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Massively Overthinking: Disentangling MMO classes and races
Last week, a guildie of mine mentioned that he'd been interested in Crowfall until he realized he couldn't be a gerbil (Guineacean) of the...
How Overwatch was born in the ashes of Blizzard’s Project Titan MMO
A new piece out on the PlayStation blog is picking at MMO players' Project Titan scar.
Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan explains that after the seven-year Project...
EVE Online scam highlights the value of friendships over ISK
If you've ever studied the psychology of con men and abusers, you know that one of the ways they get people to trust them...
Global Chat: Saying goodbye to The Secret World
With the move to put The Secret World in maintenance mode and shift focus to the rebooted Secret World Legends, one MMO blogger decided...
Marvel Heroes Omega soft launches on PlayStation 4 today
Console geeks assemble! It's time to throw off the shackles of responsibility, hygiene, and relationships to devote yourself to a straight week or two of...
Allods Online’s Creation update lands May 23
Next week is shaping up to be a big one for the MMO industry, unsurprisingly, as Memorial Day approaches and schools begin leaking out...
Dark and Light lets you kill, harvest, and stitch together magic pets
Imagine you're a hunter. Imagine that for every deer you kill, you take a part of it home with you and keep it in...
Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs
Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...
Chronicles of Elyria’s online tech is coming together
Chronicles of Elyria is continuing its... interesting method of disseminating development information by posting blogs about its "adventure teams" and their work on the...
Global Chat: Is Ashes of Creation worth backing?
With all of the hullabaloo going on concerning Ashes of Creation and its Kickstarter campaign, a few bloggers are asking themselves whether or not...
Battle Bards Episode 98: Perfect World International
Perfect World — it’s not just a massive games publisher, it’s also an MMORPG! The team at Battle Bards timidly tiptoe into this unknown...
Identity announces SpatialOS integration, delays town square module
It's time to play catch-up on another interesting indie MMORPG, Identity. You may remember this as the contemporary life simulator sandbox that has raised...
Massively Overthinking: Is the MMO genre facing an identity crisis?
MMORPG blogger and MOP commenter Isarii (@ethanmacfie) recently published an excellent video positing that the MMO industry is facing a "massive identity crisis."
"The MMO...
Conan Exiles goes nuts with home decoration and defense
If interior decoration gets your motor running, then Conan Exiles is about to become your favorite haunt. The survival sandbox just unloaded a slew...
Revelation Online adds Snowpine Reach to its travelogues
My.com has a pair of new dev blogs out this week. The first focuses on Snowpine Reach, a snowy Alpine zone in the northeast...
Atlas Reactor’s season three appends Meridian to the roster
Season 3 has dropped in Trion's Atlas Reactor today, introducing the brand-new Hyperforge map and a brand-new support hero, Meridian.
"He blurs the line between...
Global Chat: Die inventory management die!
Do you have inventory management with the passion of a thousand burning suns? Have you lost most of the vision in your left eye...
Massively Overthinking: Competitive PvE in MMORPGs
During last week's podcast, Justin and I bumped into a tangential topic about competitive PvE and how relatively rare it is in MMORPGs, which...
Pokemon Go’s first Knight Foundation event is this weekend in North Carolina
Pokemon Go really wants to get you outside and moving. That's the gist of its new partnership with the Knight Foundation, through which Niantic hope...
Conan Exiles moves to biweekly patch cadence, reshuffles development priorities
You might have noticed there was no Conan Exiles patch this week. That was intentional. Funcom says it hasn't been happy with the quality of its...
