Massively OP Podcast: Episode 13

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW's sub decline, EQ Next, GW2's Dragonhunter, EQ progression servers, SWTOR harassment, and adventures in Marvel Heroes, Secret World, and Guild Wars, plus mailbag questions on SWG's PvP and pay-to-win.
Oh, so it's a Warcraft 3 mod, but it's only online and it's relentlessly competitive? No thank you. Good night.

League of Legends offers up an Ekko trailer

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In a pitched match of League of Legends, every second counts. So what if you could get a few more of them? Because that's what Ekko is all about, as you can see in a new trailer. You could argue that he's all about making every moment matter... or you could argue he's about resetting time over and over...

The Stream team: Soaking up SWTOR’s story XP bonus

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Star Wars: The Old Republic is tossing out story XP willy-nilly right now, and Massively OP's Larry has talked MJ into diving back in to soak a bunch up! It wasn't that hard to do: The class stories are very fun to watch. And thanks to our community, we have some Deep Core Explorer's Packs to give away to viewers,...
It's a mess out there.

Ubisoft delays The Division until Q1 2016

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A couple of months ago, we reported that The Division was on track for a 2015 release. Not so fast, according to Ubisoft, which today announced that the MMO shooter's launch is being pushed back to "the first quarter of calendar year 2016." No reason is given for the delay beyond the usual PR-speak about ensuring that the game meets...
What a shock.

Star Wars: The Old Republic brings back the Relics of the Gree

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Greetings, black bisector! Or blue acute or yellow nonagon or argyle sinewave; we're not actually very good at the whole Gree dialogue thing. What we are good at is telling you that Star Wars: The Old Republic is bringing those tentacled technophile weirdos back around for another take on their signature event, this time scaled up to level 60. The...

Tree of Savior lands on Steam Greenlight

Will Tree of Savior get the thumbs-up from the gaming community? That's the big question now that the Korean title has landed on Steam Greenlight and is attempting to garner votes from players to become a real boy. Er, a real Steam title. According to the description on Steam Greenlight, Tree of Savior is gunning to be named the most...

WildStar subreddit mod bans F2P and B2P discussions

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Hope you didn't have plans to talk about WildStar's possible conversion to a new business model on Reddit because one of the game's subreddit mods has put the ban on such discussion due to "self-entitled" and "trolling" posts. "Due to the excessive negativity associated with these posts, and the fact that these are unfounded and unconfirmed in anyway, I will...

ARK: Survival Evolved strands you on an island of dinosaurs

Do you have a weirdly shaped hole in your life that can be filled only by killing and riding dinosaurs (not necessarily in that order)? Have you wanted to live out fantasies of taking up residence in Jurassic Park? Then get thee hence to ARK: Survival Evolved because this might be the game that The Stomping Land had promised...

Tamriel Infinium: A guide to Elder Scrolls Online’s combat basics

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I was looking back through some of my posts about the Elder Scrolls Online, and I noticed that I've mentioned combat quite a bit. I talk about how it feels, how it's action-oriented. I even have a couple of articles about different class builds. My favorite thing to talk about is how that your class really doesn't determine your...
It's not really a new ship without slow pans around it and swelling orchestral music.

How Star Trek Online constructs its new pilot ships

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The newest ships in Star Trek Online are all based around making players feel like that piloting specialization was a good expenditure of time and effort. Also being cool ships in their own rights, obviously. So how do you design a new pilot ship? We're not going to speculate because we don't have to; the latest development diary on...