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Massively Overthinking: The best and worst of BlizzCon 2019
BlizzCon 2019 is behind us, finally, and we're winding down our coverage and trying to put a capstone on the experience. In this week's...
Ship of Heroes’ character creator beta is running a scavenger hunt event tonight
Ship of Heroes is making the most of its one-week character creator alpha, with multiple events and patches to keep everything humming. "We actually...
Global Chat: Fallout Last
Bethesda's busy digging another grave for Fallout 76, this time by saddling the troubled online title with a problematic subscription service that is broken...
Ship of Heroes’ character creation tool beta has officially begun
The Ship of Heroes character creator tool beta has officially begun as of noon today, so superhero fans, now you have two chara builders...
Battle Bards Episode 155: FFXIV Shadowbringers
Welcome to the “Cursed Episode” of Battle Bards, where you’ll be risking bad luck and poor RNG rolls just by hearing it! But it...
Massively Overthinking: The problem with MMO ‘dailies’
Longtime MOP Patron and friend of the site Avaera recently posed us an intriguing questions about daily login rewards in MMORPGs.
"Recently my game of choice,...
Perfect Ten: What I learned about ArcheAge Unchained as a complete newbie
As I was going through my first evening in ArcheAge Unchained, thanks to the new buy-to-play release, I was kicking myself for going into...
Why Fight lets players enter an open battlefield to duke it out for rewards in short game sessions
We'd like to introduce you to Why Fight by the three-person team of Build on Barren Studios (yes, those are actual titles thought up...
Global Chat: Starting over in ArcheAge
The (re)launch of ArcheAge Unchained is of significant interest to certain parties who are hoping that this "do over" finally will propel this sandbox...
The Game Archaeologist: A brief history of Multi-User Dungeons
You know that sinking feeling when you get into something that's way, waaaay over your head and you have no choice but to swim...
City of Titans’ character creator, Titan Create, is now available for backers
If you'd been wondering what that countdown on City of Titans' Twitter last week was, well you probably just overlooked the announcement earlier this...
Interview: Population Zero explains its combat, training, raiding, and more
Population Zero, the survival MMO from Enplex Games, is currently in the midst of closed beta test weekends, with its third CBT live now...
Massively Overthinking: Niche MMOs vs. everythingboxes
Earlier this month, veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster announced that he's finally making a new MMORPG, with a suite of top devs and a...
Bless Unleashed devs say they’ve ‘drastically reworked the entire crafting system’
As Neowiz and Bandai Namco march onward toward the open beta of Bless Unleashed in November, the teams have once again penned a dev...
LOTRO’s community digs into the Minas Morgul expansion
If all goes right -- and why wouldn't it? -- next week will see the release of Minas Morgul for Lord of the Rings...
Ship of Heroes’ character creator is adding so many glowing eyes you guys
Did you miss the body morphs video Ship of Heroes pumped out over the weekend? Don't fret; it's still watchable, even if Heroic Games...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare eschews lockbox monetization for a battle pass
Arguably one of the bigger online multiplayer shooters coming down the pike is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, just by mere dint of its...
Massively Overthinking: Are you boycotting Blizzard?
Tyler's piece this week about the Blizzard he loved being dead actually brought tears to my eyes. It hurts to lose a game and...
Hyperspace Beacon: Is SWTOR prepared for the Onslaught?
Welcome back to the Hyperspace Beacon. I have taken a much-needed break over this summer to come back to the first expansion that Star...
Bethsoft delays Fallout 76’s Wastelanders to 2020, but private servers launch next week
Fallout 76's Wastelanders expansion, which Bethesda says is "one of the largest expansions" the company has ever done, has been delayed until 2020, a...
