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Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s Season of Wonder is evasive, but March scores critical hits

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Pokemon Go's Sinnoh Tours and Season of Timeless Travels are both behind us, and we're left with... World of Wonders? Based on the latest announcements...

Massively Overthinking: Always-online vs. offline modes in multiplayer games

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The Nightingale team's admission that players are clamoring for an offline version of the game - and that Inflexion is now planning to do...

Vindictus pits players against a vampire gardener raid boss

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After taking a brutal and unexpected axe to all of its PvP systems earlier this year, Vindictus is looking to shore up that self-inflicted...

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with interesting Guinness World Records

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I never quite know how much stock to put in Guinness World Records. I guess it's somewhere between "for amusement value" and "stone cold...
Oddly beautiful.

The MOP Up: Aion, Lineage 2, and Blade and Soul get ready for a new launcher

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Blade and Soul, Lineage II, and Aion are all preparing to migrate everyone from the old launcher to the new PLAYNC platform. NCsoft posted...

One Shots: The mosh pit of friendship

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I don't know about you, but when I get together with 75 of my closest friends, I like to crowd right up on them...

Four Winds: Phantasy Star Online 2 offers some of the best social features in MMORPGs

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I don't know about everyone else, but a huge part of MMOs for me is the fashion. My characters need to absolutely slay the runway...

It looks like the ‘noncore IP’ Daybreak sold for $5.9M is PlanetSide after all

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Yesterday, when we covered EG7's Q4 2023 financials, we highlighted the company's disclosure that Daybreak had sold a "noncore IP" for $5.9M, a move...

EG7 Q4 2023: DCUO’s delayed latest-gen console launch hurt Daybreak’s revenues last quarter

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While bigger games companies continue to flail, EG7 actually managed to grow last year, as its latest investor report demonstrates, with overall revenues up...

The Daily Grind: Do any old MMORPGs provoke trauma for you?

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A while back I fell down a rabbit hole digging into Blade and Soul NEO Classic (trying to figure out whether the NEO was...

Daybreak’s DC Universe Online studio Dimensional Ink is the latest games team hit with layoffs

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The culling of games industry employees continues through the beginning of this year: A list compiled by Kotaku that outlines the over 6,400 layoffs...

The MOP Up: Fae Farm launches a free demo

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Was Fae Farm too rich for you blood? Now you can check it out for free on Nintendo Switch or PC thanks to a...

Q4 2023: Nexon, Krafton, and Roblox all posted soaring revenues in 2023

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Welcome back to another MMO business roundup - this one all about financials for some of the companies we keep an eye on 'round...

DC Universe Online reopens Love’s Battlefield and hands out new rewards for Valentine’s Day

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Nothing says love quite like denying a villain his heart's desire because it would destroy an entire city. If that setup sounds familiar to...

Massively Overthinking: When the original MMO is better than the sequel

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A few weeks ago, two lovely gamers I follow on Bluesky were discussing how let down they felt by Diablo IV, less because Diablo...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: The MMO franchises that can’t count past two

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Back in the day, there was a running joke about how Capcom had shown with Street Fighter that the company could not count higher...

DC Universe Online is giving away sweet hairstyles for Black History Month

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Valentine's Day and lunar new year events are flying in MMOs this week, but Daybreak's DC Universe Online studio, Dimensional Ink, has recognized yet...

Phantasy Star Online 2’s latest update adds more story and raises the level cap as SEGA America begins layoffs

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Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis players are in for a treat today, and they deserve it after waiting through a nine-hour maintenance with...

Blade & Soul NEO Classic discusses content tweaks while staying non-committal to a release date

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The NEO Classic server project that Blade & Soul is working on seems to be a long time coming if prior posts are any...

Blade & Soul NEO Classic continues its Cinderlands highlight with a look at bosses and monsters

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Attentive fans of Blade & Soul might have noticed that the last Cinderlands preview for the NEO Classic server was labeled "Part 1," so...

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