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New World testers killed almost 40M overland mobs during last weekend’s Aeternum beta

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At the conclusion of New World's Aeternum open beta earlier this week, Amazon promised a recap blog - and now on Friday, we finally...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO memories we never want to repeat

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A random quote I saw buried in the comments on the MMORPG subreddit a while ago really hit hard. Extra_Midnight wrote, "Some of my most...

Ubisoft’s ‘XDefiant is not dying’ t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

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If you had forgotten all about Ubisoft's newish shooter XDefiant, then you're not alone. It actually launched back in May and apparently did fine,...

Global Chat: The War Within continues WoW’s upward trend

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We'll kick off this week's tour of MMO blogs with a diverse first impressions piece of The War Within by Kaylriene, who praises the...

Stars Reach’s technical testing provoked emergent landscaping, player creativity, and the lag monster

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Playable Worlds - technical designer Light Bates this time, not Raph Koster - has dished out another dev blog on Stars Reach's pre-alpha playtest....

EA says it won’t replace The Sims 4 with a sequel as it preps fall playtest for multiplayer Project Rene

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The fate of The Sims franchise in the last few years has been a little bit messy: EA has been working on what it...

Ultima Online wraps up eighth New Legacy beta weekend as launch window looms

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Since the last time we checked in on Ultima Online's New Legacy beta testing, Broadsword has rolled out three more test weekends - and...

Global Chat: Star Trek Online’s content problem

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As we kick off another edition of MMO gamer blogs talking about the titles that we love the most, we'll be visiting with Contains...
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Raph Koster shows off Stars Reach’s updated world graphics in new footage

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When Playable Worlds first fully revealed Stars Reach to the public earlier this summer, the one sticking point with a certain segment of MMO...

Massively Overthinking: When the big five MMORPGs have five big expansions in the same year

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By the time you're reading this article, Black Desert's Land of the Morning Light Seoul has officially launched on PC, and it marks an...

Survival MMO Myth of Empires teases its upcoming Persia DLC, due out this year

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We haven't gotten a whole lot of information about Myth of Empires' next DLC, the Persia-themed expansion for the popular survival MMO, but Angela...

You can still play your old Nightingale characters offline even after Realms Rebuilt launches

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We're just two days away from the launch of Nightingale's Realms Rebuilt, which is less an update and more a full-scale revamp and reset...

Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends teases housing packup, Halloween, droid engineer love, and Jedi Themepark p2

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"Star Wars Galaxies is not dead," says rogue server SWG Legends. "It is here and now, filled with our friends, family, and the fun...

New World offers in-game loot for testing Aeternum next week – open beta preloading begins September 11

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New week starting on September 13th, Amazon is finally opening up the Aeternum beta for all comers, both PC and console. But if you've...

Here’s what to expect from Nightingale’s massive Realms Rebuilt update when it lands next week

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Nightingale fans have been waiting for Realms Rebuilt all summer - since even before we knew it was called Realms Rebuilt. But your wait...

Massively Overthinking: Monetization dealbreakers in MMORPGs

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A few weeks back, I overheard my kids complaining about some custom Minecraft server that was apparently trying to monetize survival mode, which seemed...

Guild Wars 2 just unveiled a new 5v5 PvP mode called Push with beta starting next week

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Somebody go tell MOP's Sam that Guild Wars 2 is about to get a new PvP mode and he may actually like it! ArenaNet...

Stars Reach releases video footage of its movement tech from earliest testing to now

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When writing up a post about last week's Stars Reach dev blog on character movement, I kept thinking one thing: This article needs a...

Tarisland opens SilverLit Cup guild PvP tourney registrations, previews its Viking-inspired season

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Tencent has dropped several new dev blogs for Tarisland over the last few days, including previews of Blight Dragon Elegy and its PvP tourney. Let's...

The MOP Up: 2008’s Grand Fantasia relaunches with a classic Origin server

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Anime MMO Grand Fantasia is relaunching on September 3rd with a classic edition called Origin that harkens back to the title's 2008 era: "New engine,...

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