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Major MMO studio owned by EA, famous for its RPG franchises and particularly to MMO players for Star Wars: The Old Republic

Massively OP Podcast Episode 471: A Gold Road to the promised Tarisland

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Justin and Bree discuss Tarisland, Elder Scrolls Online's Gold Road, Corepunk's alpha, WoW Classic Cataclysm, SWTOR, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on industry jargon, IGN's buying spree, and Embracer.

Co-op RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 readies official modding support for this fall

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For a select slice of the Baldur's Gate 3 community, this fall's Patch 7 will be the update they've been waiting for since the...

Star Wars The Old Republic’s GU 7.5 Desperate Defiance launches today alongside The Acolyte collab

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Star Wars The Old Republic's 7.5 patch is upon us today, as servers went down at 8 a.m. EDT this morning to prepare. The...

Massively Overthinking: Does challenging solo content belong in MMORPGs?

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Star Wars The Old Republic's plan to implement new solo challenge content called Ventures in its Desperate Defiance patch raised more than one eyebrow...

Perfect Ten: My top 10 favorite MMOs across two decades

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Normally in these Perfect Ten lists, I'm very outward-facing. I like to create lists that are as helpful or amusing as possible for others...

The Stream Team: Returning to SWTOR for a killer pup-bot

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If there is one way to entice Massively OP's MJ back into a game, it's by giving her a pet! And SWTOR is offering...

One Shots: Hell’s welcoming committee

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One Shot announcement time, everybody! Gather around, shush up, listen. I am not a mind reader. I do not have one of those NCIS computers...

Massively Overthinking: Fixing boring MMORPG dungeons

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Earlier this month, MMO genre luminary Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street tweeted something from someone on his Ghost MMO team that's going to resonate with a...
You knew this image was going to show up at some point during these articles. Be thankful it only happened at the end.

Vague Patch Notes: There is no one-and-done with MMOs

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Last week's Vague Patch Notes column focused on the struggle of adding new things to MMORPGs forever and ever. I think it was a...

The Daily Grind: Do you still have any launch day characters in your MMOs?

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One of the reasons that I always like going back to Star Wars: The Old Republic is that it's the only MMO that I...

One Shots: Where’s the seatbelt on this thing?

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As flashy and fun as it might be to adventure in a galaxy far, far away, I don't think any of us would last...

Echoes of Elysium’s Jeff Hickman talks lore, airship fleets, and Loric’s current development

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Loric Games has been on our radar for a few years now, being a studio founded by Mythic Entertainment vets, and last month, the...
I DID NOT WANT TO DO THIS AGAIN

Vague Patch Notes: The problem with forever adding classes to MMOs

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The second expansion for Final Fantasy XI, Chains of Promathia, launched to extremely mixed reception, and there was one overwhelming reason for that lack of...
Sorry, guy.

Perfect Ten: 10 favorite features that pairs of popular MMOs share

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Even though all MMORPGs compete for our time, affection, and -- above all else -- money, it doesn't mean that they can't get along....

The Daily Grind: Are you optimistic or pessimistic about SWTOR’s future?

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We are in an interesting season with Star Wars: The Old Republic -- and no, I'm not talking about a PvP or Galactic Conquest...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 468: Give ’em Helldivers 2

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Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR's update 7.5, Daybreak's headcount, the Helldivers 2 fiasco, and freebies from Elder Scrolls Online and DDO, with adventures in SWG Legends and LOTRO, plus mailbag topics on why we haven't had a new blockbuster MMORPG in a while and whether MMOs will return to an era of experimentation.
it's not even on a teevee

Global Chat: How much is Fallout 76 benefiting from Amazon’s Fallout series?

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MMO blog Tales of the Aggronaut looked at the recent phenomenon of Amazon's popular Fallout series and any correlating increase in the games' populations,...

Star Wars Galaxies Legends celebrates May the Fourth with boosts, Ugnaughts, and a Prima guide giveaway

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In case the internet has somehow not already baked this into your brain, tomorrow is May the Fourth and Sunday is Revenge of the...

Star Wars The Old Republic celebrates May the Fourth with a free Phantom Menace BX-24 droid

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Last night, the Star Wars The Old Republic team dropped a massive preview of its 7.5 update, which includes everything from a farming system...

Star Wars The Old Republic’s GU 7.5, Desperate Defiance, includes a farming system and solo Ventures

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We don't have a hard launch date, but Star Wars The Old Republic's Update 7.5 has a name and a face, as revealed by...

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