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Massively Overthinking: MMOs that need VR

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Man, our Kickstarter backers are fixated on virtual reality. It's almost as if you guys are really tech-savvy and into gaming immersion or something! Today's Massively Overthinking question...

League of Legends retunes juggernauts

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League of Legends' juggernauts -- what Riot Games is calling its slow, powerful melee characters -- are being retuned with Patch 5.16. The latest patch...

Massively Overthinking: How seriously do you take MMO lore?

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Kickstarter donor Alien Legion has proposed an intriguing question about lore in MMORPGs. "Back in my World of Warcraft days, I mentioned to a friend that I would...

Global Chat: Guild Wars 2 needs to get its act together

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Hunter's Insight is a long-time fan and player of Guild Wars 2, but recently he had some pretty harsh words to say regarding the...

Neverwinter walks you through stronghold buildings, guild hall, and eateries

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There's a heapload of information for Neverwinter players to absorb regarding the upcoming Stronghold module, and Cryptic's been rolling out the dev diaries left...

League of Legends adds defensive items in patch, rejects sandbox mode

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An upcoming League of Legends patch will be giving players more options for defense while smoothing out power levels of items across the board. "We'll...

Hyperspace Beacon: Ten SWTOR sites worth visiting

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As regular readers surely know, I really enjoy the Star Wars: The Old Republic community. And I don't mean the community team led by...

Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns’ first public beta weekend begins August 7th

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How about some Guild Wars 2 news to justify the fact that you're awake at the crack of dawn for this Gamescom embargo lift? Yeah! ArenaNet...

Guild Wars 2’s fractal dungeons to become more accessible and challenging

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Guild Wars 2 is not planning to neglect its fractal content when Heart of Thorns comes out later this year. The fantasy MMO put...

Pathfinder Online deploys holding and outpost warfare system

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Purposeful PvP is expanding in Pathfinder Online, as today Goblinworks is rolling out its holding and outpost warfare system for its early enrollment v10.1...

Global Chat: Do you crave human interaction in MMOs?

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I've long been an advocate of "playing alone together" in MMOs. While I enjoy grouping and teaming up to a degree, mostly I want...

Turbine to announce LotRO server closures on August 3

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Turbine has published a blog post detailing Lord of the Rings Online's upcoming server transfers, server consolidation, and data center move. The company hasn't...

Massively Overthinking: Dealing with toxicity in MMO communities

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This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us from Kickstarter donor Dahui, who asks, "What do you think MMO developers can do to try to minimize...

Perpetuum aims to accelerate its update cadence [Update]

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Sci-fi MMO Perpetuum will soon be switching from long development phases to shorter ones, says Avatar Creations in a new dev post to players today....

Perfect Ten: MMO fan fashion scenes

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For some of us, having the best gear -- stat-wise -- isn't a driving force for playing MMOs. Now, the best-looking gear? That's a...

Why WildStar needs stat refactoring and which stats are on the way out

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WildStar has a major stat rebalancing patch on the way -- in fact, it's so major that it needs a whole new term: stat...

Devilian shows off Shadowhunter class and devil form

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Action-RPG Devilian is cranking up its hype machine, with a pair of informative dev blogs posted this past week about the game's features. The first...

Derek Smart demands Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts resign, fronts $1M for audit

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Claiming he's had "enough of the bullshit that is the 'vaporware' that RSI/CIG have foisted on legacy backers," game developer and internet...
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Smed nukes his own Twitter account

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The Smed Twitter spigot is no longer dispensing tweets. Daybreak President John Smedley is famous for his stready stream of Twitter dialogue with MMO gamers,...

Global Chat: How Marvel Heroes made a dad a hero

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I love a good customer service story, because it reminds me that a lot goes right behind-the-scenes at MMOs that's hardly ever reported. Braxwolf...

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