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Battle Bards Episode 105: Uncharted Waters Online

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Set sail for amazing adventure and an assortment of audio discoveries! This week, Cap’n Steff and her lackeys board Uncharted Waters Online to see...

Hyperspace Beacon: The 10 best places to find SWTOR content outside the game

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Just this week, a long-running Star Wars: The Old Republic fan-made website mentioned that it was shutting down, one among many that have come...

The Daily Grind: When was the last time you played an MMO ‘wrong’?

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Over the weekend, MMO blogger and Massively OP frequenter Wolfyseyes posted what I thought was a fantastic piece on playing MMOs "wrong." Eschewing other...

The Game Archaeologist: Climax’s Warhammer Online

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Let's begin with a little personal history. Back in 2008, I decided to get into the blogging scene by jumping on board the latest...
This guy, though... he didn't get it.

Final Fantasy XIV players to host in-game events, charity stream for hurricane relief Saturday

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Hat tip to MMO blogger Aywren, who picked up on a Final Fantasy XIV-based Direct Relief charity event "to raise awareness and bolster hurricane...
This is fine.

Secret World Legends adjusts controversial raid reward lockout

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While new -- or at least, warmed up and re-served -- content is all well and good for Secret World Legends, the player community...

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMOs of 2017’s PAX West

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PAX West 2017 has come and gone, and though MJ is still feverishly working on her last few articles, we wanted to pause a...

Global Chat: Overwatch’s stalled story

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With all of the attention, fandom, e-sports, and development given to Blizzard's Overwatch, have you ever suspected that the team shooter has a critical...
Animals! I don'

Wurm Online works on becoming better-looking and better-performing

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This past Saturday, Wurm Online pumped out a small 4.0.6 client release. With improved performance and better lighting, the patch serves as a prelude...

The Black Death looks back at history while Osiris: New Dawn releases the Architect update

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At this point, we are really starting to wonder if The Black Death is a history thesis that ran away from the student and...

Global Chat: Has No Man’s Sky finally arrived as a full-featured game?

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It's been a year since the disastrous and controversial launch of No Man's Sky, a game with failings that included, among many others, a...

Massively Overthinking: Female characters and gender-locked classes in MMOs

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One of the reasons I gravitated to and stick by the MMORPG genre in spite of its many ups and downs (oh, so many...

Battle Bards Episode 104: Something wicked this way comes

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And lo, as the Battle Bards walk through the zone of the shadow of death, they will fear no evil, but they will listen to evil’s...

The Daily Grind: What do you actually expect to get out of MMORPG lockboxes?

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MMO blogger Bhagpuss has an intriguing multi-angle post out this week criticizing, rightly in my mind, Guild Wars 2's lockboxes, but not the way...

Raph Koster on roleplaying consent and emotes in Star Wars Galaxies and WoW

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MMORPG designer Raph Koster has a fun piece out today, ostensibly about what he's dubbing "consent systems" in multiplayer games that include roleplaying --...
Mars mars mars mars.

Massively Overthinking: The survivalbox vs. the MMORPG

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A few weeks ago in Massively Overthinking, the team discussed the resurgence in popularity of small-scale co-op games and whether that has impacted the...

Global Chat: World of Warcraft’s wild frontier

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How is World of Warcraft like the wild west of American history and legend? Something about Barrens chat might come to mind, but blog...

The Daily Grind: Do MMORPG studios worry too much about player retention?

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Back in March, we used a Richard Bartle blog post to discuss retention in MMOs and how developers could up their stickiness factor. But in...

Massively Overthinking: Alone together vs. forced grouping in MMORPGs

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that everyone has at some point seen the xkcd called Isolation, but if not, there...

Global Chat: The MMO blogosphere’s reaction to Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire

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It seems like the entire MMO blogosphere wanted to chip in thoughts on the Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire announcement, whether or not...

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