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New World beta player snags the name AmazonOfficial, uses game’s chat to troll Amazon

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As anticipated as the game New World may be, we do have to bear in mind that Amazon, the company that's funding Amazon Games'...

Lost Ark reveals all of its ‘normalized’ founder packs and perks

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Amazon and Smilegate have released a detailed blog post this afternoon focused on the upcoming Lost Ark's founder packs. And cats. The cats are...

Whatever happened to the Age of Wushu franchise?

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This story has something of an interesting progression to it. It began with a dive into whatever happened to Age of Wushu, which then...

EVE Online’s Grand Heist update goes live as players raise concerns about ISK login rewards for subscribers

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Yesterday saw the bank robbing profession come to EVE Online as the Grand Heist update officially went live. Readers will recall that this update...

Book of Travels explains how players will communicate without text chat

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One of the many, many factors that will set the upcoming Book of Travels apart from your boiler-plate online RPGs is that the game...

Blaugust blog writing initiative returns to challenge bloggers to write for a whole month

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Regular readers of MOP doubtlessly know that we're all about highlighting and supporting MMO gaming blogs. Regulars also know that we like to signal...

Old School RuneScape talks about combat achievements, RuneScape announces the Nodon Front

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Chasing achievements is a thing that many gamers seem to love, so players of Old School RuneScape who are cut from the same cloth...
It actually ended.

Crowfall suddenly changes course and announces a Dregs campaign for Australian players

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Last week and this past Tuesday we reported on Crowfall's lack of a Dregs campaign for Oceania players while NA and EU players got...

Massively Overthinking: Load-bearing playerbases in MMORPGs

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Game developer Damion Schubert is known to MMO players for his work on everything from Ultima Online to SWTOR, but as it turns out,...

TitanReach is going free-to-play until its closed alpha

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If the high price on TitanReach's early access - originally $70 and since reduced to $38 - seemed like too much for a fledgling...

Guild Wars 2 on how it’s upgrading the Canthan language from Factions to End of Dragons

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ArenaNet apparently isn't waiting for next week to start the hype for Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons reveal, as today it released a...

Lost Ark shares breakdowns of advanced mage and warrior classes

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While potential players of Lost Ark already know that the game will have five classes at launch that branch out into different classes, it...
Void where prohibited.

Diablo II Resurrected explains its ‘solve for one, extend to many’ accessibility philosophy

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Diablo II Resurrected has a new dev blog out touting its accessibility features, previously hinted at last week. Essentially, Blizzard is trying to update...

Perfect Ten: The 10 stages of returning to an old favorite MMO

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In my illustrious career of sitting on my butt and mashing the 1-4 buttons over and over, I've returned to many MMOs like an...

Crowfall outlines upcoming test patch, says marketing campaign begins this week

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Crowfall has released its second big dev blog since launch this week, addressing the upcoming patch, which is due to land on the test...
Venting prevents ex-plo-si-on.

The Daily Grind: What’s the single best way an MMO can keep a newbie playing?

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A while back, MOP's own Ben tweeted that during his recent foray into EVE Online, a gamemaster messaged him out of the blue. The...

Indie MMO Past Fate addresses internal PvP tests and region changes in latest dev blog

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Indie developer Icy North Games is eager to show off its progress on Past Fate, the sandbox MMORPG that we first told you about...

Battle Bards Episode 197: A royal affair

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Bow to your king and queens of MMO music royalty, for the Battle Bards have donned the crown, taking up the majestic scepter, and...

City of Titans is crushing its sound and music design

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Although City of Titans is lagging far behind where it should be in development (and release) by now, given that it was Kickstarted in...
Eat it, eat it, put it in your mouth and eat it.

Massively Overthinking: The curious cycle of MMO refunds, tutorials, and reviews

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MOP reader Steve recently posed us an intriguing question about the state of tutorials in MMOs and other games - and how those tutorials'...

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