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Destiny 2 adds new seasonal challenges, discontinues Crimson Days event

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There's good news and bad news for Destiny 2 fans. The bad news is that the Season of the Hunt is almost over. The...

Massively Overthinking: Are you susceptible to second-hand MMO hype?

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So there's a thing going around the MOP virtual offices lately: Elite Dangerous hype. Between Chris and Ben especially, the excitement for Odyssey is...

Path of Exile promises more texture-streaming and frame-rate adjustments

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If you've ever been annoyed by dropped frames and stutter in Path of Exile, take heart: Grinding Gear Games is still working on the...

Book of Travels’ soundtrack aims to take you to a whole new world

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For an MMO that will be all about the journey, getting the music right for your road trip is an important task for the...
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Guild Wars 2 game designer Keaven Freeman announces his departure from ArenaNet

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It looks like ArenaNet is losing yet another member of its team. Guild Wars 2 game designer Keaven Freeman unveiled on his personal blog...

Battle Bards Episode 185: Taking Flight

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Flying has always been both beloved and controversial in MMORPGs, but no matter what your stance on it, at least you can agree that...

Massively Overthinking: Retaking Quantic’s survey to determine our ‘gamer type’

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Five years ago - yes, it's been that long! - we did an Overthinking in which our staff all took Quantic's survey to see...

Lord of the Rings Online pushes ahead with broadly unpopular patch changes

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While it looked for a minute there that SSG was reconsidering some absolutely awful changes to Lord of the Rings Online, the studio has...

Chronicles of Elyria says it’s focusing on settlement development in the short term

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Back in December, Chronicles of Elyria's Jeromy Walsh put out a new video for the game that left a lot of our readers puzzled. That's...

Neverwinter gives you a taste of its reimagined Sharandar

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Hope you're ready for a heavy dose of the fantastical and mythological, because Neverwinter's about to crack open a portal to a strange realm...

Animal Crossing New Horizons teams up with Colourpop for makeup collab

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File this one under first bizarre crossover of the year so far: Nintendo is releasing Animal Crossing: New Horizons branded makeup through Colourpop. For my...

Massively Overthinking: What MMO were you hoping to hear much more about this past year?

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So 2020 wasn't exactly the year a lot of us probably thought it was going to be in early January. Every bit of our...

Global Chat: Revisiting all of SOE’s game history

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I'm always a sucker for a good timeline, which is why I perked up at seeing Wilhelm at Ancient Gaming Noob trace out the...

Grim Dawn teases Shattered Realm additions as Crate announces new strategy game

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Grim Dawn had a pretty good year in 2020, in spite of the ubiquitous challenges facing the world. According to a dev blog from...

Elder Scrolls Online delays Gates of Oblivion reveal event to avoid inauguration day pandemonium

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One of the big events MMO players were surely looking forward to this month was The Elder Scrolls Online's planned reveal of Gates of...

Book of Travels names Baldur’s Gate, Moomins, classical art, and Studio Ghibli as its influences

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When you're creating something, it's entirely natural to draw inspiration from and be influenced by works that have come before your own. That's most...

The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2020

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Fun fact: The first Daily Grind on Massively was written on November 3rd, 2007, one day after Old Massively transitioned from a Second Life...

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2021

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Welcome to 2021, folks. It's not even going to have to try all that hard to be better than 2020! For our first official Massively...

Whatever happened to Rappelz?

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We haven't really had a look in the direction of the classic-style fantasy MMORPG Rappelz in a while save for a listen to its...

Upcoming MMO SEED’s playtest video is un-bear-able

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With more playtests on the way for community colony simulator SEED coming this year, it's nice to get a glimpse at what we may...

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