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Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns’ first public beta weekend begins August 7th
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
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
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?
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
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
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]
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
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
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
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
Claiming he's had "enough of the bullshit that is the 'vaporware' that RSI/CIG have foisted on legacy backers," game developer and internet...
Smed nukes his own Twitter account
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
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...
The Daily Grind: Is the age of mobile over before mobile MMOs even got started?
In analyzing survey responses returned from more than 250 developers this year, the organizers of GDC Europe did everything but declare mobile dead. "PC...
Elder Scrolls Online dominates PlayStation 4 charts
While ZeniMax has yet to release any sales numbers from Elder Scrolls Online's console launch, at least one thing is crystal clear: the MMO...
Massively Opinionated: Which MMO payment model is the best?
In this special podcastish episode, Larry, Justin, MJ, and Bree debate genre definitions, business models, and building the perfect MMO.
What is Blade & Soul’s chi about, anyway?
Chi is vitally important to Blade & Soul's lore and gameplay, but it's perfectly OK to not completely understand what it's about. That's why...
EVE Online deploys Aegis part 1 tomorrow
EVE Online's newest content update is apparently so big that developer CCP has decided to split it up into two chunks.
The first part of...
Massively Overthinking: On the doom of server-wide MMO communities
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes from KS donor Morreion, who asks,
Do you think that MMO server-wide communities will ever make a comeback?
I suppose...
World of Tanks, SWTOR rocketed up the Raptr chart in May
Raptr's most-played games list is out for this past May, and it looks that both World of Tanks and Star Wars: The Old Republic...
