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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...
More than you know.

Ubisoft Annecy joins the many teams working on The Division

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You remember The Division, right? We sort of do. It was supposed to be released... eventually. Was it supposed to be now? Meh, doesn't...

Guild Wars 2 initially aims for a small desert borderlands WvW test

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Even as Guild Wars 2 players are diligently farming zones in the hopes of obtaining a Heart of Thorns PvE beta key, ArenaNet is...

Talking with Trion about the future of Trove

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If you dismissed Trove early on as an insignificant game or a thinly veiled Minecraft clone, then it might be time to take a...

Massively Overthinking: The return of ‘consequences’ to MMOs

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This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes to us from Kickstarter donor Antonia "Toni" Phillips aka ToniLyran, who's hit on a sore point with our writers, it...

Meta: Support Massively Overpowered on Patreon

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Three months ago almost to the day, the Massively OP team came to you, the MMO community, with a promise and a request. AOL...

Elder Scrolls Online video demonstrates freedom and choice

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Do you like freedom? Do you like choices? Well, of course you do; you're a living person, not RoboTron 2010. Elder Scrolls Online purports...

Massively Opinionated: Hearthstone vs Neverwinter vs LoL

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In this episode, Larry, Jason, Justin, and Tina debate the MMO free-to-play business model: the best takes, the western market, and awful F2P ads.

Global Chat: What happens to original MMOs when they get sequels?

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Telwyn at GamingSF asks a question that I've contemplated from time to time: When an MMO gets a sequel, what happens to the original...

EVE Evolved: Seven years of EVE Evolved

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When I started writing about EVE Online for Massively back in 2008, the MMO genre was really hitting its stride, and emerging sites like...

Massively Opinionated: FFXIV vs. FFXIV vs. CoH

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In this episode, Larry, Eliot, Laura, and Matt debate the topic of immersion in the MMORPG genre, pitting City of Heroes against the Final Fantasy franchise.

Guild Wars 2 teases shield Mesmer, distributes beta keys as in-game loot

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Shield-using Mesmers may be one of the new specializations coming with Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns if a new piece of concept art...

Massively Opinionated: WoW vs. LOTRO vs. the banker

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In this augural episode of Massively Opinionated, Larry, Mike, Richie, and Tina debate the topic of what makes the MMORPG genre special in 2015.
My life is not fun.

Perfect Ten: The 10 things every MMO’s official site should have

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Are you ready to have you mind absolutely blown open? Because I have an astonishing truth to lay at your feet: While doing this...

Koster on Star Wars Galaxies’ combat and social connectivity ‘glue’

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MMO designer Raph Koster is back with yet another post-mortem on Star Wars Galaxies, this one the second part of his "living society" discussion. Get...
More like real reality.

The Elder Scrolls Online halts in-game ads

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Wasn't it great when The Elder Scrolls Online put ads in the middle of the screen for cash shop items during a welcome back...

How Star Wars Galaxies pioneered a ‘living society’

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Former Star Wars Galaxies Creative Director and current Crowfall consultant Raph Koster returned to his blog last night to pen the fourth in his...

Global Chat: Are WoW Tokens worth it?

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The debut of World of Warcraft Tokens into the game's economy has caused quite a stir, particularly after the prices plunged during the first...

EVE Evolved: How many subscriptions does EVE have?

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Two weeks ago, a mathemagician over at The Nosy Gamer published some interesting calculations showing that EVE Online's subscriptions may have dropped by around...

SkySaga explains the tech behind its good looks

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SkySaga's developers don't want you to automatically lump their title in with the rest of the voxel crowd based on it looks. A new...

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