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Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds Kodan are basically cute environmentalist bears

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Before today, I might've said that nobody loves talking about bears as much as our writers, who keep penning articles about cool MMO bears,...
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Global Chat: FFXIV rides out on the Dawntrail

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The blogosphere is buzzing about the recent release of FFXIV: Dawntrail, including The Nosy Gamer, who provided some first thoughts and impressions of this...

Raph Koster lays out the (first) four pillars of design for his sandbox MMORPG Stars Reach

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I have some good news and bad news. The bad news is that Raph Koster's Stars Reach is probably a good long while away...

Fantastic Pixel Castle’s Project Ghost is still years out, but plans public playtest for ‘fairly soon’

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Fantastic Pixel Castle announced that Project Ghost recently crossed its second prototype milestone, with the first happening back in April, and the studio is...

Last Epoch stresses QOL improvements coming with its Harbingers of Ruin update

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We're on the cusp of receiving Last Epoch's anticipated Patch 1.1: Harbingers of Ruin, which is scheduled to arrive on July 9th. While you...

Massively Overthinking: Do you have a ‘mental block’ in MMORPGs?

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Back in June, MMO blogger Belghast from Tales of the Aggronaut penned a fun blog about having had a mental block against tanking. "Something happened...

Here’s how the ‘cellular automata simulation’ in Raph Koster’s new sandbox MMORPG Stars Reach works

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In the wake of the announcement of Stars Reach, Playable Worlds' Raph Koster has been making the rounds of Reddit and the gaming blogosphere...

Trove celebrates ninth birthday, plans Sunfest, and offers console roadmap

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Next week, Trion's original voxelbox Trove turns nine years old, and though Trion is long gone, current handler Gamigo and its severely underpaid community...

Star Citizen raked in higher profits over the month of June and the second quarter

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One might suspect that the month of May would have been a big one for Star Citizen's piggy bank owing to the Invictus event...

Gamigo offloads Desert Operations and Wargame 1942 publishing to Fawkes with only two weeks’ notice on migrations

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Remember back at the end of 2020, when Gamigo began rather obviously to divest itself of most of its publishing agreements and video games,...

Global Chat: Tarisland’s controls, WoW Classic permadeath, and Dawntrail tips

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The Ancient Gaming Noob doesn't mince words in a recent essay: He found Tarisland pretty annoying right from the start. One key complaint? The...

Massively Overthinking: How ‘massively multiplayer’ do we expect MMORPGs to be?

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Earlier in June on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I took a stab at answering the age-old question of what, exactly, constitutes an MMO....

Raph Koster’s nine Playable Worlds teasers (so far) hint at the MMORPG sandbox you always wanted

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As we covered earlier in the week, Raph Koster's studio Playable Worlds has been tweeting what appeared to be a countdown accompanied by a...

Funcom’s Joel Bylos explains why Dune Awakening is an actual, factual MMO

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In an era where game studios are either backpedaling on calling their MMOs "MMOs," it's refreshing to see one studio come outright and take ownership...

Massively Overthinking: Unfair stigmas that follow MMORPGs

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A few weeks back, our team was discussing the intersection of survival sandboxes, MMORPG virtual worlds, and gankboxes - and how hard it is...

MMO sandbox Fractured bumps launch to later in the summer than anticipated

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Last night on Discord, Dynamight Studios' Jacopo Gallelli apologized to Fractured fans, telling them that among the eight-person staff, he was the person who...
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Guild Wars 2 previews Janthir Wilds’ land spears for Elementalists, Mesmers, and Revenants

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Here we go: ArenaNet has finally dropped a dev blog on the final third of Guild Wars 2's classes destined for spear usage come...

Ship of Heroes has revamped all of its NPC voices and added new ones

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Heroic Games is continuing its efforts to bring modern features to indie superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes, as its latest dev blog explains -...

The MOP Up: Temtem goes neon as it spins down development

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Temtem's Patch 1.7 arrived with the start of its Neon Reverie season, the game's last as development starts to spin down: "To close it...

PlanetSide 2 addresses its recent Sunderer Rework blunder

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If you're going to be stuck in status limbo, it helps to at least show signs that you're still alive and kicking. So good...

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