launch, TERA's growth, EverQuest Next, Marvel Heroes, Trove, PlanetSide 2, Aion, WildStar, and The Secret World, plus mailbag questions on game metrics and character origin stories.

The team behind Crowfall is hard at work preparing what it's calling a "core combat test" between three diverse archetypes. One of these, the female Confessor, is the target of a post today that provides some of the background on her narrative and approach. The Confessors are a branch of the Mother Church that diverged from the Templars when the...

You know those times you ask for something that you may regret getting? Well now just might one such time as MassivelyOP's MJ and Larry team up again in SWTOR! Larry is continuing to try to convert MJ to the dark side, and this time he's using a new event to lure her in: the Nar Shaddaa Nightlife Event....

It won't be long now, faithful Tyrians, before you will be walking down the streets of the shiny, reborn Lion's Arch in Guild Wars 2. ArenaNet announced that Lion's Arch 2.0 will be fully restored come the next content update. As part of the facelift for the once-ravaged city, Lion's Arch will get new names for its quarters as voted...

Daybreak Game Company isn't pulling back on H1Z1's development, but is instead doubling down on the survival zombie sandbox by adding more team members and resources to build what President John Smedley calls "a massive world." Smedley posted an update of H1Z1's future development on Reddit today, listing several features that will be coming down the pike. These include guard...

Welcome to Marvel Heroics, my look at the superhero exploits of Marvel Heroes! Just about half of Massively OP has gotten hooked on this title, so it felt right to devote some space to talking about this OARPG. And what better place to begin than grappling with the leveling game? While dealing with around 50 heroes, legendary items, omega levels,...

Launch rushes onward toward The Repopulation like... some sort of extremely fast launch-related thing. The metaphor isn't perfect. Neither is the game's combat system, which is why the most recent patch is focused on making combat more interesting for everyone. New stances have been added for healers and pet types, dedicated pet types will have new skills to support...

There's simply no way MassivelyOP's MJ could resist showing off a new game, so when Das Tal opened its alpha doors for a day, she had to jump right in. And luckily for her, she's got a great guide to help show her around: Fairytale Distillery Community Director David Wells. Join the pair live at 1:00 p.m. to explore this...