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Massively OP’s 2015 Blooper Awards: Best MMO Milking Sim

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Best MMO Milking Sim. And the winner is... Project Gorgon What, did you think this award was...

Hearthstone dev tackles the issue of card consistency

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Being able to clearly understand what a card does and how it can be used is the subject of a new designer insights video...

Skyforge shows the aftermath of its pantheon wars, announces holiday contest

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Skyforge's Pantheon Wars are gradually coming to a close, taking no prisoner and sparing no hurt feelings. The Allods Team is already preparing for...

Massively OP’s 2015 Blooper Awards: Best Worst MMO Headline

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Best Worst MMO Headline. And the winner is... Eliot's Masterpiece: LEGO Universe died on the sword of...
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New source claims 300 Elder Scrolls Online layoffs throughout 2015

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The Bethsoft layoffs saga has just gotten weirder. Last week, Irish news outlet The Connacht Tribune reported that 300 customer service representatives had been newly let...

Take a tour of Star Citizen’s $10,000 club

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Chances are that you and pretty much everyone you know won't be allowed in one part of Star Citizen: its Million Mile High Club....

Massively Overthinking: The next big Star Wars MMORPG

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In honor of Star Wars week (and rumors that EA is working on another Star Wars game), let's talk Star Wars MMOs. Star Wars Galaxies...

State lawmakers reissue subpoena for Curt Schilling

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Lawyers for Rhode Island are attempting to reissue a subpoena for former 38 Studios head Curt Schilling to testify early next year about the...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Anticipated for 2016 and Beyond

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for most anticipated MMO for 2016 and beyond. In 2013 and 2014, EverQuest Next and Landmark took home...

WoW Legion aims to flatten the PvP gear curve

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Last night, Blizzard posted a dev blog to explain just how World of Warcraft Legion plans to drive a wrecking ball into the game's...

Global Chat: Being thankful in MMOs

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Last month's Thanksgiving holiday in the US prompted several MMO bloggers to share their thanks for gaming and other geeky goodness. Stars of the...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Expansion of the Year

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for best MMO update or expansion of the year. Last year was a bit heavier on MMO updates...

The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO ‘harbinger of failure’?

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Earlier this year, blog Kill Ten Rats wrote about "Harbingers of Failure," a term coined by a quad of marketing researchers to describe people...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Likely to Flop

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our most likely to flop in 2016 and beyond award. Last year, Star Citizen took home this dishonor, leading to...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Biggest Disappointment of 2015

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the biggest MMO disappointment of 2015. Last year, we gave this "award" to WildStar and ArcheAge in...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Improved MMO

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the most improved MMO of 2015. All MMOs, regardless of release date, were eligible for this award,...

Path of Exile demos multi-pet deployment

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The other day I saw a blogger ask why MMOs don't often let you have more than one pet out at a time, combat...

Global Chat: Sifting the good raiders from the bad

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Game designer and blogger Psychochild posited an interesting question recently: How can you tell the difference between a good raider and a bad one? He...

Infiltrate Anti-Santa’s camp to save RuneScape’s Christmas

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RuneScape's notorious Anti-Santa is back and plotting another war on Christmas festivities. It's up to players to infiltrate his camp in a new seasonal...

Here’s what John Smedley’s been up to lately

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What has former SOE and Daybreak head honcho John Smedley been doing since his departure from the latter? Well, putting together a development team,...

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