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Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Anticipated for 2016 and Beyond

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for most anticipated MMO for 2016 and beyond. In 2013 and 2014, EverQuest Next and Landmark took home...

WoW Legion aims to flatten the PvP gear curve

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Last night, Blizzard posted a dev blog to explain just how World of Warcraft Legion plans to drive a wrecking ball into the game's...

Global Chat: Being thankful in MMOs

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Last month's Thanksgiving holiday in the US prompted several MMO bloggers to share their thanks for gaming and other geeky goodness. Stars of the...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Expansion of the Year

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for best MMO update or expansion of the year. Last year was a bit heavier on MMO updates...

The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO ‘harbinger of failure’?

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Earlier this year, blog Kill Ten Rats wrote about "Harbingers of Failure," a term coined by a quad of marketing researchers to describe people...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Likely to Flop

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our most likely to flop in 2016 and beyond award. Last year, Star Citizen took home this dishonor, leading to...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Biggest Disappointment of 2015

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the biggest MMO disappointment of 2015. Last year, we gave this "award" to WildStar and ArcheAge in...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Improved MMO

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the most improved MMO of 2015. All MMOs, regardless of release date, were eligible for this award,...

Path of Exile demos multi-pet deployment

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The other day I saw a blogger ask why MMOs don't often let you have more than one pet out at a time, combat...

Global Chat: Sifting the good raiders from the bad

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Game designer and blogger Psychochild posited an interesting question recently: How can you tell the difference between a good raider and a bad one? He...

Infiltrate Anti-Santa’s camp to save RuneScape’s Christmas

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RuneScape's notorious Anti-Santa is back and plotting another war on Christmas festivities. It's up to players to infiltrate his camp in a new seasonal...

Here’s what John Smedley’s been up to lately

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What has former SOE and Daybreak head honcho John Smedley been doing since his departure from the latter? Well, putting together a development team,...

Global Chat: Gearing up in WildStar

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If you're anything like me, when you get to the max level in a game, there's a general flailing of hands and a feeling...

Hi-Rez sets out 10 principles for Paladins’ beta

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Hi-Rez wants you to know that it isn't a typical development studio, and as a result, its team shooter Paladins won't be going through...

APB: Reloaded shows off graphic engine improvements

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No, your eyes aren't fooling you; APB: Reloaded is definitely looking a lot better these days. The developers have been working on an upgrade to...

One Shots: Slice ‘n’ dice

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New expansions across the MMO sphere are prompting many of us to take up a part-time job as in-game photographers. And why not? Eye...

Skyforge calls players to fight against planetary gods

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Planetary invasions are beginning to become a fact of life for Skyforge players. Get up, brush your teeth, fight off waves of terrifying space...

Guild Wars 2’s first raid wing launches next week

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ArenaNet has just announced that Spirit Vale, the first wing of Guild Wars 2's first post-expansion raid, is launching next week on November 17th....

Raph Koster: Game developer, and now published poet

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People wear many hats in life, and noted game developer Raph Koster has donned another one that most folks aren't used to seeing him...

Massively Overthinking: What to do when your MMO grows stale

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Earlier this year, Kotaku ran a piece on how to make your favorite games feel new again once they've gotten a bit stale. Since...

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