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Spun out of EA as one of the last remnants of Mythic Entertainment, Broadsword now runs Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot.

Working As Intended: The Fridge Poetry game is the latest distillation of MMORPG PvP

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This morning, MOP's Sam busted into MOP's work chat with a link to the Fridge Poetry game. "It's more like an art project than a...

SWTOR’s 7.5.1. includes Greatest Bounty season, new Date Night missions, and improved gear progression

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Broadsword released a teaser stream last night for Star Wars The Old Republic's 7.5.1 update, and while it's certainly welcome, it's... a 7.5.1 update....

Massively OP Podcast Episode 477: The lineage of Lineage

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Justin and Bree discuss Throne and Liberty's beta, Ultima Online's New Legacy, New World, Spellfarers, TennoCon, and Soulforge, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, No Man's Sky, and T&L, plus a mailbag topic on the usefulness of MMO mobile apps.

Ultima Online sets its first New Legacy open beta for this weekend

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On the MassivelyOP podcast this week, Justin and I were speculating on when the Ultima Online New Legacy beta is happening - surely it...

Ultima Online previews New Legacy’s themepark stylings in its new gameplay video

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I need to warn you before you click on this trailer: If you played original Ultima Online back in the day, the opening notes...

Ultima Online plans beta testing of New Legacy server shortly – here’s how to add your name to the list

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It's taken the better part of four (!) years for this move, but fans of Ultima Online have finally gotten a tangible step closer...

The Stream Team: The killer droid jailbreak in SWTOR

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The end is nigh! Massively OP's Larry is so close now to finishing the SWTOR's quest line to adopt the new Mandalorian robo pet,...
aw hell

Massively Overthinking: How often do you play human MMO characters when you have other choices?

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I've been thinking about this question a bit lately, partly owing to Stars Reach and partly to Project Gorgon. Playable Worlds says Stars Reach...
drig

Global Chat: FFXIV rides out on the Dawntrail

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The blogosphere is buzzing about the recent release of FFXIV: Dawntrail, including The Nosy Gamer, who provided some first thoughts and impressions of this...

Raph Koster lays out the (first) four pillars of design for his sandbox MMORPG Stars Reach

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I have some good news and bad news. The bad news is that Raph Koster's Stars Reach is probably a good long while away...
Carried.

Vague Patch Notes: Yes, tutorials are a good thing in MMORPGs

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For those of you who haven't been reading the site for a while or just don't keep this in your head, I'm going to...

The Game Archaeologist: World of Warcraft in the 1990s

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MMORPGs don't pop out of nowhere, ex nihilo, to suddenly be enjoyed by players across the globe. Good ones take several years, dozens of...

The Daily Grind: How many players constitute a proper MMORPG raid?

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Back when Amazon first announced its New World Aeternum rebranding, I noticed an interesting comment about the planned raid. Longtime reader Squid opined that...

Star Wars: The Old Republic celebrates its first year under Broadsword’s banner

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Star Wars: The Old Republic's streamlined dev team faces the daunting task to keep the game looking active and healthy as it crosses its...

Raph Koster’s new MMORPG is called Stars Reach, and yes, it’s basically Star Wars Galaxies 2

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It's June 26th, Star Wars Galaxies' 21st birthday, and I'm sitting on Google Meet talking to none other than MMORPG founding father (and SWG...

Raph Koster’s nine Playable Worlds teasers (so far) hint at the MMORPG sandbox you always wanted

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As we covered earlier in the week, Raph Koster's studio Playable Worlds has been tweeting what appeared to be a countdown accompanied by a...

Massively Overthinking: Unfair stigmas that follow MMORPGs

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A few weeks back, our team was discussing the intersection of survival sandboxes, MMORPG virtual worlds, and gankboxes - and how hard it is...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: MMOs where you travel back in time for some reason

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We're all time travelers! We travel to the future at the rate of one second per second. Every single machine you will ever operate...

Legends of Aria’s crypto version, Britaria, goes bust over ‘financial constraints’

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When Citadel Studios announced back in April that it was planning to relaunch the Kickstarted MMORPG Legends of Aria (fka Shards Online) as a...
Because you've got nowhere to go.

The Daily Grind: Ships, mounts, or vehicles – do you have a preferred mount type in MMOs?

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MOP's own Chris inspired today's Daily Grind as last week he was drooling all over the newly revealed Elite Dangerous spaceship. "Seeing this new...

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