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Battle Bards Episode 128: Seaside port

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Why not sail up to our dock and tie your ship to ours for an hour? The Battle Bards return for another great episode...

Global Chat: Why Wizardry Online’s permadeath was a good idea

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Here's an MMO and a feature both long since deceased: Wizardry Online and permadeath. Yet as JVT Workshop argues, it was an underappreciated feature...

EVE Evolved: What could the sale of CCP Games mean for EVE Online?

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Just a few days ago, we awoke to news so unexpected that it made me check I hadn't time-traveled to April 1st: EVE Online...

The Daily Grind: What are the ages of your MMO characters?

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Back in August, MMO blog Gnomecore asked an intriguing question about the age of our MMO toons. He wasn't asking about how long you've...

EVE Online banned almost 10,000 bots and unauthorized RMT participants this summer

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CCP Games has made communicating just how it's "coming for the bots" in EVE Online a priority all year, both before and after players...

Crowfall peels apart the layers of the Ranger’s sound design

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"Great sound designers are among the unsung heroes of game development. When their work is on point, it blends seamlessly into the game’s environment,...

Massively Overthinking: What’s your favorite MMORPG swag of all time?

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In a conversation about the recent Starflight 3 Fig campaign - which you won't see covered here since it's not multiplayer, but let me...

Battle Bards Episode 127: Champions Online

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When you sit down to make a list of the greatest heroes that humanity has ever known, obviously the Battle Bards will top that...

Global Chat: Why roleplaying in MMOs matters

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If you haven't visited Psychochild's Blog -- the brainchild of former Meridian 59 and Storybricks dev Brian Green -- lately, you are missing out...

Global Chat: What MMO bloggers think about Battle for Azeroth

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There certainly is no shortage of opinions concerning World of Warcraft's latest expansion out there lately. The blogosphere by and large turned its full...

Gamescom 2018: Torchlight Frontiers’ demo sparks interested queries

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The team at Echtra Games certainly has its hands full with showing off Torchlight Frontiers at Gamescom and fielding countless questions from fans and...
Shiny!

Massively Overthinking: Pay-to-win vs. cosmetics in MMOs and virtual worlds

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MOP Patron Avaera has entreated us to debate the problems of pay-to-win and cosmetic gear, and indulge him we shall. "The idea that good MMOs...

World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth sells ‘more than 3.4 million’ copies for a ‘day-one sales record’ for WoW

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We were just grumbling on this week's MOP Podcast about not having any idea how well World of Warcraft's Battle for Azeroth had sold...

WVU researchers post survey seeking input on video game character avatars

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I suspect that most MMO players, especially the sort who hang out on forums and blogs and care deeply about the games they play,...
That which is not dead is Diablo III.

Massively Overthinking: Would you want to play a League of Legends or Diablo MMORPG?

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Over the last couple of weeks, we've had some tantalizing rumors and teases that both Riot Games and Blizzard are building something new: Riot's...

Battle Bards Episode 126: Out of this world

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It’s time to boldly go where no podcast has gone before — by exploring MMO space themes! It’s perhaps the flat-out goofiest and silliest...

Global Chat: Everybody’s burning up about that Sylvanas thing

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Yes, just about every MMO blogger was sharing heated opinions about last week's World of WarCraft WarCrime. "It’s such a sad event and I’m particularly...

Take a peek at the development of Shroud of the Avatar’s player-designed dungeon system

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Drama seems to plague Shroud of the Avatar, but if you can look past it, there's some fun innovation going on inside Portalarium in...

Global Chat: Is it worth your time to alpha test MMOs?

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Taugrim raises a very interesting question this week on his blog. Namely, is it really worth your time to alpha test MMOs these days?...

Discord has launched its own video game storefront into beta, and it kinda looks like a Steam-GOG mashup

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We all rolled our eyes when Valve's new Steam chat client borrowed heavily from Discord's proven best practices for chat, but most people didn't...

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