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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

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Star Wars The Old Republic unveils GU 7.3 Old Wounds in time for Star Wars Day

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Star Wars fans readying their sabers for May the Fourth have something tangible to look forward to thanks to Star Wars The Old Republic....

The Soapbox: MMO housing is so much more than a frivolous feature

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When The Sims launched in 2000, what seemed like a dull and laughable concept on paper proved to be one of the most compelling...
Details, details.

Idea Fabrik, the company behind Hero Engine and The Repopulation, disappears from the internet

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The beginning of this year saw a sad but perhaps unsurprising development for the Kickstarted sci-fi sandbox MMO The Repopulation when the workers contracted...

Star Wars The Old Republic celebrates the launch of Star Wars Jedi Survivor with a free mini-pet

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One of the bigger gaming releases over this past weekend has been EA and Respawn's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the sequel to the acclaimed...

The Stream Team: Moving on to Makeb in SWTOR

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Massively OP's Larry and MJ and so close to completing the Galactic Loremaster achievement in SWTOR. All that they have left is to move...
Something less than inspiring.

Star Wars The Old Republic previews several class balance adjustments coming in Update 7.3

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Another major update is looming on the horizon of Star Wars: The Old Republic, and it's bringing with it a variety of balance tweaks...

Global Chat: Do MMOs need help from artificial intelligence?

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With tech news becoming more and more dominated by the sophistication and place of artificial intelligence, blogger Tobold asks if AI might be the...
Kitty!

Storyboard: Pros and cons for scripted narrative stories in MMOs

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Last week, we looked at the pros and cons for stories in MMOs that were purely player-driven, or at least using player actions and...
WHY IS STUFF SO HARD?!

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO promises that are not filling me with confidence

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Every game's development - and this includes MMOs - involves certain promises being made that the developers probably half-knows are not going to wind...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 416: Jedi mind trick

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Justin and Bree discuss April Fools' Day in MMOs, SWTOR, Mad World, Last Epoch, Anvil Empires, Multiversus, E3, ARK 2, and ARK Survival Ascended, with adventures in Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, and WoW Classic, plus mailbag topics on leaving your mark on and feeling special in MMO game worlds.
Shoot to wound!

Star Wars The Old Republic opens its first cloud-based server for testing in the Asia-Pacific region

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Last week, Star Wars: The Old Republic announced plans to move its servers to newer cloud-based tech hosted by Amazon Web Services as part...

Massively Overthinking: The dumbest conversations in your main MMO’s general chat

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Last week, in a thread about one of Diablo IV's many rivals, MOP commenter Greaterdivinity noted that chat in the game was exhausting because...

Star Wars: The Old Republic plans to move its servers over to Amazon Web Services

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Hot on the heels of the move to a 64-bit client, Star Wars: The Old Republic is preparing another big jump in its backend:...

Electronic Arts lays off hundreds of employees as part of a ‘restructuring’ plan

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Pink Easter eggs may be in season, but over at Electronic Arts, employees are filling up their baskets with pink slips instead. The video...

The Stream Team: Finally completing Corellia in SWTOR

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Finally! Massively OP's Larry and MJ are more than happy to be able to finish SWTOR's Corellia storyline; they are so done with that...

Global Chat: Diablo IV is an MMO, change my mind

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Besides melting GPUs, ejecting colors into the sun, and being more grim than your unapproving Aunt Kelka, Diablo IV's becoming known for actually being...
Bap-a-dap-daaaa, daaa, dap-a-bap-daaaaaa ~♪

Star Wars: The Old Republic kicks off Galactic Season 4, PvP Season 2, and 64-bit client

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An urgent communique has gone out over the galactic holonet, informing the denizens of a galaxy far, far away that Star Wars: The Old...

Star Wars: The Old Republic punches PvP Season 2 into next week’s navcomputer

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Following the first PvP season that itself came after a revamp of competitive scene, Star Wars: The Old Republic is pulling the trigger on...

MMO Burnout: Mass Effect’s Legendary Edition modernizes a classic

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Most MMO players will admit to feeling the need to step away from the multiplayer genre from time to time. This seems especially true...
Swoosh.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO boasts the best space combat?

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When you get tired of your iron-plated boots being stuck to a giant gravity ball, you may yearn to take flight into the sky...

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