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Massively Overthinking: Unholy MMORPG hybrids

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Massively OP reader and frequent tipster Gibbins wants us to play match-maker. "I love the wonderful world that Bethesda created with the Fallout franchise, not...

PvP sandbox Albion Online is planning instanced PvE dungeons

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If you're wondering how ostensibly PvP MMOs are finding ways to implement PvE in 2017, look no further than Albion Online. Over the weekend,...

Camelot Unchained and the critical importance of video game character hands

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Camelot Unchained's latest development blog sees the team hard at work on animations, the patcher merge, the terrain editor, bots (the good kind), hair...

LOTRO’s housing changes arrive on Monday

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One of the biggest changes to Lord of the Rings Online's housing system in years is arriving on Monday, giving Hobbit interior decorators something...
Worlds Adrift

Massively Overthinking: Breaking your immersions in MMORPGs

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Veteran MOP reader and tipster Nordavind is going to break your immersions. Just kidding. He does have a question for us all on that...
This wasn't really what you cared about anyway, right? Right.

Battle Bards Episode 91: Forest Tales

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Take a stroll through the trees and become totally lost in the foliage, drinking in the sounds of the forest with today’s show, as...

Massively OP comment system switchover FAQ

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02/03/2017 - We have now completed the first big step of switching over to our brand-new comment system. It's all still under construction, but it does...

Neverwinter’s Cloaked Ascendancy expansion arrives February 21st

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Neverwinter's next big expansion finally has a name: Cloaked Ascendancy. The update is due out for PC on February 21st, to be followed on...

Here’s how guilds will battle for territory in Revelation Online

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If the point of MMORPGs for you is to fight large-scale battles and actually claim your enemy's territory for your own, then today's Revelation...

Global Chat: Interior decorating in MMORPGs

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With Elder Scrolls Online's new housing system coming early next month and LOTRO testing out some much-needed housing improvements, homemaking seems to be a...
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Conan Exiles has formally launched early access with mixed reviews and new trailer

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Funcom's Conan Exiles formally launched overnight, sending early access purchasers into the antique but brutal world of Conan the Barbarian. Despite some confusion over the...
Heroes and villains is a matter of perspective

Neverwinter details the making of the River District adventure zone

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PWE put out a pair of matching dev diaries today on Neverwinter's River District area, the chief adventure zone coming in the game's next...

Massively Overthinking: Death and dying in MMORPGs

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In March of last year, MOP's Justin wrote a detailed guide to the most common death penalties in MMORPGs. Last September, Gamasutra pulled seven...

Heroes and Villains explains its goals for seamless zoning

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Heroes and Villains was one chunk of the original trifecta of superhero MMORPGs that sprang from the grave of City of Heroes, but it's...
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These are the gods overseeing your fate in Conan Exiles

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With just one week to go before its early access launch, Conan Exiles wants you to get spiritual. Specifically, Funcom's released a dev blog...

EVE Evolved: Making stories with friends in EVE Online

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It's one of the more peculiar laws of the universe that when enough EVE Online players meet in the real world, they absolutely must swap stories. You...

Quantic Foundry’s findings on WoW, SWTOR, and gender

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Quantic Foundry, the gaming analytics consulting firm we've been following since late 2015 thanks to its Gamer Motivation Model, has a new blog post...
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Massively Overthinking: The future of a global MMORPG industry

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Massively OP Patron Duane's done the math on what is becoming, more and more, a truly global MMORPG industry. His question for Overthinking this...

Mark Kern’s Em-8ER posts a new THMPR modeling video

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Em-8ER, the Mark Kern-led "massive planetary wargame" shooter formerly known as (and still pronounced like) Ember, has a new video out today showing off...

Blizzard defeats Bossland bot-maker in German supreme court ruling

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Score one for Blizzard: The gaming giant managed a win in its long struggle against German bot-maker and plague-on-honest-gaming Bossland GmbH. The German Federal Court...

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